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American AI Companies Fend Off Chinese Copy Cats & Gen Z Loves Love Island

#884: American AI companies are sounding the alarm on Chinese companies copying their models through “distillation.” Stellantis officially opens its doors to the sale of the tiny car priced at under $15,000. The US is seeing its middle-aged population slowly shrinking and which c ... Show More

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Jul 7

Xbox Hits Reset Button on Business & Netflix Has a ‘Season 2’ Problem

#883: Microsoft cuts over 4,000 jobs including its Xbox unit as it looks to downsize its gaming division. SpaceX joins the Nasdaq in less than a month of it becoming public. Netflix has a retention problem as it struggles to keep viewers hooked onto its shows after its first seas ... Show More

30m 1s

Jul 6

Trump Accounts Are Now Live & Philosophy Majors Find Work in AI

#882: What you need to know about the Trump accounts that are now live. Scientists have made a cell from scratch for the first time. Bending Spoons raises $1 billion in its IPO. AI labs are turning to philosophy majors to help solve some of the tech’s most complex problems. Final ... Show More

31m 29s

Aug 2019

Uber's Slowdown and Disney's Net Fix

Uber stock tumbles after reporting a $5.2 billion loss. Disney announces a Netflix-priced streaming bundle. Kraft Heinz hits a new low. Roku connects. And Chipotle serves up new queso. Analysts Aaron Bush, Ron Gross, and Jim Mueller discuss these stories and weigh in on the lates ... Show More

40m 41s

Sep 2021

Uber’s Path to Profits with Dara Khosrowshahi; Martha Stewart’s Expansion; Evergrande’s Debt Dilemma

Uber may be bumping up its timeline for profitability. After years of losses and struggles with surge pricing and labor shortages throughout the pandemic, CEO Dara Khosrowshahi says the company is ready to turn its first adjusted profit sooner than expected. Martha Stewart sha ... Show More

37m 23s

Oct 2020

“That’s a $111M chicken wing” — Pilgrim’s Pride’s chicken-fixing. Uber’s pet unicorn. BlackRock’s hedge.

Thursday’s the new Friday. And Pilgrim’s Pride just dropped millions to settle a chicken price-fixing lawsuit that reminds us of Big Tech. Meanwhile, Big Banks kicked off earnings season, but we’re more interested in the diversification going on at BlackRock. And we noticed that ... Show More

16m 54s

Jun 2023

What did the fight over the US debt ceiling cost?

Binance has lost a quarter of its market share, the US government is on the verge of passing a deal to raise the debt ceiling, and Eurozone inflation has fallen more than economists expected to hit its lowest level since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Plus, Ukr ... Show More

8m 50s

May 2020

The Debt Bomb Has a Shorter Fuse Than Anyone Thinks – Ep 573

Financials take out new lows today before rallying the market positive. Tech stocks providing false sense of security for the markets. Powell throws cold water on negative interest rate expectations. Trump beats the drums demanding negative interest rates. Betting odds increase o ... Show More

49m 6s

May 2024

It’s all about the dollar

The US Supreme Court rejects an existential legal challenge to the country’s top consumer finance watchdog, a $10bn US property fund is running low on liquidity as investors demand their money back, and Russia and China agree to tighten military ties and deepen their economic ... Show More

10m 42s

Apr 2023

Emerging markets debt crunch

Donald Trump is suing his former lawyer Michael Cohen, an uptick in core prices in the US is keeping pressure on the Federal Reserve to push ahead with another interest rate rise in May, and a study shows 91 of the poorest countries will spend an average of more than 16 per ce ... Show More

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US Debt Rating Gets Downgraded & How Ube...