The current economic upheaval has lots of us scrambling for our glossaries and history books.
Today on the show, the editor-in-chief of Investopedia walks us through three vocab terms — spanning topics from tariff history to market volatility — that are spiking on the website lately.
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Why tariffs are SO back (Apple / Spotify)
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Risky Business with Nate Silver and Maria Konnikova - Will AI Radically Change the World by 2027?
This week, Nate and Maria discuss AI 2027, a new report from the AI Futures Project that lays out some pretty doom-y scenarios for our near-term AI future. They talk about how likely humans are to be misled by rogue AI, and whether current conflicts between the US and China will affect the way this all unfolds. Plus, Nate talks about the feedback he gave the AI 2027 writers after reading an early draft of their forecast, and reveals what he sees as the report’s central flaw.
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The Trump administration's move to send immigrants to a maximum security prison in El Salvador is the subject of multiple on-going fights in court.
But in an Oval Office meeting with the Salvadoran president this week, President Trump was already looking ahead.
"We also have homegrown criminals that push people into subways, that hit elderly ladies on the back of the head with a baseball bat when they're not looking, that are absolute monsters. I'd like to include them in the group of people to get them out of the country," Trump said.
Trump later clarified that by "homegrown criminals" he meant U.S. citizens.
No president has tried to do exactly what Trump is proposing.
In this episode, we hear from someone who argues it's wildly unconstitutional.
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But in an Oval Office meeting with the Salvadoran president this week, President Trump was already looking ahead.
"We also have homegrown criminals that push people into subways, that hit elderly ladies on the back of the head with a baseball bat when they're not looking, that are absolute monsters. I'd like to include them in the group of people to get them out of the country," Trump said.
Trump later clarified that by "homegrown criminals" he meant U.S. citizens.
No president has tried to do exactly what Trump is proposing.
In this episode, we hear from someone who argues it's wildly unconstitutional.
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Consider This from NPR - Can the U.S. banish its citizens?
The Trump administration's move to send immigrants to a maximum security prison in El Salvador is the subject of multiple on-going fights in court.
But in an Oval Office meeting with the Salvadoran president this week, President Trump was already looking ahead.
"We also have homegrown criminals that push people into subways, that hit elderly ladies on the back of the head with a baseball bat when they're not looking, that are absolute monsters. I'd like to include them in the group of people to get them out of the country," Trump said.
Trump later clarified that by "homegrown criminals" he meant U.S. citizens.
No president has tried to do exactly what Trump is proposing.
In this episode, we hear from someone who argues it's wildly unconstitutional.
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But in an Oval Office meeting with the Salvadoran president this week, President Trump was already looking ahead.
"We also have homegrown criminals that push people into subways, that hit elderly ladies on the back of the head with a baseball bat when they're not looking, that are absolute monsters. I'd like to include them in the group of people to get them out of the country," Trump said.
Trump later clarified that by "homegrown criminals" he meant U.S. citizens.
No president has tried to do exactly what Trump is proposing.
In this episode, we hear from someone who argues it's wildly unconstitutional.
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Consider This from NPR - Can the U.S. banish its citizens?
The Trump administration's move to send immigrants to a maximum security prison in El Salvador is the subject of multiple on-going fights in court.
But in an Oval Office meeting with the Salvadoran president this week, President Trump was already looking ahead.
"We also have homegrown criminals that push people into subways, that hit elderly ladies on the back of the head with a baseball bat when they're not looking, that are absolute monsters. I'd like to include them in the group of people to get them out of the country," Trump said.
Trump later clarified that by "homegrown criminals" he meant U.S. citizens.
No president has tried to do exactly what Trump is proposing.
In this episode, we hear from someone who argues it's wildly unconstitutional.
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But in an Oval Office meeting with the Salvadoran president this week, President Trump was already looking ahead.
"We also have homegrown criminals that push people into subways, that hit elderly ladies on the back of the head with a baseball bat when they're not looking, that are absolute monsters. I'd like to include them in the group of people to get them out of the country," Trump said.
Trump later clarified that by "homegrown criminals" he meant U.S. citizens.
No president has tried to do exactly what Trump is proposing.
In this episode, we hear from someone who argues it's wildly unconstitutional.
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Cato Daily Podcast - A Lawsuit to End ‘Liberation Day’ Tariffs
The so-called "Liberation Day" tariffs use emergency powers from a statute that makes no mention of tariffs. Ilya Somin explains why that's one reason the tariffs are on shaky legal/constitutional ground and why a new lawsuit is challenging them.
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The Commentary Magazine Podcast - Fight Fiercely, Harvard?
Eliana Johnson joins us today from the Washington Free Beacon to discuss the Trump-Harvard fight, Steve Witkoff's walk-back on Iran, and the firebombing of Gov. Josh Shapiro's house on the first night of Passover. Give a listen.
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The Indicator from Planet Money - Did Trump enable insider trading?
On the morning of April 9, President Trump posted on Truth Social "THIS IS A GREAT TIME TO BUY!!! DJT." Around four hours later, he announced a pause on some new tariffs, causing a stock market spike. Now, Democrats are demanding an investigation into possible insider trading. But were Trump's posts actually insider trading?
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An insider trader tells all
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Related episodes:
Morally questionable, economically efficient (Apple / Spotify)
An insider trader tells all
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Consider This from NPR - Did DOGE take sensitive labor data?
President Trump's Department of Government Efficiency team, or DOGE, appears to be grabbing sensitive data from all over the government.
A whistleblower has come forward by filing an official disclosure to Congress about concerning activity on the systems at one independent federal agency, the National Labor Relations Board.
Elon Musk says DOGE is searching for savings throughout the government. But is the data being accessed valuable?
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A whistleblower has come forward by filing an official disclosure to Congress about concerning activity on the systems at one independent federal agency, the National Labor Relations Board.
Elon Musk says DOGE is searching for savings throughout the government. But is the data being accessed valuable?
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Consider This from NPR - Did DOGE take sensitive labor data?
President Trump's Department of Government Efficiency team, or DOGE, appears to be grabbing sensitive data from all over the government.
A whistleblower has come forward by filing an official disclosure to Congress about concerning activity on the systems at one independent federal agency, the National Labor Relations Board.
Elon Musk says DOGE is searching for savings throughout the government. But is the data being accessed valuable?
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A whistleblower has come forward by filing an official disclosure to Congress about concerning activity on the systems at one independent federal agency, the National Labor Relations Board.
Elon Musk says DOGE is searching for savings throughout the government. But is the data being accessed valuable?
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