News about inflation made a lot of noise in the past two years, but the national CPI reports seem to indicate that inflation is starting to normalize within the Federal Reserve's target range. However, the national CPI basket of goods can have trouble representing inflation at a local level.
Today, we're joined by Drew Hawkins of the Gulf States Newsroom as he goes to the supermarket in New Orleans where the national CPI may not be the best measure of inflation for folks living in the South.
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The Gist - The History Of Scandal At The New York Times
Adam Nagourney is the author of The Times: How the Newspaper of Record Survived Scandal, Scorn and the Transformation of Journalism. Mike questions him about the extent that the NYT actually has escaped scorn. Plus, Israel takes out a top Hamas commander, which threatens to escalate regional tensions, suggesting the region might not want top Hamas commanders taken out. And is Claudine Gay a martyr, a victim or merely a transcription enthusiast?
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First Things Podcast - Brutal Brainwashing
In this episode, Stanley K. Ridgley joins Mark Bauerlein to discuss his new book “Brutal Minds: The Dark World of Left-Wing Brainwashing in Our Universities.”
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The Daily Signal - Fallout From Gay Resignation, Blasts Kill More than 100 in Iran, Jan. 6 Charges Against Trump Dropped | Jan. 3
TOP NEWS | On today’s Daily Signal Top News, we break down:
- The fallout from Harvard President Claudine Gay’s resignation continues.
- Gay keep position, salary at Harvard.
- Blasts near grave of Iranian general kills, injures hundreds.
- A lawsuit in a civil trial against Trump is dismissed by federal court.
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Cato Daily Podcast - The Sociology of Herbert Spencer
Herbert Spencer once loomed large in social science. Is he receiving his due in the modern era? Paul Meany discusses how a major thinker was celebrated, forgotten, and remembered again.
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Motley Fool Money - The End of the Mickey Mouse Moat?
After 95 years of copyright protection, Steamboat Willie enters the public domain.
(00:21) Asit Sharma and Dylan Lewis discuss:
- Why early versions of Disney’s Mickey and Minnie Mouse characters are now appearing in horror slasher films.
- Tesla once again being the king of EVs, and what to make of BYD coming up on its heels.
- A digital entertainment stock to watch in 2024.
(15:47) It’s been a great run for growth stocks – and it might not be over! Deidre Woollard caught up with Motley Fool Analyst Kirsten Guerra for a look at some recent winners that could keep winning in 2024.
Companies discussed: DIS, TSLA, SONO, DUOL
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Reset with Sasha-Ann Simons - Understanding Chicago’s Crime Prevention Strategy
This year the city of Chicago is rolling out a violence-prevention strategy to bring resources and investment to four of its most crime-impacted neighborhoods: West Garfield Park, Little Village, Englewood and Austin. This comes after a drop in homicides and gun violence both locally and nationally in 2023. But Chicago did experience an unusual spike in robberies last year. Reset learns more about crime in Chicago and the steps being taken to reduce it by speaking with Chicago’s deputy mayor of community safety Garien Gatewood and Kim Smith, the director of programs at the University of Chicago Crime Lab.
Federalist Radio Hour - ‘You’re Wrong’ With Mollie Hemingway And David Harsanyi, Ep. 78: Scalped
Claudine Gay is out as Harvard's president. Join Federalist Editor-in-Chief Mollie Hemingway and Senior Editor David Harsanyi as they break down Gay's plagiarism scandal and analyze the corporate media's reaction. Mollie and David also share their culture picks for the week, including "The Red Shoes," "Muppets Most Wanted," and "Slow Horses."
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The Bulwark Podcast - Susan Glasser: The Fever Won’t Break
The Trump experience can't just be undone—we are a different country now, and we're not going back to the status quo before his presidency. Plus, watch Trump try to steal the idea of defending democracy from Biden, just like he stole 'fake news' from Hillary. Susan Glasser joins Charlie Sykes today.
Time To Say Goodbye - Housing, Homelessness, and the L.A. Political Machine with L.A. Councilmember Nithya Raman
Hello!
Today we have a great interview with Nithya Raman, the City Councilmember for Los Angeles’s District 4. We talk about housing, the despair around the homelessness problem in California’s biggest cities, and whether there might be a different future for the city’s political machine.
My interest in Councilmember Raman started back when I was writing the newsletter for the Times because there was an effort by some of the more powerful local politicians to redraw her district in ways that would both disenfranchise many of the people who had voted for her to be their representative but also seemed to reflect the unrelenting power of homeowners in Southern California.
You can read some of those pieces here, here, and here.
What became clear to me during the reporting of those pieces was that Mike Davis was right when he wrote “the most powerful ‘social movement’ in contemporary Southern California is that of affluent homeowners, organized by notional community designations or tract names, engaged in the defense of home values and neighborhood exclusivity.”
The real battle in California, then, is between the self interests of homeowners to protect their value and the “character” of their neighborhoods and the best interests of everyone else. This is not a fight that follows basic partisan lines nor is it one that really has much coherence to it, but it’s the fight that every politician in California, especially in Los Angeles or here in the Bay Area, must navigate to get anything done.
Nithya and I talked about all that and the massive scandal in the Los Angeles City Council in 2022, where Latino members of the council and labor leaders were caught on tape making bigoted statements about pretty much every other group in the city. What those tapes revealed, at least to me, was how a type of identity politics actually functioned in the country’s second biggest city.
If you want to know a bit more about Nithya, here’s a link to her campaign page and a story about the leaked tape scandal.
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