Month: December 2024

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What Next | Daily News and Analysis - Who Can Save the Democrats?

The hunt for the new chair of the Democratic National Committee is on and the winning candidate will be the one that party officials believe can guide Democrats back to the White House. So who’s throwing their hat into the ring?


Guest: Gabriel Debenedetti is a national correspondent at New York Magazine and the author of The Long Alliance: The Imperfect Union of Joe Biden and Barack Obama.


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Risky Business with Nate Silver and Maria Konnikova - The Riskies: The Best, Worst, and Most Interesting Decisions of 2024

What were the best, worst, and most interesting decisions of 2024, and what can we learn from them? Nate and Maria award the year’s most notable decisions in our first annual Riskies awards show. Also: degen of the year, nit of the year, and the cognitive bias that best explains 2024.

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It Could Happen Here - The Moral Economy of Inflation or Why Trump Won

Mia looks at both what caused the inflation that defined the Biden administration and how the reactions to it were driven by an American moral economy and the sense of injustice it invokes.

Sources:

https://strangematters.coop/supply-chain-theory-of-inflation/

https://www.econstor.eu/bitstream/10419/157973/1/bna-259_20090522_nb_casp_full_indexed.pdf

https://www.jstor.org/stable/650244

James' Links for Syria: 

www.defendrojava.org

www.freeburmarangers.org

www.heyvasor.com/

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CBS News Roundup - 12/11/2024 | World News Roundup Late Edition

FBI Director Christopher Wray says he'll step down at the end of President Biden's term. New York law enforcement officials say they've matched the gun to the shell casings found at the scene where the UnitedHealthcare CEO was killed. Malibu wildfire continues to grow. CBS News Correspondent Jennifer Keiper with tonight's World News Roundup.

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The Gist - Shadi Hamid Assesses Israel’s Tactics

Shadi Hamid, Washington Post columnist and co-host of the Wisdom Of Crowds podcast, discusses Israel's regard for innocent lives and if the United States would conduct a war in the way the Israelis do. Plus, the island nation of Nauru gets paid off by the Australians not the play footsy with China. And the Syrian navy is sunk, their chemical weapons cache has been destroyed, and no, Israel is not waiting for a thank-you note.

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Reset with Sasha-Ann Simons - Why Healthcare In The U.S. Is So Complex, Costly And Confounding

The killing of a healthcare executive in New York has brought Americans’ dissatisfaction with the U.S. healthcare system to the fore. Many have taken to social media to vent their frustration and to share stories of exorbitant bills and denials of coverage. Reset talks with healthcare journalist Dan Weissmann, host and executive producer of “An Arm and A Leg” podcast and Reset listener Jackie Covarrubias. Her family has had challenges getting medications and treatments covered by insurance.
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CoinDesk Podcast Network - MARKETS DAILY: Crypto Update | Will BTC, ETH and SOL Hit New All Time Highs in 2025?

The latest price moves and insights with Jennifer Sanasie.

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More all-time highs for bitcoin, solana and ether? Continuing inflows for ETFs? Here are Bitwise's top ten predictions for crypto in 2025, presented by CoinDesk's Jennifer Sanasie.

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