You've heard of bitcoin before. It's the entirely digital, decentralized currency that supporters tout as the next step in financial evolution -- and critics call a massive scam. But what exactly are cryptocurrencies? How do they work, and why do some people believe they're as much a tool for conspiracy and crime as a tool for trade? In part 1 of this series, the gang invites returning guest Jonathan Strickland to explain the nuts and bolts of bitcoin, along with the advantages and flaws of the system.
Our arrival in the digital age has not been good for financial privacy. Nick Anthony's new Cato paper offers a framework for eliminating warrantless surveillance of our financial lives.
The podcast today discusses Joe Biden's change of tactics in inviting Republican leaders to the White House next week to talk about the debt ceiling and how this suggests the new standing as a political player of House Speaker Kevin McCarthy. But will Donald Trump and his town hall next week on CNN play a role too? And we debut our new feature: Commentary's Daily Pick. Give a listen.
Hollywood writers go on strike. Debt ceiling warning. Remembering singer Gordon Lightfoot. CBS News Correspondent Steve Kathan has today's World News Roundup.
Brandon Johnson will be inaugurated as Chicago’s 57th mayor on May 15. Reset talks with Emma Tai, one of the co-chairs of the overall team, about how the work of planning the next administration is coming together.
Criminal networks have had to reorganise since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, with knock-on effects from Afghanistan to the Andes. We take a look at the scourge of abductions in Nigeria, and what is being done for the families of the missing. And Scotland’s Campbeltown whisky is enjoying a long-awaited resurgence.
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The final episode of the Late Late Show with James Corden just aired because the business model of the late night talk show isn’t working. J.P. Morgan just acquired First Republic Bank, because the government needed it to. And the fastest-growing soda in the US is a soda that hates soda… Olipop soda.
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For most of human existence, we looked up at the night sky and thought that was all there was to the universe.
However, in the 20th century, as telescopes improved, we made a shocking discovery. The universe was much, much larger than we supposed, and some of those points of light in the sky were, in fact, collections of stars themselves.
Learn more about galaxies, what they are made of, and all about our own, on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.
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