Month: February 2024

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The Gist - Trump Liable, Willis Excitable, Guatemalan Democracy Viable

Donald Trump is ordered to pay over $350 million ... bad judgement for him there.  Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis hits back hard at defense attorneys seeking to toss her off the Georgia racketeering case. And we speak with Quico Toro, a Contributing Editor at Persuasion, who tells us the story of Guatemala, where a duly elected president actually got to assume office. He calls it "January 6th in reverse."


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Planet Money - How the Navy came to protect cargo ships

The Genco Picardy is not an American ship. It doesn't pay U.S. taxes, none of its crew are U.S. nationals, and when it sailed through the Red Sea last month, it wasn't carrying cargo to or from an American port.

But when the Houthis, a tribal militant group from Yemen, attacked the ship, the crew called the U.S. Navy. That same day, the Navy fired missiles at Houthi sites.

On today's show: How did protecting the safe passage of other countries' ships in the Red Sea become a job for the U.S. military? It goes back to an idea called Freedom of the Seas, an idea that started out as an abstract pipe dream when it was coined in the early 1600s – but has become a pillar of the global economy.

This episode was hosted by Alex Mayyasi and Nick Fountain. It was produced by Sam Yellowhorse Kesler, edited by Molly Messick, fact-checked by Sierra Juarez, and engineered by Valentina Rodríguez Sánchez, with help from Maggie Luthar. Alex Goldmark is Planet Money's executive producer.

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Consider This from NPR - Rents Take A Big Bite

Rent has skyrocketed in the United States. That means Americans are handing over a bigger portion of their paycheck to their housing costs. They have less money for things like food, electricity, and commuting.

The pandemic and inflation have both played a role in pushing rents higher.

Whitney Airgood-Obrycki a Senior Research Associate at Harvard's Joint Center on Housing Studies says rents are actually going down, but that increases have been so large it's going to take time for the market to even out.

We look at how rent prices got so high and what it might take to bring them down.

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The Daily Signal - Fani Willis Trial Day 2, Navalny Dies, Biden Helped Hamas and Iran Proxies | Feb. 16

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



·         Day 2 of the Fani Willis misconduct hearings.

·         Psychiatrist who called for 25th Amendment to be used on Trump defends Biden.

·         Financial firms bail out of ESG.

·         Russian opposition leader Navalny dies in prison.

·         Biden has caused chaos in the Middle East.


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Motley Fool Money - Stock Market Whip Lash

Economic data and earnings season combined for a volatile weak in the stock market.


(00:21) Bill Mann and Jason Moser discuss:

- The latest inflation numbers and what they mean for investors

- Earnings wrap-up for Twilio, Lyft, Airbnb, Shopify and Trade Desk

- Nvidia’s disclosure of its investments and how it impacted stocks


(19:11) Corrado Russo shares some thoughts on the international real estate market.


(34:09) Bill and Jason break down two stocks on their radar: Fresenius and Home Depot


Stocks discussed: TWLO, LYFT, ABNB, SHOP, TTD, SHOP, NVDA, NNOX, ARM, HD, FMS


Host: Ron Gross

Guests: Bill Mann, Jason Moser, Corrado Russo

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CrowdScience - What time was the first clock set to?

When the first person set the very first clock, how did they know what time to set it to? This question, from listener Chris in the UK, sends CrowdScience off on a quest into the history of timekeeping.

From sundials to water clocks, from uneven hours to precision seconds determined by the vibration of an atom, we examine how we came to measure time. We visit possibly the oldest working mechanical clock in the world to discover how its time was originally set; and hear how the time we go by today is not quite the same as it was in the past.

Will all this be enough to solve Chris' question, or has he stumped the team?

Featuring:

Ian Westworth, Clock Mechanic Dr. Chad Orzel, Associate Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Union College Anna Rolls, Curator of Clocks, Clockmakers’ Museum Peter, Guide, Salisbury Cathedral Dr. Jun Ye, Physicist at NIST (National Institutes of Standards and Technology) and The University of Colorado, Boulder.

Presenter: Caroline Steel Producer: Margaret Sessa-Hawkins Editor: Cathy Edwards Production Co-ordinator: Jonathan Harris Studio Manager: Jackie Margerum

(Photo:Stopwatch on red background. Credit: Martin Poole / Getty Images).

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CoinDesk Podcast Network - UNCHAINED: Is the Short Team Lockup for STRK ‘Misaligned’? No, Says Starkware CEO

Starknet community members were not happy about many of the details of who was eligible to receive tokens.

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Starknet made news this week for announcing what will be the largest initial airdrop by number of eligible addresses ever. But it faced heavy criticism online for many of the details of the airdrop, from the fact that Ethereum solo takers received almost 22% of the distribution to eligibility requirements that users held at least 0.005 ETH in their wallets as of Nov. 15, 2023 to the fact that the token generation event took place almost two years before the unlock date.

Starkware CEO Eli Ben-Sasson joined Unchained to respond to the multiple critiques of the airdrop and discuss why he and the Starknet Foundation decided on the details that they did.  

Show highlights:

  • What the airdrop criteria was and why they decided to make it that way
  • Why they allocated so much $STRK to Ethereum solo stakers
  • Eli’s response to the criticism about how little Starknet network participants got in the airdrop
  • Why the STRK Token Generation Event (TGE) was done in 2022, only to be airdropped two years later
  • Why Eli believes that even if the unlock of tokens is in two months, it does not indicate misalignment of incentives
  • Whether Eli will sell his tokens when they become unvested

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Eli Ben-Sasson, CEO of Starkware

Links | 

Recent coverage of Unchained on airdrops: Jupiter Founder Meow to Critics of JUP Airdrop: ‘Give Me a Break’

Unchained: 

Starknet’s Airdrop Plan Sparks Some Praise but Also Outrage

Starknet’s First Token Distribution Will Be Available to Nearly 1.3 Million Addresses

The Defiant: Starknet Faces Backlash Over Airdrop and Team Unlocks

Loomdart’s tweet on the TGE

Learn more:

Do You Have to Pay Taxes on a Crypto Airdrop?

What Is a Crypto Airdrop? A Beginner's Guide 

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