The Indicator from Planet Money - Tumbling Chinese stocks and rapid Chipotle hiring

It's Indicators of the Week, that time each Friday when we look at the most fascinating numbers from the news. Today, we explain the different directions of the Chinese and American economies ... and how a burrito can be a bellwether.

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China's Big Tech Crackdown

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The Gist - Hague: Vague, Schmague, Or Making A Mistake?

The International Court of Justice rules on the plausibility of Israel committing genocide, one particularly incendiary Israeli official tweets "Hague Schmague." Taylor Swift pics are everywhere, as is always true, but these were invented by a perverted computer. And we're joined once more by Professor Brian Klaas, who takes down certainty and his own field of political science in his new book, Fluke: Chance, Chaos, and Why Everything We Do Matters.


Produced by Joel Patterson and Corey Wara

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Honestly with Bari Weiss - The Right Way to Fight Illiberalism: Christopher Rufo and Yascha Mounk Debate

Today, Yascha Mounk and Christopher Rufo debate the origins of DEI and the right way to fight the illiberal orthodoxy that has consumed our schools and institutions.

Christopher is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, a board member at New College of Florida, and maybe the country’s most influential conservative activist. He thinks that using the power of the law to stop DEI is essential. 

Yascha is a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and an international affairs professor at Johns Hopkins University. He thinks that while DEI—and woke ideology more broadly—is concerning, he doesn’t think the answer to its illiberalism should come in the form of bans and legislation.

They both recently published books that investigate the changing cultural trends of the American left. Yascha is the author of The Identity Trap: A Story of Ideas and Power in Our Time. And Christopher’s book is America’s Cultural Revolution: How the Radical Left Conquered Everything.

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Reset with Sasha-Ann Simons - WBEZ’s Weekly News Recap, Jan 26, 2024

Mayor Johnson wants Chicago to say goodbye to gas. Pritzker joins Democratic governors in asking the federal government for help with addressing the needs of migrants. A Chicago police officer is sentenced for participating in the January 6th attack on the U.S. Capitol. Nearly a third of alders ask Mayor Johnson to scrap the 60-day shelter limit policy for migrants, while City Council debates cracking down on dollar stores. Reset goes behind the headlines of those stories and much more in our Weekly News Recap with Leigh Giangreco, government and politics reporter, Crain’s Chicago Business, Brandon Pope, reporter/anchor at CW 26 and Madison Savedra, Block Club Chicago reporter covering Pilsen, Little Village and Back of the Yards.

The Daily Signal - Biden’s Liquefied Natural Gas Pause Empowers Putin, Trump Abruptly Leaves Court, Biden Not Interested in Long Israeli War | Jan. 26

TOP NEWS | On today’s Daily Signal Top News, we break down:


  • President Joe Biden tells Israel’s prime minister he is not in it for a year of war, according to reporting from Axios. 
  • The Biden administration temporarily pushes pause on approvals of liquefied natural gas exports. 
  • Trump abruptly gets up and leaves the courtroom during closing arguments in the  E. Jean Carroll defamation case. 
  • Findings are released from an investigation into “domestic violent extremism” in the U.S. military.



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Motley Fool Money - Microsoft’s Reminder: Don’t Sleep on Giants

Microsoft taking the spot as the largest company in the world is a good reminder that sometimes it takes a while for big names to turn it around. We explain why and talk about how IBM and Comcast could have good times ahead.


(00:21) Bill Mann and Andy Cross discuss:

- Microsoft crossing $3T and surpassing Apple as the largest publicly traded company.

- Alibaba’s co-founders buying up $200M shares, and the state of investing in China.

- Tesla’s tough, but predictable quarter, big subscriber growth from Netflix, and why IBM is a sneaky AI play.


(19:11) Motley Fool Money’s Deidre Woollard caught up with Jeff Edison, co-founder and CEO of Phillips Edison & Company, to understand the importance of necessity-based goods in retail, what consumers want right now – both in terms of concepts and convenience.


(29:49) Bill and Andy talk how Comcast looks more interesting as Peacock grows and two stocks on their radar: Spotify and MercadoLibre.


Stocks discussed: MSFT, AAPL, BABA, TSLA, NFLX, IBM, SPOT, MELI, PECO


Host: Dylan Lewis

Guests: Bill Mann, Andy Cross, Deidre Woollard, Jeff Edison

Engineers: Tim Sparks, Dan Boyd

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