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Cato Daily Podcast - Postal Banking: A Dead Idea Walking
Turning post offices into banks is a bad idea. So why does it keep coming back? Nick Anthony explains.
Curious City - Chicago teens went to dance and find connection at Medusa’s
Medusa’s was “like a community center for weirdos and freaks and everybody else in between,” say some Chicagoans who went there as teens in the 1980s and ’90s. In this week’s episode Axios Chicago reporter Monica Eng finds out how the club got started, what it was like to hang out there and why, despite its popularity, it closed its doors in 1992.
Cato Daily Podcast - Is Biden’s Big Student Debt Cancellation Legal?
There are significant legal problems with the President's plan to cancel billions of dollars in student debt. Tommy Berry explains.
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More or Less: Behind the Stats - Pakistan flooding, UK power prices and Boris?s broadband claim
Devastating floods have wreaked havoc across Pakistan after the heaviest monsoon rains in at least a decade. But is a third of the country really under water, as has been claimed? Also why do electricity prices in the UK rise in line with gas prices when we get so much of our power from other sources like nuclear, wind and solar? As criminal barristers go on strike in England and Wales, we ask if those starting in the profession really earn ?12,200 a year. And as Boris Johnson waves goodbye to Downing Street, we investigate his claim that 70% of the UK now has access to gigabit broadband.
Presenter: Tim Harford Series producer: Jon Bithrey Reporters: Nathan Gower, Charlotte McDonald Production Coordinator: Jacqui Johnson Editor: Richard Vadon
Cato Daily Podcast - Liz Truss, UK Prime Minister
Cato's Ryan Bourne details what we might expect from Liz Truss at the helm of the UK government.
Related content:
Brexit, Trade, and Regulatory Barriers in Great Britain featuring Liz Truss and Caleb O. Brown, Cato Daily Podcast, September 20, 2018
Related content:
Brexit, Trade, and Regulatory Barriers in Great Britain featuring Liz Truss and Caleb O. Brown, Cato Daily Podcast, September 20, 2018
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Cato Daily Podcast - What Can Presidents Take with Them When It’s Time to Leave?
Since 1978, departing U.S. Presidents have to leave the office — and almost everything in it — behind. Why is that? And what are the implications for former President Trump's legal problems? Patrick Eddington explains.
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Cato Daily Podcast - Why Immigration Visa Backlogs Are Pushing This CEO and Veteran Overseas
Tech CEO and veteran Matt McGuire and his foreign-born fiancee want to get married and live in the United States. So why won't the feds even look at her application for a fiancee visa? McGuire and Cato's David Bier explain the myriad problems with the massive backlog of visa applications.
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More or Less: Behind the Stats - Can we use maths to beat the robots?
Daily advances in the technology of artificial intelligence may leave humans playing catch-up ? but in at least one area we can still retain an edge, mathematics. However it?ll require changes in how we think about and teach maths and we may still have to leave the simple adding up to the computers. Junaid Mubeen, author of Mathematical Intelligence, tells Tim Harford what it?ll take to stay ahead of the machines.
Presenter: Tim Harford Producer: Jon Bithrey Sound Engineer: Rod Farquhar Production Coordinator: Jacqui Johnson Editor: Richard Vadon
(Image: Digital generated image of artificial intelligence robot scanning the data: Getty / Andriy Onufriyenko)
Cato Daily Podcast - Inflation, Tangential Goals, and the Fed’s Dual Mandate
Does the Federal Reserve's dual mandate allow the central bank to target goals well outside of that mandate? Economist Thomas Hogan comments.
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Curious City - Chicago’s Buckingham Fountain and Why the City’s Got So Many Alleys
Growing up, one listener heard tales about how an engineer was hidden inside Chicago’s Buckingham Fountain in order to make sure the water spouts out each day. This week we go inside the innards of the fountain to see how it works and learn the history behind it. Plus, we get the answer to the question: Why does Chicago have so many alleys?