The Fed is on the hook for an estimated one-and-a-half trillion dollars. Despite the recent headlines, that's not because of building renovations. It's a much larger cost blowout caused by big actions taken during the pandemic to help the economy: quantitative easing.
Today on the show, we talk to both a critic of these actions and someone who helped put those those actions in play.
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NPR's Book of the Day - ‘On Her Game’ is Christine Brennan’s portrait of basketball star Caitlin Clark
In 2024, ratings for the NCAA women's basketball final topped the men's final by 4 million viewers – and Caitlin Clark was largely responsible. American sports fans fell in love with the athlete and Clark, now with the Indiana Fever, went on to become a star. Christine Brennan's new book On Her Game looks at the athlete's role in U.S. sports and culture. In today's episode, Brennan talks with NPR's Scott Simon about Clark's time playing on a boys' team, conversations about race surrounding her success, and pay disparities between the NBA and WNBA.
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Native America Calling - Thursday, July 31, 2025 – Bridging Indigenous cultures across the Arctic
Canada, Norway, Denmark, and the U.S. are among the handful of countries with land above the Arctic Circle. Each of those has significant Indigenous populations with their own cultures built around the land, sea, and ice that they have always inhabited. We’ll hear from some of those Indigenous people who are working across borders to learn from, advocate for, and work with their counterparts in other countries. We’re broadcasting live from the Arctic Encounter Symposium in Anchorage, Alaska.
GUESTS
Jackie Qataliña Schaeffer (Iñupiaq), member of the board for the Arctic Encounter Symposium
Dr. Heather Sauyaq Jean Gordon (Iñupiaq), Indigenous researcher and Arctic Fulbright Scholar
Break 1 Music: Tikitaummata (song) Susan Aglukark (artist) The Crossing (album)
Break 2 Music: Grandmother’s Song (song) Fawn Wood (artist) Iskwewak (album)
Tech Won't Save Us - Trump’s Crypto Profiteering Is Worse Than You Think w/ Jacob Silverman
Paris Marx is joined by Jacob Silverman to discuss Sequoia partner Shaun Maguire’s Islamophobic attack on Zohran Mamdani, what it tells us about the state of tech’s politics, and how Donald Trump is enriching himself through crypto scams.
Jacob Silverman is a journalist and the author of the forthcoming book Gilded Rage: Elon Musk and the Radicalization of Silicon Valley.
Tech Won’t Save Us offers a critical perspective on tech, its worldview, and wider society with the goal of inspiring people to demand better tech and a better world. Support the show on Patreon.
The podcast is made in partnership with The Nation. Production is by Kyla Hewson.
Also mentioned in this episode:
- Jacob has reported on the Aqua 1 Foundation’s mysterious crypto deal that puts $75 million dollars in Donald Trumps pocket.
- Trump signed the GENIUS Act last week, which aims to make crypto more mainstream and is widely viewed as openly corrupt. Trump has already made millions of dollars from crypto.
- Crypto is coming for the US 401k.
What Next | Daily News and Analysis - How Elon Musk Colonized NASA
How an Obama-era decision to invest in space capitalism handed Elon Musk a monopoly on space.
Guest: Franklin Foer, staff writer at the Atlantic, author of “The Last Politician” and “World Without Mind: The Existential Threat of Big Tech.”
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Podcast production by Ethan Oberman, Elena Schwartz, Paige Osburn, Anna Phillips, Madeline Ducharme, and Rob Gunther.
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Audio Mises Wire - Mother O’ Mercy! Is This the End of the Cal Bullet Train?
The Trump administration has withdrawn its promised $4 billion for the California Bullet Train project because this project does not have a viable future. While they may complete the 171-mile Central Valley portion, the rest of the project is dead in the water.
Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/mother-o-mercy-end-cal-bullet-train
Engines of Our Ingenuity - The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2495: Creativity Within Limits
Episode: 2495 Creativity Within Limits: Rules as a Source of Creativity. Today, bounded creativity.
Risky Business with Nate Silver and Maria Konnikova - America’s New AI Strategy
With all the frenzy last week around Jeffrey Epstein and ColdplayGate, you might have missed an important story: Trump’s new AI Action Plan. Released alongside three new executive orders on AI, the plan emphasizes deregulation, open sourcing, and “anti-woke” models in a race for industry dominance. Today, Nate and Maria get into the details and declare it… not bad?
Further Reading:
Zvi Mowshowitz America’s AI Action Plan Is Pretty Good
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U.S. Bank has undergone a significant digital transformation, implementing a multi-cloud strategy to accelerate innovation and improve customer-focused development. Operating in a highly regulated environment, the bank must navigate the challenge of balancing innovation with strict compliance requirements while meeting the evolving demands and needs of customers and employees.
In this episode of Leaders of Code, Jody Bailey, Stack Overflow’s CPO, Anirudh Kaul, Senior Director of Software Engineering, and Paul Petersen, Cloud Platform Engineering Manager, discuss the U.S. Bank’s journey from traditional banking practices to embracing new technologies. The conversation covers the technical and organizational aspects of large-scale cloud migration, along with their leadership approach during this transformative period.
Key topics include:
- How U.S. Bank empowers teams to innovate without sacrificing team agility. The importance of team collaboration, transparency, trust, and continuous communication in fostering innovation and successful tool adoption.
- Cloud migration strategies and the role of platform engineering in enabling and supporting organizational change.
Notes:
- Connect with Anirudh Kaul and Paul Petersen. Learn more about U.S. Bank.
- Connect with Jody Bailey on LinkedIn.
It Could Happen Here - Community Preparedness Basics with Live Like the World is Dying
James talks with Inmn from the Live Like the World is Dying podcast about the basics of community and individual preparedness for disasters of all kind.
Links:
More Live Like the World is Dying:
https://www.tangledwilderness.org/live-like-the-world-is-dying
Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness:
http://www.tangledwilderness.org
http://www.patreon.com/strangersinatangledwilderness
“The super-rich ‘preppers’ planning to save themselves from the apocalypse” by Douglas Rushkoff:
“Ready for Anything” by Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness:
https://www.tangledwilderness.org/features/ready-for-anything
“It’s Time to Build Resilient Communities” by Margaret Killjoy:
https://margaretkilljoy.substack.com/p/its-time-to-build-resilient-communities
Etymology of Apocalypse:
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/apocalypse
"Kitty Stryker on Anarchist Prepping" (LLWD Ep. 1):
https://www.liveliketheworldisdying.com/s1e1-kitty-stryker-on-anarchist-prepping/
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