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Aug 2023
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Is the Inflation Reduction Act Working? ...

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Episode 126: It's been a year since the Inflation Reduction Act has passed, and Neal and Toby discuss exactly what the bill has done with billions of investments into clean energy and jobs, and and what it is still expected to do. Plus, Argentina's insane interest rates and why Warren Buffett is going all in on the US housing market. Also, the makers of Bazooka bubblegum and the underwear brand 'Parade' were purchased for hundreds of millions of dollars. And finally, how the drought in the Panama Canal is impacting the global shipping industry and the Australian Supermarket poisonous mushroom mystery.

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