Episodes
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Global News Podcast
Pilot’s ordeal, fuel fears and Kenya’s youth challenge power
The episode connects an attempted hijacking, fragile energy supplies and political unrest to wider questions of security, resilience and accountability.
Oct 2, 2026 · 30 min
Stock Movers
Nike falters as AI financing and credit scores reshape markets
The episode links corporate execution problems with the expanding financial infrastructure behind AI investment, mortgages, and urban growth.
Oct 2, 2026 · 7 min
Radiolab
Ragtime pianist tracks four symphonies inside his mind
Bob Milne’s unusual musical perception tests the limits of memory, attention, and what neuroscience can explain about human ability.
Oct 2, 2026 · 21 min
The Indicator from Planet Money
Earlier Social Security could help workers—and deepen the funding gap
The proposal highlights a real retirement inequality while forcing a difficult choice between earlier benefits and Social Security’s already strained finances.
Oct 2, 2026 · 9 min
How I Invest with David Weisburd
Emerging managers seek capital beyond traditional GP stakes
The episode explains how early-stage investment firms can overcome fundraising, infrastructure, and LP-confidence barriers before they have institutional scale.
Oct 2, 2026 · 45 min
Bloomberg Daybreak Weekend
Weak jobs report deepens the Fed’s policy dilemma
Falling job creation, rising unemployment, softer wage growth, and heavy debt issuance are reshaping expectations for rates, bonds, and equities.
Oct 2, 2026 · 26 min
Stock Movers
Weak jobs report strengthens higher-for-longer rate case
The report shows a labor market stuck at weak growth while supply pressures, borrowing needs, and investment keep bond yields elevated.
Oct 2, 2026 · 26 min
Hard Fork
AI agents turn convenience into a trust experiment
As AI systems gain access to email, finances, purchases, and relationships, the episode asks whether convenience is outrunning safety, privacy, and human judgment.
Oct 2, 2026 · 53 min
Morning Brew Daily
Walmart bets digital shelves can earn shoppers’ trust
The episode connects everyday retail convenience to bigger questions about pricing power, food markets, space infrastructure, and whether AI behavior signals suffering.
Oct 2, 2026 · 31 min
Stock Movers
Nike stumbles as AI chips and index changes reshape markets
The episode links company-specific shocks—from Nike’s China weakness to Synaptics’ takeover bid—with financing, index membership, and urban-growth questions.
Oct 2, 2026 · 6 min
Stock Movers
European stocks split as Volvo and IG Group retreat
The episode shows how weaker regional conditions and shifting investor expectations can punish companies even as stronger trading lifts others.
Oct 2, 2026 · 6 min
The Daily
Cornell case tests consent, trauma and due process
The disputed allegation exposes how evolving accounts, incomplete investigations and competing definitions of fairness can shape public judgment and legal decisions.
Oct 2, 2026 · 31 min
Up First from NPR
Wages lag inflation as Tennessee execution fails again
The episode connects household financial strain with questions about execution procedures and accountability in a Cornell rape case.
Oct 2, 2026 · 14 min
Pod Save America
Trump’s message creates new risks for Republican candidates
The episode tests whether Trump’s economic, foreign-policy, and technology agenda is becoming a liability for Republicans in competitive races.
Oct 2, 2026 · 1h 24m
Bloomberg Daybreak Weekend
Pentagon reinforces Gulf as jobs data tests Fed outlook
The episode connects a potentially wider Iran confrontation with economic data that could shape the Fed’s next policy decisions.
Oct 2, 2026 · 20 min
Sourcery
AI’s next leap depends on mastering real work
The episode examines whether safer evaluations, enterprise deployment, and open models can turn frontier AI progress into broad economic gains.
Oct 2, 2026 · 59 min
Science Friday
Bolivia recognizes a tiny wildcat hidden in plain sight
The tilcayo’s discovery could strengthen protection for the Yungas Forest while exposing how funding and attention bypass small wildcats.
Oct 2, 2026 · 13 min
The President's Daily Brief
Iran’s economic crisis collides with covert threats
The episode connects Iran’s financial deterioration to pressure on its oil trade, alleged activity in Britain, and warnings of political violence.
Oct 2, 2026 · 21 min
The Headlines
Trump’s Rio Grande Valley support shows signs of strain
The episode connects voter dissatisfaction, Democratic turnout problems, and broader fights over technology, justice, and access to cancer treatment.
Oct 2, 2026 · 16 min
Pivot
AI firms face scrutiny Wall Street cannot postpone
The episode connects AI’s regulatory vacuum to enormous losses, concentrated financing, and public-market pressure that could reshape the industry.
Oct 2, 2026 · 1h 5m
Money Guy Show
DIY investors mistake complexity for diversification
Small portfolio oversights can compound into concentrated risk, unnecessary taxes, missed accounts, and poor decisions during market stress.
Oct 2, 2026 · 38 min
The Compound and Friends
AI spending boom meets Gen Z’s economic squeeze
The episode connects uncertainty around AI’s enormous investment cycle with the housing, inequality, and fiscal pressures shaping younger Americans’ futures.
Oct 2, 2026 · 1h 24m
The a16z Show
AI agents target enterprise work incumbents leave unfinished
The episode examines whether AI-native companies can win enterprise software by automating the coordination, judgment, and edge cases beyond systems of record.
Oct 2, 2026 · 60 min
WSJ What’s News
DHS Pays Local Police to Make Immigration Arrests
Federal funding is reshaping local participation in immigration enforcement while market stress, AI governance concerns, and Canada’s U.S. strategy widen the stakes.
Oct 2, 2026 · 12 min