Americans Are Suiting Up Again & Ferrari’s Mocked First EV is Selling Fast
#912: Suits are making a comeback as more Americans are returning to the office…in style! AI riches are pushing policymakers to create wealth sharing proposals for the communities housing data centers...
17 Aug 30min
Is Sports Betting the New American Investment Plan? & Candy Crush Keeps Crushing It
#911: Billions of tariff refunds are coming back to large companies. Gen Z believes sports betting is the key to a better financial future. Candy Crush has been crushing it for 15 years. McDonald’s kn...
14 Aug 29min
Bob Iger, Josh Kushner Buys LA Lakers for $12.5B & The FAA is Run by Gamers
#910: The Los Angeles Lakers are sold for $12 billion to Josh Kushner and Bob Iger. July’s inflation report comes in just as expected. Roku has a 24/7 AI slop channel. Private equity is stuck with ove...
13 Aug 28min
Bumble Allows Men to Message First & UMich Drops Letter Grades for Freshmen
#909: A total solar eclipse drives a boom in hotel bookings in far-flung places in Europe. Bumble reverses a feature that made it unique: men can now message first. Anthropic will now watermark its AI...
12 Aug 31min
Americans Push Back on Mass Surveillance & Dallas Is the New Wall Street?
#908: Flock cameras are a useful tool for law enforcement but there’s growing backlash of a mass surveillance state. Lake Mead plummets to historic low levels. Mark Zuckerberg releases his own manifes...
11 Aug 31min
US Loses 23k Jobs in Surprising(ly bad) Employment Report & John Oliver Takes on Buc-ee's
#907: The U.S. economy unexpectedly lost 23,000 jobs in July – a sharp miss from economists' expectation of an 83,000-job gain. Plus, more than 5,000 investors are still copying Leopold Aschenbrenner'...
10 Aug 28min
BofA Spends Big on GLP-1s & AI Invents a Virus Not Found in Nature For First Time
#906: Bank of America is spending $250M a year on GLP-1 weight loss drugs for its employees. SpaceX's first post-IPO lockup expired Thursday after releasing 912 million restricted shares into the publ...
7 Aug 29min
Saudi Arabia Takes Over EA & Scientists Create The First Allergy-Proof Dog
#905: EA misses quarterly bookings estimates ahead of Saudi-backed buyout. Disney agrees to let TikTokers use its characters in videos, and gene-edited puppies will melt your heart... but won’t give y...
6 Aug 32min
