It’s hard to get around without a car these days. But in the last couple of years, owning one has become very expensive. We’ll explain the deceptive practices happening in the auto lending market. And, we’ll explain how Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s power in the Democratic Party was demonstrated by a campaign contribution. Plus, we’ll play a round of Half Full/Half Empty and weigh in on “dumbphones” and adult gap years.
Here’s everything we talked about today:
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Love, money and this economy
The real danger behind Trump’s remarks on NATO
Gender and the labor market
The snowball effect of high interest rates on the national debt
The young (wealthy) Americans
Immigration policy as economic policy
20 years of Facebook
The car industry has a forced-labor problem
Copyright law in the age of AI
Our takeaway from the Big Tech CEO hearing
Turbulence at Boeing
How popular food brands get away with using prison labor
The politics of a booming energy industry
What does a UAW endorsement mean for Biden?
What Congress doesn’t want to talk about (tax hikes)
What happens when private equity firms own nursing homes?
When campaign-finance law looks like an unfunny joke
It’s a rough housing market out there, folks
More Big Tech layoffs. Is AI to blame?
What federal rulemaking power has to do with the economy
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