The Prof G Pod

Billionaires AND Universal Healthcare? The Sweden Answer

You don't have to choose between billionaires and universal healthcare. You can have a society with both. You know, these societies have high tax rates and produce incredible companies that go on to make billions of dollars and trillion dollar market caps and they have billionaires. The two are not mutually exclusive in America.

Decoder with Nilay Patel

Tariffs didn’t bring manufacturing jobs back to the US

Trade touches virtually every part of or most of our lives. So, our mission is to fix globalization, but we're not retreating from globalization. We're leaning into it. But we believe that globalization needs to be fixed. It needs to be more trusted, more secure, more fair.

TBPN

Letter Enthusiasts, $250B, Mega-Startup School, SSI x Nvidia, ETN Raises $1.6M

This is basically saying, "Hey, all of that is nonsense and not going to matter because we're just going to drop the weights and there's not going to be an approval process of any kind."

The New York Times

Why Thousands of Cubans Are Migrating to Guyana

We need the migrants as much as the migrants need us, and they are really filling huge gaps in the system.

Freakonomics Radio

678. Who Gets to Choose a “Good Death”?

New York is the latest state to legalize medical aid in dying. Stephen Dubner speaks with the governor who signed the law, a Nobel Prize-winning economist, a death doula — and an ethicist who thinks the very idea is wrong.

The Business of Tech

AI vs public sector jobs

we're framing this moment the wrong way as a blunt job cuts exercise, rather than a once in a generation chance to improve citizen services, grow new export businesses out of public sector expertise, and build a proper New Zealand digital service to set standards and avoid another decade of technical debt.

Code Switch

Trump's 'weaponization' fund steals reparations blueprint

On this 250th birthday of the United States, the bill that would allow Mother Randall to be compensated is languishing in some congressional committee somewhere. Bills for black reparations for slavery have sat collecting dust for decades, but people convicted for their roles in January 6 came way closer to official government sanctioned redress than anybody in those groups. So, who counts as having been harmed by the state?

The Business of Tech

Power play: Qiulae Wong on R&D, AI, hi-tech skills and tax

most of the ones I talked to you say tax us more because we need more capital to run our businesses, and it's been a stranglehold on that because of our obsession with property.

The a16z Show

Energy, Minerals, and the Physical Stack Behind AI

With the US more than 50 years behind China in critical mineral supply and grid infrastructure built on systems designed a century ago, they examine where the real bottlenecks are and how to move faster.

The Business of Tech

Factories in retreat: inside NZ’s deindustrialisation crisis

While countries like Australia, Singapore, the UK and the US have long term coordinated manufacturing and industry four point zero strategies, New Zealand has shelved its industry transformation plans and still doesn't have a clear view of what kind of manufacturing base it wants in.

The New York Times

How Americans Are Struggling With Rising Healthcare Costs

If we're not in crisis mode in health care in the United States, we're almost there.

The Business of Tech

Factories in retreat: inside NZ’s deindustrialisation crisis

Without a coherent industrial strategy covering energy, skills, investment, and R and D, we're effectively putting headwinds in front of our most productive exporters rather than giving them a competitive advantage.

Freakonomics Radio

In a Driverless World, Who Loses and Who Wins?

In blue cities across the country, unions and politicians want to ban self-driving cars.

TED Radio Hour

Curious stories of coexistence

Singapore enacted policies to clean up their waterways, and they were really, really successful. So all of a sudden, instead of having waterways that were filled with filth, we had waterways that were filled with fish. And from the otters' points of view, they were feeding troughs.

Semafor

Blackrock Infrastructure Summit: State Spotlight | Semafor Media Partner

When infrastructure doesn't work for people, it hurts the family. It hurts her home budget money out of her rent or child care. And so for me, it was that that moment where it really crystallized when the fundamentals aren't working. People on the margins pay the dearest price for it.

Semafor

Blackrock Infrastructure Summit: Future Builders | Semafor Media Partner

The speed of which AI is changing we're not adapting our society fast enough... the biggest issue confronting our country today and other countries is the speed of which this change is occurring is society moderating that fast enough?

Cheeky Pint

Garrett Langley of Flock Safety on building technology to solve crime

For most major cities, if a human is not physically hurt, the crime goes to the bottom of the list.