Month: March 2025

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CoinDesk Podcast Network - BITCOIN SEASON 2: Gamestop pulls a Microstrategy

GameStop plans to buy $1.3B in Bitcoin, following MicroStrategy's playbook. How does this connect to GameStop's 2021 meme stock saga, company financials, and can this pivot can save a retailer whose core business is declining.


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We dive into GameStop's surprising announcement to raise $1.3 billion in convertible notes, potentially to buy Bitcoin. The hosts explore how this connects to the 2021 meme stock saga that gave GameStop its massive cash position, Ryan Cohen's relationship with Michael Saylor, and whether this Bitcoin strategy is a life raft for a retail gaming business in decline. With GameStop's revenue dropping from $8.5B to $3.8B over eight years, is this a smart pivot or just vibe investing?


Notes:

- GameStop announces $1.3B convertible note offering

- Revenue declined from $8.5B to $3.8B in 8 years

- Company has $4.76B cash on balance sheet

- Cash position largely from 2021 meme stock frenzy

- Zero debt after paying off all loans

- Saylor posted photo with Ryan Cohen: "Team Bitcoin"


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Timestamps:

00:00 Start

00:28 GameStop enters the chat

02:05 GME be buying

07:58 Roaring Kitty Redux

10:43 Financials

13:25   Arch

13:56 Business evolution

20:14 Volatility trade

25:28 Not a crazy pivot

30:22 BTC makes an honest market or not...

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Reset with Sasha-Ann Simons - Meet Chicago Musician Brooklynn Skye

Brooklynn Skye has been a staple in the Chicago music scene for years and has played with the likes of noname, Sistazz of The Nitty Gritty, The Celestials! and more. And now, she’s embarking on her solo career, and just dropped her latest single “NVR MET YOU.” Reset sits down with the Chicago born-and-bred artist to learn more about her journey, music and evolution. For a full archive of Reset interviews, head over to wbez.org/reset.
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The Daily Signal - Karoline Leavitt Opens Up About Life Story, Relationship With Donald Trump

In a special episode of "The Signal Sitdown" filmed at the White House, Leavitt opens up about her relationship with President Donald Trump, her political upbringing, and how the president is garnering record support with young voters.


At just 27 years old, Leavitt is tasked with communicating Trump’s priorities to the American people, oftentimes through testy exchanges with the adversarial corporate media in the White House briefing room.


"I don't think anyone could anticipate having this job," Leavitt told The Daily Signal. "Certainly, one may hope for it, but you never really know if it will happen."


These days, Leavitt makes headlines sparring with journalists, but once upon a time, she thought she might become one. "I always was enthralled with the media and news growing up," Leavitt said. "Always thought I wanted to be a reporter, actually on your side of the table, and covering the news."


That started to change, however, when Trump burst on to the political scene. "2016 was the first election I was actually eligible to vote in, and I cast my ballot in the New Hampshire primary for Donald Trump," Leavitt recalled.


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Everything Everywhere Daily - The Scientific Method

The modern world is built on science. Today, millions of scientists all over the world are doing research in thousands of different fields and specializations. 


All of these researchers are, to some degree, using a system that was developed over the course of centuries. A methodology that allows for the discovery of scientific truth. 


It isn’t perfect, but it ushered in a scientific revolution and helped create the modern world we live in. 


Learn more about the scientific method, what it is, and how it developed in this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.




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NBN Book of the Day - Jason L. Newton, “Cutover Capitalism: The Industrialization of the Northern Forest” (West Virginia UP, 2024)

What happened to the loggers of America’s past when lumbermen moved west and south in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries? How did these communities continue to create value and meaning in these marginal lands? Cutover Capitalism: The Industrialization of the Northern Forest (West Virginia University Press, 2024) by Dr. Jason L. Newton provides a new perspective on the process of industrialization in America through the study of rural workers in a cutover landscape.

Back when resources started running scarce, the environment of the forest and bodies of workers became the natural resources from which mills and landowners extracted. Bodies and cutover landscapes were mobilized in new ways to increase the scale and efficiency of production—a brutal process for workers, human and animal alike. In the Northern Forest, an industrial working class formed in relation to the unique ways that workers' bodies were used to produce value and in relation to the seasonal cycles of the forest environment.

Cutover Capitalism is an innovative historical study that combines methodological approaches from labor history, environmental history, and the new history of capitalism. The book tells a character-driven yet theoretically sophisticated story about what it was like to live through this process of industrialization.

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The NewsWorthy - Special Edition: Get Travel-Ready: REAL ID Rules, Europe Visas & Summer Deals

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CBS News Roundup - 03/29/2025 | Weekend Roundup

On this week's "CBS News Weekend Roundup," host Peter King provides the latest on "Signalgate," which includes a comprehensive report from CBS News White House Correspondent Ed O'Keefe, followed by analysis from CBS News Military analyst, Colonel(ret.) Jeff McCausland. CBS News Moneywatch Correspondent Kelly O'Grady reports on the Trump Administration's 25 percent tariffs on imported passenger vehicles and parts. CBS News Correspondent Anna Coren is in Hong Kong with a report on the 7.7 magnitude earthquake centered in Myanmar. 


The Kaleidoscope segment looks at PEPFAR, the President's Emergency Plan for Aids Relief, founded in 2003 by then-president George W Bush, and the challenges it faces because of the DOGE cutbacks.

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Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts - Trump’s Plan To Put A Chokehold On Voting

The Trumpian inversion of reality was threaded into so many areas of the law and active litigation this week.


Slate senior writer Mark Joseph Stern joins Dahlia Lithwick to discuss the apparent evaporation of judicial patience for Trump lawyers simultaneously claiming that a signal chat was not classified or subject to record preservation rules, AND the flights to El Salvador that were  filmed for posterity on arrival at a prison were in fact state secrets. Together, they also think through the likelihood of the Supreme Court stepping into the Alien Enemies Act case at this early stage by just taking the Trump administration at its word that those summary renditions were totally legal and constitutionally correct. 


Next, Dahlia Lithwick talks to Wendy Weiser, vice president for democracy at the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU Law School, about another Trumpian inversion of reality: his executive order titled “Preserving and Protecting the Integrity of American Elections”, which in fact is not about election integrity, but instead an extension of the Big Lie election theory that could disenfranchise millions of eligible voters.


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More or Less: Behind the Stats - What?s Trump?s problem with Canada?

Neighbours, everybody needs good neighbours, and since the end of the Second World War that?s exactly what the US and Canada have been. They?ve enjoyed free trade agreements, close knit economic ties - and not so friendly ice hockey matches. But recently this relationship has soured, with President Trump calling them ?one of the nastiest countries to deal with?. It looks like the era of mostly free trade is over, with a raft of tariffs set to come into force on April the 2nd, or ?liberation day? a Donald Trump calls it. But is President Trump right about the trading relationship between the two countries? What does he mean when he claims that ?the US subsidises Canada $200 billion a year?? Presenter: Tim Harford Producer: Lizzy McNeill Series Producer: Tom Colls Editor: Richard Vadon Production co-ordinator: Katie Morrison Studio manager: Andrew Mills