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There have been some negative changes coming out of Citi that we'll be talking about in today's podcast episode.(00:43) - Citi Custom Cash® Card discontinued for new applications, but it may still be possible to product-change to itYou can read more about this discontinuation here.(01:16) - Citi Custom Cash® Card details(04:23) - Citi had been on a roll...(04:42) - Citi points have been declining in valueYou can read about some of the negative Citi changes here(05:16) - But still has excellent options(06:33) - Is it worth going out of one's way to get Citi Citi Custom Cash® Card while it's available for product changing?Subscribe and FollowVisit https://frequentmiler.com/subscribe/ to get updated on in-depth points and miles content like this, and don't forget to like and follow us on social media.Music Credit – “Ocean Deep” by Annie YoderMentioned in this episode:Visit FrequentMiler.com Did you know that Frequent Miller is also a website? At frequentMiller.com, you'll find all the latest deals, news about points, miles, and rewarding credit cards, the single best, Best Credit Cards page on the web, guides to all popular rewards programs, and many other terrific resources. If you'd like to get our posts sent to your email, go to frequentMiller.com/subscribe and sign up for free. https://frequentmiler.com/subscribe/Check out all of our other travel podcasts from around the worldThis podcast is part of Voyascape, a podcast network that brings together the world's best travel podcasts. You can find all of our podcasts from around the world at Voyascape.com. If you are interested in advertising or sponsored content on any of our shows you can find out more at the link below.Voyascape Podcast Network

Devon Gimbel just booked over $250,000 in travel last year using credit card points—but she's the first to tell you award travel isn't "free." It's a strategy for 10x-ing your existing travel budget by strategically matching your routine spending to the right credit cards. Since ChooseFI's original Travel Rewards 101 in 2017, the landscape has matured: annual fees are higher, issuer rules are stricter, and new players like Bilt have revolutionized the game by letting you earn points on rent and mortgage payments. Yet the fundamentals remain: with deliberate card selection and an understanding of transferable points currencies, it's still entirely possible to unlock one to two meaningful trips per year—whether that's economy flights to national parks or first-class seats to Tokyo. Key Topics Discussed 00:00:00 - Introduction and State of Travel Rewards in 2026 Brad introduces Devon Gimbel and discusses how travel rewards have evolved since ChooseFI's first Travel Rewards 101 episode in 2017. They address whether earning significant travel value is still possible despite higher annual fees and stricter rules. 00:05:30 - The Evolution of Award Travel Community Devon reflects on how the travel rewards community has matured since 2013-2014, moving from a monotone focus on premium cabin travel to showcasing diverse travel styles including domestic trips, family travel, and national park adventures. 00:11:45 - Getting Started: First Steps for Beginners Devon outlines how beginners should approach travel rewards by analyzing their top spending categories and selecting one or two intentionally chosen credit cards with strong bonus categories rather than immediately pursuing dozens of sign-up bonuses. 00:16:20 - Sign-Up Bonuses vs. Everyday Spend Strategy Discussion of the balance between chasing new card welcome bonuses and building a sustainable credit card portfolio with strong category bonuses. Devon explains why a hybrid approach works better for most people than constantly opening new cards. 00:22:15 - Understanding Bonus Categories Deep dive into how credit card bonus categories work, why they matter, and how strategic matching of spending patterns to bonus categories can dramatically increase points earning without changing spending behavior. 00:30:00 - The Power of Flexibility Brad and Devon discuss various dimensions of flexibility in travel rewards including travel dates, destinations, airports, cabin class, and types of points currencies. They share contrasting examples from their recent Japan trips. 00:38:45 - Transferable vs. Fixed Points Currencies Devon explains the critical difference between transferable points programs (Chase, Amex, Capital One, Bilt, Citi) and fixed airline/hotel programs, comparing them to Visa gift cards versus single-merchant gift cards. 00:47:30 - The Rise of Bilt Rewards Discussion of how Bilt has emerged as a major transferable points currency, offering the ability to earn points on rent and mortgage payments while providing strong transfer partners that directly compete with Chase Ultimate Rewards. 00:55:00 - Credit Card Issuer Restrictions in 2026 Devon outlines how credit card eligibility rules have tightened, including Chase's evolving restrictions and once-per-lifetime language similar to American Express, emphasizing the importance of deliberate card selection. 01:02:15 - Calculating Travel Value and Points Redemption Devon shares her methodology for calculating the value of points redemptions using her family's Lufthansa first class trip as an example, discussing the difference between 'free travel' and maximizing travel budget value. 01:12:30 - How Devon Earns 6 Million Points Annually Transparent discussion of Devon's points earning including business expenses, mortgage payments through Bilt, quarterly taxes, shopping portals, and strategic use of bonus categories, with acknowledgment that her situation differs from average users. 01:22:00 - Partnership Strategy for Couples Devon expla…

New York Times bestselling and award-winning author John Kenney spoke with us about life as an ad-man, writing humor for The New Yorker, and the paperback release of his latest novel I SEE YOU'VE CALLED IN DEAD. John Kenney is the bestselling author of three novels and four books of poetry, including Love Poems (For Married People), a New York Times bestseller. His first novel, Truth In Advertising, won the Thurber Prize for American Humor. He is a longtime contributor to The New Yorker magazine's Shouts & Murmurs column. His most recent novel, I See You've Called In Dead (available in paperback June 2nd), is described as “The Office meets Six Feet Under meets About a Boy” and was an instant bestseller. The book follows Bud Stanley, an obituary writer who accidentally publishes his own obituary and begins attending strangers' funerals to find meaning of life. In a starred review Booklist said of the book, “I See You've Called in Dead is a witty and heartwarming reminder of the bottomless despair, limitless absurdity, and undeniable joy of the human experience.” John Kenney has worked as a copywriter for more than 25 years at Ogilvy, McGarry Bowen, and Publicis. He has created campaigns for American Express, Citi, Chevron, Heineken, and Cadillac, to name a few. [Discover The Writer Files Extra: Get 'The Writer Files' Podcast Delivered Straight to Your Inbox at writerfiles.fm] [If you're a fan of The Writer Files, please click FOLLOW to automatically see new interviews. And drop us a rating or a review wherever you listen] In this file John Kenney, Milena, and I discussed: His past life as a high profile copywriter  10 years of rejections from the New Yorker Why he still has impostor syndrome The personal inspiration behind his latest novel Writing self-deprecating poetry Why he's writing a memoir about rewriting his mother's obituary And a lot more! Show Notes: byjohnkenney.com I See You've Called in Dead by John Kenney (Amazon) John Kenney Amazon Author Page John Kenney on Instagram John Kenney for The New Yorker Milena Gonzalez | Writer | Reader | Book Reviewer diary_of_a_book_babe on Instagram Kelton Reid Instagram Kelton Reid on Twitter Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Moving money is easy to describe and brutally hard to do well at global scale. When your network supports thousands of clients across 90+ countries and touches thousands of currency pairs, you start to see a different map of what's changing in payments and what's just noise. Greg Myers sits down with Debo Sen, Head of Payments, Services at Citi, to unpack what that vantage point reveals about the future of institutional payments.We get specific on why payments have become strategic for corporate growth, customer experience, and working capital. Debo explains how “always-on” is more than 24/7/365 uptime, it's about payments being embedded and invisible inside real business workflows. You'll also hear a sharp reframing of real-time payments as “just-in-time” optionality for treasury, along with a practical example of how holidays and global supply chains expose the limits of legacy rails.From there we dig into cross-border payments trends, including faster velocity across the ecosystem and the remaining friction that lives in the last mile. Debo shares how banks and fintech partnerships can expand endpoints like wallets, debit cards, and instant payment schemes while keeping resiliency and safety at the center. We also cover tokenization and blockchain use cases that are already operating at scale, plus what agentic commerce and AI-driven transactions could mean for controls, standards, fraud, and trust.If you care about real-time treasury, cross-border payments, payments infrastructure, tokenized deposits, and bank-grade security, this episode is for you. 

Ryan Rugg, Global Head of Digital Assets for Citibank's TTS business, joined us at the Solana Policy Institute's Summit to discuss Citibank's digital asset, tokenization and blockchain initiatives. We dive into the nuances of tokenized deposits and stablecoins and much more. Brought to you by

The financial system is being rewired in real-time, and the blueprint for the next decade of wealth is being written. In this episode of Millionaire Mindcast, Matty A. breaks down the SEC's historic move to allow tokenized versions of stocks like Apple and Tesla to trade 24/7 on the blockchain. Discover why Congress's recent advancement of the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act is a permanent regulatory tailwind, and why Citi tied a $143,000 Bitcoin price target directly to its passing. Matty also explains the explosive 85% growth in the Real World Asset (RWA) tokenization market and what it means for the future of raising capital in real estate syndications. Learn the three critical moves you need to make right now to build your tokenization IQ and position yourself before institutional money completely takes over. Connect & Take Action:Wealth Intelligence Brief: Text "WIB" to 844-447-1555 to get Matty's free macro data, real estate intel, and crypto signals delivered to your inbox 3 times a week.Imagos Income Fund: Text "INCOME" or "DEALS" to 844-447-1555 to learn more about Matty A's private debt fund targeting 10% fixed returns paid out monthly.

Patrick Moorhead and Daniel Newman return from Dell Technologies World to unpack Google I/O's Gemini-as-operating-system moment, the Blackstone-Google TPU joint venture nobody saw coming, NVIDIA's $81.6 billion quarter with a $91 billion guide, and debate whether or not the "SaaSpocalypse" is finally over. The handpicked topics for this week are: Google I/O 2026: Gemini Becomes the Operating System. Google I/O repositioned Gemini from a product to the operating layer for everything Google does, and the numbers backed it up. 900 million monthly active users, 3.2 quadrillion tokens per month, a 7x jump year over year. Pat's headline: this is about widening distribution, not just model quality. Gemini 3.5 Flash, Antigravity 2.0, Gemini Spark, and Android XR glasses all extend Gemini into surfaces that no competitor can replicate. Daniel's read: the token-cost reckoning is coming, and when enterprise subsidies end, models that can deliver value at a lower cost per token will become the ground zero of the next era. (The Decode) Dell Technologies World 2026: AI Factory Goes Agentic, 1,000 New AI Server Clients. Pat and Dan were both on the ground in Las Vegas and called it the most consequential Dell event in years. Michael Dell and Jensen Huang co-keynoted to launch the next-generation Dell AI Factory with liquid-cooled PowerEdge XE9780 servers, Dell Deskside Agentic AI, and a multi-model ecosystem including Google Distributed Cloud with Gemini 3.0, on-prem OpenAI Codex, and Grok. 1,000 new AI server clients in a single quarter is the cleanest leading indicator of enterprise demand heading into Dell's Q1 print. Pat's biggest takeaway: OpenShell as a control plane for agents spanning from the GB10 all the way to the PowerEdge rack has been the missing orchestration piece. Daniel's read: large enterprises are going to build hybrid AI architectures and want to deliver tokens at the lowest possible on-prem cost, and Dell is ready. (The Decode) Blackstone and Google Launch a $5B TPU Joint Venture. Pat called it the biggest story of the week and the one that went most under the radar. For the first time, a hyperscaler has released its proprietary AI silicon to a third-party distribution entity. The $5 billion deal, up to $25 billion with leverage, targets 500 megawatts of capacity online by 2027. Daniel's framing: Google decided its custom silicon is worth more as a commercially distributed asset than as a captive moat. Pat's note: the proprietary nature of TPU infrastructure means retrofitting existing data centers will require real work, but the sovereign angle gives the JV a natural first market. (The Decode) AMD Helios, $10B Taiwan Investment, and the MI450 Anchor Customer Rumor. AMD dropped a $10 billion Taiwan ecosystem investment alongside confirmation that Helios rack-scale is on track for multi-gigawatt customer deployments beginning 2H 2026. A Citi rumor surfaced Anthropic as the anchor MI450 customer, to be formally announced at AMD's Advancing AI Day in July. Pat's read: Lisa Su has made a commitment and she almost never falls through. The analysts who said AMD would not ship anything in the second half of 2026 are going to be very wrong. (The Decode) OpenAI Guaranteed Capacity: Sam Altman's Moment. OpenAI launched multi-year compute commitment contracts the same week that Anthropic was struggling with capacity outages. Pat called it brilliant and said it makes Sam Altman look like a genius. It's the inference-era analog of cloud reserved instances: guaranteed availability at a locked price for one, two, or three years. Daniel added context: Anthropic's annualized ARR growth is nearly double OpenAI's and is about to lap them, so the model war is far from over. But for enterprises that need reliability, OpenAI just made the most compelling enterprise trust argument of the week. (The Decode) Sovereign AI Crosses $30 Billion at NVIDIA, 14% of Revenue. NVIDIA disclosed sovereign AI as a segment-level line for the first time, at $30 billion in FY26, 3x the prior year. Pat has been tracking sovereign for years and calls this the clearest possible signal that it has moved from marketing term to structural revenue category. Daniel's point: outside of the four or five hyperscalers doing all the major buying, sovereign is where the incremental demand is coming from and it is very real. (The Decode)  The Flip: Is the SaaSpocalypse Over? Daniel took the affirmative and came in loaded. Every earnings report across CrowdStrike, Cloudflare, ServiceNow, Intuit, Salesforce, Atlassian, Notion, and monday.com shows companies growing with the AI tailwind. His core argument: there was a reason SaaS emerged 20 to 30 years ago. Companies do not want to be in the software business. Vibe-coded flat-file apps with no security, no governance, no data lineage look great in a kitchen demo and fall apart at enterprise scale. The SaaSpocalypse is over and he is tired of talking about it. Pat's counter: BofA slapped Salesforce with an Underperform at $160, 8% below where it trades. Snowflake is down 35% year-to-date. A senior Dell executive told him Dell will not buy another SaaS system and is tripling internal software creation. The growth question is real even if the terminal value is not zero. Both agree the tape will tell the real story. (The Flip) NVIDIA Q1 FY27 Results. Record $81.6 billion revenue, up 85% year over year. Data center at $75.2 billion, up 92%. Non-GAAP EPS of $1.87, up 140%. Q2 guide of $91 billion crushed the $86.8 billion consensus by $4 billion at the midpoint. $80 billion buyback authorized, dividend raised 25x. The stock went down after hours for the fifth consecutive time following a massive beat and raise. Pat's read: NVIDIA may be worth $8 to $9 trillion on paper at a sector-average multiple and 75% gross margins held. Daniel's framing: this is the best company in the world, possibly tied with Google, and it is becoming the Apple of this era. He sees a long safe journey of continued growth vs. speculative dollars chasing quantum and space names that can double in a week. (Bulls and Bears) Intuit: Earnings Beat, Revenue Miss. A 17% workforce cut, raised guidance, and $8 billion buyback were authorized. Pat's emerging thesis: these companies are cutting people to afford tokens. Intuit comes at a moment when OpenAI's ChatGPT finance plugin via Stripe is building an intelligence layer that could sit on top of Intuit's products without displacing them directly, at least not yet. (Bulls and Bears) Lenovo: Record $21.6 billion quarterly revenue, up 27% year over year. The company's fastest growth in five years. AI-related revenue is up 84% year over year to 38% of total company revenue. ISG returned to full-year operating profit with a $21 billion AI server pipeline. Pat and Dan both read Lenovo's results as NVIDIA tea leaves, a leading indicator of enterprise AI server demand that directly validates what Dell said on stage about 1,000 new AI server clients. (Bulls and Bears) Analog Devices: Record $3.62 billion revenue, up 37% year over year. EPS up 67%. Q3 guide of $3.9 billion crushed consensus by $270 million. Data center up 90%, industrial up 56%, comms up 79%. The $1.5 billion Empower Semiconductor acquisition adds integrated voltage regulator technology that can reduce AI data center power consumption by 10 to 15% while shrinking the power footprint by up to 4x. Daniel's closing point: you can't build AI servers without players like Analog Devices and Lattice Semiconductor. These essential node companies aren't boring, they're foundational. (Bulls and Bears) Check out all of our Dell Technologies World coverage linked in the show notes including our sit-downs with Michael Dell, Jeff Clark, and key customers. Be part of our community. Hit that subscribe button and see you at Computex.   The Decode Google I/O 2026 — Gemini Becomes the Operating System: 900M MAU, 3.2 Quadrillion Tokens/Month, Gemini Omni, Antigravity 2.0, Gemini Spark, and Android XR Glasses https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/sundar-pichai-io-2026/ Dell Technologies World 2026 — AI Factory Goes Agentic: Michael Dell + Jensen Huang Unveil PowerEdge XE9780, Dell Deskside Agentic AI, and a Multi-Model Ecosystem; Dell Adds 1,000 AI-Server Clients in the Quarter https://www.dell.com/en-us/blog/dell-technologies-world-a-bright-and-beautiful-road-ahead/ Blackstone + Google Launch $5B (Up to $25B w/ Leverage) JV to Sell Google TPUs Outside Google Cloud — First Time a Hyperscaler Has Released Its Custom Silicon to a Third-Party Distribution Channel; 500 MW Online by 2027, Benjamin Treynor Sloss as CEO https://www.blackstone.com/news/press/blackstone-announces-joint-venture-with-google-to-create-new-tpu-cloud/ AMD Announces $10B+ Taiwan Ecosystem Investment — Helios Rack-Scale Platform With MI450X GPUs and Venice EPYC on TSMC 2nm Targeting Multi-Gigawatt Deployments 2H 2026; the Clearest Second-Source Signal Yet https://ir.amd.com/news-events/press-releases/detail/1286/amd-announces-more-than-10-billion-in-taiwan-ecosystem-investments-to-accelerate-ai-infrastructure OpenAI Launches Guaranteed Capacity — Multi-Year Compute Commitments Turn Inference Capacity Into a New Enterprise Asset Class https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/19/openai-announces-new-guaranteed-capacity-offering-for-customers-to-secure-compute.html The Sovereign AI Government Investment Wave — NVIDIA Discloses ~$30B Sovereign-AI Revenue (14% of Mix); UAE, Saudi, Japan, Australia, France All in Motion This Week https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/stocks/articles/analog-devices-q2-earnings-beat-153000996.html   The Flip: Is the SaaSpocalypse Officially Over — or Is BofA's Split Call (ServiceNow Buy, Salesforce Underperform) the Real Signal That Platform AI Monetization Is Going to Be Bifurcated, Not Universal? FOR:  BofA Reinstates Coverage of ServiceNow, Salesforce — Barron's (May 18) https://www.barrons.com/articles/servicenow-salesforce-stock-price-ai-7b109396 Embedded workflow + system-of-record stickiness still wins citing ServiceNow Q1 2026 financial results https://newsroom.servicenow.com/press-releases/details/2026/ServiceNow-Reports-First-Quarter-2026-Financial-Results/default.aspx Intuit Q3 revenue up 10%, cuts 17% of staff — SEC 8-K filing (May 20) https://www.stocktitan.net/sec-filings/INTU/8-k-intuit-inc-reports-material-event-b23073259896.html   AGAINST:  BofA Slaps Salesforce With Underperform Rating, $160 Price Target — 24/7 Wall St (May 18) https://247wallst.com/investing/2026/05/18/bofa-slaps-salesforce-with-underperform-rating-160-price-target-is-the-ai-story-falling-flat/ BofA resets Salesforce price target to Underperform — TheStreet (May 19) https://www.thestreet.com/investing/stocks/bofa-resets-salesforce-stock-price-target-to-underperform-at-160 Snowflake -35% YTD heading into May 27 print is the canary that platform stickiness is being repriced https://eciks.org/4640-22295-snowflake-set-to-report-q1-earnings-may-27-with-ai-strategy-in-focus OpenAI Guaranteed Capacity + Dell on-prem Codex create a credible path to displace seat-based SaaS https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/19/openai-announces-new-guaranteed-capacity-offering-for-customers-to-secure-compute.html Bulls & Bears NVIDIA Q1 FY27 ACTUALS https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/20/nvidia-nvda-earnings-report-q1-2027.html Intuit Q3 FY26 Actuals https://investors.intuit.com/news-events/press-releases/detail/1312/intuit-reports-strong-third-quarter-results-and-raises-full-year-revenue-guidance Lenovo Q4 FY26 ACTUALS https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/22/lenovo-shares-jump-15percent-on-record-earnings-as-ai-revenue-nearly-doubles.html Analog Devices Q2 FY26 ACTUALS https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/stocks/articles/analog-devices-q2-earnings-beat-153000996.html  

In Episode 173 of the Award Travel 101 podcast, Angie Sparks and Cameron Laufer covered a wide range of points and miles strategies, starting with two standout community posts. Angie highlighted an important discussion about insuring a complex trip booked across multiple credit cards to maximize welcome bonuses. The group recommended considering a standalone policy through companies like Allianz and using tools such as Squaremouth to compare coverage, while also putting the most expensive trip components on the card with the strongest travel protections. Cameron shared a clever positioning flight success story where a member booked Delta flights to JFK through Air France Flying Blue after transferring Chase points during a transfer bonus, saving a significant amount of points. The discussion also touched on the importance of understanding cancellation fees across different partner programs, with Virgin Atlantic noted as a favorite for inexpensive Delta award cancellations.The episode also covered several major pieces of points and miles news, including Chase's 30% transfer bonus to Southwest, IHG's 100% bonus on purchased points, Citi's 25% transfer bonus to Wyndham, and new Qatar Airways restrictions limiting how many people can be added to family and friends redemption lists. Angie shared a recent Wells Fargo business card approval with a $500 bonus that will help offset a large pool deposit expense, while Cameron discussed receiving his Rakuten-to-Bilt transfer and reminded listeners about the updated earning structure for different Bilt status tiers. The hosts also gave personal trip updates, including Angie's evolving Morocco itinerary and Cameron's plans to lock in Hyatt stays before upcoming program changes while continuing to prepare for Greece travel.The main topic focused on “workhorse cards” — the credit cards the hosts rely on consistently for everyday spending and maximizing rewards. Cameron highlighted favorites like the Chase Ink Cash for 5x office supply spending, the Amex Gold for dining and groceries, the Citi Strata Premier for its broad 3x categories and American Airlines transfers, and even the premium Bilt Palladium setup. Angie discussed cards she uses heavily in rotation, including the Citi Custom Cash for groceries, the Hilton Surpass for earning a free night certificate through annual spend, the Venture and Venture X for simple 2x earning, the Chase Freedom Flex for rotating categories, and the Venmo card for Costco purchases that code as grocery spend. They wrapped up with a practical tip for travelers booking independent hotels abroad: always compare prices across hotel websites, portals, Booking.com, Expedia, Costco Travel, and aggregators like Trivago because rates can vary dramatically.Episode Links:Chase to Southwest BonusIHG Buy points BonusQatar RestrictionsCiti to Wyndham BonusWhere to Find UsThe Award Travel 101 Facebook Community.To book time with our team, check out Award Travel 1-on-1.You can also email us at 101@award.travelBuy your Award Travel 101 Merch hereReserve tickets to our Late Summer 2026 Meetup in Milwaukee now. award.travel/mke2026Our partner CardPointers helps us get the most from our cards. Signup today at https://cardpointers.com/at101 for a 30% discount on annual and lifetime subscriptions! Lastly, we appreciate your support of the AT101 Podcast/Community when you signup for your next card!Technical note: Some user experience difficulty streaming the podcast while connected to a VPN. If you have difficulty, disconnect from your VPN.  

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Watch Us On YouTube! Announcing a new, ongoing benefit for annual subscribers of our Slack community. Annual subscribers receive a free Points Path Alerts subscription OR a 30% discount on Points Path Pro. A new credit card shows up, a new hotel status gets tested, and airline product delays keep dragging on. This week on Miles To Go, Ed and Richard break down Citi's rollout of the new American Airlines Globe Mastercard, including what happens when your existing Barclays card gets converted — whether you were planning on it or not. They take a closer look at the card's real value, including its ability to accelerate elite status, and whether the benefits justify the $350 annual fee. From there, the conversation shifts to Hilton's new Diamond Reserve status, as early real-world data points start to trickle in. Does it actually deliver better upgrades, or is it too early to tell? They also revisit Delta's ongoing seat certification delays, now stretching years longer than expected, and what that means for aircraft configurations and upgrade opportunities. Plus, a mix of travel updates — from World Cup logistics challenges to Uber dropping Discover cards — and a new personal travel goal that could reshape how Ed approaches trips going forward.  https://thepointsguy.com/hotel/reviews/hilton-elite-status-diamond-reserve-versus-diamond/  https://onemileatatime.com/news/delta-a321neo-flat-beds/ Get hydrated like Ed in Vegas with Nuun Use my Bilt Rewards link to sign-up and support the show! If you enjoy the podcast, I hope you'll take a moment to leave us a rating. That helps us grow our audience! If you're looking for a way to support the show, we'd love to have you join us in our Travel Slack Community.  Join me and other travel experts for informative conversations about the travel world, the best ways to use your miles and points, Zoom happy hours and exciting giveaways. Monthly access Annual access Personal consultation plus annual access We have witty, funny, sarcastic discussions about travel, for members only. My fellow travel experts are available to answer your questions and we host video chats multiple times per month. Follow Us! Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/milestogopodcast/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@milestogopodcast Ed Pizza: https://www.instagram.com/pizzainmotion/ Richard Kerr: https://www.instagram.com/kerrpoints/ ✈️  What We Cover in This Episode ✈️ Citi's AA Globe Mastercard rollout Barclays cards being converted automatically Key benefits and $350 annual fee Loyalty point boosts and status acceleration ✈️ Is the AA card actually worth it? Earning structure and flight-based bonuses Companion certificate timing Who this card makes sense for ✈️ Hilton Diamond Reserve status Early real-world upgrade data Why results may vary by property Whether it's worth chasing ✈️ Hotel upgrade realities How hotel systems handle elite tiers Why even top status isn't guaranteed What to watch for with confirmed upgrades ✈️ Delta's ongoing seat certification delays A321neo seat rollout pushed further out Why certification is taking years Impact on premium cabins and upgrades ✈️ Airline Wi-Fi frustrations Continued reliability issues Starlink vs legacy systems Why this still isn't solved ✈️ World Cup travel logistics in the U.S. High transportation costs Weak hotel demand in some markets Why fan experience may fall short ✈️ Uber drops Discover cards Payment network friction Implications with Capital One changes Rare move in the payments space ✈️ The "Five and Dime" travel goal 5 new destinations + 10 new routes per year Why it's harder than it sounds Cabo Verde as a potential play ⏱️ Timestamps  0:50 – Intro and opening banter 5:20 – AA Globe Mastercard conversion explained 9:30 – Is the AA card worth $350? 14:30 – Hilton Diamond Reserve early results 18:30 – Why hotel upgrades are inconsistent 22:00 – Delta seat delays stretch even further 25:30 – Airline Wi-Fi frustrations 28:30 – World Cup travel logistics issues 31:30 – Uber drops Discover cards 33:30 – "Five and Dime" travel goal  

Most banks still treat AI as a faster way to do the same work. Citibank believes the entire operating model of banking is about to change. Recorded live at the Financial Brand Forum, Driss Temsamani, Head of Digital at Citi and author of The Agentic Bank, explains why the next phase of AI is not about chatbots or isolated use cases. It is about rebuilding how banks deploy software, organize teams, serve customers, manage operations, and create decisions at scale. We discuss why software development costs are collapsing, why subject matter expertise becomes more valuable in an AI-driven organization, how agentic systems could reshape customer engagement, and why technologies like blockchain may become foundational to the future of financial services infrastructure. This conversation goes well beyond automation. It looks at what banking may become once intelligence is embedded into every part of the organization. Hosted by Jim Marous, Co-Publisher of The Financial Brand and Owner and Publisher of the Digital Banking Report. #Banking #AI #AgenticAI #DigitalBanking #BankingTransformed #Citi #Fintech #CustomerExperience

En este episodio de la séptima temporada de Análisis BIVA, nos acompaña Julio Ruiz, Economista en Jefe para México de Citi, quien nos habla sobre el panorama económico de México ante los recientes movimientos de Banxico y los retos fiscales tras la revisión de perspectiva de S&P Global Ratings. Conducido por Vicente García, Director de Análisis y Difusión BIVA.

We talk a lot about the ultra-premium credit cards with expensive annual fees, but there are plenty of people interested in credit cards with more modest annual fees. Luckily, there are some great $95 credit cards that can be supplemented with fee-free cards for a great travel rewards strategy. Giant Mailbag(01:20) - Melissa writes in with a question about locking in Hyatt prices before May 20th(04:48) - Jonathan writes in offering a few key data points to update our Hyatt points advance article, which you can find hereCard News(08:48) - American Express adds $300 in ChatGPT credits on The Business Platinum Card® from American Express and American Express® Business Gold Cards(12:40) - See our updated resource for the best cards for Priority Pass hereCrazy Thing: Priority Pass Restaurants(16:04) - Priority Pass RestaurantsAwards, Points, and More(18:02) - Mastercard Launches Mastercard Airport Dining Experience (‘Taste By/Of Priceless' Airport Lounges)(22:13) - JetBlue and United Unlock Reciprocal Loyalty Benefits(25:51) - Read Nick's post about Citi Travel for rental cars here(30:49) - Read more about Sixt offering prepaid fuel for $49.99 for rentals in the US for Sixt ONE members here(34:31) - Points Path Pro now shows United discounted cardholder pricing(36:23) - Read more about how to keep airline miles and hotel points alive hereMain Event: Best $95 travel credit card combo(37:37) - We'll focus on which combination of credit cards might make sense for someone to use, but we'll stick to a $95 annual fee budget. We'll focus on transferable points and include cash back that can be converted to transferable points(40:27) - Capital One(42:21) - Chase(47:54) - Citi(52:03) - Wells Fargo(56:07) - Other considerations(1:01:05) - Best Mixed-Bank $95 Wallet(1:10:40) - Nick's pick for best $95 wallet(1:13:39) - Greg's pick for best $95 walletSubscribe and FollowVisit https://frequentmiler.com/subscribe/ to get updated on in-depth points and miles content like this, and don't forget to like and follow us on social media.Music Credit – “Ocean Deep” by Annie YoderMentioned in this episode:Check out all of our other travel podcasts from around the worldThis podcast is part of Voyascape, a podcast network that brings together the world's best travel podcasts. You can find all of our podcasts from around the world at Voyascape.com. If you are interested in advertising or sponsored content on any of our shows you can find out more at the link below.Voyascape Podcast NetworkFrequent Miler's Best Offers Pagehttps://frequentmiler.com/best-credit-card-offers/

Războaiele dintre palate în primul an de președinție (Cotidianul) - Ultimatumul de la Cotroceni forțează mâna partidelor: scenariul unui „nou Guvern Cioloș” prinde contur în jurul PSD și UDMR (Adevărul) - Cine sunt Gigi Ștefan și Teodor Niță, cei mai influenți procurori din Constanța, reținuți 24 de ore: Ascensiunea în Constanța lui Mazăre, afaceri și controverse (G4Media) - Alexandra Căpitănescu, primul mesaj după ce s-a calificat în finala Eurovision Song Contest 2026: „Promit” (Libertatea) Nicușor Dan cheamă luni partidele la consultări în vederea desemnării premierului. Care este programul (SpotMedia) Nicușor Dan cheamă luni partidele la consultări în vederea desemnării premierului. Potrivit Administrației Prezidențiale, consultările vor începe la ora 9.00 cu Partidul Social Democrat. Urmează, din oră în oră, Alianța pentru Unirea Românilor; Partidul Național Liberal; Uniunea Salvați România ; Uniunea Democrată Maghiară din România; Grupul Parlamentar al Minorităților Naționale; Partidul S.O.S. România și Partidul Oamenilor Tineri. Guvernul condus de Ilie Bolojan a fost demis prin moțiune de cenzură, după ce Partidul Social Democrat a decis retragerea sprijinului pentru premierul liberal. Nicuşor Dan susţine în continuare că criza noastră politică se va rezolva, într-o direcţie pro-occidentală şi „destul de rapid”. O tragedie românească. Tensiunile dintre un președinte conservator și electoratul său liberal (SpotMedia) În opinia jurnalistului SpotMedia Emilian Isăilă, România trece azi prin ce a trecut USR în octombrie 2018, atunci când referendumul pentru familie a dus la ruptura dintre Nicușor Dan și partidul pe care l-a fondat. Și atunci, printr-o ciudățenie, actualul președinte al României lansase o mișcare ce propunea modernizarea țării, în timp ce credințele și valorile sale nu aveau nicio legătură cu fenomenul. Aceeași schizofrenie politică se manifestă și azi, când votanții președintelui se simt trădați de opțiunile sale politice, mai apropiate de AUR și PSD decât de liberali și de USR. Războaiele dintre palate în primul an de președinție (Cotidianul) Primul an de președinție a trei șefi de stat considerați reformiști și „de dreapta” a fost marcat de clinciuri cu premierul în funcție sau cu o relație din ce în ce mai rece, până la asistarea pasivă a înlăturării acestuia. Traian Băsescu versus Călin Popescu-Tăriceanu, Klaus Iohannis împotriva lui Victor Ponta și războiul Ilie Bolojan-PSD, plus relația rece cu Nicușor Dan, sunt câteva exemple ale relațiilor contondente președinție și guvern în ultimii 22 de ani. Din informații Cotidianul revenirea lui Ilie Bolojan la Palatul Victoria este drum închis, șeful statului evitând orice reîncălzire a relației cu acesta. Ultimatumul de la Cotroceni forțează mâna partidelor: scenariul unui „nou Guvern Cioloș” prinde contur în jurul PSD și UDMR (Adevărul) Negocierile pentru viitorul guvern intră în linie dreaptă sub spectrul ultimatumului prezidențial: este obligatorie existența unei majorități în Parlament. Această condiție a polarizat scena politică, împărțind forțele parlamentare în două tabere rigide — PSD-UDMR și PNL-USR — între care se va tranșa stabilitatea României în perioada următoare. Analistul politic Radu Delicote este de părere că, în contextul actual, cea mai probabilă formulă de guvernare pare să fie una în jurul PSD. PSD ar avea șanse mai mari decât o alianța PNL-USR. Pe larg în Adevărul. Procurorii constănțeni Teodor Niță și Gigi Ștefan, reținuți 24 de ore / Magistratul care îi anchetează ar fi Marius Iacob (G4Media) CSM a aprobat cererea Parchetului pentru reținerea și arestarea în cazul procurorilor constănțeni Valentin Ștefan și Teodor Niță. Procurorii Parchetului General au găsit, joi, aproximativ 100.000 de euro în biroul fostului șef al Parchetului de pe lângă Curtea de Apel Constanța, Gigi Valentin Ștefan, conform surselor G4Media și Info Sud-Est. Alți 30.000 de euro ar fi fost găsiți în mașina acestuia. Procurorul Teodor Niță, de la același parchet, a fost dus cu duba la Parchetul General, pentru audieri, cu mandat de aducere, în calitate de suspect, conform avocatului acestuia. Cine sunt Ștefan și Niță? Sunt cei mai influenți procurori din Constanța. Citiți mai multe despre ascensiunea lor în Constanța lui Mazăre, afaceri și controverse pe pagina G4Media. Gigi Valentin Ștefan și Teodor Niță sunt cei mai influenți procurori din parchetele constănțene și au construit de-a lungul anilor o rețea de putere în sistemul de justiție de la malul mării, cu precădere în timpul administrației locale condusă de Radu Mazăre – Nicușor Constantinescu – Sorin Strutinsky (omul din trio care se ocupa de afacerile grupului). Info Sud-Est a arătat în exclusivitate, într-o anchetă în care a colaborat cu jurnaliști de la RISE Project, în anul 2018, atât averea familiei lui Ștefan, vila de lux în care locuia, pe malul lacului Siutghiol din Constanța, dar și tranzacții controversate ale familiei către oameni de afaceri conectați la clanul lui Bashar Al Assad.  Alexandra Căpitănescu, primul mesaj după ce s-a calificat în finala Eurovision Song Contest 2026: „Promit” (Libertatea) Alexandra Căpitănescu a urcat pe 14 mai pe scena celei de-a doua semifinale Eurovision Song Contest 2026, cu melodia „Choke Me”, reușind să reprezinte cu mândrie și succes România. La scurt timp după ce a aflat că s-a calificat în marea finală Eurovision Song Contest 2026, care va avea loc pe 16 mai, la Viena, în Austria, Alexandra Căpitănescu a avut o primă reacție pentru Libertatea. „Sunt foarte fericită! Și recunoscătoare pentru fiecare vot, pentru fiecare mesaj și fiecărei persoane care a crezut în noi. Calificarea în finală este un vis devenit realitate și promit să dăm tot ce avem mai bun în marea finală Eurovision. Calificarea nu este doar o realizare personală, ci și o oportunitate de a reprezenta cu mândrie România în fața unui public format din milioane de oameni. Mulțumim tuturor celor care au fost alături de noi în această călătorie și rugăm publicul să continue să ne susțină în marea finală de pe 16 mai 2026”, a spus Alexandra Căpitănescu în exclusivitate pentru Libertatea, după ce a doua semifinală Eurovision Song Contest 2026 a ajuns la final.

Juice up your earnings with QCGC. https://qcgc.io/?ref=mtmv1 (sponsored)  MTM Detroit Meetup Tickets - https://mtm.zohobackstage.com/MTMTravelDetroit2026#/ Capital One is facing a lawsuit over canceled rewards, and Shawn and Mark get into the bigger problem with banks treating points like real currency when it helps them and funny money when it helps them. They also talk retention offers, when a card is not worth keeping even for free, and rank the major transferable points programs from worst to best. What we cover: Capital One being sued over allegedly canceled rewards after account closures. Why earned points should come with stronger consumer protections. How to compare retention offers against referral offers, credits and annual fees. Why no-fee cards can still be worth checking for retention offers. The Business Platinum changes, Dell frustration and when a credit stops mattering. Shawn and Mark's rankings for Amex, Chase, Bilt, Citi, Capital One and Wells Fargo. Why Chase has slipped, Citi has become more useful and Bilt may have the most interesting upside. Episode Guide: 0:00 Welcome to MTM Travel 0:21 Detroit event details and why in-person networking still matters 2:52 Capital One sued over canceled rewards 7:51 How to think about retention offers 11:16 No-fee cards can still have retention offers 13:25 Dell, Business Platinum credits and the breaking point 14:52 Ranking transferable points programs 16:15 Capital One vs Wells Fargo at the bottom 19:03 Bilt vs Citi and the middle of the rankings 19:45 Why Chase keeps slipping 23:07 Amex makes the case for number one 26:14 Mark's case for Bilt as the best program 29:15 Which programs are essential for most people? Links: Free newsletter Join our free Facebook group Diamond Patreon Gold Membership Subscribe on Apple Podcasts Miles to Memories website Capital One lawsuit - https://mtmdiamond.slack.com/archives/C0ACC849Z3J/p1778758564025649 Retention offers - https://milestomemories.com/american-express-business-platinum-retention-offer/  

Juice up your earnings with QCGC. https://qcgc.io/?ref=mtmv1 (sponsored)  MTM Detroit Meetup Tickets - https://mtm.zohobackstage.com/MTMTravelDetroit2026#/ Capital One is facing a lawsuit over canceled rewards, and Shawn and Mark get into the bigger problem with banks treating points like real currency when it helps them and funny money when it helps them. They also talk retention offers, when a card is not worth keeping even for free, and rank the major transferable points programs from worst to best. What we cover: Capital One being sued over allegedly canceled rewards after account closures. Why earned points should come with stronger consumer protections. How to compare retention offers against referral offers, credits and annual fees. Why no-fee cards can still be worth checking for retention offers. The Business Platinum changes, Dell frustration and when a credit stops mattering. Shawn and Mark's rankings for Amex, Chase, Bilt, Citi, Capital One and Wells Fargo. Why Chase has slipped, Citi has become more useful and Bilt may have the most interesting upside. Episode Guide: 0:00 Welcome to MTM Travel 0:21 Detroit event details and why in-person networking still matters 2:52 Capital One sued over canceled rewards 7:51 How to think about retention offers 11:16 No-fee cards can still have retention offers 13:25 Dell, Business Platinum credits and the breaking point 14:52 Ranking transferable points programs 16:15 Capital One vs Wells Fargo at the bottom 19:03 Bilt vs Citi and the middle of the rankings 19:45 Why Chase keeps slipping 23:07 Amex makes the case for number one 26:14 Mark's case for Bilt as the best program 29:15 Which programs are essential for most people? Links: Free newsletter Join our free Facebook group Diamond Patreon Gold Membership Subscribe on Apple Podcasts Miles to Memories website Capital One lawsuit - https://mtmdiamond.slack.com/archives/C0ACC849Z3J/p1778758564025649 Retention offers - https://milestomemories.com/american-express-business-platinum-retention-offer/  

BlackRock's Jeff Rosenberg, explains why investors still can't fully hedge rate risk and what it means for portfolios. Eamon Javers reports from China as President Trump meets with leaders while Eunice Yoon adds the Beijing perspective. Cisco headlines earnings. Amit Daryanani of Evercore reacts to the results and what they signal for enterprise tech and spending trends. Our Kristina Partsinevelos previews the Cerebras IPO and explains why it could be the biggest deal of the year in AI infrastructure. Drew Pettit, U.S. Equity Strategist at Citi, makes the case for sticking with high momentum names that still have earnings support. Our Brandon Gomez breaks down how higher gas prices are starting to hit consumer behavior including beer sales and broader spending patterns. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Guest: Arvin Bansal, CISO, C&S Wholesale Grocers Topics: Most people do not associate grocery wholesale and retail with cutting edge technology and threat models. Can you produce the receipts for why this isn't a story of dry goods but rather a very meaty topic with beefy adversaries?  How are you as the CISO enabling C&S's journey into AI and LLM driven work? Securing AI is a bit harder than securing classic analytics tools, right? In addition to securely rolling out AI, how is your defense team using AI to secure C&S? Are you into the era of agentic triage and response?  What metrics for AI is your D&R lead surfacing up to you? You have AI in the business process that - if failed - will leave people hungry. How do you approach AI resilience?  How do you approach resilience in general? Is cloud part of your resilience strategy? You worked at Citigroup for a long time. What's it like having grocery margin budgets for security instead? How does your thinking change? Does this shift your build/buy/outsource for security?  If your IoT stack falls over, you've got literal ice cream melting in a warehouse. How do you balance your investments in cyber risk with physical operational risk? Should I be scared of forklifts? Resources: EP275 Google Cloud Next 2026: The AI Earthquake, "SOC-home" Syndrome, and the Ragged Edge of Reality EP247 The Evolving CISO: From Security Cop to Cloud & AI Champion EP208 The Modern CISO: Balancing Risk, Innovation, and Business Strategy (And Where is Cloud?) EP212 Securing the Cloud at Scale: Modern Bank CISO on Metrics, Challenges, and SecOps

A video of this podcast is available on YouTube, Spotify, or PwC's website at viewpoint.pwc.com.Reporting in accordance with the IFRS® Sustainability Disclosure Standards issued by the International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB) continues to evolve as financial institutions navigate implementation challenges related to materiality, anticipated financial impacts, and data quality. In this episode, we share findings from our recent survey with the Institute of International Finance (IIF) of 24 global financial institutions on how firms are adopting the ISSB disclosure standards and discuss practical implementation insights with sustainability leaders from J.P. Morgan Chase and Citi.  For more information on the ISSB standards, see our publications: ISSB takes hold: Six key insights from the PwC-IIF financial institutions surveyISSB continues enhancing SASB Standards with proposed amendments to three additional standards and IFRS S2 industry-based guidance Looking for the latest developments in sustainability reporting? Follow this podcast on your favorite podcast app and subscribe to our weekly newsletter to stay in the loop for the latest thought leadership on sustainability standards. About our guests  Linda French is Global Head of Sustainability Policy & Regulation for J.P. Morgan Chase, based in Washington, DC. Linda leads the firm's engagement globally on sustainability-related financial policy and regulation. Prior to joining J.P. Morgan Chase, Linda led the Investment Company Institute's (ICI) global engagement on policy issues related to sustainable finance and ESG investing. Linda has also worked in private law practice, at the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), and in the asset management industry. Tim Adamson is a Sustainability, Risk, and Finance executive with over 20 years of experience shaping strategy and disclosure at leading financial institutions.  In his current role as Chief of Staff to the Chief Sustainability Officer at Citi, Tim is at the forefront of developing and implementing sustainability reporting frameworks. He has extensive experience leading the creation of sustainability-related regulatory disclosures, partnering across Finance, Legal, Risk, and Technology to build scalable processes for governance, data collection, and assurance. About our guest host  David Challen is a partner in PwC's sustainability practice. He has over 17 years of experience in public accounting, performing audit-related services to public companies, broker-dealers, swap dealers, and not-for-profit entities. David has led large and mid-sized audit teams for banking and capital market clients for audits of financial statements, internal controls over financial reporting, and examination and review procedures for broker dealers.   Transcripts available upon request for individuals who may need a disability-related accommodation. Please send requests to us_podcast@pwc.com.Did you enjoy this episode? Text us your thoughts and be sure to include the episode name.

At the 27th annual PRWeek Awards, Bospar won Best in Financial Communications for its campaign with fintech platform Smarty, “How Smarty Owned the Tariff Moment.” The campaign prevailed over finalists that included Citi and a major IPO communications campaign, showing how strategic storytelling can help emerging financial technology companies compete with some of the largest global institutions.In this episode, Eric Chemi sits down with Bospar's VP of Media Relations, Brent Shelton, to discuss how Bospar's creative storytelling helped Smarty go toe-to-toe with some of the largest global institutions.

Naviga in totale sicurezza con ⁠⁠⁠⁠NordVPN⁠⁠⁠⁠ https://nordvpn.com/thebull #adv  Il 27 aprile ti sei riconnesso al mondo dopo due mesi senza internet. Trovi che gli USA hanno attaccato l'Iran, lo Stretto di Hormuz è chiuso, passa un quinto del petrolio mondiale. Cosa ti aspetti? Petrolio a 200 dollari, mercati a picco, oro alle stelle. E invece: azionario ai massimi, oro in calo, Brent a 126 dollari. Come è possibile? In questo video analizziamo i tre scenari possibili da qui ai prossimi mesi — de-escalation, stallo prolungato, escalation — e cosa implicano per i nostri portafogli. Seguiamo il report di JP Morgan del 17 aprile, i dati di Ed Yardeni e i ragionamenti di Citi sul ruolo dei bond lunghi in un mondo che cambia regime. Parliamo anche di demand destruction, backwardation, term premium, correlazione azioni-bond e portafoglio a tre gambe. Con esempi concreti e zero bullshit da brochure. Una produzione Corax.

Do any of the luxury hotel booking platforms (like Amex Fine Hotels + Resorts®) allow booking for others? If you are hotel chain agnostic, should you have a hotel credit card? We answered these questions and more on the Ask Us Anything hosted live on YouTube on May 6th, 2026.(00:16) - I have 14999 Delta Sky Miles and need one more lousy point to be able to book an award ticket. I can transfer 1000 points from Amex, but that seems like a waste. I tried to convince Delta support to comp me a point, but they were seemingly unable to help. Any suggestions (other than getting the Delta Amex card)? (04:03) - If you have complete flexibility to position to any airport in Europe to fly home to the USA, are flexible on arrival airport in the USA/Canada/Mexico, and time wasn't a constraint, but you would like a good points redemption in J (not first), where would you position to and which airline would you book on? (08:39) - ​If you are hotel chain agnostic, should you have a hotel credit card? (12:24) - Question on 5/24 if over, are there any data points on the United or Southwest business card? (14:38) - Should we now value Membership Rewards points higher than Chase Ultimate Rewards points? I'd rather have an American Express Platinum Card® than a Chase Sapphire Reserve® Card at this point. Would you guys disagree? (19:50) - Do any of the luxury hotel booking platforms (e.g., Amex Fine Hotels + Resorts®, The Edit by Chase Travel℠, etc.) allow booking for others? (22:57) - ​At what cash back rate do you prefer cash over miles/points (excluding when you are working on a welcome offer)? (27:50) - Do you think we'll finally see an Ultimate Rewards Hyatt transfer bonus in the future? (30:15) - Question - Greg has mentioned a few times about being able to pay for the fees on British Airways with Avios, as a card benefit. I can't seem to see how to make that work. Any more details? (34:43) - ​For airlines that allow a stopover on an award flight, has your experience required a phone call reservation, or have you booked a stopover online? (37:03) - ​Can I apply corporate codes when booking hotels through Rove? Can Rove act like a shopping portal? Get corporate rates and Rove miles. (39:00) - ​​Is it possible to product change the old aviator if I've had it for less than a year now that it was product changed? I know banks frown upon this before the first annual fee posts. (40:58) - ​Barclays American Airlines card transferred to Citi. What would be the best course of action to get the welcome offer on the Citi American Airlines card now that I have one, but haven't previously gotten the welcome offer? (44:01) - ​​Does the FM team know if I make a reservation with the 25k Atmos Summit Companion certificate, and later cancel the reservation before the original expiry, if the certificate is returned and can be reused? (44:38) - ​Can I use Hyatt points for suite upgrades with cash booking through Amex Fine Hotels + Resorts®? (45:49) - ​​​What's each team member's biggest regret in their points and miles journey?Mentioned in this episode:Visit FrequentMiler.com Did you know that Frequent Miller is also a website? At frequentMiller.com, you'll find all the latest deals, news about points, miles, and rewarding credit cards, the single best, Best Credit Cards page on the web, guides to all popular rewards programs, and many other terrific resources. If you'd like to get our posts sent to your email, go to frequentMiller.com/subscribe and sign up for free. https://frequentmiler.com/subscribe/Check out all of our other travel podcasts from around the worldThis podcast is part of Voyascape, a podcast network that brings together the world's best travel podcasts. You can find all of our podcasts from around the world at Voyascape.com. If you are interested in advertising or sponsored content on any of our shows you can find out more at the link below.Voyascape Podcast Network

An exclusive with Citi CEO Jane Fraser after the firm raised its profitability targets. Fraser also confirming she will join the President on his trip to China next week. The Chicago Fed President Austan Goolsbee with his first reaction to the jobs number and what it means for rates. And the CEO of Brookfield Asset Management, with more than a trillion dollars in assets. Where his firm is putting capital to work. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

MTM Travel - May 7, 2026 Chase has a massive new Sapphire Reserve offer, but the rest of the episode shows why the points world feels less predictable than it used to. Shawn and Mark break down Rakuten's strange but useful Bank of America and Bilt stack, Citi ending ThankYou point sharing, the refreshed AT&T Points Plus card and Chase's quietly weaker Points Boost values. Episode Guide 0:00 Welcome to MTM Travel 2:56 Rakuten, Bank of America and bonus Bilt points 7:51 Chase Sapphire Reserve hits 150K 12:34 Chase spending offers get easier to track 13:48 Citi ends ThankYou point sharing 16:43 AT&T Points Plus gets a real refresh 20:43 Chase Points Boost gets less predictable 25:37 Final thoughts on transferable points rankings Topics Covered Rakuten is offering up to $300 back, or 30,000 Bilt points, when applying for select Bank of America cards. The Bank of America Travel Rewards card can stack its own offer with the Rakuten payout, making it a strong no-annual-fee play. Chase Sapphire Reserve now has a 150,000 point offer after $6,000 in spend in the first three months. Chase appears to be matching some recent Sapphire Reserve applicants to the new offer, with reported cutoff dates. Chase targeted spending offers are becoming easier to track after activation. Citi is ending ThankYou point sharing, removing a useful option for two-player households. The AT&T Points Plus card adds stronger AT&T discounts and keeps its no-annual-fee setup. Chase Points Boost remains useful in theory, but the changing rates make it harder to plan around. Links Rakuten Bank of America bonuses - https://milestomemories.com/rakuten-offering-extra-bonus-for-bank-of-america-cards/ Chase Sapphire Reserve 150K offer - https://milestomemories.com/is-chase-matching-the-sapphire-reserve-offer/ Chase quarterly spending offer lookup - https://milestomemories.com/how-to-find-chase-spending-offer-details/ Citi ending ThankYou point sharing - https://www.doctorofcredit.com/citi-ending-points-sharing-on-5-16/ AT&T and Citi enhance Points Plus card - https://milestomemories.com/att-points-plus-world-mastercard-refresh/ Chase The Edit 2.5 cent Points Boost - https://milestomemories.com/new-2-5x-points-boost-at-select-the-edit-hotels/

Eiropas Politiskās kopienas samits Erevānā. Pūliņi nodrošināt kuģošanu Hormuza šaurumā. Tuvojas kārtējais 9. maijs ar Uzvaras dienas parādi Maskavas Sarkanajā laukumā. Aktualitātes analizē Latvijas ārpolitikas institūta asociētais pētnieks un Eiropas Savienības programmas vadītājs Marts Eduards Ivaskis un politologs Veiko Spolītis. Armēnijas eiropeiskuma apliecinājums 2026. gada 4. un 5. maijs Armēnijā kļuva par datumiem ar pirmreizības skaņu. Nekad iepriekš kopš neatkarīgā valstiskuma atjaunošanas 1991. gadā Erevāna nebija uzņēmusi tik plašu valstu vadītāju loku kā tas, kas šīs nedēļas sākumā pulcējās uz Eiropas Politiskās kopienas 8. samitu un tam sekojošo pirmo Eiropas Savienības un Armēnijas samitu. Klāt bija visu Eiropas Savienības nozīmīgāko institūciju vadītāji, NATO ģenerālsekretārs, Francijas un Ukrainas prezidenti, Lielbritānijas, Itālijas, Kanādas, Polijas premjerministri – pavisam apmēram pussimts valstu un starptautisko struktūru vadošo personu. Kā autonoms notikums šo dienu programmu papildināja Francijas prezidenta Emanuela Makrona oficiālā valsts vizīte Armēnijā. Tas viss ir nenoliedzami svarīgi Armēnijai, kura atrodas tālu Eiropas perifērijā un problemātisku kaimiņu ielenkumā. Eiropas Politiskā kopiena ir diskusiju platforma, kuras tapšana 2022. gadā bija saistīta ar Krievijas agresijas kara eskalāciju. Jaunie ģeopolitiskie izaicinājumi diktē nepieciešamību pēc formāta, kas piesaistītu Eiropas Savienības orbītai kaimiņvalstis, ar kurām tai šie izaicinājumi ir kopīgi. Saprotams, ka ārpus platformas tika atstāta agresorvalsts Krievija un tās satelīts Baltkrievija, toties iesaistījās Lielbritānija, Turcija, visas Dienvidkaukāza valstis un, līdz ar Erevānas samitu, arī Kanāda. Dienvidkaukāzs ir viens no tiem reģioniem, kurā Kremļa agresijas sekas izjūtamas ļoti tieši, un Armēnijai – sevišķi sāpīgi. Militārā avantūra Ukrainā ir noplicinājusi agresorvalsts resursus, tās ģeostratēģiskā ietekme izčākstējusi, un tas ļāva Azerbaidžānai 2023. gadā ar militāriem līdzekļiem atrisināt sev par labu gadu desmitiem ilgušo strīdu par Kalnu Karabahas faktisko piederību. Teritorijai krītot azerbaidžāņu spēku rokās, to pameta praktiski visi tur dzīvojušie etniskie armēņi, vairāk nekā simts tūkstoši, un Armēnijai neatlika nekas cits kā piekāpties. Attiecīga vienošanās, kā zināms, tika noslēgta 2025. gada augustā Vašingtonā ar Donalda Trampa līdzdalību, tomēr tā vēl nav pārtapusi pilnvērtīgā ratificētā miera līgumā. Tomēr Azerbaidžānas prezidents Ilhams Alijevs uzrunāja 4. maija samita dalībniekus vismaz tiešsaistē, savukārt Azerbaidžānas ciešāko sabiedroto Turciju, kuras attiecības ar Armēniju arī ir praktiski iesaldētas, Erevānā pārstāvēja viceprezidents Dževdets Jilmazs, un abi šie fakti tiek atzīmēti kā apliecinājums pozitīvai attīstībai starpvalstu attiecībās. Eiropas Savienības un Armēnijas samita rezultātā tapusi plaša kopīga deklarācija, kuras nozīmīgs aspekts ir savienības paustā atzīšana Armēnijas vēlmei uzsākt pievienošanās procesu. Citi deklarācijas temati ir sadarbība loģistikas, enerģētikas, augsto tehnoloģiju attīstības sfērās, kā arī virzība uz bezvīzu režīma ieviešanu Armēnijas pilsoņiem Šengenas zonā. Tramps atkal turp un atpakaļ Pirmdien, 4. maijā, Savienoto Valstu prezidents Donalds Tramps pieteica kārtējo jaunumu Hormuza šauruma krīzes sakarā – operāciju „Projekts Brīvība”. Tās ietvaros amerikāņu militārie spēki grasās uzsākt transportkuģu konvojēšanu cauri Irānas apdraudētajiem Hormuza ūdeņiem. ASV Bruņoto spēku Centrālā pavēlniecība ziņoja, ka gatavojas iesaistīt uzdevuma īstenošanā ar vadāmajām raķetēm aprīkotus eskadras mīnu kuģus, apmēram simts jūrā un uz sauszemes bāzētu lidmašīnu, kā arī dažādas bezpilota platformas. Irāna reaģēja ar draudiem vērst triecienus pret amerikāņu kuģiem, ja tie uzsāks darbību Hormuza ūdeņos, un paziņoja, ka piesaukto operāciju uzlūkos par pašreiz spēkā esošā trauslā pamiera pārkāpumu. Mediji metās apspriest, vai amerikāņu militārie līdzekļi ir pietiekami deklarētā mērķa īstenošanai, kādā veidā tas būtu izdarāms, un cik nopietna eskalācija iestātos, ja Irāna īstenotu savus draudus. Taču jau pēc nepilnas diennakts no Vašingtonas izskanēja nākamais paziņojums: operācija „Projekts Brīvība” pagaidām tiek apturēta, dodot iespēju turpmākajiem diplomātiskajiem pūliņiem. Savukārt šodien valsts sekretārs Marko Rubio paziņoja, ka Savienoto Valstu pret Irānas teritoriju vērstā militārā kampaņa esot noslēgusies un amerikāņu bruņoto spēku uzmanība turpmāk tikšot koncentrēta tikai kuģošanas nodrošināšanai Hormuza šaurumā. Tas licis daudziem komentētājiem paust cerību, ka diplomātiskais risinājums joprojām ir aktuāls. Tiek piesaukti intensīvi Pakistānas diplomātijas centieni, kā arī Irānas ārlietu ministra Abāsa Arāgči vizīte Pekinā un tikšanās ar savu ķīniešu kolēģi Vanu Ji. Jāpiebilst, ka vien nepilnas desmit dienas atlikušas līdz plānotajai Baltā nama saimnieka vizītei Pekinā, kas agrāk tika atlikta, Savienotajām Valstīm un Izraēlai uzsākot karadarbību pret Irānu. Baiļpilno parāde Tuvojas kārtējais 9. maijs – diena, kad Krievijas režīma kultivētā „uzvaras psihoze” sasniedz savu ikgadējo kulmināciju. Centrālais notikums te allaž bijusi Uzvaras dienas parāde Maskavas Sarkanajā laukumā ar agresorvalsts vadoni un viņam draudzīgo valstu līderiem tribīnēs. Taču šoreiz priekšsvētku noskaņa ir sevišķas nervozitātes apdvesta. Iespēja, ka īpašajā datumā virs Sarkanā laukuma varētu atskanēt ukraiņu lidrobotu dūkoņa, tika apspriesta jau pagājušogad. Tomēr toreiz tā šķita maz ticama īpaši tādēļ, ka viesu vidū bija Ķīnas līderis Sji Dziņpins. Šogad notikumā gaidāmi labi ja ierastie „statisti” Aleksandrs Lukašenko un Kasims Žomarts Tokajevs, un pat Slovākijas premjers Roberts Fico paziņojis, ka Maskavu gan apmeklēšot un pie mūžīgās uguns ziedus nolikšot, taču parādi izlaidīšot. Kā zināms, Ukraina pēdējās nedēļās sevišķi intensīvi demonstrējusi savas gaisa triecienu spējas. Tās lidroboti un raķetes ne vien pamatīgi izpostījuši naftas produktu tranzītostu netālajā Tuapse, bet sasnieguši arī Primorsku un Ustjlugu pie Somu līča, Ņižņijnovgorodu Volgas vidustecē, Permu Urālos un citas vietas līdz pat pusotru tūkstoti kilometru dziļi Krievijas iekšienē. Krievijas naftas pārstrādes jaudas pēdējos mēnešos kritušās, iespējams, pat par divām piektdaļām, salīdzinot ar pirmskara apjomu. Katrā ziņā Ukrainas triecienlīdzekļu spējas aizlidot līdz Maskavai nerada šaubas. Tiek ziņots, ka ap galvaspilsētu tiekot koncentrēti no citiem reģioniem atvilkti pretgaisa aizsardzības līdzekļi, savukārt ap Sarkano laukumu jau izvietotas vienības ar zenītložmetējiem; parāde, visticamāk, notikšot bez bruņutehnikas un citu nopietna kalibra ieroču demonstrēšanas. Pirmdien, 4. maijā, Krievijas Aizsardzības ministrija sociālajos tīklos publicēja paziņojumu, ka, sekojot Vladimira Putina pavēlei, Krievijas bruņotie spēki izsludinot vienpusēju uguns pārtraukšanu no astotā līdz desmitajam maijam. No Ukrainas tiekot sagaidīta pievienošanās šim pamieram, bet ja ukraiņi atļaušoties apdraudēt Uzvaras dienas priekus Maskavā, tad pa Kijivas centru tikšot vērsts īpaši nikns prettrieciens. Ukrainas prezidents Volodimirs Zelenskis paziņojis, ka Ukraina gan neesot saņēmusi nekādu oficiālu Krievijas puses priekšlikumu uguns pārtraukšanai, taču izsludinot „klusuma periodu” jau sākot ar pusnakti uz 6. maiju. Viņš ieteicis Krievijai spert konkrētus soļus kara izbeigšanai, ievērojot, ka pat parāde Sarkanajā laukumā jau kļuvusi atkarīga no Ukrainas labās gribas. Sagatavoja Eduards Liniņš.

Most leaders fund initiatives. Shannon Lucas builds the operating system that makes them land.Co-founder & CEO of Catalyst Constellations, Shannon has 20+ years driving corporate innovation at Ericsson, Cisco, TMobile, and Vodafone. At Vodafone, she launched the groundbreaking Innovation Champion program, turning a small group of passionate employees into a global, CEO-backed movement that generated millions in new value. Today she helps enterprises identify and activate Catalysts, the internal change agents who turn strategy into shipped outcomes. Her clients include GE, Citi, and Intel, and TIAA. She's the co-author of Move Fast, Break Shit, Burn Out: The Catalyst's Guide to Working Well (the research behind the Catalyst profile and playbook). More Info: Catalyst ConstellationsLinkedin: Shannon LucasPodcast: The Catalyst Constellation PodcastBook: Move Fast, Break Shit, Burn OutSponsors: Become a Guest on Master Leadership Podcast: Book HereAgency Sponsorships: Book GuestsFree Coaching Session: Master Leadership 360 CoachingSupport this show http://supporter.acast.com/masterleadership. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

What happens when your financial advisor is no longer limited by time, availability, or even geography, but is always there when you need them, ready to listen, respond, and guide you in real time? At Citi's announcement at Google Cloud Next 2026, I sat down with Joe Bonanno, Head of Wealth Intelligence, and Karolina Belwal, Global Head of Data Intelligence and Automation for Citi Wealth, to unpack what could become a defining shift in how wealth management is delivered. The launch of Citi Sky, built in partnership with Google Cloud and powered by Google DeepMind, is not another digital feature layered onto an existing app. It signals a move toward an always-on, conversational, and highly personalized experience that blends human expertise with AI-driven intelligence. What stood out in our conversation was how grounded this initiative is in real-world client behavior. Joe explained how traditional engagement models, whether phone calls, emails, or app notifications, often feel disconnected from what clients actually need in the moment. Life events, changing market conditions, and personal priorities rarely align with scheduled interactions. Citi Sky attempts to close that gap by being present at the exact moment a client has a question, whether that is late at night, between meetings, or during a moment of financial uncertainty. Karolina brought that point to life with a simple but relatable example. As a working parent, she highlighted how difficult it can be to connect with an advisor during the day. Citi Sky allows clients to engage on their own terms, asking questions when it suits them, in a way that feels natural and responsive. That shift from scheduled interaction to on-demand conversation could change how people think about financial guidance altogether. Under the hood, the technology is just as ambitious. Built on Gemini models through Google's enterprise agent platform, Citi Sky combines real-time voice, video, and multilingual capabilities into a single experience. But what makes it interesting is how it moves beyond reacting to questions. The system can anticipate needs, surface insights, and even guide advisors by identifying which clients may require attention during market events. In Joe's words, it becomes a teammate, one that can scale expertise across hundreds of clients while maintaining a sense of personalization. There is also a broader implication here for the industry. Wealth management has long relied on relationships built over time, supported by human intuition and experience. Citi is not replacing that model, but it is extending it. Advisors are still central, yet their reach is amplified by AI that handles routine interactions, summarizes conversations, and provides context before the next client meeting even begins. Of course, this raises familiar questions around trust, governance, and the role of AI in financial decision-making. Citi is clearly aware of that tension, emphasizing secure data foundations, regulatory compliance, and the importance of embedding its Chief Investment Office's institutional knowledge directly into the system. This is not positioned as a generic AI assistant, but as a reflection of Citi's own expertise, delivered through a new interface. What I found most compelling, though, was how both Joe and Karolina kept returning to the human side of the story. Yes, this is about agentic AI and advanced models. Still, it is also about reducing friction, improving access, and helping people answer a simple but powerful question: Am I financially okay? As Citi Sky rolls out to Citigold clients in the U.S., it will be fascinating to see how customers respond and how competitors react. If this model gains traction, it could reshape expectations far beyond wealth management and into every corner of financial services. As we move into the next phase of AI-driven client engagement, are we ready to trust a system that listens, understands, and acts on our financial lives in real time, and how much of that responsibility are we willing to share? Useful Links Learn More About Citi Sky, the AI-Powered Member of the Citi Wealth Team. Connect with Joseph V. Bonanno Jr. Connect with Karolina Belwal Please check the partners of the Tech Tech Talks Network Learn more about the NordLayer Browser Visit Denodo.com

April 30, 2026: A Claude-powered AI coding agent wipes a company's entire production database and all backups in nine seconds — then produces a written confession. Employers deploying AI job interviewers without telling candidates are losing top talent and damaging their employer brand. And Citigroup launches Arc, a centralized operating system for AI agents designed to give 180,000 employees governed, monitored access to agentic AI at scale. 

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Rookie private lenders that have to sell in a downturn are a potential threat to credit markets, according to Citi. “If the cycle turns and these tourists, rather than working out loans, just start selling them at below the economic value — what happens to the rest of the market?” Mickey Bhatia, the firm’s head of spread products, tells Bloomberg News’ James Crombie and Bloomberg Intelligence’s Sam Geier in this episode of the Credit Edge podcast. “That’s a big worry,” says Bhatia. They also discuss global fund flows, investment in AI infrastructure and expansion of electronic trading to incorporate collateralized loan obligations.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Welcome to the Daily Compliance News. Each day, Tom Fox, the Voice of Compliance, brings you compliance-related stories to start your day. Sit back, enjoy a cup of morning coffee, and listen in to the Daily Compliance News. All, from the Compliance Podcast Network. Each day, we consider four stories from the business world, compliance, ethics, risk management, leadership, or general interest for the compliance professional. Top stories include: The evolution of Trump's corruption. (The Atlantic) Trump goes after Disney. The stakes. (NYT) Purdue Pharma receives $5.5bn fine. (Reuters) Fired at JPMorgan for bad behavior, hired 3 days later by Citi. (FT) For more information on the use of AI in compliance programs, Tom Fox's new book, Upping Your Game, is available. You can purchase a copy of the book on Amazon.com. To learn about the intersection of Sherlock Holmes and the modern compliance professional, check out Tom's latest book, The Game is Afoot-What Sherlock Holmes Teaches About Risk, Ethics and Investigations on Amazon.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Chris, Saied and Rajeil dive headfirst into the weirdest corner of the modern economy, where the next Fed chair sounds like a political hostage negotiation, AI is either the greatest productivity boom in history or the most expensive layoff machine ever built, private credit is quietly turning banks into shadow-bank Uber drivers, and crypto keeps pretending it's financial freedom while throwing money at Washington. From Kevin Warsh and Fed independence to AI hype, corporate cost-cutting, Bitcoin mythology, Epstein-adjacent crypto lore, and the political machine behind digital assets, this episode asks the question nobody in power wants to answer: are we innovating our way into the future, or just putting better software on the same old greed machine?

In this episode, Ray Cochrane unpacks Anthropic’s Mythos model and the Treasury’s emergency meetings with Wall Street, then digs into Apple’s vibe-coding crackdown and a gaming-anxiety study that hit way too close to home. Also covered: Verge’s solid-state motorcycle, UBTech humanoid robot sales jumping 23-fold, Japan’s first osmotic power plant, Finland’s permanent nuclear waste vault, Ghostty landing in Ubuntu, Cloudflare’s EmDash CMS, and a Claude Code skill that talks like a caveman. – Want to start a podcast? It’s easy to get started! Sign up at Blubrry – Thinking of buying a Starlink? Use my link to support the show. Subscribe to the Newsletter. Email Ray if you want to get in touch! Like and Follow Geek News Central’s Facebook Page. Support my Show Sponsor: Best Godaddy Promo Codes Get 1Password Full Summary Cochrane opens the show by framing Anthropic’s new Mythos model as the AlphaGo moment for cybersecurity. From there, the episode moves through Apple’s pushback against AI-generated apps, a gaming anxiety study with a deeply personal hook, a series of “first to ship” energy and robotics wins out of Finland, China, and Japan, and several developer-tool stories that show how quickly the economics of software are shifting. Mythos, the Detection Ceiling, and Wall Street’s Emergency Response Anthropic’s Mythos model has Wall Street rattled. Operating autonomously, Mythos found and demonstrated the exploitation of a 27-year-old TCP SACK bug in OpenBSD, an operating system famous for being one of the most security-focused on the planet. Per Anthropic’s red team, over 99% of the vulnerabilities Mythos has identified remain unpatched. The researchers’ conclusion is blunt: “the moat in AI cybersecurity is the system, not the model.” The policy response moved fast. On April 7th, Treasury Secretary Bessent and Fed Chair Jerome Powell pulled the CEOs of Goldman Sachs, Citi, Bank of America, and Morgan Stanley into Treasury headquarters on short notice. All four banks are now testing Mythos internally. Treasury CIO Sam Corcos is also seeking direct access. Anthropic is gating distribution through Project Glasswing, a limited-access program with JPMorgan, Apple, Google, Microsoft, and Nvidia. Cochrane comes down firmly behind Anthropic’s gated approach. Because a 5.1-billion-parameter open model can apparently recover the core analysis chain for the OpenBSD flaw, this capability is not locked behind Frontier Compute. He wants the critical infrastructure hardened before the public gets keys. However, he also notes the bigger lesson is about human wisdom: people offloading all their thinking to AI lose out on the wisdom that makes any of these tools genuinely useful. Apple Bans Vibe Coding Apps from the App Store Apple has been quietly pushing back against what people are calling “vibe coding” apps. Replit, Vibecode, and an app called Anything all run AI models on the phone and produce working software that runs inside the host app. Apple cites Guideline 2.5.2, in effect since 2017, which requires apps to be self-contained. Replit and Vibecode had their App Store updates blocked. Anything was pulled in late March, briefly restored on April 3rd, and then pulled the same day again. The forcing function is volume. App Store submissions jumped 84% in a single quarter as vibe coding tools flooded Apple’s review queue with AI-generated apps. Cochrane thinks Apple is justified, given the security issues swirling around the Vibe coding ecosystem. Even a beautiful diamond gets lost in a sea of sand, and that flood is exactly what Apple is trying to manage. The company behind Anything is now pivoting to iMessage, desktop, and Android. Playing Video Games to Win Is Linked to Higher Anxiety Cochrane gets personal on this one. Through high school and his early 20s, he was deeply addicted to League of Legends. His dad teased him about it constantly. In the last few years of that addiction, his body would go ice cold and shake every ranked match before. His partner identified it as a panic attack. The moment that happened, he quit. Today, he no longer shakes. The new study lines up with his experience. Researchers Kayleigh Watters and Mikael Rubin at Palo Alto University analyzed a publicly available database of 13,464 adult gamers, most of whom primarily played League of Legends. Players who game to win show higher generalized anxiety but actually play fewer hours, since performance pressure pushes them out. Players who game to relax show strong links between social anxiety avoidance and more hours played. The study appeared in the Journal of Affective Disorders. The headline framing of “playing to win makes you anxious” misses the point. The real finding is more interesting: gaming for avoidance and gaming for competition are both warning signs, for different reasons. Cochrane notes that the League of Legends community’s toxicity has been a running joke for years, and this study suggests the game’s structure may have been manufacturing the anxiety that fueled it. Sponsor: GoDaddy Economy hosting is $6.99/month, WordPress hosting is $12.99/month, and domains are $11.99. Both hosting plans include a free domain, professional email, and SSL certificate. Go to geeknewscentral.com/godaddy for the best pricing and to directly support this independent show. Verge Motorcycle: World’s First Production All-Solid-State Battery Cochrane filled his tank for $60 today, which made this story land especially hard. His mom has driven electric for years and patiently manages a 90-mile real-world range. The next-generation answer is already shipping. Verge Motorcycles, a Finnish company, is the first production vehicle of any kind with an all-solid-state battery. Their 2026 bikes ship in Q1 with a pack from Donut Lab, another Finnish outfit spun out of Verge. The numbers are bonkers. The pack delivers an energy density of 400 Wh/kg, roughly double that of current Tesla cells. It sustains 100kW charging, hits full charge in about 5 minutes in the lab and 12 minutes on the actual bike, and the long-range version covers 600 kilometers (about 370 miles) per charge. Toyota, QuantumScape, and Samsung SDI have all been telling us that solid-state is coming in 2027 to 2030. A Finnish motorcycle company shipping in Q1 2026 just embarrassed them all. UBTech Humanoid Robot Sales Jump 23-Fold UBTech dropped its 2025 annual earnings on April 1st. Humanoid robot revenue hit 820 million yuan, roughly $119 million USD, up 2,203% from 35.6 million yuan the year before. Unit sales went from 3 robots in 2024 to 1,079 in 2025. Shares jumped 14% on the announcement. The customer list is a real industrial deployment: BYD, Foxconn, Geely, FAW-Volkswagen, and Audi. The flagship is the Walker S2, with UBTech targeting 5,000 units in 2026 and 10,000 in 2027. Cochrane is honest about what this means. He does not think we are heading for an extinction event, but worker displacement is a real concern. The US has no universal income or universal healthcare. The people affected are not white-collar managers. They are everyday line workers who already make the least on the ladder. Work efficiency reportedly doubles when these robots arrive, which is a company-side win, but the humans they replace are not getting half a year of gardening leave to retrain. He invites the listener to take on this one directly. Japan Switches On Asia’s First Osmotic Power Plant In August 2025, Fukuoka’s Seawater Desalination Center quietly opened Asia’s first osmotic power facility. It generates about 880,000 kilowatt-hours per year, enough for roughly 220 homes. It is only the second operational osmotic plant in the world, after Mariager, Denmark, in 2023. Osmotic generation uses a salinity gradient: fresh water on one side of a membrane, salt water on the other, and the pressure difference spins a turbine. The clever part is what Fukuoka does with desalination brine. Instead of regular seawater, the plant uses concentrated brine left over from the desalination process. This amplifies the salt gradient and squeezes more energy out of the same membrane. The result is a closed-loop partnership: the desalination facility produces drinking water and leaves brine behind, the osmotic plant turns the brine into electricity, and that electricity runs the desalination facility. Every desalination plant on Earth produces brine, so if Fukuoka’s co-located model works, the same pattern could be replicated across hundreds of plants worldwide. Japan’s Luna Ring Solar Moon Proposal Goes Viral Again Shimizu Corporation’s Luna Ring concept is making the rounds again. The pitch: a 6,800-mile belt of solar panels around the Moon’s equator, beaming microwave power back to Earth. Project lead Tetsuji Yoshida has long argued that a full ring could eliminate fossil fuel dependence entirely. The proposal first surfaced in 2013, has no funding, no government endorsement, and no concrete cost estimate. Shimizu has not put any active development behind it. Cochrane finds the concept fun every time it resurfaces. However, this would have to be a worldwide effort in the truest sense, with treaties, a new generation of launch economics, and microwave power transmission at a scale nobody has demonstrated. Beaming the power back to Earth has always been one of the biggest practical holdbacks. The Luna Ring is inspirational, but not shipping. Finland’s Onkalo Nuclear Waste Vault Opens Finland’s Onkalo facility is the world’s first permanent deep geologic repository for spent nuclear fuel. Operated by Posiva, the facility is buried about 430 meters down in 1.9-billion-year-old bedrock. It is designed to hold up to 6,500 tons of spent fuel and operate until the 2120s. The construction costs about €1 billion, with operating and closure adding roughly €4 billion more before the program is done. The catch is that radioactivity remains dangerous for hundreds of thousands of years. Edwin Lyman, director of nuclear power safety at the Union of Concerned Scientists, warned that the copper canisters will eventually corrode, with different scientific opinions on how fast. Geologic disposal remains “fraught with uncertainties,” and we have never validated an engineered system across a 100,000-year time frame. The bet is that the rock and copper outlast the radioactivity. Cochrane sees Onkalo as time-buying rather than a final answer. It is more of a bank holding spent fuel while science catches up. He prefers it to Japan’s ongoing approach of releasing tritium-treated water from Fukushima Daiichi into the Pacific, even though the dilution is well below WHO drinking water guidelines. Burying the waste in an insurmountable containment strikes him as the more honest answer to a problem nobody knows how to truly solve. Ghostty Terminal Lands in the Ubuntu Repos Ghostty 1.3.0 is now available in Ubuntu 26.04 LTS’s universe repository. The install is simply `sudo apt install ghostty`, no PPAs, no Snap, no Nix, no building from source. Ghostty was created by Mitchell Hashimoto, co-founder of HashiCorp. It is GPU-accelerated, uses native Swift on macOS and native GTK4 with libadwaita on Linux, and supports tabs, splits, profiles, ligatures, and the Kitty graphics protocol. Cochrane recently caught Hashimoto on a podcast, where he walked through his agentic coding workflow. Ghostty is being actively built using AI harnesses like Claude Code and Codex. Hashimoto told a story in which Codex fixed a six-month-old bug in 45 minutes, for a total API cost of $4.14. Personally, Cochrane uses WezTerm, but he is excited to see Ghostty become more widely available with a native UI rather than Electron. Borgo: Rethinking Go Using Rust Analytics India Magazine profiled Borgo, a programming language by developer Marco Sampellegrini (GitHub: alpacaaa). Borgo is statically typed with Rust-like syntax, but it compiles to Go and uses the Go runtime and garbage collector. It includes sum types (Option and Result), pattern matching, and full compatibility with existing Go packages. Notably, it removes Rust’s borrow checker and lifetimes entirely. Borgo is not new. It first appeared on Hacker News in 2023, with a RustLab talk in 2024. The 2026 angle is a renewed look at it through the lens of AI coding agents, since type-rich languages like Rust have been showing outsized productivity gains. Cochrane is a fan of Rust and stands by the borrow checker, but he enjoys these exploratory languages for what they reveal about what developers actually want. Caveman: A Claude Code Skill That Cuts 65% of Tokens Developer Julius Brussee built a Claude Code skill called Caveman that forces Claude to respond in stripped-down fragments. No articles, no “just,” no “really,” no pleasantries, no hedging. The tagline is “why use many token when few token do trick.” Across 10 real dev tasks, Caveman mode averaged 294 tokens per response, compared to 1,214 in normal mode. That is a 65% drop in output tokens. The project is MIT licensed with three intensity levels: lite, full, and ultra. Cochrane stumbled across the project online and shared it with a classmate who had been complaining about token costs. The classmate now insists that “the caveman is the only way to live.” Cochrane has not made the switch, but the bigger point lands. If a community plugin can cut 65% of tokens without correctness regressions, the labs are shipping verbose-by-default and charging users for the privilege. He suspects verbose output makes models feel more trustworthy, even when the token math says otherwise. Cloudflare Launches EmDash as a WordPress Successor Cloudflare released EmDash on April 9th, an open-source, MIT-licensed, TypeScript-based CMS pitched as the spiritual successor to WordPress. The big flex is that it was built in 60 days using AI coding agents. EmDash runs on Astro 6.0, either on Cloudflare’s edge platform or on a standard Node.js server. The plugin security model uses sandboxed Dynamic Workers with explicit permissions, addressing the architecture flaw that Cloudflare says causes 96% of WordPress vulnerabilities. Cochrane could not resist pointing out the irony of the name. The em dash has become the trademark giveaway that an AI was involved in writing. He has reservations about whether EmDash will succeed. WordPress is extremely hard to unseat, plenty of “WordPress killers” have come and gone, and the ecosystem is twenty-plus years deep. He is curious to see what comes next but not optimistic. Google Open-Sources the DESIGN.md Format Google Labs open-sourced the DESIGN.md format used by Stitch, their AI UI design tool. DESIGN.md is a declarative file capturing a project’s design system, colors, typography, and spacing in a way AI agents can read and apply. Cochrane has tried Stitch personally and finds it impressive at producing web designs. He has also seen DESIGN.md-style files already start appearing in repositories. He sees this kind of file becoming a new paradigm for agentic design, alongside robots.txt and llms.txt. However, he worries about a side effect. If everyone uses the same standardized format and the same AI tools, the web could become a homogeneous set of sites that all look the same. He is enthusiastic about the standardization but hopes designers continue to push for genuinely unique work. A 13-Liter PC With a Water Loop Built Into the Case Geeky Gadgets covered a build by “Visual Thinker”, a 13-liter mini-ITX case with custom SLA-printed water distribution plates built directly into the chassis. Instead of traditional soft tubing, plates channel coolant between the CPU and GPU blocks and are sealed with TPU and silicone molds. The case supports a full-size GPU and an SFX power supply. No thermal benchmarks, parts list, or pricing have been published. It is a one-off you cannot buy. Cochrane sees this as a sign of where PC building has gone in 2026. Modern mid-grade GPUs run nearly every recent game, so raw performance is no longer the differentiator. He likes seeing builders lean into design and craft rather than just stuffing the most powerful parts into a box. He admits he is the traditional type and built his own machine to maximize parts, but the design-first direction is a healthy evolution for the hobby. To close out the show, Cochrane recommends Pocket Casts as a podcast app. He finds it picks up new episodes very quickly. Big thanks to GoDaddy for over twenty years of keeping this show on the air, and a reminder that every promo code use is like writing a check to the show. The post Mythos: Cybersecurity’s AlphaGo Moment #1862 appeared first on Geek News Central.

Muy buenos días, ahora es Citi el que dice que un cierto nivel de aranceles es con lo que se tendrá que vivir. La inflación en México se estaciona. El empresario mexicano que compró al Atlas. Reportes de Nokia, Nestlé y lo último de Warner y Meta. Además, la guerra en Medio Oriente ya alcanzó a la industria de los preservativos. Días cinco, seis y siete de 15 para votar por La Estrategia del Día en los Spotify Podcast Awards. ¡Vota aquí! https://open.spotify.com/playlist/37i9dQZF1DWXhF7LvcCzpf?si=8sICN4uMTwuUdwqibbVxBg Patrocinado | Conoce más de la Conferencia Anual del Council of the Americas en México aquí

What does the looming ceasefire deadline mean for the market? We discuss with Sofi's Liz Thomas, Citi's Kate Moore and Hightower's Stephanie Link. Plus, Apple named a new CEO. We break down all the details and what it could mean for the stock with shareholder Bryn Talkington and best-selling author Leander Kahney. The IGV software ETF is on its 7th day of straight gains. Vista Equity Partners' Ashley MacNeill tells us what her forecast for the space looks like. And, Former Dallas Fed President Richard Fisher weighs in on the confirmation hearing for Fed Chair Nominee Kevin Warsh. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Linktree: ⁠⁠https://linktr.ee/Analytic⁠⁠Join The Normandy For Ad-Free NME, Additional Bonus Audio And Visual Content For All Things Nme+! Join Here:⁠⁠ ⁠⁠https://ow.ly/msoH50WCu0K⁠⁠Analytic Dreamz breaks down the full details on The R&B Tour, also known as the Raymond & Brown Tour, the major co-headlining stadium run from Usher and Chris Brown across North America in 2026. This 33-show trek spans from June 26 in Denver at Empower Field at Mile High to the finale on December 11 at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, covering the United States and Canada over approximately 5.5 months in large-scale stadium venues only.Key timeline includes the April 2026 social media announcement, with Citi presale launching April 21, additional presales through April 24, Live Nation presale on April 23, and general on-sale April 27 at 12 PM local time. VIP packages offer front-row seating, early entry, and behind-the-scenes access.The routing features multiple two-night stands in high-demand markets including Ford Field in Detroit, Northwest Stadium in Landover, MetLife Stadium in New Jersey, Rogers Stadium in Toronto, Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas, SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles, Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta, and others. Texas sees the highest concentration with stops in Arlington, El Paso, San Antonio, and Houston.Analytic Dreamz examines the tour scale, comparable to top-tier R&B stadium runs, backed by Usher's $115 million Vegas residency success and Chris Brown's Breezy Bowl XX grossing around $300 million. Demand indicators show strong presale activity, active secondary markets, and scarcity in key regions driving anticipation.The segment also covers the dual-meaning tour name, marketing visuals, and industry context around two of R&B's biggest touring forces. No measurable impact from past narratives has slowed the rollout momentum to date.This deep dive equips fans with complete routing, ticketing strategy, market highlights, and commercial power analysis for one of the largest R&B tours of 2026. Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

This hour: David Faber and Sara Eisen broke down a return of the tech trade (software, semiconductor, and quantum stocks leading the charge) with Citi's Head of U.S. equity strategy, before checking in with the CEOs of 2 earnings names - Pepsico & regional bank Citizens Financial. Plus: details on a new model out of Anthropic, what's sending quantum stocks surging, and a look at the IEA's jet fuel warning that could derail summer vacation plans for some. Squawk on the Street Disclaimer Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Raymond James sees more growth opportunities ahead for Okta Inc. (OKTA), according to the firm's latest upgrade on the company. Diane King Hall adds that dissipating headwinds and AI trends offer a bigger runway for the cybersecurity firm. It's a stark contrast from Flutter (FLUT), which got a double downgrade from Citi. Diane notes another downgrade on PayPal (PYPL) to neutral from outperform. ======== Schwab Network ========Empowering every investor and trader, every market day.Options involve risks and are not suitable for all investors. Before trading, read the Options Disclosure Document. http://bit.ly/2v9tH6DSubscribe to the Market Minute newsletter - https://schwabnetwork.com/subscribeDownload the iOS app - https://apps.apple.com/us/app/schwab-network/id1460719185Download the Amazon Fire Tv App - https://www.amazon.com/TD-Ameritrade-Network/dp/B07KRD76C7Watch on Sling - https://watch.sling.com/1/asset/191928615bd8d47686f94682aefaa007/watchWatch on Vizio - https://www.vizio.com/en/watchfreeplus-exploreWatch on DistroTV - https://www.distro.tv/live/schwab-network/Follow us on X – https://twitter.com/schwabnetworkFollow us on Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/schwabnetworkFollow us on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/schwab-network/About Schwab Network - https://schwabnetwork.com/about

This content is for informational and entertainment purposes only, you should not construe any such information or other material as legal, tax, investment, financial, or other advice.----------------------------------------Most impact funds operate at the margins of traditional finance. The Citi Impact Fund operates from inside one of the largest banks in the world. That's a different kind of leverage.Meredith Shields manages a $500 million carve-out from Citi's balance sheet, deployed exclusively into double bottom line companies.In this episode, she covers how the fund defines impact, why it moved to Series B investing, and what she's watching in sectors like care, education, and financial resilience. She also names names, rolling through more portfolio companies than most guests manage in an hour. ----------------------------------------Investing in Impact is powered by Causeartist, a nonprofit media company dedicated to bridging the gap between capital and culture by spotlighting founders, investors, and organizations reimagining how business can serve people and the planet.Through storytelling, events, and open-access education, Causeartist helps create a shared language of impact, inspiring more founders to build with purpose and more funders to invest with intention.By amplifying ideas and innovations across industries, Causeartist transforms awareness into action and cultivates a community where paying it forward is part of the foundation for growth.

Citigroup (C) moved slightly higher after posting an earnings beat Tuesday morning. Marley Kayden compares Citi's performance on the quarter to companies like JPMorgan Chase (JPM) and Goldman Sachs (GS) to gauge how their balance sheets compare. Tim Biggam remains cautious on big bank stocks and offers an example options trade for Citi. ======== Schwab Network ========Empowering every investor and trader, every market day.Options involve risks and are not suitable for all investors. Before trading, read the Options Disclosure Document. http://bit.ly/2v9tH6DSubscribe to the Market Minute newsletter - https://schwabnetwork.com/subscribeDownload the iOS app - https://apps.apple.com/us/app/schwab-network/id1460719185Download the Amazon Fire Tv App - https://www.amazon.com/TD-Ameritrade-Network/dp/B07KRD76C7Watch on Sling - https://watch.sling.com/1/asset/191928615bd8d47686f94682aefaa007/watchWatch on Vizio - https://www.vizio.com/en/watchfreeplus-exploreWatch on DistroTV - https://www.distro.tv/live/schwab-network/Follow us on X – https://twitter.com/schwabnetworkFollow us on Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/schwabnetworkFollow us on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/schwab-network/About Schwab Network - https://schwabnetwork.com/about

The U.S. set to begin blockading Iran's ports this hour after ceasefire talks failed to yield a breakthrough: Carl Quintanilla, Sara Eisen, and David Faber got the latest out of Washington in addition to new housing data - before diving into the investor implications with Citi Wealth's CIO, and Former Defense Secretary Mark Esper. Plus: a fresh read on how surging energy prices are impacting the consumer - with Sunoco Chairman and luxury mall operator Ray Washburne.    Elsewhere this hour: what's pressuring Goldman Sachs shares in the early trade as they kick off a huge week of quarterly reports... and an impassioned interview with the Executive Chairman of Replimune - whose shares are plunging after FDA denial of a key treatment.    Squawk on the Street Disclaimer Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

In an explosive new release, pensions CalPERS, CalSTRS, and New York State Common and Teachers Funds and banks Wells Fargo, JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America and Citi have heavily invested in and financed companies that have profited from contracts with Immigration Customs Enforcement (ICE) and enabled the deportation crisis and the surveillance, violence and repression of U.S. citizens resisting the Trump administration. These financial institutions have put over $80 billion into these companies. The corporate ICE contracrtors include Palantir, CoreCivic, Geo Group, General Dynamics, CACI, L3Harris and AT&T. In our latest, we talk with Richard Brooks about new data that Stand.Earth has released about financial players funding ICE contractors like Palantir, Geo Group, CoreCivic and others. Guest Bio-- Richard Brooks is the Climate Finance Director at Stand.Earth.--------------------

In this episode I speak with Faheem Osman, Managing Director and Global Head of QIS Structuring at Macquarie Group.Faheem has spent nearly two decades inside major investment banks — first at Citi, where he spent about ten years on the commodities trading and structuring side, and now at Macquarie, where he's built out their cross-asset QIS business. Commodities, though, remain firmly in the DNA of what Macquarie does, and it's where Faheem cuts his teeth.We spend the bulk of our conversation exploring commodity QIS as a distinct and, in Faheem's view, underappreciated source of systematic returns. Faheem walks us through strategies like curve carry and index congestion, explains why commodities have historically delivered some of the highest risk-adjusted returns of any asset class in QIS, and makes the case for why these premiums haven't simply been arbitraged away. We also dig into commodity volatility selling, the shift toward weekly options, and close with a timely discussion on what the explosion of 0DTE options means for the vol risk premium more broadly.Please enjoy my conversation with Faheem Osman.

In this episode, we'll talk about how United credit cards make United miles more valuable, how Southwest discount codes make Southwest points more valuable, and we'll take you on a ride through a classic card show discussing credit card "collectibles".Giant Mailbag(01:34) - Justin: I was annoyed to discover I couldn't change the frequent flyer number on my upcoming award booking from my Atmos number to my AAdvantage number, which would have made me and my girlfriend eligible for Oneworld Emerald perks...Learn more about Alaska not allowing frequent flyer number changes on award tickets hereCard News(05:33) - United cards now unlock better earnings on paid flights, 10%/15% discount on award flights, and more Polaris business class saver awardsRead more about recent United changes here(10:46) - Amex card offersLearn more about The Business Platinum Card® from American Express hereLearn more about the American Express® Business Gold Card here(16:18) - Amazon Business Amex moving to US Bank(17:59) - Southwest cardholder discount codesRead more about Southwest discount codes hereMattress Running the Numbers(20:28) - Hyatt/Under Canvas cardholder promoLearn more about the Hyatt 2K promo here: https://frequentmiler.com/hyatt-promo-earn-2k-bonus-points-per-night-at-under-canvas-properties/Awards, Points, and More(27:32) - National Car Rental's One Two Free Promo ReturnsLearn more about National Car Rental's One Two Free promo here: https://frequentmiler.com/national-car-rentals-one-two-free-promo-returns/(29:27) - Transfer bonusesLearn more about transfer bonuses here: https://frequentmiler.com/current-point-transfer-bonuses/Main Event: Credit Card Collectibles(35:00) - Citi® AAdvantage® Globe has us predicting the next credit card collectibles(35:44) - Find our Coffee Break Ep35 here: https://frequentmiler.com/predicting-the-next-credit-card-collectibles-coffee-break-ep35-12-3-24-podcast/(36:56) - Citi collectibles(53:36) - Chase collectibles(59:54) - Bank Of America(1:01:25) - Capital One(1:06:15) - US Bank(1:14:46) - Almost collectiblesQuestion of the Week(1:28:42) - Do you have suggestions for how to preemptively link loyalty accounts to Chase, Capital One, or Amex without needing to transfer points?Subscribe and FollowVisit https://frequentmiler.com/subscribe/ to get updated on in-depth points and miles content like this, and don't forget to like and follow us on social media.Music Credit – “Ocean Deep” by Annie YoderMentioned in this episode:Check out all of our other travel podcasts from around the worldThis podcast is part of Voyascape, a podcast network that brings together the world's best travel podcasts. You can find all of our podcasts from around the world at Voyascape.com. If you are interested in advertising or sponsored content on any of our shows you can find out more at the link below.Voyascape Podcast NetworkVisit FrequentMiler.com Did you know that Frequent Miller is also a website? At frequentMiller.com, you'll find all the latest deals, news about points, miles, and rewarding credit cards, the single best, Best Credit Cards page on the web, guides to all popular rewards programs, and many other terrific resources. If you'd like to get our posts sent to your email, go to frequentMiller.com/subscribe and sign up for free. https://frequentmiler.com/subscribe/

Go to https://surfshark.com/mtm or use code MTM at checkout to get 4 extra months of Surfshark VPN! Description In this episode, Shawn and Mark break down a string of Amex Platinum changes — Saks credit going away, Centurion Lounge guest access tightening, Uber VIP disappearing — plus an honest look at the Citi Strata Premier revamp survey and the best offer ever on a no-fee Amex card. Mark is also freshly back from Bermuda and gives a teaser on what happened before the full recap next week. What we cover: Saks Fifth Avenue Amex Platinum credit ending July 1st and what might replace it Amex Business Platinum ChatGPT $300 credit — and whether it's actually useful Centurion Lounge same-flight guest rule starting July 8th Uber VIP ending May 7th and the broader Lyft vs Uber rideshare debate Citi Strata Premier revamp survey — two versions, which is better, and what they shouldn't touch Uber acquiring Black Lane and what it means for Citi credits Blue Business Plus 75K offer with no lifetime language — best ever Episode Guide: 0:00 - Welcome to MTM Travel 0:22 - Mark's Bermuda trip preview and Saks credit ending 5:11 - Amex Business Platinum ChatGPT credit 7:58 - Centurion Lounge same-flight guest rule change 11:19 - Uber VIP going away and the Lyft vs Uber debate 15:10 - Citi Strata Premier revamp survey — what to keep and what not to touch 19:56 - Uber buying Black Lane and Citi credit implications 23:15 - Blue Business Plus 75K — best ever offer with no lifetime language ✈️ Track your travel credit cards for free

A recent survey sent out by Citi has us speculating about changes Citi might be considering for the Citi Strata Premier℠ Card. This would include an increased annual fee and increased complexity. Citi might nerf the Strata PremierRead more about the Citi Strata Premiere refresh rumors here(02:55) - Current version vs potential version(09:44) - Why we're not a fan...Visit https://frequentmiler.com/subscribe to get updated on in-depth points and miles content like this, and don't forget to like and follow us on social media.Music Credit – Beach Walk by Unicorn HeadsMentioned in this episode:Visit FrequentMiler.com Did you know that Frequent Miller is also a website? At frequentMiller.com, you'll find all the latest deals, news about points, miles, and rewarding credit cards, the single best, Best Credit Cards page on the web, guides to all popular rewards programs, and many other terrific resources. If you'd like to get our posts sent to your email, go to frequentMiller.com/subscribe and sign up for free. https://frequentmiler.com/subscribe/Check out all of our other travel podcasts from around the worldThis podcast is part of Voyascape, a podcast network that brings together the world's best travel podcasts. You can find all of our podcasts from around the world at Voyascape.com. If you are interested in advertising or sponsored content on any of our shows you can find out more at the link below.Voyascape Podcast Network

Wall Street's selloff picks up steam to close out a roller-coaster week, with the Dow sliding deeper into correction territory as traders watch what's next for the Fed amid the latest developments in the war with Iran — and Peter Boockvar joins with his take. Plus, Citi slides on deal chatter, the yen continues to fall against the dollar with intervention buzz rising, and bitcoin hovers near $65K. And as the week wraps, Nike heads into earnings at near-decade lows — can it turn things around? Fast Money Disclaimer Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.