How Companies Gamed the H-1B Visa Lottery
Each year in April, the US conducts a lottery that shapes the lives of hundreds of thousands of people. And each year, only around 85,000 are granted an H-1B visa for highly-skilled workers. With skyr...
31 Heinä 202417min
Japan’s Small Businesses Have a Problem. They Don’t Know How to Raise Prices
Costs are rising in Japan and small businesses risk being squeezed into oblivion if they don’t figure out how to raise their prices. After decades of deflation, many small Japanese companies are out o...
30 Heinä 202417min
Behind Trump's Pledge to Make America the "Crypto Capital"
This past weekend, Donald Trump became the first American president to address a crypto conference, telling an audience in Nashville that “if Bitcoin is going to the moon, I want America to be the nat...
29 Heinä 202417min
Wall Street’s Great Rotation
For most of this year, US markets were hitting fresh highs and investors were giddy about the potential of AI to make the world’s biggest tech companies even more profitable. Then, the picture changed...
26 Heinä 202416min
Why You’ll Want to Know How Your Nurse Practitioner Was Trained
Americans are more and more likely to get health care not from doctors, but from nurse practitioners. It’s one of the fastest-growing professions in the US — and the number of nurse practitioners in t...
24 Heinä 202417min
Are Cheaper Ozempic Knockoffs Safe?
Cheaper, knockoff versions of Ozempic, Wegovy and Zepbound are flooding the market, often promoted by telehealth companies in online ads and by influencers on TikTok and Instagram. These versions of t...
23 Heinä 202416min
Roblox: The Gaming Platform With a Predator Problem
With tens of millions of users under the age of 13, Roblox has become the biggest online gaming playground for kids. The company says its combination of AI chat filters and human moderators makes the ...
22 Heinä 202418min
K-Pop’s Plan for Global Dominance? Remove the K
Is K-pop even K-pop without the K? A Bloomberg analysis of song lyrics shows that for the first time, almost half of K-pop songs released this year have English lyrics. On today’s podcast, host Sarah...
19 Heinä 202414min
