Are most Americans barely holding their head above water when it comes to personal finances?
That?s what various US politicians and news outlets keep suggesting.
They can?t stop using a statistic about people living ?paycheck to paycheck?.
But what does this really mean?
We go behind the headlines to unpick the numbers.
Contributor:
Ben Krauss, journalist
Presenter: Charlotte McDonald
Producer: Vicky Baker and Lizzy McNeill
Series Producer: Tom Colls
Production co-ordinator: Katie Morrison
Sound Engineer: Andrew Mills
Editor: Richard Vadon
All of this week's episodes of It Could Happen Here put together in one large file.
Kash Patel: Trump's FBI Pick
What Next for Syria?
Luigi Mangione Was Radicalized By Pain
The Moral Economy of Inflation or Why Trump Won
You Already Know How to Organize
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Suspect in UnitedHealthcare CEO shooting death could be returned to New York next week. U.S. military flies American released from Syrian prison out of the country. Russia launches one of the largest air attacks against Ukraine since the war began.
CoinDesk Indices presents notable data insights from the week, followed by additional analysis from Jason Leibowitz, Managing Director and Head of Private Wealth at Hashnote Labs.
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The CoinDesk Market Index (CMI) functions as a benchmark for the performance of the digital asset market, delivering institutional quality information to digital asset investors. Subsets of the CoinDesk Market Index (CMI) are investable CoinDesk Crypto Sectors and the CoinDesk 20 Index, designed to measure the performance of top digital assets. Today’s takeaways are provided by Tracy Stephens, senior index manager at CoinDesk Indices with additional analysis from Jason Leibowitz, Managing Director and Head of Private Wealth at Hashnote Labs.
For more on CoinDesk Indices, visit: coindeskmarkets.com.
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In the late 1990s and early 2000s, three economists formed a partnership that would revolutionize how economists think about global inequality. Their work centered on a powerful — and almost radically obvious — idea: that the economic fate of nations is determined by how societies organize themselves. In other words, the economists shined a spotlight on the power of institutions, the systems, rules, and structures that shape society.
We spoke with two of the Nobel-winning economists about their research on why some countries are rich and others are poor, why it took so long for economics to recognize the power of institutions, and what the heck those even are.
This episode was hosted by Jeff Guo and Greg Rosalsky. It was produced by Willa Rubin with help from James Sneed. It was edited by Martina Castro and fact-checked by Sierra Juarez. Engineering by Gilly Moon with help from James Willetts. Alex Goldmark is Planet Money's executive producer.
City Council prepares to vote on Mayor Johnson’s revised budget proposal. President-elect Trump’s border czar warns that mass deportations could start in Chicago. The prosecution wraps up its case in the Madigan corruption trial. Reset breaks down these stories and much more with freelance journalist Leigh Giangreco, WTTW News correspondent Nick Blumberg and Chicago Sun-Times chief political reporter Tina Sfondeles.
For a full archive of Reset interviews, head over to wbez.org/reset.
The alleged shooter of the UnitedHealthcare CEO, Luigi Mangione, was apprehended this week in Altoona, Pennsylvania, after an employee at a local McDonald's phoned authorities claiming to have recognized him from photographs provided by New York police.
President Joe Biden commuted the sentences of 1,500 Americans this week. According to his administration, it's a single-day record.
After rebels took control of the Syrian capital of Aleppo, President Bashar al-Assad fled the country and has been granted asylum in Russia. Now, the world is asking what's next for the country and for the region.
The rebels have also dealt a blow to Russian President Vladimir Putin's ambitions in Europe and the Mediterranean. His forces' main point of entry to the sea was tied to the Assad dynasty. Russia's military presence on the Syrian coast is now in jeopardy.
We cover all these stories and more during the News Roundup.
2024 was another stellar year for investors, but a lot of money is piling into the same places in the U.S. and globally.
(00:46) Bill Mann and Matt Argersinger discuss:
- Why 2024 was such a good year for investors, and the concerns they have about valuations and market concentration as they look ahead to 2024.
- The winners and losers of 2024 and the front-page stories you may have forgotten about – the Crowdstrike outage and Yen Carry Trade.
(19:05) James Zahn, Editor in Chief at The Toy Book, talks through the toys at the top of wish lists this holiday season and how toymakers and retailers are trying bring value to cash-strapped shoppers
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The U.N. estimates over a 100,00 people have gone missing in Syria under the regime of Bashar al-Assad. And many families never knew the fate of their loved ones. Now that the regime has fallen, the search is on for the missing. We join some Syrians on that search.
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