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Brackets is BSM's song gladiator podcast. We pit bands discographies against each other to determine exactly what that bands best song is. No loyalties, few emotions and even less sense towards the end.
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Marketplace® is the leading business news program in the nation. We bring you clear explorations of how economic news affects you, through stories, conversations, newsworthy numbers and more. The Marketplace All-in-One podcast provides each episode of the public radio broadcast programs Marketplace, Marketplace Morning Report®and Marketplace Tech® along with our podcasts Make Me Smart, Corner Office and The Uncertain Hour. Visit marketplace.org for more. From American Public Media. Twitter: ...
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Spiritual direction for living up to our fullest potential Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/lucretia-howard/support
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UK indie label with strong faces, hearts and bands to match. We are/You are 'Team PoP!' So journey with us into the sparkling world of Alcopop! - with hits galore! Jump on in, the Hooch is lovely....
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Election Day and costly courtroom showdowns
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Campaigns for both Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump are trying to get ahead of the curve on election legal battles. According to The Hill, there are already over 200 voting and election cases pending across the country. We’ll get into it. Then, we’ll explain how Trump’s recent battles with CBS and ABC could signal his …
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The federal government is seeking a legal remedy for Google’s monopoly on internet search, as adjudicated by a federal judge. That remedy could include a breakup of its parent company, Alphabet. But when similar accusations were leveled against Microsoft a couple of decades ago, the software titan emerged from its trial intact. Also in this episode…
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A jobs report that doesn’t say much about the labor market
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Today’s jobs report featured a shockingly small number of new hires with just around 12,000 jobs added. However, as FHN Financial’s Christopher Low explains, these dismal figures have more to do with recent extreme weather events and the ongoing strike at Boeing. Plus, we look at why a tax provision expanding the amount of money very rich people ar…
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What’s behind the uncertainty in the housing market?
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It hasn’t been a normal housing market for years now, but it’s been especially uncertain in the past few months. We delve into how interest rate cuts, mortgage rate fluctuations, and the election are all making conditions for buying a home a bit hard to read for most people. Plus, a preview of today’s highly anticipated jobs report which might refl…
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Indonesia bans the sale of Google Pixel phones
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From the BBC World Service: A ban on Google’s flagship Pixel smartphone in Indonesia comes because the company failed to meet requirements for certain smartphones sold domestically to contain at least 40% of parts manufactured locally. Plus, Hello Kitty turns 50, and the landmark birthday also marks an uptick in the fortunes of Sanrio, the company …
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Bytes: Week in Review — Apple Intelligence arrives, AI writes Google’s code, and AI medical transcription tool hallucinates
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An AI transcription tool used in health care has been found to frequently hallucinate things no one ever said, including making up medications. That’s just one of the topics for today’s Marketplace Tech Bytes: Week in Review. Plus, we’ll get into what we learned from this week’s Big Tech earnings, including Google saying that it’s using AI to gener…
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What happens if Trump brings back Schedule F?
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An estimated 50,000 civil service jobs were slated to become political appointments under a Trump-era executive order. If Donald Trump returns to the White House, there’s a chance he’ll reinstate it, leading to the biggest federal workforce shakeup in nearly 150 years. Also in this episode: A new resource for farmers market pricing and the key to s…
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This Halloween, we’re looking at some new inflation data that’s got the Federal Reserve in good spirits. Its preferred inflation measure shows inflation fell to 2.1% last month, moving ever-so-closer to the Fed’s 2% target. We’ll get into why core inflation complicates the Fed’s good news. And, we’ll unpack why some Meta investors were spooked when…
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The last reading on inflation before the election
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This morning, the central bank’s preferred measure of inflation — the personal consumption expenditures price index, or PCE — came out and clocked in at 2.1% annually in September. With fuel and energy prices stripped out, the index was up 2.7%. What should we make of these figures? Then, if former President Donald Trump is re-elected, he’s promisi…
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All the work that goes into spooks, scares and haunts
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For some, spooky season means buying truckloads of candy or dusting off that 12-foot plastic skeleton in the basement. For others though, it’s time to get to work. This Halloween, we’ll check in with Star Romano, a stage production manager at the Queen Mary’s Dark Harbor in Long Beach, California, to hear more about the scare economy. Take a listen…
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The U.K.’s budget gets the IMF’s seal of approval
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From the BBC World Service: In the United Kingdom, the government has unveiled its first budget since the Labour Party got back in power, its first in 14 years. The measures amount to a $50 billion tax hike to fund public services, with a big focus on taxing businesses and high earners. We’ll hear more. Plus, Donald Trump is proposing tariffs of up…
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For almost a century, people have been going to the movies to get freaked out by fictional depictions of artificial intelligence. Back in 1968, there was Hal 9000 in “2001: A Space Odyssey.” The 1980s gave us Skynet in “The Terminator.” And these days, movies about rogue bots are more popular than ever. Films like 2022’s “M3GAN” and this summer’s “…
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Consumer spending has been strong since the post-pandemic-crash economy got back on its feet, and it continues to prop up GDP. But too much spending, as well as too little, could mess with the Federal Reserve’s goals of stable prices and maximum employment. Also in this episode: WNBA players want a contract to match their popularity and brand power…
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Is Big Tech’s investment in AI paying off?
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Tech companies like Google and Meta have been pouring billions into artificial intelligence. But investors have been waiting for those investments to pay off. We’ll get into what the latest earnings report from Google’s parent company signals about AI’s money-making potential. And, American companies are responding to former President Trump’s tarif…
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A delightful surprise for those in the labor market
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The private payroll company ADP reported that a lot more people than expected were added to its payrolls this month. True, the more closely watched data on hiring and unemployment is not due from the government until Friday. But this is new evidence that the American jobs machine is still putting people to work. We dig in. Plus, a look at Google’s …
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The legal gray area of an Elon Musk giveaway
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Philadelphia’s district attorney sued billionaire Elon Musk earlier this week over a controversial $1 million-a-day giveaway to registered voters, alleging that it is an “unlawful lottery.” Musk is conducting this through his pro-Donald Trump political action committee, called America PAC. On today’s program: a look at where Elon Musk and his super…
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From the BBC World Service: First, it’s the “worst of times” camp. While Germany’s economy grew unexpectedly, German-based car company Volkswagen announced major layoffs and plant closures. We’ll discuss some of the reasons and the fallout. Then, it’s the “best of times” for Spain’s economy, which exceeded expectations with 0.8% growth. We’ll walk …
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