Month: April 2025

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Marketplace All-in-One - What’s going on with the GDP reading?

Gross domestic product shrunk 0.3% from January to March — the first growthless quarter since the pandemic recovery in early 2022. The cause? All the buying up that businesses and consumers did to beat tariff-induced price increases. We'll parse the data. Plus, Stellantis suspends 2025 guidance, Amazon backs away from transparency about the cost of tariffs, and the United Kingdom clamps down on a tax loophole for the rich.

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Big Technology Podcast - Amazon’s Head Of Prime on Tariffs, Alexa Plus Rollout, and AI Differentiation — With Jamil Ghani

Jamil Ghani is Amazon’s Vice President of Prime. Ghani joins Big Technology Podcast to discuss Amazon's position in the ongoing trade war and how Alexa Plus combined with Prime will appeal to its customers. Tune in to hear Ghani debunk the headline about tariff price labels, walk through Alexa Plus’s rollout, and outline why Amazon believes its approach to a contextually-aware assistant will work. We also cover Prime Day strategy, supply-chain regionalization, warehouse robotics, and Amazon’s growing AI alliance with Anthropic. Hit play for a fast, candid look at how the world’s largest online retailer is positioning itself for the next era of commerce and consumer tech.


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CoinDesk Podcast Network - Will the XRP ETF Explode Like Bitcoin’s? | Markets Daily

The latest price moves and insights with Jennifer Sanasie and 10T and 1RT CEO Dan Tapiero.

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10T and 1RT CEO Dan Tapiero joins CoinDesk to discuss the launch of ProShares' XRP ETF and compare their potential success to the bitcoin products. Plus, Dan shares his early experiences trading bitcoin and XRP, and weighs in on the criticisms of XRP's centralization.

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Focus on Africa - Tension on Guinea and Sierra Leone border

Guinean troops have fired shots in the disputed town of Yenga, which is on the border with Sierra Leone. What's behind this unprecedented development?

Also why are farmworkers in Kenya occupying tea plantations owned by multinational companies? And why we should be eating more fermented foods..

Presenter: Audrey Brown Technical Producer: Francesca Dunne Producers: Tom Kavanagh in London and Blessing Aderogba in Lagos Senior Journalist: Karnie Sharp Editors: Andre Lombard and Alice Muthengi

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Native America Calling - Wednesday, April 30, 2025 — The Menu: Treaty rights fishers endure harassment and Native food programs face uncertainty

Greg Biskakone Johnson (Lac du Flambeau), an experienced spearfisher and his tribe’s culture and language instructor, was helping an elder stock up on walleye when four gunshots rang out through the dark night last week. That and other incidents prompted Gov. Tony Evers (D-WI) to issue a statement about the state’s responsibility to uphold treaty fishing rights. The incidents come 30 years after the violent confrontations in the state known as ‘The Walleye Wars.” Among the $1 billion in grants for schools and food programs rescinded by the Trump administration is a $750,000 USDA grant for Day Eagle Hope Project. The non-profit runs a food pantry and food delivery service on the Ft. Belknap Indian Reservation in Montana. We’ll hear from its director about the program’s future.
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CoinDesk Podcast Network - BITCOIN SEASON 2: Uncle Sam Wants Your Bitcoin

Mark Goodwin explains how stablecoins may be yoking Bitcoin to the dollar system, creating a mechanism for the US to maintain global financial dominance while appearing to embrace cryptocurrency. He argues Bitcoiners must fight to keep Bitcoin permissionless.


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Author of "The Bitcoin Dollar" Mark Goodwin joins us to discuss how stablecoins may be the US government's strategy to maintain dollar hegemony by yoking Bitcoin to the dollar system. He explains how private stablecoin issuers must buy US treasuries, creating artificial dollar demand while enabling surveillance. Mark argues that while Bitcoin pumps, Bitcoiners must fight to preserve its permissionless nature or risk merely empowering the state rather than creating true freedom for individuals.


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# Notes:

- Tether holds ~$145B in US treasuries

- PayPal offering 3.7% yield on PYUSD stablecoin

- Bitcoin inflation fell below gold in May 2020

- US strategically using stablecoins for dollar demand

- Stablecoin regulations prioritize treasury backing

- Bitcoin scaling solutions needed for privacy


Timestamps:

00:00 Start

01:32 The 21 cabal

06:40 Bitcoin as an EXIT

14:14 The Bitcoin Dollar

29:54 Arch

39:27 Stablecoins

51:40 Trump's illegal scams

1:01:25 What should Bitcoiners do?

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Cato Daily Podcast - Best of Cato Daily Podcast: You Have the Right to Remain Innocent

Caleb O. Brown hosted the Cato Daily Podcast for nearly 18 years, producing well over 4000 episodes. He has gone on to head Kentucky’s Bluegrass Institute. This is one among the best episodes produced in his tenure, selected by the host and listeners.


Don’t talk to the police, even if you want to help them solve a crime. James Duane says that’s the advice police and lawyers give their own children. He explains why in his new book, You Have the Right to Remain Innocent.

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