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It's common knowledge that famines are usually caused by major droughts: Rain doesn't fall, crops don't grow, and people go hungry. But recent research suggests that while weather may trigger famines, they may actually be more of a human-made catastrophe. Find out more in this classic episode.

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(0:00) Bestie intros!

(1:37) Markets rip on strong economic data

(17:05) Media's broken business model, death spiral

(35:47) Texas defies the Biden Admin on the Southern Border after SCOTUS votes in favor of the federal government

(1:04:18) Ethics of publishing non-public financial data

(1:13:07) Fintech's reckoning

(1:26:27) ARkStorm 2.0

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https://www.cnbc.com/2024/01/25/gdp-q4-2023-the-us-economy-grew-at-a-3point3percent-pace-in-the-fourth-quarter.html

https://www.barrons.com/livecoverage/stock-market-today-012524

https://abcnews.go.com/Business/dow-closes-above-38000-record-high/story?id=106576234

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/01/11/cpi-inflation-report-december-2023-consumer-prices-rose-0point3percent-in-december-higher-than-expected-pushing-the-annual-rate-to-3point4percent.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/05/business/economy/jobs-report-december-2023.html

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/gas-prices-national-average-hit-by-mid-winter-blahs-on-way-to-3gallon-165833984.html

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/01/24/tesla-tsla-earnings-q4-2023.html

https://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/pressreleases/monetary20240124a.htm

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-01-23/china-mulls-stock-market-rescue-package-backed-by-278-billion

https://twitter.com/paulkrugman/status/1750529905627128154

https://fiscaldata.treasury.gov/americas-finance-guide/national-debt

https://twitter.com/RealEJAntoni/status/1750537238578930101

https://news.gallup.com/poll/266807/percentage-americans-owns-stock.aspx

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/FEDFUNDS

https://www.forbes.com/sites/bradadgate/2023/12/19/media-companies-have-slashed-over-20000-jobs-in-2023

https://twitter.com/maxwelltani/status/1750507633247678531

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/23/business/media/los-angeles-times-layoffs-newsroom.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/01/business/media/conde-nast-business.html

https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/23/business/conde-nast-staffers-walkout-layoffs/index.html

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/business/story/2024-01-18/la-times-guild-calls-for-one-day-walkout-to-protest-looming-staff-cuts

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/19/business/media/sports-illustrated-mass-layoffs.html

https://www.npr.org/2024/01/18/1225446347/pitchfork-faces-layoffs-and-restructuring-under-conde-nast

https://fortune.com/2023/11/30/yet-another-media-company-is-laying-off-workers-as-the-industrys-retrenchment-hits-vox-media-for-the-second-time-this-year

https://variety.com/2023/digital/news/jezebel-shutting-down-go-media-layoffs-1235785877

https://www.npr.org/2023/05/15/1173260377/vice-media-bankruptcy

https://twitter.com/BillAckman/status/1750537848447533207

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%205-y&geo=US&q=wsj.com,Businessinsider.com,twitter.com,nyt.com&hl=en

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https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/stats/nationwide-encounters

https://www.wsj.com/us-news/illegal-immigration-record-border-6db29cad

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/migrant-crossings-u-s-southern-border-record-monthly-high-december

https://www.scotusblog.com/2024/01/court-allows-border-patrol-to-cut-texas-razor-wire-along-rio-grande

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https://www.cbsnews.com/news/cbs-news-opinion-poll-americans-border-crisis

https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/california-offer-illegal-immigrants-free-healthcare-deficit-soars-population-shrinks

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https://twitter.com/WhidbeyWXGuy/status/1750006365790282175

https://twitter.com/US_Stormwatch/status/1749669643634233384

https://twitter.com/Weather_West/status/1750619800840110131

The Times Briefing for the Morning of Monday 18th December

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We're distrustful, unequal and isolated. That's according to the figures showing a decline in happy community feeling since the 1960s. But can we do anything to regain the healthier communal lives enjoyed by many of our parents, grandparents or great-grandparents?

We talk to a hopeful trio - an economist, a political scientist and a US senator - about how we can reduce social isolation, temper political division and prioritize the kind of mixing and meeting that makes neighbors into friends.   

Further reading:  

Robert Putnam Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community and The Upswing: How America Came Together a Century Ago and How We Can Do It Again. 

Lord Richard Layard Can We Be Happier? Evidence and Ethics and Wellbeing: Science and Policy (co-authored by Jan-Emmanuel De Neve).

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The UK is one of the largest producers of household electronic waste in the world. In 2022 we threw away nearly 24 kilos of things like plugs, mobile phones and computer hardware per person.  

The volume of e-waste produced world-wide is predicted to increase from more than 61 million metric tons this year to nearly 75 million in 2030 – and the vast majority of this will go into landfill.  

In this special episode, Becky Slack from the New Statesman's Spotlight team meets Michael Wyatt, director of Google ChromeOS EMEA, and Justin Sutton-Parker, CEO of research group Px3, to discuss what businesses and other organisations can do to play their part in reducing the scourge of e-waste, and more broadly how IT can drive sustainability.  

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The first residents have boarded the Bibby Stockholm barge moored off the coast of Dorset. Anoosh Chakelian visited Portland to meet locals and asylum seekers, and joins Freddie Hayward in the studio to reveal what she discovered.

They also discuss why leaving the European Court of Human Rights is no deterrent for people seeking asylum in the UK, and how Brexit may have actually made it harder for Rishi Sunak's conservatives to "Stop The Boats".

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Krystal and Saagar discuss the tumultuous DeSantis 2024 announcement over Twitter Spaces with Elon Musk, Trump mauls DeSantis with mocking memes, Dems Freak over Republican progress on Debt Ceiling, Uvalde One Year Later as there is nearly zero consequences for the cops who abdicated their duty, CIA admits Ukraine behind Drone attacks on Russia, Krystal looks into how one city solved their Rent Nightmares, Saagar looks into Biden losing to China on the Electric Vehicle race, and we're joined by guest Skanda Amarnath from Employ America to talk about 1 Weird Trick That Could Solve the Debt Ceiling.

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A few days ago, the Biden administration released a report warning that a warming planet posed severe economic challenges for the United States, which would require the federal government to reassess its spending priorities and how it influenced behavior.

White House reporter Jim Tankersley explains why getting the government to encourage the right decisions will be so difficult.

Guest: Jim Tankersley, a White House correspondent for The New York Times.

Background reading: 

• A chapter in the new Economic Report of the President focuses on the growing risks to people and businesses from rising temperatures.
• In theory, funding the government takes place in two major stages. But it’s a fraught and complicated process. Here’s a step-by-step guide.

For more information on today’s episode, visit nytimes.com/thedaily. Transcripts of each episode will be made available by the next workday.

What do Rob & Rob think of the current state of the market? Find out now. 

• (1.10) - House prices 
• (5.20) - What’s next for house prices? 
• (7.00) - Recession? 
• (9.00) - Mortgages 
• (10.00) - Rents 
• (12.45) - Scotland 
• (16.30) - Politics 
• (18.30) - Hub Extra 

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• House prices 
• Prices falling 
• Government to help homeowners 
• Housing stock 
• Recession chatter 
• Mortgage rates dropping 
• Rents on the up 
• Hometrack rental predictions 
• Scotland increases land transactions tax surcharge 
• Making Tax Digital delayed again 
• 2022 hotspots performing well 
• 2022 hotspots YouTube video 
• Scotland rent freeze YouTube video 
• David Goggins shorts 
• David Goggins Property Podcast episode 

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US mortgage rates have jumped to a two-decade high, with the average 30-year home loan now running above 7%. Of course, this makes sense. The Federal Reserve is raising benchmark interest rates and that's supposed to translate into a tightening of financial conditions, which includes housing credit. But the jump in mortgage rates far exceeds the increase in benchmarks, with the difference between average mortgage rates and the yield on equivalent US Treasuries at its highest on record. So what's going on? On this episode, we speak with Guillermo Roditi Dominguez, managing director at New River Investments, about what's happening deep in the market for mortgage-backed bonds to make rates surge this much. As he describes it, a sea change is helping to keep borrowing rates extra high.

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Are the government against small business owners and entrepreneurs? Why are you not taught in school about how money works? Or economics at all? Should we back and promote some form of a windfall tax on large energy companies? Listen in as Rob Rants about our new prime minister and the looming recession coming our way.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• There is division, and anger and our economic outlook in the UK right now is potentially the worst we have seen since the second world war.
• The small companies are the ones struggling the most, yet they generate so much of the UK’s income.
• There needs to be a windfall tax from the big energy companies so it can be redistributed to the people.
• More incentives need to be created to help fuel growth in the economy.
• We need better financial education in schools.
• It’s time to reduce the size of the government, the private sector has too much of a financial drain on it by the public sector.
• We need to educate, inspire, and support people to get into work.

BEST MOMENTS

“Surely the energy cap is there to protect the people is it not?”

“At the moment you have the working class, the small business, being overtaxed and the big company being undertaxed”

“We need fewer people working in government, pushing paper around”

“We need to align selfish interest with national interest”

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