Engines of Our Ingenuity - The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2545: Milton Bradley
Episode: 2545 Game Maker Milton Bradley. Today, a game maker.
Audio Mises Wire - Elon Musk Claims Money Will Become Irrelevant. Is He Right?
Elon Musk recently claimed that artificial intelligence will make money itself obsolete. He needs to read the literature of Austrian economics.
Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/elon-musk-claims-money-will-become-irrelevant-he-right
Curious City - A museum, a mayor and a road: How Lake Shore Drive became a runway … intentionally
Lake Shore Drive has served as a makeshift runway for emergency landings. But it’s also been an *intentional* runway for planned arrivals. We go back to 1983 to get the story of how a Chicago institution helped turn our lakeside expressway into an airstrip, at least twice.
The Indicator from Planet Money - Bitcoin miners are betting on AI over crypto
If you want to make Bitcoin, you need powerful computers and a lot of energy. Well, it turns out the same infrastructure needed for Bitcoin mining is pretty valuable in the era of AI. Today on the show, why some miners are starting to throw in the towel on crypto in favor of supporting AI infrastructure.
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This indicator hasn’t flashed this red since the dot-com bubble
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Engines of Our Ingenuity - The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2617: Facebooking
Episode: 2617 Facebook, social networking website, or new medium? Today, Facebooking.
Cato Podcast - Strategy Without Strategy: Inside the New NSS
The Cato Institute's Katherine Thompson and Josh Shifrinson join Justin Logan to dissect the most contentious passages of the National Security Strategy, including its warnings about European “civilizational erasure,” its revived Monroe Doctrine instincts, and the absence of military escalation language on China. The discussion weighs whether this NSS truly reflects restraint and realism or simply refines old habits under a new rhetorical wrapping.
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The Indicator from Planet Money - How a former Fed vice chair would approach rate cuts
Federal Reserve is meeting to make its interest rate decision after the government shutdown delayed key economic data. Today on the show, we talk to the former Vice Chair of the Fed, Lael Brainard, about what she would do with interest rates in this critical yet foggy economic moment.
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A little doomsday feeling is weighing on the economy
Can ... we still trust the monthly jobs report?
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A little doomsday feeling is weighing on the economy
Can ... we still trust the monthly jobs report?
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Engines of Our Ingenuity - The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2829: Cesare Lombroso
Episode: 2829 Cesare Lombroso and his Museum. Today, a head in a jar.
Audio Mises Wire - Why Banning Hate Speech Is Evil
Marion Millar has been charged in Scotland with the crime of “malicious communication” due to tweets criticizing gender self-identification.
Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/why-banning-hate-speech-evil
The Indicator from Planet Money - Take a penny, leave a penny, get rid of the penny
In November, the U.S. stopped production of the humble penny after 232 years in circulation. On today’s show, a former U.S. Mint director shares the fiscal math that doomed the penny, and an artist pay tribute to this American icon.
View more of Robert Wechsler’s artwork here.
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View more of Robert Wechsler’s artwork here.
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What’s the deal with the platinum coin?
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