In this installment of Best Of The Gist, we listen back to Mike’s 2020 roundtable discussion with journalists Richard Kreitner and Matthew Yglesias about how each of their then-new books addressed the problem of an ever-increasing American population. Yglesias’ book is One Billion Americans: The Case for Thinking Big, and Kreitner’s is Break It Up: Secession, Division, and the Secret History of America’s Imperfect Union. Then we listen back to Mike’s Spiel from Wednesday, August 9, 2020, in which he ponders what really happened when a boy in a skirt assaulted a girl in the girls bathroom in a Virginia public school. The facts, while not always conveyed with accuracy, do not add up to a conservative-driven lie or twisted culture-war fantasy.
Answering some of the questions you’ve emailed us at podcasts@fool.com. We’ve also got a listener hotline! Leave us a voicemail with your question at 703-254-1445. - (1:04) Will there be a commercial real estate collapse? - (5:22) What happens when a company you own goes bankrupt? - (10:41) Are there companies suited for the growing trend of hearing loss? - (15:03) How should investors think about Tesla’s charging network?- (16:14) Stocks are more expensive. Should I keep buying? - (18:35) Are there cash-like ETFs? - (21:20) Should I buy Universal Life Insurance?- (23:38) Are there investing opportunities in India? - (25:41) How do foreign exchange rates affect an investing strategy? Companies/Tickers mentioned: TSLA, SOON, DEMANT, GN, KN, APPH, SGOV, SMIN, AMZN Host: Mary Long Guests: Deidre Woollard, Jason Moser, Asit Sharma, Brian Orelli, Robert Brokamp, Bill Mann, Scott Phillips Producer: Ricky Mulvey Engineer: Rick Engdahl
5-10 Year: Loch Ness; News Items: Depression Does Not Cause Cancer, Hidden Undersea World, AI vs Robo Calls, Cement Supercapacitor; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: More on EVs, RFK Jr on Tik Tok; Science or Fiction
On today’s show, we’re bringing six notable takeaways from the last week in crypto markets. For more, head to coindeskmarkets.com.
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This episode was hosted by George Kaloudis. “Markets Daily” is executive produced by Jared Schwartz and produced and edited by Eleanor Pahl. All original music by Doc Blust and Colin Mealey. This episode used Wondercraft Voice AI.
As two business women, actress Jessica Alba and Lizzy Mathis know that it’s easy for a house to get out of control when trying to juggle family and work life. That’s why in their new show, “Honest Renovations”, they want to make the lives of families easier by giving the home a makeover. Reset talks to the co-hosts about their new project and what it was like to get their hands dirty with the construction.
One of the most popular board games in the world is Monopoly.
Millions of copies of the game have been sold over thousands of different versions which have been published.
However, the origins of the game are not what most people think. In fact, the game was originally designed not as a way for people to win by amassing properties but rather to demonstrate why that was a bad idea.
Learn more about the surprising origins of Monopoly, one of the most popular board games in history, on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.
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Drawing from stratification economics, intersectionality, and respectability politics, Kris Marsh's The Love Jones Cohort: Single and Living Alone in the Black Middle Class(Cambridge UP, 2023)centers on the voices and lifestyles of members of the Black middle class who are single and living alone (SALA). While much has been written about both the Black middle class and the rise of singlehood, this book represents a first foray into bridging these two concepts. In studying these intersections, The Love Jones Cohort provides a more nuanced understanding of how race, gender, and class, coupled with social structures, shape five central lifestyle factors of Black middle-class adults who are SALA. The book explores how these Black adults define family and friends and decide on whether and how to pursue romantic relationships, articulate the ebbs and flows of being Black and middle class, select where to live and why, accumulate and disseminate wealth, and maintain overall health, well-being, and coping mechanisms.
Blyss Cleveland is a PhD candidate in sociology at Stanford University.
On the "CBS News Weekend Roundup", host Allison Keyes has the latest on the deadly wildfires roaring through Hawaii. We'll hear from CBS's Caitlin Huey-Burns about a closely watched battle over abortion rights in Ohio, and what that could mean in the 2024 election. In the "Kaleidoscope with Allison Keyes" segment, a discussion about a report on the State of Men in America.
