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Marketplace All-in-One - How tariffs spoiled the Trump-Modi bromance

The U.S. and India, until about a week ago when steep tariffs went into effect, had been on track to forge strong ties in trade, defense, and other areas. One thing that seems to have been lost in the tariff drama was the budding “bromance” between President Trump and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Also: a look at how the so-called “meme stock” effect has affected companies that have been boosted, and we talk with economist Julia Coronado about the possibility of a Fed rate cut in upcoming cycles.

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Native America Calling - Monday, August 11, 2025 – Bureaucracy, funding uncertainty delay solutions for clean drinking water

Hopes to fix the Santee Sioux Nation’s lack of clean drinking water faded as federal funding for a pipeline project is increasingly tangled in government turmoil. Tribal citizens are forced to drink bottled water to avoid the high levels of manganese in well water. They are just one tribe having difficulty solving problems accessing the most basic resource.

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Heather Tanana (Diné), initiative lead of the Universal Access to Clean Water for Tribal Communities and law professor at the University of Denver

Nicole Horseherder (Navajo), executive director of Tó Nizhóní Ání

Kameron Runnels (Santee Sioux), vice chairman of the Santee Sioux Nation

Jerry Redfern, staff reporter for Capital & Main

 

Break 1 Music: The Four Essential Elements [Diigo Bee’iináanii] (song) Radmilla Cody (artist) K’é Hasin (album)

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Marketplace All-in-One - Economic statistics to start cutting out some smaller cities

The Bureau of Labor Statistics, which has been in the headlines recently for other reasons, has quietly stopped collecting economic data from smaller cities. We chat with Cornell University professor Russell Weaver on why the collection of inflation and other data is being cut in places like Buffalo, New York and Lincoln, Nebraska. Also: two American microchip makers have agreed to give the U.S. government a cut of their sales in China.

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Opening Arguments - Project 2025, Six Months Later

OA1181 - In this episode recorded almost exactly six months into the Trump administration, we check in on the progress of the Heritage Foundation’s infamous playbook to remake every part of the federal government in the second Trump administration. What is Project 2025, and who was behind it? How many of its goals have already been accomplished, how many are in progress, and what’s left?  

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Audio Mises Wire - Can Econometric Models Fulfill the Role of an Economic Laboratory?

Mainstream economists claim that they can use econometric models to emulate human action and, thus, create an economic laboratory. These models, however, cannot tell us about cause-and-effect, which is vital to understanding praxeology and economic behavior.

Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/can-econometric-models-fulfill-role-economic-laboratory

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The Intelligence from The Economist - The summit of its parts: Ukraine, Trump and Putin

What is on the table for the meeting in Alaska? What are the red lines? What chance Ukraine would accept what is agreed, especially if its president is not even in the room? Many world cities would like to become the Detroit of electric vehicles; our correspondent visits China’s contenders. And treatments improve for even the worst cases of allergies. 


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