Brian Gongol Show on WHO Radio - April 10, 2016
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This week
- Breaking up the big banks
- Inversion rules from the Treasury
The Baltic Dry Index is rising, but it's still at a very low point
Telling signs about the world economy at large -- if shipping costs (as tracked by the index) are very low, then that's a symptom that goods aren't moving on the high seas
Kansas City's Federal Reserve chief is a hawk
Someone needs to be the hawk at the table -- even if, on balance, the Fed still probably needs to be dovish
Saving a newspaper the hard way may be the only way
A Boston Globe editor asks his associates to ponder: "If a wealthy individual was to give us funding to launch a news organization designed to take on The Boston Globe, what would it look like?" And that's exactly the right question. All sympathies and sentimentality aside, the value of a company is what it's going to be able to produce in the future. From that perspective, what exists today isn't as important as what an organization would build if starting from a blank sheet of paper.
But first...
- School supplies to Ghana
- Paper and pencils enough to make a difference
- So much under-utilized human potential
Tin Foil Hat Award
Yay Capitalism Prize
Capitalist solution of the week
Quote of the Week
Listen on-demand
- Podcast of this episode - segment 1 (So much human potential, so many ways it's under-utilized)
- Podcast of this episode - segment 2 (Saving newspapers by starting from scratch)
- Podcast of this episode - segment 3 (The Baltic Dry Index isn't so dry)
- Podcast of this episode - segment 4 (Netflix subscription rates are going up)
- Official station page for this episode (forthcoming)