The Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) was designed to soften the financial impact of the pandemic for small businesses. It issued about $800 billion in potentially forgivable government loans to keep workers employed during COVID shutdowns.
Now, the overwhelming majority of those loans have been forgiven with very little scrutiny. That means many loans have been forgiven to businesses that flourished during the pandemic or to fraudsters who took advantage of the lax system.
Meanwhile, the majority of the loans that remain unforgiven belong to the smallest businesses, companies the program was most meant to help.
Sacha Pfeiffer and Austin Fast of NPR's Investigations team looked into how the program failed to be as stringent as the government promised.
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The Daily Signal - TOP NEWS | Drone Attack in Kyiv, Chinese Communist Party’s Congress is Underway, Kanye West Looks To Purchase Parler | Oct. 17
On today’s Daily Signal Top News, we break down:
- Twenty-eight drones attacked the Ukrainian city of Kyiv.
- The Chinese Communist Party Congress is underway.
- Kanye West may be buying Parler.
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Motley Fool Money - The War on Checks
Home buyers aren't welcoming higher interest rates, but they are mostly good news for banks. (0:21) Deidre Woollard and Jason Moser discuss: - Bank of America's strong quarter. - BNY Mellon's move to hold crypto for its clients. - Why banks are pumping up their loan loss reserves.
Advertising tech stocks have been hurt, but actual spend is holding up. (10:51) Ricky Mulvey and Asit Sharma look at the ad landscape, and one smaller player with a strong balance sheet. Companies mentioned: BAC, JPM, PYPL, SQ, V, MA, MQ, BILL, BK, TTD, MGNI, PUBM Host: Deidre Woollard Guests: Jason Moser, Asit Sharma Producer: Ricky Mulvey Engineer: Dan Boyd
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Cato Daily Podcast - The Municipal Financial Crisis
Mark Moses is author of The Municipal Financial Crisis: A Framework for Understanding and Fixing Government Budgeting.
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Federalist Radio Hour - The Return Of Nuclear Chess
On this episode of The Federalist Radio Hour, Christopher Bedford, executive editor of the upcoming Common Sense magazine, joins Federalist Culture Editor Emily Jashinsky to discuss President Joe Biden's dismal "armageddon" speech and debate whether escalation in the Russia-Ukraine war will result in the use of nuclear weapons.
Audio Poem of the Day - The Beautiful
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Lex Fridman Podcast - #330 – Hikaru Nakamura: Chess, Magnus, Kasparov, and the Psychology of Greatness
Hikaru Nakamura is a chess super grandmaster and is currently the #1 ranked blitz chess player in the world. He is also one of the top chess streamers on Twitch and YouTube. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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(00:00) – Introduction
(06:59) – A private game vs Magnus Carlsen
(14:47) – Chess openings
(30:59) – Mental preparation
(39:40) – Chess tactics
(50:03) – Solving chess
(55:43) – Aggression and ego
(1:00:28) – Hans Niemann cheating scandal
(1:10:21) – How to cheat in chess
(1:24:44) – Greatest chess player of all time
(1:35:00) – Hikaru’s immortal game
(1:47:26) – Paul Morphy
(1:49:10) – World Chess Championship
(1:51:59) – Magnus Carlsen
(1:55:33) – Sergey Karjakin
(1:58:00) – Beauty of chess
(2:04:55) – Day in the life
(2:19:34) – Streaming
(2:34:13) – Taking risks
(2:39:42) – Depression
(2:44:31) – Advice for young people
(2:51:51) – Love
You're Wrong About - Your Abortion Stories
“Abortion is healthcare and abortion is a human right. Abortion is racial justice. It’s economic justice. It’s at the intersection of every movement towards liberation. My abortion was a gift.”
We asked you to share your abortion stories with us. Here they are.
Contribute to the National Network of Abortion Funds here:
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Shout Your Abortion is normalizing abortion and elevating safe paths to access, regardless of legality. SYA makes resources, campaigns, and media intended to arm existing activists, create new ones, and foster collective participation in abortion access all over the country.
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First Things Podcast - Parents for Education Reform
On this episode, Sheri Few joins Mark Bauerlein to discuss the state of public education in America and the nationwide coalition U.S. Parents Involved In Education.
Stuff They Don't Want You To Know - Strange News: Superorganisms in Your Mouth, the Overview Effect, and Police Making Dangerous Portraits with DNA
New research shows cavity-causing microbes can form superorganisms able to ‘crawl’ and spread on teeth. William Shatner experiences the Overview Effect after Bezos takes him to space. Edmonton police face widespread backlash after they use DNA evidence to make a computer sketch of a suspect, prompting fears of widespread, unfair profiling. All this and more in this week's Strange News. They don’t want you to read our book.
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