On this episode of "The Federalist Radio Hour," Steve Milloy, board member and senior policy fellow at the Energy and Environment Legal Institute, and Jerry Leeman, a commercial fishing boat captain in Massachusetts, join Federalist Western Correspondent Tristan Justice to discuss how the Biden administration's green policy expansions, such as offshore wind farms, are damaging the wildlife and the fishermen who have called the East Coast home for decades.
From Lightning infrastructure to Nostr and Ordinals, here’s what one Bitcoin startup accelerator is excited about.
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When inflation is high, the Federal Reserve has historically raised interest rates. But the recent failures of banks like Silicon Valley Bank have sparked worries about the stability of our banking system. Now the feds must weigh whether the banking system could withstand the turmoil that raising interest rates could bring. To get inside the mind of Fed chair Jerome Powell, we look to a previous era of high inflation, the late 1970s and early ‘80s, and the decisions of then Fed chairs Arthur Burns and Paul Volcker.
Groups opposed to the Canadian Pacific and Kansas City Southern merger say they don’t want the additional noise, potential disruptions and increased risk of crashes and exposure to hazardous materials the merger could bring. Reset learns more about the deal from WTTW investigative reporter and producer Jared Rutecki.
The economics are clear-cut: the benefits of preserving the lungs of the world vastly outweigh those of felling trees. We travel to the Amazon and find that the problem is largely down to lawlessness in the world’s rainforests. And reflecting on the life of Oe Kenzaburo, a Japanese writer shaped by family crisis who gave voice to the voiceless.
Apple just dropped Season 3 of Ted Lasso and achieved “marketing nirvana” — Because the real star was FaceTime. Nestle warns that there’s a war breaking out in kitchens across America: Air Fryers vs Instant Pots. And TikTok was just told by the US government that it must sell itself or be banned from America… again (and we’re super extra serious this time).
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Today we are discussing the potential banning of tiktok, the House Judiciary Committee’s hearing on the Twitter Files, millennials and their crises, and a gen z student’s terrible semester abroad.
Time Stamps:
14:13 TikTok
22:15 Twitter Files Mess
39:12 Millennial
54:12 Gen Z Abroad
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