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The Best One Yet - šŸ‘ ā€œMUGGsā€ ā€” Man Uggs are surging. Ozempicā€™s inventorā€™s dilemma. The Fedā€™s Debbie Downer. Reeseā€™s + Oreos.

Uggsā€™ sales are surging thanks to menā€¦ And itā€™s not the only brand pulling off a gender pivot.

Novo Nordisk stock is down 65%... because ā€œinventingā€ something doesnā€™t mean ā€œwinningā€ it.

The Federal Reserve made its interest rate decisionā€¦ no change. We explain the Debbie Downer decision.

Reeseā€™s & Oreos just teamed up despite being rivalsā€¦ Enemies with benefits


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The Indicator from Planet Money - Why the Fed could lose $1.5 trillion

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 ā€“ 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 ā€“ 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. Weā€™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. Weā€™re broadcasting live from the Arctic Encounter Symposium in Anchorage, Alaska.

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Jackie QataliƱa Schaeffer (IƱupiaq), member of the board for the Arctic Encounter Symposium

Dr. Heather Sauyaq Jean Gordon (IƱupiaq),Ā Indigenous researcher and Arctic Fulbright Scholar

 

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Tech Won't Save Us - Trumpā€™s Crypto Profiteering Is Worse Than You Think w/ Jacob Silverman

Paris Marx is joined by Jacob Silverman to discuss Sequoia partner Shaun Maguireā€™s Islamophobic attack on Zohran Mamdani, what it tells us about the state of techā€™s politics, and how Donald Trump is enriching himself through crypto scams.

Jacob Silverman is a journalist and the author of the forthcoming bookĀ Gilded Rage: Elon Musk and the Radicalization of Silicon Valley.

Tech Wonā€™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 onĀ Patreon.

The podcast is made in partnership withĀ The Nation. Production is by Kyla Hewson.

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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.Ā 

Guest:Ā  Franklin Foer, staff writer at the Atlantic, author of ā€œThe Last Politicianā€ and ā€œWorld Without Mind: The Existential Threat of Big Tech.ā€

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Audio Mises Wire - Mother Oā€™ 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

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Risky Business with Nate Silver and Maria Konnikova - Americaā€™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?

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Zvi Mowshowitz America’s AI Action Plan Is Pretty Good

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The Stack Overflow Podcast - The innovation, leadership, and team agility inside U.S. Bankā€™s cloud journey

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.Ā 

In this episode of Leaders of Code, Jody Bailey, Stack Overflowā€™s CPO, Anirudh Kaul, Senior Director of Software Engineering, and Paul Petersen, Cloud Platform Engineering Manager, discuss the U.S. Bankā€™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.

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