Redfinâs chief economist Daryl Fairweather is calling Americaâs housing market a âdesertâ right now. Sheâs here to explain how interest rates have affected home prices and availability, what all the data means for both buyers and sellers, and more!
On the "CBS News Weekend Roundup"" host Allison Keyes begins with new details from CBS's Catherine Herridge on the probe into those leaked classified documents at the Pentagon, and the arrest of a suspect. We'll also have the latest battle over abortion rights. In the "Kaleidoscope with Allison Keyes" segment, a discussion about Artificial Intelligence and diversity as Levi's gets a backlash over a decision to use computer-generated models of color rather than hiring real people.
Thereâs a terrible legal Easter egg in Judge Matthew J. Kacsmarykâs ruling on the abortion medication, Mifepristone. And that same Easter egg makes an appearance in the Fifth Circuitâs partial stay. Itâs the Comstock Act - a mostly forgotten 19th century vice statute that is suddenly the anti-abortion movementâs favorite zombie legislation. On a special extra episode of Amicus, Dahlia Lithwick is joined by Mary Ziegler, an expert on the law, history, and politics of reproduction, health care, and conservatism in the United States from 1945 to the present. Together, they tackle the chaos upon chaos of the past weekâs medication abortion cases, and take a long hard look at the next steps in the anti-abortion movementâs fight for a nationwide ban.Â
In this weekâs Amicus Plus segment, Dahlia is joined by Slateâs Mark Joseph Stern to discuss the âquid pro Crowâ of Justice Clarence Thomasâ real estate deals with GOP mega donor, and avid court-watcher, and amicus-brief-funder Harlan Crow.Â
Paul Connolly is expecting his second child, and the due date is just under two weeks away. In hopes of easing his anxiety every time the phone rings , he is joined by Professor Asma Khalil, Professor Chris Pettker and Doctor Melissa Wong to discover exactly how accurate his baby's due date is...
Presenter: Paul Connolly
Researcher: Octavia Woodward
Editor: Richard Vadon
Sound Engineer: Graham Puddifoot
Production Co-ordinator: Brenda Brown
"The Hash" tackles today's hot topics: What a look at balance sheets of the world's top central banks could mean for the outlook for risk assets like bitcoin. The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is considering reopening a proposal that would fold in oversight of decentralized finance (DeFi) exchanges. A new Pew Research study shows that a majority of Americans are not confident in crypto. Plus, why Solana is selling a new smartphone.
Connect with the Filecoin community at the Filecoin Network Base in Austin, April 24-26, ahead of Consensus 2023. Register today at networkbase.io/austin. And find us on the Consensus show floor in the Protocol Village, presented by Filecoin Foundation.
See you in Austin!
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This episode has been edited by Ryan Huntington. The senior producer is Michele Musso and the executive producer is Jared Schwartz. Our theme song is âNeon Beach.â
Right now, the economy is running hot. Inflation is high, and central banks are pushing up interest rates to fight it. But before the pandemic, economies around the world were stuck in a different rut: low inflation, low interest rates, low growth.
In 2013, Larry Summers unearthed an old term from the Great Depression to explain why the economy was in this rut: secular stagnation. The theory resonated with Olivier Blanchard, another leading scholar, because he had made similar observations himself. Larry and Olivier would go on to build a case for why secular stagnation was a defining theory of the economy and why government policies needed to respond to it. They helped reshape many people's understanding of the economy, and suggested that this period of slow growth and low interest rates was here to stay for a long time.
But today, Larry and Olivier are no longer the duo they used to be. As inflation has spiked worldwide, interest rates have followed suit. Earlier this year, Larry announced that he was no longer on the secular stagnation train. Olivier, meanwhile, believes we're just going through a minor blip and will return to a period of low interest rates within the near future. He doesn't see the deep forces that led to a long-run decline in interest rates as just vanishing. Who's right? The future of the global economy could depend on the answer.
The Chainlink co-founder discusses an important societal paradigm shift.
NLW is joined by Chainlink co-founder Sergey Nazarov for the first in âThe Breakdownâ's "Paradigm Shift" interview series. Sergey discusses why society's trust model has broken down, how cryptographic truth serves as an alternative, and why this alternative method of understanding truth will become even more important as a countermeasure to artificial intelligence.
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âThe Breakdownâ is written, produced and narrated by Nathaniel Whittemore aka NLW, with editing by Michele Musso and research by Scott Hill. Jared Schwartz is our executive producer and our theme music is âCountdownâ by Neon Beach. Music behind our sponsor today is âFoothill Blvdâ by Sam Barsh. Image credit: by CoinDesk.
Join the most important conversation in crypto and Web3 at Consensus 2023, happening April 26-28 in Austin, Texas. Come and immerse yourself in all that Web3, crypto, blockchain and the metaverse have to offer. Use code BREAKDOWN to get 15% off your pass. Visit consensus.coindesk.com.
We go in-depth on an article that has not received the attention it is due: an investigation into an automated welfare fraud system in the Netherlands, which is based on unprecedented access to the machine learning model, its training data, and operational handbooks. Through a deep analysis of the systems mechanics, this investigation goes beyond validating what we already know to be true about how such algorithms discriminate. It shows how these systems are complex and targeted in their discrimination, while also being simplistic and arbitrary in their decisions.
Articles we discuss
â˘â˘â˘ Inside the Suspicion Machine https://www.wired.com/story/welfare-state-algorithms/
â˘â˘â˘ Welfare surveillance system violates human rights, Dutch court rules https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/feb/05/welfare-surveillance-system-violates-human-rights-dutch-court-rules
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