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The Deal, hosted by Alex Rodriguez and Jason Kelly, features intimate conversations with business titans, sports champions and game-changing entrepreneurs who reveal their investment philosophies, pivotal career moves and the ones that got away. From Bloomberg Podcasts and Bloomberg Originals, The Deal is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart, Bloomberg Carplay, or wherever you get your podcasts. You can also watch The Deal on Bloomberg Television, and Bloomberg Originals on YouTube.

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Elon Musk is suing OpenAI and its CEO, Sam Altman, saying the artificial intelligence company abandoned its founding mission to prioritize the benefit of humanity over profit. Is this just a bunch of industry drama, or could it be a real turning point in the development of generative AI? And, how the cultural conversation around shoplifting has played out at one CVS store. Plus, we’ll play a round of Half Full/Half Empty, and Kimberly shares a hair-raising leech story.

Here’s everything we talked about today:

• • “The legend of the empty CVS in Washington, D.C.” from The Washington Post

• • “CDC ending five-day COVID isolation guidance” from The Hill

• • “Elon Musk Sues OpenAI, Sam Altman, Saying They Abandoned Founding Mission” from The Wall Street Journal

• • “Can “Dune: Part Two” bring audiences back to movie theaters?” from Marketplace

• • “Why are so many CEOs heading for the exits?” from Marketplace

• • “Disney joins forces with India’s Reliance Industries to create massive new streaming platform” from Marketplace

• • “More US high schools now require personal finance courses” from Marketplace

• • “The Rise of the Do-Nothing Vacation” from The Wall Street Journal

We love to hear from you. Send your questions and comments to makemesmart@marketplace.org or leave us a voicemail at 508-U-B-SMART.

New data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics offers a glimpse into the gender and racial makeup of occupations in the U.S. workforce. One takeaway from the data: Many jobs are still highly gendered. Guest hosts Amy Scott and Nova Safo get into it. And, we’ll explain why the chickens may be coming home to roost for banks due to commercial real estate vacancies. Plus, we’ll play a heated round of Half Full/Half Empty!

Here’s everything we talked about today:

• • “Yellen: It’s ‘obvious’ that empty office buildings will create banking stress and losses” from CNN Business

• • “Yellen sees more commercial real estate stress, losses, but no systemic banking risk” from Reuters

• • “40% of Lawyers Are Women. 7% Are Black. America’s Workforce in Charts” from The Wall Street Journal

• • “Some colleges are bringing back the SAT and ACT requirement” from Marketplace

• • “The Hottest New Accessory in LA Restaurants? Your Takeout Containers From Home.” from Eater Los Angeles

• • “Coke’s first new permanent flavor in years adds a spicy twist” from CNN

• • “Australia Introduces the ‘Right To Disconnect’ For Workers” from The New York Times

• • “Taylor Swift props: Who will she sit by, what will she wear and 10 more Super Bowl bets” from The Athletic

We love to hear from you. Send your questions and comments to makemesmart@marketplace.org or leave us a voicemail at 508-U-B-SMART.

A "Theory of Everything" is physicists' somewhat tongue-in-cheek phrase for a hypothetical model of all the fundamental physical interactions. Of course, even if we had such a theory, it would tell us nothing new about higher-level emergent phenomena, all the way up to human behavior and society. Can we even imagine a "Theory of Everyone," providing basic organizing principles for society? Michael Muthukrishna believes we can, and indeed that we can see the outlines of such a theory emerging, based on the relationships of people to each other and to the physical resources available.

Blog post with transcript: https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2023/10/30/255-michael-muthukrishna-on-developing-a-theory-of-everyone/

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Michael Muthukrishna received his Ph.D. in psychology from the University of British Columbia. He is currently Associate Professor of Economic Psychology at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Among his awards are an Emerging Scholar Award from the Society for Personality and Social Psychology and a Dissertation Excellence Award from the Canadian Psychological Association. His new book is A Theory of Everyone: The New Science of Who We Are, How We Got Here, and Where We're Going.

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Hey Smarties! Today we’re bringing you a special episode of “Marketplace Morning Report” that dives into what the video game industry can teach us about the economy, from the socioeconomic hurdles that keep many young people from breaking into the field to the economics at work in many games. It’s part of the “Skin in the Game” series from David Brancaccio and the “Marketplace Morning Report” team, which explores how the massive industry can help us understand economics, business, money and careers.

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The reckoning for markets is picking up speed, says GMO co-founder Jeremy Grantham, and as a result investors for should be wary of the US. On this week's aftershow, Merryn and John Stepek unpack Grantham's comments. 

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Senior reporter and Money Distilled author John Stepek joins Merryn to talk through the themes hit in the two panels at the Fringe Festival in Edinburgh. 

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This week we bring you a discussion with tech entrepreneur Marc Andreessen to talk about his recent essay "Why AI Will Save The World", we also have Krystal and Saagar looking at a recent podcast where Scott Galloway predicts Trump won't run in 2024 due to threat of prison, and studies that show political identities are potentially correlated with anxiety.

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Little is known about why he fled across the border into the hermit kingdom, but securing his release will require some tactical diplomacy. Given the tense relationship between both countries, is Kim Jong Un prepared to come to the table? A look at research which suggests gold might not always be an effective hedge against inflation (08:52). And, why mountains stop growing (15:42).

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Join Rob and Peter for a conversation where they often don’t agree completely but are willing to debate and pick apart varying viewpoints on the systems that run the world, from the benefits system, poverty and the NHS, including some radical ideas on how the world could move forward.

Peter Reveals:

• Why we focus on the wrong issues as a culture
• The creation of victims in the media
• How we’re teaching racism
• The value taxes can provide
• The pros and cons of the benefits system in the UK
• The public fear in the US

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• The problems with the educational system
• Why the current political system doesn’t work
• The cost of covid

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This week we discuss a Saturn Moon discovery that might have ingredients for Life, Charles Barkley's comments on joining CNN show his concern about "joining the Titanic", and James Li brings us a new episode of "Beyond The Headlines" On Inflation.

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In this episode, we explore the world of hedge funds with Paul Podolsky, who spent 16 years at Bridgewater (the world's largest hedge fund) before launching a writing, publishing, and podcasting career.  We ask: how did hedge funds evolve, and how are they different from traditional asset managers?  What are the different types of hedge funds?  How do they raise and deploy capital?  What are the entry and exit opportunities?  And...what does it truly mean to be a "pain sponge?"

Paul Podolsky spent 20+ years on Wall Street with most of that time at Bridgewater Associates, the biggest hedge fund in the world. Prior to that he worked.as a journalist in 1990s Russia, writing for Novaya Gazeta, The Moscow Times, and Hearst. He graduated from Brown University, The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy (Tufts in association with Harvard), and the Maurice Thorez School of Foreign Languages. He currently has a podcast of his own called 'Things I Didn't Learn in High School', is the author of "Raising a Thief" and "Master Minion" and has a Substack where he writes "Practical, jargon-free description of what is going on in international affairs and financial markets that ties directly to my asset allocation, with full transparency into my wins and losses."

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It’s jobs report Friday, and it’s time to do the numbers. One data point that stands out: Women’s labor force participation, which is “at a rate never seen before.” We’ll get into what the latest jobs report tells us about this economy and what it might mean for the Federal Reserve’s pledge to help traditionally marginalized groups. Then: Could obesity become a marker of poverty? Plus, a round of Half-Full/Half-Empty about big hats and big ideas.

Here’s everything we talked about today:

• • “U.S. Job Growth Retains Vigor Despite Economic Worries” from The New York Times

• • “Surprise, not so surprising? Another strong jobs report” from “Marketplace Morning Report”

• • “How Jenny Craig built a weight-loss empire and battled her speech loss” from The Washington Post

• • “Why don’t you fix your teeth?” from “This Is Uncomfortable”

• • “Jenny Craig tells employees it will shut its doors” from NBC

• • “Novo Nordisk limits Wegovy doses for new patients as demand outpaces supply” from CNN

• • “Godfather of AI Quits Google, Fears AI’s Risks and Regrets His Work” from Futurism

• • “How AI true believers are preparing for an economic revolution” from “Marketplace”

• • “E-SUVs may be popular, but are they sustainable?” from “Marketplace Tech”

• • “How brands like Birkenstock and Victoria’s Secret stage a comeback” from Marketplace

• • “Court battle over Ed Sheeran and Marvin Gaye songs could result in ‘less wonderful music’ being made” from “Marketplace Morning Report”

• • King Charles III’s coronation from the Make Me Smart newsletter

Are you Half-Full or Half-Empty on something we talked about? Or maybe you have a question you would like to share? Send it our way! Leave us a voicemail at 508-U-B-SMART or write to makemesmart@marketplace.org.

As a leader, you're not only leading. You're leading towards growth. In this episode, New York Times bestseller and business coach Donald Miller shares six things you need to grow your business, church, or non-profit and build an organization that lasts. 

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If you knew exactly when every person was going to die, or require medical care, you could make a killing buying and selling insurance. Nobody knows these things, of course -- the future is hard to predict -- but some people know something about the future that other people don't. This sets up adverse selection: the ability of one party to leverage information another party doesn't have, in order to gain an economic advantage. Economist Amy Finkelstein is an expert in this phenomenon, as well as the usefulness of empirical studies in economic research.

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Amy Finkelstein received her Ph.D. in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is currently John & Jennie S. MacDonald Professor of Economics at MIT. She is the co-director and research associate of the Public Economics Program at the National Bureau of Economic Research, and the co-Scientific Director of J-PAL North America. Among her awards are a MacArthur Fellowship and the John Bates Clark Medal. Her recent book, with co-authors Liran Einav and Ray Fisman, is Risky Business: Why Insurance Markets Fail and What to Do About It.

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