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The Discovery Pod
Covenant House With Deb Lester, CEO

The Discovery Pod

Play Episode Listen Later May 21, 2025 32:16


Covenant House Vancouver has been serving young people to help them get out of homelessness and provide them with everything they need to enjoy a comfortable life. Its CEO, Deb Lester, provides a glimpse of what they are doing behind the scenes to make a real difference for youth at risk. In this conversation with Douglas Nelson, she shares what it takes to be a leader in an already effective organization and what it takes to bring it to the next level. Deb talks about the role of her experiences on the frontlines of health, education, and social services in bringing people together to protect and safeguard the youth.

CNBC’s “Money Movers”
“Haven't Seen a Bottom Yet”, Reports Say China Open to Trade Talks, Trading Platform WeBull Surges after Public Debut 4/16/25

CNBC’s “Money Movers”

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 16, 2025 41:51


Wilmington Trust's CIO lays out the case for why there's probably more downside risk ahead for stocks. China Beige Book CEO, Leland Miller, reacts to reports China is open to trade discussions with the US if the country starts showing more respect. Plus, WeBull shares have jumped more than 300% since its public debut last week. Its CEO weighs in on current sentiment among retail investors and the recent volatility in the shares of his own company.

Today in Health IT
UnHack (the News): Knowing Your Cyber Threats and X Takedown Impact with Troy Ament

Today in Health IT

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 19, 2025 17:46 Transcription Available


March 19, 2025: Troy Ament, Industry Leader for Healthcare at Palo Alto Networks Joins Drex for the News. The conversation delves into the importance of establishing relationships with law enforcement before a crisis occurs and why including them in tabletop exercises is crucial. Troy examines why threat actors deliberately target healthcare systems during weekend hours when staffing is minimal. From DDoS attacks serving as distractions to threat actors contacting board members directly, this episode provides an insider's view of today's cybersecurity landscape.Key Points:03:03 The FBI and Cyber Threats07:36 Ransomware Attack Patterns12:31 Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) Attacks15:52 Personal and Organizational CybersecurityNews Articles:This is the FBI, open up. China's Volt Typhoon is on your networkInvestigator says differing names for hacker groups, hackers studying investigative methods hinders law enforcementX suffered a DDoS attack. Its CEO and security researchers can't agree on who did it.Subscribe: This Week HealthTwitter: This Week HealthLinkedIn: This Week HealthDonate: Alex's Lemonade Stand: Foundation for Childhood Cancer

Marketplace All-in-One
If you can’t afford the dollar store, where do you go?

Marketplace All-in-One

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 14, 2025 8:11


If you want to know how investors feel, check out the stock market. If you want to know how the rest of America feels — particularly low-income Americans — look to Dollar General. Its CEO said this week that its “core customers,” people who earn under $40,000 per year, are struggling. Also: “I’ve met fighter pilots, and I think you have a cooler job.” A vintage race car mechanic reflects on his work.

Marketplace Morning Report
If you can’t afford the dollar store, where do you go?

Marketplace Morning Report

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 14, 2025 8:11


If you want to know how investors feel, check out the stock market. If you want to know how the rest of America feels — particularly low-income Americans — look to Dollar General. Its CEO said this week that its “core customers,” people who earn under $40,000 per year, are struggling. Also: “I’ve met fighter pilots, and I think you have a cooler job.” A vintage race car mechanic reflects on his work.

The Explanation
The Media Show: Understanding the attention economy

The Explanation

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 13, 2025 22:58


Elon Musk's presence at a White House press conference surprised journalists when President Trump gave him the stage to address questions about his growing governmental influence. Jeff Mason, White House correspondent for Reuters, who asked Musk about claims of a “hostile takeover” of government, describes the experience. The Trump administration has announced significant cuts to the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), which provides funding to independent media organisations worldwide. Max Tani, reporter for Semafor, explains how this decision affects news outlets, particularly those operating in countries where press freedom is under threat. BBC Media Action, the BBC's international charity, has been affected by the cuts, with USAID previously providing millions in funding. Its CEO, Simon Bishop, clarifies the organisation's role and responds to Elon Musk's claim that USAID funds the BBC directly. The attention economy is reshaping the way people engage with media and technology. Chris Hayes, host of MSNBC's All In, draws comparisons between Big Tech's monetisation of attention and the Industrial Revolution's transformation of labour. He discusses the social and political consequences of mass digital engagement and offers insight into potential regulatory solutions. Presenter: Katie Razzall Producer: Simon Richardson Assistant producer: Lucy Wai

Motley Fool Money
Apple's “Glowtime” Event, AI Ambitions

Motley Fool Money

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 9, 2024 30:49


Big tech takes center stage with Apple's annual iPhone event and Google's latest anti-trust case. What do they say about where tech's been and where it's going?  (00:21) Jason Moser and Dylan Lewis discuss: - Apple's “Glowtime” product event, what to expect for the iPhone line and the company's AI ambitions. - The latest anti-trust case against Google and why Meta and Apple should probably be paying attention. - Big Lots' bankruptcy and why the discount retailer has struggled at a time when customers are looking for value. (14:46) OneStream is an operating system for CFOs. Its CEO, Tom Shea, joined Ricky Mulvey for a conversation about the problems that its software solves for, its AI use case, and what's behind the company's 36% year-over-year revenue growth. Companies discussed: AAPL, GOOG, GOOGL, META, BIG, WMT, TGT, DG, OS Host: Dylan Lewis Guests: Jason Moser, Ricky Muley, Tom Shea Producer: Mary Long Engineers: Tim Sparks, Dan Boyd Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

WSJ Tech News Briefing
Nvidia Is Expanding Its Role in the AI Craze

WSJ Tech News Briefing

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 4, 2024 12:06


Nvidia has an estimated 80% of the market share for chips powering the artificial intelligence boom. Its CEO wants the company to become a one-stop shop for the data centers where AI tools are produced and deployed. WSJ reporter Asa Fitch joins host Zoe Thomas to explain why the company is broadening its focus.. Plus, a $1000 trash can could cut your kitchen stink and reduce landfill waste.  Sign up for the WSJ's free Technology newsletter.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

AI Lawyer Talking Tech
Transforming Legal Landscapes: AI Innovations and Ethical Guidelines

AI Lawyer Talking Tech

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 5, 2024 19:20


Welcome to today's episode of "AI Lawyer Talking Tech." In this episode, we dive into the latest developments that are set to reshape the legal industry. From the American Bar Association's new guidelines on the ethical use of generative AI by lawyers to the groundbreaking M&A negotiation simulator launched by Stanford's Codex and Flatiron, we explore how technology is revolutionizing legal practice and education. We also discuss the transformative impact of legal tech in India's judiciary, the resurgence of law firm financial health, and the increasing integration of AI in legal education. Join us as we uncover how these advancements are not only enhancing efficiency but also promoting inclusivity and transparency within the legal profession. Guidelines on the Use of Generative AI Tools by Professionals from the American Bar Association05 Aug 2024Debevoise Data BlogJustice League 2.0: Legal Tech to Transform Indian Courts05 Aug 2024Legaltech on MediumStanford's Codex + Flatiron Launch GenAI M&A Training Simulator05 Aug 2024Artificial LawyerTop 10 Use Cases of Legal Tech in a Digitally Transformed Judiciary05 Aug 2024Legaltech on MediumUnderstanding Key Definitional Concepts Under the EU AI Act02 Aug 2024Blank RomeElon Musk files new lawsuit against OpenAI and Sam Altman05 Aug 2024WLKY-TVAt Two Back-to-Back Conferences, Evidence that We're Moving the Ball Forward On Using AI in Law05 Aug 2024LawSitesUS TikTok ban addresses “grave national-security threats” and is a “triumph for human rights” say new court filings05 Aug 2024Complete Music UpdateEarning and learning05 Aug 2024Law Society GazetteDozens of New State Laws Poised to Take Effect in Colorado05 Aug 2024PagosaDailyPost.comInside Flatiron's Flat-Rate M&A Model with Conrad Everhard05 Aug 20243 Geeks and a Law BlogElon Musk Sues OpenAI and Its CEO in New Lawsuit Challenging Microsoft Partnership05 Aug 2024MSN United StatesDavid Cambria, Known As ‘Godfather of Legal Operations,' Joins Epiq to Lead Legal Business Advisory Practice05 Aug 2024LawSitesFederal Government Sues TikTok Over Alleged Child Privacy Violations05 Aug 2024Family CouncilWinner is announced for the SCL Tech Law ‘Green' Dragons' Den Competition05 Aug 2024SCL.orgQ2 2024 LFFI: Back at record heights, law firms look healthier than ever - Thomson Reuters Institute03 Aug 2024Thomson ReutersAI will have bigger impact on law than the internet, says thinktank04 Aug 2024Legal FuturesBusiness Roundtable Letter on the American Privacy Rights Act May 30, 202403 Aug 2024Business RoundtableIncreasing Integration of Artificial Intelligence in Legal Education03 Aug 2024JDJournalLegalTech, Justice AI, ChatGPT lawyers: Is there a forest behind the buzzword trees?02 Aug 2024Massachusetts Lawyers WeeklySenator joins growing calls for OpenAI to prove it's not silencing staff02 Aug 2024Portland Press HeraldMeet Clio At ILTACON02 Aug 2024Above The LawWhere We Are Now: A Year In The Growth Of GAI In Legal Ops02 Aug 2024Above The LawIntellectual Property Law: A Guide to Patents, Trademarks, and Copyrights02 Aug 2024Legal ReaderABA Weighs in on Generative AI Use in Legal Practice02 Aug 2024JD Supra

Wilson County News
Abbott demands probe into power outages

Wilson County News

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 16, 2024 5:33


More than 2 million Texans lost power when Hurricane Beryl hit the Texas coast, and Gov. Greg Abbott wants to know why. The Austin American- Statesman reported Abbott has ordered the Public Utility Commission to conduct an immediate study into why the Houston area has again been hit by widespread power outages. CenterPoint Energy is the primary electricity transmission company serving the Houston area. Its CEO, Jason Ryan, appeared before the PUC last week and was questioned about the outages. As of Sunday morning, CenterPoint's website indicated 461,247 customers were still without power, nearly a week after Beryl made landfall....Article Link

The Big Take
Inside Billionaire Bernard Arnault's Business Playbook

The Big Take

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 25, 2024 13:18 Transcription Available


LVMH has a sprawling portfolio of brands synonymous with luxury: Christian Dior, Louis Vuitton, Fendi, Bulgari, Celine, Tiffany & Co., Hennessy and Veuve Clicquot. Its CEO, Bernard Arnault, almost never speaks to journalists and doesn't have the name recognition of the likes of Jeff Bezos or Elon Musk, but regularly vies with them for the title of richest person in the world and has an almost impossible-to-measure influence over the business world. Bloomberg Businessweek's Brad Stone and reporter Angelina Rascouët recently landed a rare interview with Arnault, where they learned how he built his empire from the ground up. And they consider a burning question: At 75 years old with five grown children in the business, what are his plans for succession? Read more: The House of ArnaultSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

MONEY FM 89.3 - Prime Time with Howie Lim, Bernard Lim & Finance Presenter JP Ong
Under the Radar: Why are Turkey, Kazakhstan bright spots for brokerage firm Phillip Nova? Its CEO tells it all.

MONEY FM 89.3 - Prime Time with Howie Lim, Bernard Lim & Finance Presenter JP Ong

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 25, 2024 36:58


The securities market is in focus today as we speak to one of the founding clearing members of the Singapore Exchange Derivatives Trading or (SGX-DT).  Inaugurated some 40 years ago in 1983 as Phillip Futures, our guest for today is multi-asset broker Phillip Nova.  As a member of the PhillipCapital Group, the company has grown over the years and now prides itself as one of the region's top brokers for the trading of CFD, Forex, Futures and Stocks.  It also taps PhillipCapital Group's network companies to access exchanges around the world, including the Singapore Exchange, the Hong Kong Exchange, the Japanese Exchange Group, the New York Mercantile Exchange, the COMEX and more.  The company was rebranded in Phillip Nova in 2022 after the firm received its own securities brokerage licence to broaden its service offerings.  Its CEO had said then that the rebranding initiative was meant to reflect the brokerage's expanded suite of offerings ranging across five asset classes namely: stocks, futures, forex, commodities and CFDs.  But Phillip Nova is an interesting company to talk about not just because of the rebranding initiative, but also because of the markets it is eyeing on in a bid to drive growth.  For one thing, the firm had in March this year offered the trading of Istanbul-quoted futures.  Representatives of its parent company, PhillipCapital had also met up with the senior management team of the regulator of financial services in the Republic of Kazakhstan, on the sidelines of the Kazakhstan-Singapore Business Forum that took place in May last year.  But what are the opportunities in these markets, and how will Phillip Nova partner up with industry players to deepen its stock trading links in order to penetrate into these relatively untapped markets? On Under the Radar, The Evening Runway's finance presenter Chua Tian Tian posed these questions to Teyu Che Chern, CEO, Phillip Nova.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Bitcoin.com Podcast
How to Power the Decentralized Artificial Intelligence Revolution – HyperCycle CEO Toufi Saliba

The Bitcoin.com Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later May 21, 2024 65:33


HyperCycle was founded in October 2022 following discussions between CEO Toufi Saliba and Ben Goertzel, founder of SingularityNet, at the global AGI summit in 2021. The company focuses on developing a General Purpose Technology supporting a decentralized network for AI-to-AI communication, designed to scale with the worldwide demand for AI consumption.Leveraging technologies such as the TODA Protocol, Earth64 data structure, and SingularityNet's Liquid Reputation model, HyperCycle aims to create a secure, efficient, and globally accessible platform for AI collaboration. Its CEO, Toufi Saliba, recently joined the Bitcoin.com News Podcast to talk about the technology.Toufi holds positions as the Global Chair of IEEE AI Standards, Chair of ACM PB CC, and is a founding member of DAIA (Decentralized AI Alliance). He has been an invited honorary speaker at major global events, including WIC, ITU, UN, Busan, and the Korean National Assembly. In 2021, he posed a thought-provoking question about the global race towards AGI at the global AGI summit. This led to the decision to build an AI brain on the Toda/IP protocol, an initiative he chose to lead.In October 2022, HyperCycle was launched, focusing on customers who recognize the power of cooperative intelligence. The business model is B2B, with zero transaction fees and 1% on royalties. To date, over 300,000 licenses have been sold, and a token sale was initiated with 60 months tokenomics.To learn more about the project visit HyperCycle.AI. And you can reach out to Toufi at LinkedIn or X.

nScreenMedia
nScreenNoise – Interview: Revry CEO on optimizing marketing spend

nScreenMedia

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 11, 2024 15:45


FAST content leader Revry has been in the market for 8 years. In this interview, Its CEO shares how to optimize marketing spend to minimize subscriber acquisition costs and maximize ad revenue.

Business Casual
Boeing's CEO is Out & Vending Machines Make a Comeback

Business Casual

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 26, 2024 27:08


Episode 287: Neal and Toby cover the latest tumble from Boeing…and no, it's not another plane, thankfully. Its CEO has decided to step down after taking much heat after continued safety concerns of its planes. Then, Trump is given a lifeline on his bond payment and how his social media site is poised to take off. Next, the U.S. Supreme Court hears a case that could profoundly impact the access of one of the most popular abortion drugs in America. Meanwhile, vending machines are making a comeback fueled by side-hustlers. Also, Chick-fil-a takes back a promise in order to keep its chicken business alive. Lastly, Saudi Arabia gets a super-saiyan upgrade with the first ever Dragon Ball Z theme park. Use code MORNINGBREW50 to get 50% OFF your first Factor box at https://bit.ly/3UUZGG0 Get your Morning Brew Daily Merch HERE: https://shop.morningbrew.com/products/morning-brew-daily-sweatshirt?utm_medium=multimedia&utm_source=podcast&utm_campaign=mbd&utm_content=shownotes Listen to Morning Brew Daily Here: https://link.chtbl.com/MBD Watch Morning Brew Daily Here: https://www.youtube.com/@MorningBrewDailyShow Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This Is Working with Daniel Roth
How to prepare a centuries-old company for a resilient future with Merck KGaA CEO Belén Garijo

This Is Working with Daniel Roth

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 21, 2024 28:09


Merck KGaA may be the oldest company to appear on This is Working. Its CEO, Belén Garijo, oversees this diverse health, life science, and electronics company in its 13th generation. In this conversation, Dan and Nina dig into why Belén is such an effective leader for the Merck KGaA of today, how crucial it is to hire for potential, and why the future of networking within large companies is building community. Watch the video of Dan's conversation with Belén Garijo on the LinkedIn News Page. You can share your thoughts via email at ThisisWorking@linkedin.com, or join the conversation directly on LinkedIn using the hashtag #ThisisWorking. Follow Belén Garijo, Merck KGaA, Dan Roth, Nina Melendez, and LinkedIn News on LinkedIn, and subscribe to the newsletter here

X22 Report
Biden Panic, Cyber Attack Warning On National Infrastructure, Right On Schedule – Ep. 3310

X22 Report

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 20, 2024 88:59


Watch The X22 Report On Video No videos found Click On Picture To See Larger Picture The people aren't backing down, Poland is protesting non stop. The Fed is having a difficult time meeting 2% inflation so they want to up it to 3%. Saudi Armaco says the green revolution is over. Federal reserve note regime shift is coming. The Biden's are now panicking. The walls are closing in on them. The world is watching and the world is the jury and the judge. The [DS] knows they will not be able to win this election, they are now preparing to shutdown the election. They are now putting out the narrative that China and Iran are preparing an attack on the water infrastructure. The narrative is right on schedule, we will most likely see small cyber events leading up to the Presidential election. Playbook known.   (function(w,d,s,i){w.ldAdInit=w.ldAdInit||[];w.ldAdInit.push({slot:13499335648425062,size:[0, 0],id:"ld-7164-1323"});if(!d.getElementById(i)){var j=d.createElement(s),p=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];j.async=true;j.src="//cdn2.customads.co/_js/ajs.js";j.id=i;p.parentNode.insertBefore(j,p);}})(window,document,"script","ld-ajs"); Economy RELENTLESS REVOLT: Polish Farmers Stage 600 Protests in a Day Against EU Crippling Green Policies and Cheap Unregulated Ukrainian Grain  One of the great things about the great European Farmers' revolt is its relentless character. Hardly a day passes by without some group of hard working people from some European country getting in the face of authorities, media and society with their urgent plight. Long gone are the days when the MSM tried so hard to present the agricultural fight as mere ‘demands for more subsidy'. Today everyone understands that the escalating protests are against the failed, crippling EU environmental regulations that threaten the very existence of the food producers. Reuters reported: “Placards depicted a farmer swinging from a gallows next to wind farms and an EU-emblazoned executioner with the words: ‘Green Deal equals death of Polish agriculture'.” Around 600 protests ongoing in Poland. Source: thegatewaypundit.com Newsom announces California clean car deal with Stellantis California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) announced a new partnership with automaker Stellantis on Tuesday that promises to get more clean cars on the road in the state. Stellantis — which has brands including Chrysler, Dodge, Jeep and Ram— will join five other major automakers that previously agreed to California's framework on cutting emissions in 2019. Under the agreement, the governor's office said Stellantis “will avoid up to 12 million additional metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions” through the model year 2026. Stellantis will also adhere to the state's zero-emissions light-duty vehicle sales requirements through 2030.  Source: thehill.com Saudi Aramco CEO: ‘The Energy Transition Is Failing. Policymakers Should Abandon the Fantasy of Phasing Out Oil and Gas' The world's biggest oil producer is the Saudi company Aramco. Its CEO, Amin Nasser, just came out yesterday (18) and said that the energy transition envisioned by the ‘global warming' crowd is failing.   He went ahead and in a rare show of honesty, advised that policymakers should abandon the ‘fantasy' (ouch!) of phasing out oil and gas, as he is sure demand for fossil fuels is expected to continue to grow in the coming years. CNBC reported: “'In the real world, the current transition strategy is visibly failing on most fronts as it collides with five hard realities',     He noted that alternative energy sources have been unable to displace hydrocarbons at scale, despite the world investing more than $9.5 trillion over the past two decades. Wind and solar currently supply less than 4% of the world's energy, and total electric vehicle penetration is 3%, he said.   Read more: Source: thegatewaypundit.

RNZ: Checkpoint
Broadcasting Minister Melissa Lee responds to Newshub shut down

RNZ: Checkpoint

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 6, 2024 10:33


A week after the pending demise of Newshub and the loss of 300 jobs was made public, the Broadcasting Minister is finally fronting up for a live interview . Warner Brothers Discovery, which owns Newshub, plans to axe all local news and current affairs programs by June 30th. Network bosses told staff, advertising revenues have dissolved more quickly than expected, meaning the channels current business model is not financially sustainable. That same week, web news service Stuff also made staff redundant. Meanwhile, TVNZ lost almost 17 million dollars in the 6 months to December. Its CEO has signalled strongly that cuts are coming. Media and communications Minister Melissa Lee speaks to Lisa Owen.

University of California Audio Podcasts (Audio)
CEO Marcie Frost on Money and Retirement

University of California Audio Podcasts (Audio)

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 5, 2024 52:00


The nation's largest public pension firm is the California Public Employee's Retirement System, known as CalPERS. Its CEO, Marcie Frost, speaks with the Financial Times' U.S. Managing Editor Peter Spiegel about managing the mission-driven retirement fund for California's public employees as part of the UC Davis-Financial Times Biz Quiz 2023. Series: "UC Davis Graduate School of Management's Executive Speakers and Special Events" [Business] [Show ID: 39564]

Rio Grande Guardian's Podcast
Everything Dr. Nolan Perez said at the official opening of Jackson Medical Plaza

Rio Grande Guardian's Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 21, 2024 8:21


MCALLEN, Texas - Dr. Nolan Perez, MD, a Harlingen native and University of Texas System regent, spoke at the official opening of the state-of-the-art Jackson Medical Plaza on N. Jackson in McAllen. Texas Digestive Specialists (TDS), a company Perez heads, is situated on the second floor. TDS offers a full range of diagnostic and therapeutic services for diseases of the digestive tract, liver, and pancreas. It also specializes in treating the full range of diseases and disorders that affect the colon, rectum, anus, appendix and small bowel.On the first floor of the Jackson Medical Plaza is the McAllen Surgery Center, run by HCA Healthcare. Rio Grande Regional Hospital is part of HCA. Its CEO, Laura Disque, spoke at the official opening.Many hundreds of VIPs were in attendance.In his speech at the official opening, Perez pointed out that Texas does not fare well in national healthcare rankings.“Texas, not the Rio Grande Valley, ranks 45th. I'm just going to merge the numbers but… 42nd for specialists, 48th for primary care doctors, 45th for the number of physicians per capita in the United States. That's Texas, as big and as fast as we are growing. So, you can imagine how far behind we are for the Rio Grande Valley.”Perez said Texas Digestive Specialists “loves” to create partnerships. He gave some examples.“Our partnership downstairs with HCA, the McAllen Surgery Center. We partner in so many ways with other hospitals and facilities, UHS, our physicians work there. I know that UHS is now getting involved with graduate medical education. That's incredible. HCA is now getting involved with UTRGV with graduate medical education. Incredible. Down the street we're not too far from DHR and we're really proud to partner with them in many ways and help them get a liver transplant program. We desperately need a live transplant program in this region and so hopefully we'll have one soon. We partner with Prime across the Valley. Incredible facilities. And then, of course, Tenet hospitals as well. Incredible. They have a long standing tradition of supporting undergraduate and graduate medical education. I love creating partnerships and creating collective impact solutions for all the healthcare needs of our region.”Perez thanked the “amazing leaders” from the world of healthcare that attended the official opening. One of them was Matt Wolthoff, president of Driscoll's new children's hospital in Edinburg.“I told Matt Wolthoff, one of the CEOs who was here earlier… we can't stop until we can say that 99 percent of our people can get their health care in the Rio Grande Valley. In our lifetime, let's make that possible.”Here is an audio recording of Dr. Perez's remarks at the official opening of Jackson Medical Plaza in McAllen.To read the new stories and watch the news videos of the Rio Grande Guardian International News Service go to www.riograndeguardian.com.

Nightly Business Report
Stronger for Longer, Serving Up Gains, Earnings Exchange: TOL, PANW, WING 2/20/24

Nightly Business Report

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 20, 2024 44:17


What if the economy isn't just avoiding a recession, but getting stronger instead? We'll debate. Plus, one food stock just served up solid earnings and has been red hot, doubling off its recent low. Its CEO joins us to discuss. And our trader breaks down the narratives and numbers ahead of Toll Bros., Palo Alto Networks, and Wingstop.

Business Of Biotech
Reprogramming Human Cells With bit.bio's Mark Kotter, M.D.

Business Of Biotech

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 12, 2024 45:51 Transcription Available


The concept of programmable biology is fueling a new breed of biotech, one that requires the marriage of computational and traditional science (and both computational and traditional scientists) on the entire journey from discovery to commercial.  Bit.bio is exemplary of this new breed. Its CEO, Dr. Mark Kotter doesn't pull any punches when addressing the complexity involved in building out the company's capabilities. At the discovery stage alone, bit.bio has hired – and integrated – stem cell biologists, synthetic biologists, genetic engineering experts, cellular biologists, sequencing experts, data scientists, bioinformatics pros, and machine learning experts. On this episode of the Business of Biotech, recorded in San Francisco during JPM Week, we catch up with Dr. Kotter on the work bit.bio is doing, how it's doing it, and how he and his leadership team are recruiting and retaining a new breed of biotech talent to sustain the effort. Let's give it a listen. Subscribe to the #BusinessofBiotech newsletter at bioprocessonline.com/bob for more real, honest, transparent interactions with the leaders of emerging biotech. It's a once-per-month dose of insight and intel that you'll actually look forward to receiving! Check it out at bioprocessonline.com/bob!

Business Daily
Business Daily meets: Kathryn Jacob

Business Daily

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 5, 2024 18:19


For 70 years, Pearl & Dean has been at the forefront of cinema advertising in the UK. Its CEO, Kathryn Jacob has been leading the company for 18 of them.But it's been a rocky few years for the movie industry, as it battles the economic effects of the Covid pandemic. In this edition of Business Daily meets, Kathryn discusses how cinemas are recovering, and how the advertising industry is slowly embracing diversity.(Picture: Kathryn Jacob)Presented and produced by Dougal Shaw

The Big Flop
Theranos: Silicon Valley's Bloodbath with Kathleen Madigan and Heather McDonald | 14

The Big Flop

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 18, 2023 32:58


More than a few vials of blood were spilled in the unbelievable story of Theranos. Its CEO, Elizabeth Holmes, took the world by storm with the promise of a device that was going to change medicine forever. Instead, she endangered patients and defrauded investors. In the end, the only thing Holmes invented was her persona, and even that involved a lot of stealing. Oh, and green juice. It took a lot of green juice.Comedians Heather McDonald (Juicy Scoop with Heather McDonald) and Kathleen Madigan (Kathleen Madigan: Hunting Bigfoot) join Misha to get the lowdown on Elizabeth Holmes and her gory demise.Follow The Big Flop on the Wondery app or wherever you get your podcasts. You can listen to The Big Flop early and ad-free on Wondery+. Join Wondery+ in the Wondery app or on Apple Podcasts.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

BFM :: The Breakfast Grille
Signify's Bright Future For Malaysia

BFM :: The Breakfast Grille

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 12, 2023 23:25


Signify, the lighting division of Dutch multinational Philips, is very optimistic about the future of its business in Malaysia as well as the region and is looking to expand its manufacturing footprint. Its CEO for Malaysia, Sukanto Aich, talks to us.

Dennis Prager podcasts
Non-Birthers

Dennis Prager podcasts

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 9, 2023 78:04


Harry's Razors is another all-woke company. Its CEO wants you to know that they support the non-birthing parents among their employees. Why does the left think it's such a good idea to do away with the idea of mothers and fathers… Disney promotes a “non-binary” influencer who like to dress up as Minnie Mouse… Dennis talks to Mark Yirell, PragerFORCE member.  What are the qualities that make up a good spouse? Dennis has theories. So do callers.  Dennis shares a guest essay from the New York Times: My Dates Need to Realize I'm Tired of Trying to Be Chill, by a woman who has anxiety about climate change when dating. Thanks for listening to the Daily Dennis Prager Podcast. To hear the entire three hours of my radio show as a podcast, commercial-free every single day, become a member of Pragertopia. You'll also get access to 15 years' worth of archives, as well as daily show prep. Subscribe today at Pragertopia dot com.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Michigan Business Network
Media Business | James David Dickson - How the Media Deals with National Popular Vote Part 2

Michigan Business Network

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 7, 2023 20:25


For Media Business Episode 55: Tony Conley welcomes back James David Dickson Managing Editor of Michigan Capitol Confidential. Their discussion is part two, revisiting news on what is happening in Michigan when it comes to the topic of National Popular Vote, especially with House Bill 4156. Specific questions go into that and more: Popular Vote unconstitutional in Michigan? Before Congress or the U.S. Supreme Court, National Popular Vote faces a roadblock: The Michigan Constitution What is Michigan House Bill 4156? What happens if it passes? DTE chooses politics over energy reliability Michigan's largest utility is suffering from cognitive dissonance: Its CEO warns of a premature energy transition, as the company runs headlong into it. Is DTE closing its coal plants too soon? James David Dickson is the managing editor of Michigan Capitol Confidential, a daily news site of the Mackinac Center for Public Policy. Dickson grew up in Inkster and now hails from Ferndale. After starting his career in 2007-2008 with a one-year fellowship at The American Spectator, Dickson then had stops at The Detroit News and two newspapers in Ann Arbor. He returned to the Detroit News in 2012, and stayed for a decade. While attending the University of Michigan, Dickson was editor-in-chief of The Michigan Review, a columnist for the Michigan Daily, and an Angell Scholar. He can be reached at dickson@mackinac.org. James David Dickson may be reached at dickson@mackinac.org. » Visit MBN website: www.michiganbusinessnetwork.com/ » Subscribe to MBN's YouTube: www.youtube.com/channel/UCqNX… » Like MBN: www.facebook.com/mibiznetwork » Follow MBN: twitter.com/MIBizNetwork/ » MBN Instagram: www.instagram.com/mibiznetwork/ Thank you to Benjamin Robinson and Motor City Skyline's music

Kingdom Cross  Roads Podcast
Proof We Are Close to the End - Tom Donnan pt 2

Kingdom Cross Roads Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 24, 2023 26:11


PROOF WE ARE CLOSE TO THE END – Tom Donnan pt 2  Tom Donnan is back and we are so blessed to have him here with us. Every time Tom comes on to discuss current events in relation to Bible Prophecy of the end days, we are always amazed at how close we really are to the soon return of Jesus. Amen! Who's behind ChatGPT? Its CEO reportedly donated $500K to Democrats - YouTube USA airspace is being violated. Is this a sign of America's decline? Chinese satellite lasers recorded over Hawaii - YouTube This satellite is doing several test at same time. What an advancement, it was a violation of our space. BREAKING: US shoots down 2nd, high-altitude 'object' flying over Alaska | LiveNOW from FOX BREAKING: US shoots down 2nd, high-altitude 'object' flying over Alaska | LiveNOW from FOX - YouTube 2nd object https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XfKRPt0ulRM Is Revival Breaking out? REVIVAL at Asbury University: 'If God Wants It to Happen, It's Going to Happen' - YouTube Revival at Lee University Lee University Campus Experiencing Revival - YouTube Folks, as we wrap our discussion with Tom Donnan today, I want to emphasize, we are not doing this to instill fear, but hope. Hope in the Jesus. Hope in the Word. Hope that unbelievers do not have and are incapable of having – UNLESS they become a believer in the Lord Jesus Christ and what He has accomplished for us. CONTACT INFORMATION: Tom Donnan Healingthenation1776@gmail.com Book - “This Room” – www.ZoeHealingCenter.com Six free books can be found at: Home | Zoe Healing Center

Risky Business
Risky Business #688 -- APT41 pickpockets Uncle Sam

Risky Business

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 7, 2022 63:22


On this week's show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week's security news, including: Samsung, LG Android signing keys pinched LastPass gets owned again APT41 steal covid relief money Amnesty International hacked in Canada Much, much more This week's show is brought to you by Airlock Digital. Its CEO and CTO join host Patrick Gray this week to talk about admin to kernel as a security boundary, and the limitations of kernel driver blocklists. Links to everything that we discussed are below and you can follow Patrick or Adam on Mastodon if that's your thing. Show notes Risky Biz News: Samsung, MediaTek, and other Android platform certs were leaked and used to sign malware Leaked Android Platform Certificates Create Risks for Users | Rapid7 Blog 100 - Platform certificates used to sign malware - apvi Hackers accessed LastPass customer details using information stolen in August hack - The Record by Recorded Future Hackers linked to Chinese government stole millions in Covid benefits, Secret Service says Amnesty International breach linked to Chinese government, investigation finds - The Record by Recorded Future Iranian espionage campaign targets journalists, diplomats, activists, says Human Rights Watch - The Record by Recorded Future New details on commercial spyware vendor Variston ‘The world should be prepared' — Microsoft issues warning about Russian cyberattacks over winter - The Record by Recorded Future Never-before-seen malware is nuking data in Russia's courts and mayors' offices | Ars Technica ChatGPT shows promise of using AI to write malware - CyberScoop DHS cyber safety board to probe Lapsus$ hacks - The Record by Recorded Future Kris Nóva: "We are currently investigating…" - Hachyderm.io Hive Social turns off servers after researchers warn hackers can access all data | Ars Technica Spam is drowning out Twitter posts about Covid protests in China French hospital complex suspends operations, transfers patients after ransomware attack - The Record by Recorded Future Rackspace Confirms Ransomware Attack as It Tries to Determine If Data Was Stolen | SecurityWeek.Com Guatemala's Foreign Ministry investigating ransomware attack - The Record by Recorded Future Ransomware attacks: Privacy Commissioner plans investigation as Justice, Health hit - NZ Herald UK introducing mandatory cyber incident reporting for managed service providers - The Record by Recorded Future Florida Man Sentenced To 18 Months For Theft Of Over $20 Million In SIM Swap Scheme | USAO-SDNY | Department of Justice Binance freezes $3 million worth of crypto stolen in Ankr hack - The Record by Recorded Future Play app with 100K downloads booted for forwarding texts to developer server | Ars Technica Go SAML library vulnerable to authentication bypass | The Daily Swig Okta and Phishing Resistant Authentication - YouTube

Risky Business
Risky Business #688 -- APT41 pickpockets Uncle Sam

Risky Business

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 7, 2022


On this week's show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week's security news, including: Samsung, LG Android signing keys pinched LastPass gets owned again APT41 steal covid relief money Amnesty International hacked in Canada Much, much more This week's show is brought to you by Airlock Digital. Its CEO and CTO join host Patrick Gray this week to talk about admin to kernel as a security boundary, and the limitations of kernel driver blocklists. Links to everything that we discussed are below and you can follow Patrick or Adam on Mastodon if that's your thing. Show notes Risky Biz News: Samsung, MediaTek, and other Android platform certs were leaked and used to sign malware Leaked Android Platform Certificates Create Risks for Users | Rapid7 Blog 100 - Platform certificates used to sign malware - apvi Hackers accessed LastPass customer details using information stolen in August hack - The Record by Recorded Future Hackers linked to Chinese government stole millions in Covid benefits, Secret Service says Amnesty International breach linked to Chinese government, investigation finds - The Record by Recorded Future Iranian espionage campaign targets journalists, diplomats, activists, says Human Rights Watch - The Record by Recorded Future New details on commercial spyware vendor Variston ‘The world should be prepared' — Microsoft issues warning about Russian cyberattacks over winter - The Record by Recorded Future Never-before-seen malware is nuking data in Russia's courts and mayors' offices | Ars Technica ChatGPT shows promise of using AI to write malware - CyberScoop DHS cyber safety board to probe Lapsus$ hacks - The Record by Recorded Future Kris Nóva: "We are currently investigating…" - Hachyderm.io Hive Social turns off servers after researchers warn hackers can access all data | Ars Technica Spam is drowning out Twitter posts about Covid protests in China French hospital complex suspends operations, transfers patients after ransomware attack - The Record by Recorded Future Rackspace Confirms Ransomware Attack as It Tries to Determine If Data Was Stolen | SecurityWeek.Com Guatemala's Foreign Ministry investigating ransomware attack - The Record by Recorded Future Ransomware attacks: Privacy Commissioner plans investigation as Justice, Health hit - NZ Herald UK introducing mandatory cyber incident reporting for managed service providers - The Record by Recorded Future Florida Man Sentenced To 18 Months For Theft Of Over $20 Million In SIM Swap Scheme | USAO-SDNY | Department of Justice Binance freezes $3 million worth of crypto stolen in Ankr hack - The Record by Recorded Future Play app with 100K downloads booted for forwarding texts to developer server | Ars Technica Go SAML library vulnerable to authentication bypass | The Daily Swig Okta and Phishing Resistant Authentication - YouTube

Current Affairs
The Entirely Predictable Collapse of FTX and the Future of Crypto Cons (w/ Stephen Diehl)

Current Affairs

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 29, 2022 47:56


One of the world's largest cryptocurrency exchanges, FTX, recently imploded spectacularly. Its CEO, Sam Bankman-Fried, had been called "the next Warren Buffett" and was a Democratic megadonor as well as a major funder of the "Effective Altruism" movement. Overnight, Bankman-Fried saw his fortune and his company wiped out, and he is now under criminal investigation. To explain what happened, and why we keep seeing spectacular frauds in the crypto industry, we are joined today by Stephen Diehl, a longtime critic of crypto who has been warning for years that crypto assets can suddenly implode and that unregulated crypto exchanges like FTX are a terrible place to keep your money. Diehl is the co-author of the new book Popping the Crypto Bubble, an accessible explanation of how cryptocurrency works and why it's a terrible idea. He and his co-authors show how the history of financial bubbles and manias helps us understand crypto-hype today. In this episode, Stephen discusses the credulity that allows con artists like Bankman-Fried to flourish in the crypto industry, and that dupes supposedly savvy investors into believing in the digital equivalent of magic beans. We also discuss the complicity of financial journalists in promoting con artists as altruistic geniuses who can be entrusted with one's retirement savings. "To anyone who does due diligence, this thing [FTX] is papered in red flags. It's a Bahamanian shell company set up in the least regulated environment on the planet, with no board of directors, no governance, completely opaque financials set up by a 28-year-old and apparently staffed by 17 kids all living in a frat house in the Bahamas. But the investors in this thing were some of the most sophisticated funds on the planet! … Apparently none of them did any due diligence on this thing." — Stephen DiehlThe FTX Super Bowl commercial with Larry David is here. The Bloomberg interview in which Bankman-Fried seemingly admits he is “in the Ponzi business” is here. For more on the subject, read our interviews with Molly White and Nicholas Weaver, or read "Why Cryptocurrency is a Giant Fraud." A delightful 1901 illustration of financial speculators being tormented in Hell can be viewed here.

Private Equity Deals with Capital Allocators
Bain Capital, David Humphrey and Devin O'Reilly – Partnering, Merging, and Growing at Zelis (S1, EP.6)

Private Equity Deals with Capital Allocators

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 23, 2022 44:45


Dave is the Co-Head of Bain Capital's North America Private Equity business and a Managing Director in the TMT vertical. Devin is the Head of the firm's North America Healthcare vertical. Bain Capital manages $180 billion, about half of which is in private equity. Its CEO, John Connaughton, was a past guest on Capital Allocators and that conversation is replayed in the feed. Zelis is a healthcare and financial technology company that addresses the most abrasive aspects of the healthcare system. It offers solutions for payers, providers, and consumers to reduce friction in the process of pricing, explaining, and paying for healthcare claims. Our conversation covers Bain Capital's consulting roots, the healthcare technology opportunity, collaboration with co-investors and management teams, and winning the deal. We discuss their ownership of Zelis, including merging two businesses, capital structure, tuck-in acquisitions, management, and potential exit strategies. Learn More Follow Ted on Twitter at @tseides or LinkedIn Subscribe to the mailing list Access Transcript with Premium Membership

BFM :: The Breakfast Grille
Is Wise Making All The Wise Moves In The Fintech Space?

BFM :: The Breakfast Grille

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 4, 2022 22:35


Since its founding over a decade ago, Wise has expanded to become a global transaction platform moving £9 billion monthly. Its CEO and cofounder Kristo Käärmann takes the hot seat to discuss how the company has grown and the future of Wise, especially in Asia.

The Steve Warne Project
844: Hockey Canada House Cleaning; NFL Roughing Passer Rule; Ray Ferraro Leaves TSN

The Steve Warne Project

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 12, 2022 40:03


Sports law and business expert Eric Macramalla joins us to discuss the Hockey Canada House Cleaning. Its CEO has stepped down and the remaining board of directors will not seek re-election. Will a housecleaning restore the faith? The NFL's Roughing Passer Rule is getting out of hand. Ray Ferraro Leaves TSN.

Jim Hightower's Radio Lowdown
The Inflation Blame Game

Jim Hightower's Radio Lowdown

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 11, 2022 2:10


Today, CEOs of big corporations are playing the tricky “Inflation Blame Game!” Publicly, they moan that the pandemic is slamming their poor corporations with factory shutdowns, supply chain delays, wage hikes, and other increased costs. But wait – inside their board rooms, executives are high fiving each other and pocketing bonuses. What's going on? The trick is that these giants are in non-competitive markets operating as monopolies, so they can set prices, mug you and me, and scamper away with record profits. In 2019 for example, before the pandemic, corporate behemoths hauled in roughly a trillion dollars in profit. In 2021, during the pandemic, they grabbed more than $1.7 trillion. This huge profit jump accounts for 60% of the inflation now slapping US families! Take supermarket goliath Kroger. Its CEO gloated last summer that “a little bit of inflation is always good in our business,” adding that “we've been very comfortable with our ability to pass on [price] increases” to consumers. “Comfortable” indeed. Last year, Kroger used its monopoly pricing power to reap record profits, then it spent $1.5 billion of those gains not to benefit consumers or workers, but to buy back its own stock – a scam that siphons profits to top executives and big shareholders. Or take the fast-food purveyor McDonalds's. It bragged to its shareholders that despite the supply disruptions of the pandemic and higher costs for meat and labor, its top executives had used the chain's monopoly power in 2021 to up prices, thus increasing corporate profits by a stunning 59% over the previous year. And the game goes on: “We're going to have the best growth we've ever had this year,” Wall Street banking titan Jamie Dimon exulted at the start of 2022. Hocus Pocus, this is how the rich get richer and inequality “happens.”

The PR Week
The PR Week, 9.8.2022: Brett Marchand, Plus Company

The PR Week

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 8, 2022 40:17


Plus Company burst onto the scene last year and made an even bigger splash this year with new acquisitions. Its CEO, Brett Marchand, sits down with The PR Week podcast and talks about his network's unique approach, as well as the biggest marketing and communications news of the week. -Restructuring at Dentsu and the departure of Wendy Clark; -20 years of PRWeek Students of the Year; -Another acquisition by Finn Partners; -Golin's sustainability research amid opposition to ESG investment; -The return of the NFL-More executives on the move.  Follow us on Twitter: @PRWeekUSReceive the latest industry news, insights, and special reports. Start Your Free 1-Month Trial Subscription To PRWeek www.prweek.comShow Less

Best of Today
Founder and CEO of Octopus Energy, Greg Jackson

Best of Today

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 10, 2022 30:39


Established in 2016, Octopus Energy has grown to become the UK's fourth largest energy retailer, with more than three million customers. Its CEO, Greg Jackson, has been speaking to Today's business presenter Sean Farrington about the challenge facing customers this winter, and why he feels the government needs to act urgently to help. (Image, Greg Jackson, Credit, Octopus Energy)

RNZ: Checkpoint
Te Pūkenga leaders apologise to Education Minister over projected $110m deficit

RNZ: Checkpoint

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 3, 2022 3:26


The apologies just keep on coming from the leadership of the new mega polytech - first it was a mea culpa to staff, now it's to the Minister of Education. Te Pūkenga has been beset with difficulties as it works to bringing polytechnics, institutes of technology and Industry Training Organisations together by January 1. Its CEO - earning up to $1300 a week - remains on unexplained personal leave, there's a projected $110 million deficit and concerns about how the transition is being managed. Furthermore, it won't be until Christmas that hundreds of staff around the country will find out whether or not they still have a job. Our political editor, Jane Patterson, filed this report.

It's New Orleans: Out to Lunch

Whatever you believe is the cause of our changing climate, we seem to be living through an era of historically more storms, and more severe storms. Even if you only moved here recently, most of us in Louisiana have now lived through a major hurricane, or had one narrowly miss us. You're no doubt all too familiar with the hurricane season ritual ahead of a storm heading in our direction. It starts about 5 Days out, with casually checking the weather forecast, and builds to obsessively watching storm predictions on TV, checking incessantly online, and asking family, friends, and neighbors, “Are you staying or evacuating?” So, here's a crazy question. What if you didn't have to do any of that? What if there was a website or an app that you could open, punch in your address, and get an individualized, accurate, wind and flood forecast? Not for the city, but for your own specific street address. If that sounds ridiculous and impossible, well, it's neither. It's actually real. It's a tool that's at your fingertips right now, called QRisq. It's the result of years of development by a company headquartered at the Stennis Space Center, called QRisq Analytics. Initially QRisq's customers have been municipalities but starting with the 2022 hurricane season, Q Risq is available to the general public. Elizabeth Valenti is the Lead Engineer who created, designed and, along with a staff of 7, built this piece of technology. There's a good side and a bad side to everything. Even high winds. Almost everybody in the energy production business believes that wind power is going to provide a significant amount of our future electricity supply. Here in Louisiana, we don't exactly have winds whistling across wide open plains. But we do have wind out at sea, in the Gulf. Harnessing that off-shore wind to generate electricity is now a priority, for both our State and Federal governments. As plans progress to build wind farms out in the Gulf, one of the essential items is the giant windmill blades that spin around to produce the energy. Each wind turbine blade is 400 feet long. And made of aerodynamically sculpted steel. Wind turbine blades are reportedly the largest serially produced item manufactured on earth. And the exact spot on the planet that some of the most advanced blades are being designed is at the Avondale Shipyards, just out of New Orleans, by a company called Gulf Wind Technology. Its CEO is James Martin. I'm sure you've heard the expression, “It's an ill wind that blows nobody any good.” It's meant to suggest that even something that is bad for most people has got to be good for somebody. There are very few instances where you can employ that expression literally. So, to that extent we may have made history with this podcast!  Elizabeth Valenti's QRisq technology might be the closest we've come to getting an advantage over hurricanes, or at least predicting our chances of survival. And increasing our chances of getting an insurance settlement on the other side. And whereas “trying to catch the wind” was once a poetic way of describing a hopeless cause, today, catching the wind is becoming a potentially planet-saving industry. And James Martin's turbine blade technology is at the cutting edge of the revolution.    Elizabeth and James are both doing ground-breaking work that would be significant whatever city they were in, anywhere in the world. It's amazing that they're both here in New Orleans. Out to Lunch is recorded live over lunch at NOLA Pizza in the NOLA Brewing Taproom. You can find photos from this by Jill Lafleur at itsneworleans.com. And  you can also check out more lunchtime conversation about New Orleans surprising role in advancing wind-power technology See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Coffee Klatch with Robert Reich
How to end corporate welfare

The Coffee Klatch with Robert Reich

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 21, 2022


Friends,As Congress prepares for summer recess, average working Americans are facing increasingly hard economic times — including a likely recession (see here). Yet Congress has so far failed to provide most Americans with what they need to weather the storm — subsidies for childcare and eldercare, paid sick leave, an increase in the federal minimum wage, lower pharmaceutical costs, additional help with the next strain of COVID, and so on. At the very same time, American corporations are lining up with their hands outstretched, seeking all sorts of special benefits. And there's bipartisan support for giving them what they want.Today I want to explain why corporations so often get what they want while average Americans don't. It's not simply that corporations bribe legislators with campaign donations, although that's a big part of it. There's another phenomenon at work that you need to know about. Consider semiconductor chips. They're the brains of modern electronics — embedded in everything from smartphones, radios, TVs, computers, video games, and advanced medical diagnostic equipment, to automobiles. As the world supply of almost everything tries to catch up with roaring post-lockdown demand, chips inevitably are in short supply. This week, Congress is putting final touches on the CHIPS Act, which will provide more than $52 billion to companies that design and make semiconductor chips. The subsidy is demanded by the biggest chip makers as a condition for making more chips here. It's pure extortion. You see, the world's biggest chip maker (in terms of sales) is already an American corporation — Intel, based in Santa Clara, California. Intel hardly needs the money. Its revenue rose to $79 billion last year. Its CEO, Pat Gelsinger, got a total compensation package of $179 million (which was 1,711-times larger than the average Intel employee). From the perspective of the United States, the problem is that Intel is not dealing with the current American shortage of chips by giving preference to producers in the United States, and it's not keeping America on the cutting edge of new chip technologies. In addition to its facilities in the United States, Intel designs, assembles, and tests its chips in China, Israel, Ireland, Malaysia, Costa Rica, and Vietnam. And it sells them just about everywhere. (To add another layer of complication, many of Intel's “American” customers don't actually make their products in the United States. They're headquartered in the United States but, like Intel, they design and make stuff all over the world.)Obviously, Intel would like some of the $52 billion Congress is about to throw at the semiconductor chip industry — but why exactly should Intel get the money? Among the other likely beneficiaries of the CHIPS Act will be GlobalFoundries. GlobalFoundries currently makes chips in New York and Vermont, but in many other places around the world as well. GlobalFoundries isn't even an American corporation. It's a wholly owned subsidiary of Mubadala Investment Co. — the sovereign wealth fund of the United Arab Emirates. The point is, the nation where a chipmaker (or any other global corporation) is headquartered has less and less to do with where it designs and makes things or where its customers are located. Every industry that can possibly be considered “critical” is now lobbying the U.S. government for subsidies, tax cuts, and regulatory exemptions, in return for designing and making stuff in America. But they're lobbying in other nations, too. It's a giant global shakedown. India, Japan and South Korea have all recently passed tax credits, subsidies and other incentives amounting to tens of billions of dollars for the semiconductor industry, and the European Union is finalizing its own chips act with $30 billion to $50 billion in subsidies. Even China has extended tax and tariff exemptions and other measures aimed at upgrading chip design and production there. “Other countries around the globe … are making major investment in innovation and chip production,” says Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer. “If we don't act quickly, we could lose tens of thousands of good-paying jobs to Europe [emphasis added].”Who is “we,” Senator? John Neuffer, the chief executive of the Semiconductor Industry Association (the Washington D.C. lobbying arm of the semiconductor industry) says the industry has been under “withering pressure” to build new manufacturing facilities to respond to the explosion of demand for chips, but he warns that chipmaking facilities are often 25 to 50 percent cheaper to build in foreign countries than in the United States. Why are they so much cheaper to build abroad? As he admits, it's largely because of the incentives foreign countries have offered.As capital becomes ever more global and footloose, it can play nation against nation to get the best deals in return for where it agrees to do what. Most people, by contrast, are rooted within particular nations, which gives them far less bargaining power. This asymmetry helps explain why Congress is ready to hand over $52 billion to a highly-profitable global industry but can't come up with even the $22.5 billion that the Biden administration says is necessary to cope with upcoming variants of COVID in the United States — for testing, therapeutics, vaccines, and essential treatments for the next generation of vaccines. The reality is that global corporations have no loyalty to any nation. As the then-CEO of U.S.-based ExxonMobil unabashedly stated, “I'm not a U.S. company and I don't make decisions based on what's good for the U.S.” If they are publicly owned, corporations have to be loyal to their shareholders by maximizing the value of their shares. But not even this guarantees that they'll act in the best interest of the United States. Over 40 percent of the shareholder value of American-based companies is owned by non-Americans. There's no reason to suppose a company's American owners will be happy to sacrifice investment returns for the good of the nation, either. Global corporations also have to obey the laws of the countries where they make or sell their stuff — which can cause problems when those laws or policies conflict with those of other nations. Last December, Intel was slammed by China for writing a letter to its suppliers, published on its website, stating that the corporation had been "required to ensure that its supply chain does not use any labor or source goods or services from the Xinjiang region” — as required by the United States (which has accused China of widespread human rights abuses in Xinjiang, home to the country's predominantly Muslim Uyghurs). Intel then deleted the reference to Xinjiang and apologized for the "trouble" it had caused, explaining that its commitment to avoid supply chains from Xinjiang was an expression of compliance with U.S. law rather than a statement of its position on the issue. (The apology caused Senator Marco Rubio to threaten to make Intel ineligible for CHIP Act subsidies. “Intel's cowardice is yet another predictable consequence of economic reliance on China,” Rubio said. “Instead of humiliating apologies and self-censorship, companies should move their supply chains to countries that do not use slave labor or commit genocide.”) This is not to dismiss the critical importance of semiconductor chips to the United States, but only to suggest that paying $52 billion in subsidies to global chipmakers to make them here is a peculiarly inefficient way of responding to that importance. The real question is what conditions the United States (or any other nation that subsidizes chip makers) should place on receipt of such subsidies. It can't be enough that a company merely agrees to make or design chips in America, because chip makers are already doing that. It can't be that they'll create more American jobs in chip making, because jobs in low-end fabrication that require little skill won't build the technological capabilities of the U.S. workforce. And it can't just be that the chipmakers agree to produce more chips in the United States, because additional production in the United States is no guarantee against future shortages in the United States. Remember, these corporations are global. They sell their chips around the world to the highest bidders, wherever the chips are produced. If we want to tie the public subsidy to the public interest, we should demand that any chips produced in America, over and above those already produced here, focus on the highest value-added parts of chip making — design, design engineering, and high precision manufacturing — so Americans gain that technological expertise. And we should demand that in the event of chip shortages, the subsidized chipmakers give highest priority to their American-based customers — customers using the chips in products made in the United States, by American workers. But what happens if every nation subsidizing chipmakers demands the same? Obviously, the chipmakers can't grant most-favored-nation status to every nation. They'll have to choose. Also: How do we ensure that a big chunk of the $52 billion isn't frittered away on shareholders and executive pay — as has been the case every time the U.S. government has subsidized Wall Street banks? Perhaps make chip makers agree not to buy back their shares of stock or pay their executives more than 50 times the pay of their median workers, and also give the government partial ownership in the form of equity interest. As Senator Bernie Sanders (who is pushing these conditions in an amendment to the CHIP Act) has said, there's no reason to socialize the chipmaker's risks and privatize their profits. If American taxpayers are going to give the semiconductor industry $52 billion, we should get a return on our investment. What do you think? This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit robertreich.substack.com/subscribe

Motivated Entrepreneurs
#837 - Power Play: Book Review

Motivated Entrepreneurs

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 11, 2022 4:46


Good morning everybody! Welcome back to the Motivated Entrepreneurs podcast. I'm your host, Dean Booty. Today is Saturday, the 11th of June. Today we have a book review and it's called "Power Play: Tesla, Elon Musk, and the Bet of the Century" by Tim Higgins. Tesla is the envy of the automotive world.  Born at the start of the millennium, it was the first car company to be valued at $1 trillion.  Its CEO, the mercurial, charismatic Elon Musk has become not just a celebrity but the richest man in the world. But Tesla's success was far from guaranteed. Founded in the 2000s, the company was built on an audacious vision. Musk and a small band of Silicon Valley engineers set out to make a car that was quicker, sexier, smoother, and cleaner than any gas-guzzler on the road. Tesla would undergo a hellish fifteen years, beset by rivals—pressured by investors, hobbled by whistleblowers. Musk often found himself in the public's crosshairs, threatening to bring down the company he had helped build. Please give a listen. Listen on Spotify: https://spoti.fi/2VkXGHq Listen on Apple Podcast: https://apple.co/39TYebQ Motivated Entrepreneurs Website: https://motivatedentrepreneurs.co.uk/ Please Like, Share, and Subscribe to Motivated Entrepreneurs Youtube Channel: https://bit.ly/3eA64u5   Have a great day, Dean

Impact Hustlers - Entrepreneurs With Social Impact
Personalized Vitamins For Better Health & Wellness - Melissa Snover of Nourished

Impact Hustlers - Entrepreneurs With Social Impact

Play Episode Listen Later May 30, 2022 46:53


Tailor-made nutrition. That is the tagline of Nourished, a company dedicated to personalized nutrition supplements that are vegan, friendly, not to mention, delectable, and are made through patented 3D printing techniques and sophisticated encapsulation gel technology. Its CEO and founder is Melissa Snover, a seasoned entrepreneur who has founded multiple companies. In fact, in 2019, she raised the highest female founder seed round in the history of the UK, so there is definitely a lot that can be learned from her. In today's episode, Melissa talks about why she was set on solving a problem that she herself experienced, the world of 3D printing and nutrition, how she's made her businesses stand out from the rest, and key advice for early stage founders on having the right mindset when facing problems, choosing investors, and building a support system. Listen to this episode to find out Melissa's investor horror story that will make you think twice before accepting money from just any investor!Melissa's key lessons and quotes from this episode were:“All good entrepreneurs have a highly developed sense of empathy, because only when you have that can you actually develop solutions that are going to be fit for purpose and actually create meaningful value add and solve problems for people.” (6:41)“Every difficult thing that happens is really an education that prepares you for the next step, and I've really adjusted my perception to view it that way. The sooner you do that, the better you will be for the rest of your life.” (26:04)“99% of your life is the ride, not the destination, and you have to find ways of getting comfortable with that failure, and the eventualities of what the impact of that might be.” (28:09“The easy way and the right way are never the same way.” (34:04)In this episode, we also talked about:How Melissa ‘accidentally' became an entrepreneur (3:22)How Nourished adds value to their customers (16:14)Crucial lessons Melissa learned on her entrepreneurial journey (25:58)Finding the right investors for your business (35:22)Support the show

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This Week in Google 662: Made With Lard

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Play Episode Listen Later May 5, 2022 167:50 Very Popular


Elon Musk Plans to Take Twitter Public a Few Years After Buyout. Inside Twitter's emotional Friday all-hands. Twitter reports user bump, revenue miss for Q1, days after accepting Musk's takeover bid. Google previews I/O 2022 schedule, 'What's new' keynotes, and sessions. The latest Pixel Watch spec rumors show Google's trying to make a flagship. Parliament invites Elon to visit. Elon Musk considers 'slight' Twitter fee for commercial users. Tesla CEO Elon Musk attends the 2022 Met Gala. The Well: A Story of Love, Death & Real Life in the Seminal Online Community by Katie Hafner. Snap's new Pixy drone is a $230 selfie machine. Airbnb tells employees they can work remotely forever... All About Waffle House. Concede defeat against bad speech. Cameo lays off close to 90, including senior executives. Amazon to reimburse U.S. employees who travel for abortions, other treatments. SafeGraph is under fire for selling abortion data. Its CEO says more changes are coming. T-Mobile 5G Home Internet promises $50/month lifetime rate, $20 off for phone subscribers, covering fees for switchers. Facebook Pulls the Plug on Podcast Business After a Year. Google TV announces 'Favorite Channels' for Live TV tab. Google Play system updates for May bring Nearby Share to self, Google Help redesign, and more. Google Assistant in Chrome, powered by Duplex, can now auto-change stolen passwords. May's Pixel 6 and 6 Pro update primarily improves haptic feedback. Google prepares 'ChromeOS' rebrand to drop the space. Theranos merchandise on eBay sparks bloodlust among Elizabeth Holmes fans. How to Zoom Your Room: Room Rater's Ultimate Style Guide. Salt_Hank is killing it!! Picks: Stacey - Schlage Encode Plus Smart Wi-Fi lock: Apple Home Key arrives Jeff - 1990 Press Photo Jeff Jarvis, Founding Managing Editor of Entertainment Weekly on eBay Jeff - The Long S Ant - ULANZI Handheld Light Wand Ant - Fish Oil by Nature's Bounty Ant - Puritan's Pride Odorless Garlic Ant - The Mother of Black Hollywood: A Memoir Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, Stacey Higginbotham, and Ant Pruitt Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-google. Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: privacy.com/twig Compiler - TWIG itpro.tv/twit promo code TWIT30

This Week in Google (MP3)
TWiG 662: Made With Lard - Twitter earnings, Google IO preview, Airbnb WFH policy, T-Mobile home internet

This Week in Google (MP3)

Play Episode Listen Later May 5, 2022 167:50


Elon Musk Plans to Take Twitter Public a Few Years After Buyout. Inside Twitter's emotional Friday all-hands. Twitter reports user bump, revenue miss for Q1, days after accepting Musk's takeover bid. Google previews I/O 2022 schedule, 'What's new' keynotes, and sessions. The latest Pixel Watch spec rumors show Google's trying to make a flagship. Parliament invites Elon to visit. Elon Musk considers 'slight' Twitter fee for commercial users. Tesla CEO Elon Musk attends the 2022 Met Gala. The Well: A Story of Love, Death & Real Life in the Seminal Online Community by Katie Hafner. Snap's new Pixy drone is a $230 selfie machine. Airbnb tells employees they can work remotely forever... All About Waffle House. Concede defeat against bad speech. Cameo lays off close to 90, including senior executives. Amazon to reimburse U.S. employees who travel for abortions, other treatments. SafeGraph is under fire for selling abortion data. Its CEO says more changes are coming. T-Mobile 5G Home Internet promises $50/month lifetime rate, $20 off for phone subscribers, covering fees for switchers. Facebook Pulls the Plug on Podcast Business After a Year. Google TV announces 'Favorite Channels' for Live TV tab. Google Play system updates for May bring Nearby Share to self, Google Help redesign, and more. Google Assistant in Chrome, powered by Duplex, can now auto-change stolen passwords. May's Pixel 6 and 6 Pro update primarily improves haptic feedback. Google prepares 'ChromeOS' rebrand to drop the space. Theranos merchandise on eBay sparks bloodlust among Elizabeth Holmes fans. How to Zoom Your Room: Room Rater's Ultimate Style Guide. Salt_Hank is killing it!! Picks: Stacey - Schlage Encode Plus Smart Wi-Fi lock: Apple Home Key arrives Jeff - 1990 Press Photo Jeff Jarvis, Founding Managing Editor of Entertainment Weekly on eBay Jeff - The Long S Ant - ULANZI Handheld Light Wand Ant - Fish Oil by Nature's Bounty Ant - Puritan's Pride Odorless Garlic Ant - The Mother of Black Hollywood: A Memoir Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, Stacey Higginbotham, and Ant Pruitt Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-google. Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: privacy.com/twig Compiler - TWIG itpro.tv/twit promo code TWIT30

Radio Leo (Audio)
This Week in Google 662: Made With Lard

Radio Leo (Audio)

Play Episode Listen Later May 5, 2022 167:50


Elon Musk Plans to Take Twitter Public a Few Years After Buyout. Inside Twitter's emotional Friday all-hands. Twitter reports user bump, revenue miss for Q1, days after accepting Musk's takeover bid. Google previews I/O 2022 schedule, 'What's new' keynotes, and sessions. The latest Pixel Watch spec rumors show Google's trying to make a flagship. Parliament invites Elon to visit. Elon Musk considers 'slight' Twitter fee for commercial users. Tesla CEO Elon Musk attends the 2022 Met Gala. The Well: A Story of Love, Death & Real Life in the Seminal Online Community by Katie Hafner. Snap's new Pixy drone is a $230 selfie machine. Airbnb tells employees they can work remotely forever... All About Waffle House. Concede defeat against bad speech. Cameo lays off close to 90, including senior executives. Amazon to reimburse U.S. employees who travel for abortions, other treatments. SafeGraph is under fire for selling abortion data. Its CEO says more changes are coming. T-Mobile 5G Home Internet promises $50/month lifetime rate, $20 off for phone subscribers, covering fees for switchers. Facebook Pulls the Plug on Podcast Business After a Year. Google TV announces 'Favorite Channels' for Live TV tab. Google Play system updates for May bring Nearby Share to self, Google Help redesign, and more. Google Assistant in Chrome, powered by Duplex, can now auto-change stolen passwords. May's Pixel 6 and 6 Pro update primarily improves haptic feedback. Google prepares 'ChromeOS' rebrand to drop the space. Theranos merchandise on eBay sparks bloodlust among Elizabeth Holmes fans. How to Zoom Your Room: Room Rater's Ultimate Style Guide. Salt_Hank is killing it!! Picks: Stacey - Schlage Encode Plus Smart Wi-Fi lock: Apple Home Key arrives Jeff - 1990 Press Photo Jeff Jarvis, Founding Managing Editor of Entertainment Weekly on eBay Jeff - The Long S Ant - ULANZI Handheld Light Wand Ant - Fish Oil by Nature's Bounty Ant - Puritan's Pride Odorless Garlic Ant - The Mother of Black Hollywood: A Memoir Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, Stacey Higginbotham, and Ant Pruitt Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-google. Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: privacy.com/twig Compiler - TWIG itpro.tv/twit promo code TWIT30

This Week in Google (Video HI)
TWiG 662: Made With Lard - Twitter earnings, Google IO preview, Airbnb WFH policy, T-Mobile home internet

This Week in Google (Video HI)

Play Episode Listen Later May 5, 2022 168:34


Elon Musk Plans to Take Twitter Public a Few Years After Buyout. Inside Twitter's emotional Friday all-hands. Twitter reports user bump, revenue miss for Q1, days after accepting Musk's takeover bid. Google previews I/O 2022 schedule, 'What's new' keynotes, and sessions. The latest Pixel Watch spec rumors show Google's trying to make a flagship. Parliament invites Elon to visit. Elon Musk considers 'slight' Twitter fee for commercial users. Tesla CEO Elon Musk attends the 2022 Met Gala. The Well: A Story of Love, Death & Real Life in the Seminal Online Community by Katie Hafner. Snap's new Pixy drone is a $230 selfie machine. Airbnb tells employees they can work remotely forever... All About Waffle House. Concede defeat against bad speech. Cameo lays off close to 90, including senior executives. Amazon to reimburse U.S. employees who travel for abortions, other treatments. SafeGraph is under fire for selling abortion data. Its CEO says more changes are coming. T-Mobile 5G Home Internet promises $50/month lifetime rate, $20 off for phone subscribers, covering fees for switchers. Facebook Pulls the Plug on Podcast Business After a Year. Google TV announces 'Favorite Channels' for Live TV tab. Google Play system updates for May bring Nearby Share to self, Google Help redesign, and more. Google Assistant in Chrome, powered by Duplex, can now auto-change stolen passwords. May's Pixel 6 and 6 Pro update primarily improves haptic feedback. Google prepares 'ChromeOS' rebrand to drop the space. Theranos merchandise on eBay sparks bloodlust among Elizabeth Holmes fans. How to Zoom Your Room: Room Rater's Ultimate Style Guide. Salt_Hank is killing it!! Picks: Stacey - Schlage Encode Plus Smart Wi-Fi lock: Apple Home Key arrives Jeff - 1990 Press Photo Jeff Jarvis, Founding Managing Editor of Entertainment Weekly on eBay Jeff - The Long S Ant - ULANZI Handheld Light Wand Ant - Fish Oil by Nature's Bounty Ant - Puritan's Pride Odorless Garlic Ant - The Mother of Black Hollywood: A Memoir Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, Stacey Higginbotham, and Ant Pruitt Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-google. Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: privacy.com/twig Compiler - TWIG itpro.tv/twit promo code TWIT30

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This Week in Google 662: Made With Lard

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Play Episode Listen Later May 5, 2022 168:37


Elon Musk Plans to Take Twitter Public a Few Years After Buyout. Inside Twitter's emotional Friday all-hands. Twitter reports user bump, revenue miss for Q1, days after accepting Musk's takeover bid. Google previews I/O 2022 schedule, 'What's new' keynotes, and sessions. The latest Pixel Watch spec rumors show Google's trying to make a flagship. Parliament invites Elon to visit. Elon Musk considers 'slight' Twitter fee for commercial users. Tesla CEO Elon Musk attends the 2022 Met Gala. The Well: A Story of Love, Death & Real Life in the Seminal Online Community by Katie Hafner. Snap's new Pixy drone is a $230 selfie machine. Airbnb tells employees they can work remotely forever... All About Waffle House. Concede defeat against bad speech. Cameo lays off close to 90, including senior executives. Amazon to reimburse U.S. employees who travel for abortions, other treatments. SafeGraph is under fire for selling abortion data. Its CEO says more changes are coming. T-Mobile 5G Home Internet promises $50/month lifetime rate, $20 off for phone subscribers, covering fees for switchers. Facebook Pulls the Plug on Podcast Business After a Year. Google TV announces 'Favorite Channels' for Live TV tab. Google Play system updates for May bring Nearby Share to self, Google Help redesign, and more. Google Assistant in Chrome, powered by Duplex, can now auto-change stolen passwords. May's Pixel 6 and 6 Pro update primarily improves haptic feedback. Google prepares 'ChromeOS' rebrand to drop the space. Theranos merchandise on eBay sparks bloodlust among Elizabeth Holmes fans. How to Zoom Your Room: Room Rater's Ultimate Style Guide. Salt_Hank is killing it!! Picks: Stacey - Schlage Encode Plus Smart Wi-Fi lock: Apple Home Key arrives Jeff - 1990 Press Photo Jeff Jarvis, Founding Managing Editor of Entertainment Weekly on eBay Jeff - The Long S Ant - ULANZI Handheld Light Wand Ant - Fish Oil by Nature's Bounty Ant - Puritan's Pride Odorless Garlic Ant - The Mother of Black Hollywood: A Memoir Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, Stacey Higginbotham, and Ant Pruitt Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-google. Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: privacy.com/twig Compiler - TWIG itpro.tv/twit promo code TWIT30

CEO Spotlight
Nonprofit thrives as it provides opportunities for visually impaired

CEO Spotlight

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 8, 2022 8:52


Envision is a nonprofit that provides employment opportunities and resources to people who are visually impaired. Its CEO, Michael Monteferrante explains how the nonprofit is doing well by doing good in a workforce shortage.

The Coffee Klatch with Robert Reich
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The Coffee Klatch with Robert Reich

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 15, 2022 1:22


I mentioned yesterday that I've been inspired by the young Starbucks baristas who are leading the charge to unionize the company. The number of unionizing stores has risen to seventy-two since the fall. The weekly spate of new Starbucks election filings represents a breakthrough for labor.Starbucks executives are counterattacking. Last week, they fired seven Memphis baristas who had led the organizing in that city. I urge you to watch my interview with leaders of the Starbucks baristas (just double-click below).Starbucks baristas are part of a movement of food service workers across the nation. These workers have not only endured the pandemic (they've been deemed “essential” and suffered high rates of COVID) but also lousy pay and insecure work. A brief strike in Colorado last month by Kroger workers in Colorado revealed the scope of the problem. Kroger is the biggest supermarket chain in the United States and the fourth-largest employer in the Fortune 500. It owns more than 2,700 locations (its brands include Harris Teeter, Fred Meyer, Ralphs, Smith's, Pick 'n Save and even Murray's Cheese in New York City). Kroger's business has boomed during the pandemic. Its stock has risen about 36 percent over the past year. Its CEO, Rodney McMullen, earned $22.4 million in 2020. But the median Kroger employee earned just $24,617 last year. That's a CEO-to-worker ratio of 909 to 1 — one of the country's starkest gaps between a CEO and typical employee. About 75 percent of Kroger employees report being food insecure, meaning they lack consistent access to enough food for a healthy life. About 14 percent report being homeless, now or within the last year. Over 62 percent say they do not earn enough money to pay basic monthly expenses. And their pay keeps dropping: Kroger's top-paid grocery clerks today earn 22 percent less than they did in 1990 (adjusted for inflation). About two-thirds of all Kroger's hourly employees work part-time, even though they want more hours. Yet more than half are given schedules that change at least every week, making it difficult for them to commit to another employer. As I noted last week, keeping workers part time is a strategy employers use to encourage turnover and reduce costs.Hopefully, the Starbucks's baristas I interviewed — and others like them — will lead the way to better pay and working conditions for all food service workers, including Krogers. Food service workers and the giant corporations that employ them reveal the shambles of labor-management relations in America today, and the hypocrisy of so-called “corporate social responsibility.” This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit robertreich.substack.com/subscribe