General Electric is breaking up! The megacorporation is splintering off into three separate companies. We’ll get into what that means for one of America’s biggest industrial conglomerates. Also, guest host Amy Scott joins us to discuss the dangers of humanitarian work in times of war. And dynamic pricing is coming for checked luggage. We’ll get smart (and angry!) about airline baggage fees.
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Crypto goes to court
Consumers are still living it up
Washington’s looming deadlines (note the plural)
The sliver of the federal budget Congress is fighting over
Musk and the military industrial complex
The real problem with passing the federal budget
Why big GOP money matters less than ever
Corruption is a bipartisan problem
What a shock to the economy could mean right now
AI and its role in elections
The clash of Bidenomics and MAGAnomics
What’s happening in Congress is not normal
The quest for a perfect smile
What happened to stakeholder capitalism?
Air conditioning and political dysfunction
What you need to know about ranked choice voting
Retail theft and capitalism today
Our 1,000th episode!
What happened to economic conservatism?
A new demographic reality is coming
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