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Vismaz vienu dienu aprīlī jokojam biežāk nekā ierasts, tāpēc sarunā ar harizmātisko improvizācijas teātra aktrisi Aneti Bendiku noskaidrosim, kā dzīvi vada cilvēki, kam joki un cilvēku smīdināšana ir viena no galvenajām ikdienas sastāvdaļām.Sarunā uzzini arī to, kādas ir Anetes attiecības ar grāmatām un lasīšanu, kā un vai grāmatas palīdz attīstīt prasmi improvizēt un prezentēt. Tāpat parunāsim par iprovizācijas projektu DIVAS un daudz ko citu.Sarunu vada Ieva.Paldies sērijas tehniskajam atbalstam Jurim Garjānam. Saruna ierakstīta Biedrības "Skanda" studijā.Kļūsti par raidieraksta atbalstītāju šeit. 

Martā uz sarunu esam aicinājušas TV un radio personību Kristīni Spuri. Uz Kristīni raugoties, allaž gribas jautāt – kā viņa to visu paspēj? Vairāku TV raidījumu producente, “900 sekundes” TV reportiere, Star FM brīvdienu balss, tekstu autore un publiciste. Par šo un daudz ko citu klausies lielajā marta sarunā Ievas vadībā.Saruna tapusi ar biedrības “Skanda” tehnisko atbalstu. 

The American economy is growing, and, in many ways, it's looking a lot like the 1990s. Upward trends in productivity growth and employment paired with downward trends in inflation are cause for optimism. The question is whether we will maintain this trajectory or be derailed by this emerging era of uncertainty.Today on Faster, Please! — The Podcast, I talk with Skanda Amarnath about trade policy, fiscal and monetary policy, AI advancement, demographic trends, and how all of this bodes for the US economy.Amarnath is the Executive Director of Employ America, a macroeconomic policy research and advocacy organization. He was previously vice president at MKP Capital Management, as well as an analyst at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.In This Episode* The boomy '90s (1:24)* Drivers of growth (7:24)* The boomy '20s? (11:38)* Full employment and the Fed (22:03)* Demographics in the data (25:37)* Policies for productivity (27:55)Below is a lightly edited transcript of our conversation. The boomy '90s (1:24)The '90s stand out as a high productivity growth, low inflation, high employment economy, especially if we look at the years 1996 to the year 2000.Pethokoukis: What got me really excited about all the great work that Employ America puts out was one particular report that I think came out late last year called “The Dream of the 90's is Alive in 2024,” and hopefully it's still alive in 2025. By '90s of course you mean the 1990s.Let me start off by asking you: What was so awesome about the 1990s that it is worth writing about a dream of its return?Amarnath: The 1990s — if you're a macroeconomist, at least — had pitch-perfect conditions. Employment was reasonably high, we achieved the highest levels of prime-age employment relative to the population. We had low and declining inflation, and that variable that we use to say, this is the driver of welfare over time, productivity outcomes, the amount of output we can spin up from finite inputs, was also growing at a very strong rate, and one that we haven't really seen replicated since or really in the decades before.The '90s stand out as a high productivity growth, low inflation, high employment economy, especially if we look at the years 1996 to the year 2000. We'd had high productivity maybe even afterwards . . . but that was also a period where a lot of that productivity was gained from the recession. When employment falls really quickly, productivity can go up for illusory reasons, but it's really that '90s sweet spot where everything was kind of moving in the right direction.Obviously, over the last several years, we've seen a lot of those different challenges flare up, whether it was employment during Covid, but then also inflation over the last few years. So . . . a model to build towards, in some ways.Some of us — not me, and I don't think you — remember the very boomy immediate post-war decades. Probably many more of us remember the go-go 1990s. One thing I always find interesting is how gloomy people were in those years right before the takeoff, which is a wonderful contrarian indicator that we had this period [when] we appeared to have won the Cold War but we had a nasty recession early in the decade, kind of a choppy recovery, and there was plenty of gloom that the days of fast growth were over. And just as we sort of reached the nadir in our attitudes, boy, things took off. So maybe that's a good omen for right nowIf we're a contrarian, and if the past can be present, maybe that is a positive indicator to consider. In some ways, it's a bit surprising how much you hear the talk about growth [being] stuck in a very low-growth environment. Over the last two years, we have seen above-trend real GDP growth, above-trend productivity growth. We're going to get some productivity data revisions tomorrow. Again, this measure of productivity is output per hour, so it's basically, to a first approximation, real GDP divided by hours worked. We've seen that the labor market has, largely speaking, held itself up over the last few years, and yet, at the same time, real output has accelerated.So that's at least something that suggests better things are possible. It's a sign that productivity can accelerate, and with the benefit of revisions tomorrow, we are likely to see at least . . . I'd say if you take a fair reading of the pre-pandemic trend on productivity growth, so five to 15 years, maybe you want to include the financial crisis and what happened before, maybe you don't, but you end up with something like 1.4 percent is what we were seeing. 1.4, maybe 1.45, that's a pretty generous view of pre-pandemic productivity growth.I would like to do better than that going forward.I would too. And since 2019 Q4, with the benefit of data revisions, until now, we're likely to see something like 1.9 percent — 50 basis points higher, 0.5 percent higher, we could ideally like to do even better than that. But it's 0.5 percent better over a five-year horizon in which whatever labor market weirdness spanned Covid, we've largely recovered from that. Obviously, there are a lot of different things that have changed between now and five years ago, but at least the data distortion issues should hopefully have been filtered out at this point. And yet, we probably are posting much better real output outcomes.So through a lot of this turbulence, through a lot of the dynamism that's kind of transpired over the last few years, especially in terms of business formation activity, there was a high labor turnover environment in '21 and '22. That churn has come down in more recent quarters, but we have seen better productivity outcomes.Now, can they sustain? There's a lot of things that probably go into that. There are some new potential risks and shocks on the horizon, but at least it tells you better things are possible in a way that if — I'm sure you've had these discussions throughout the previous decade, in the 2010s, when people made a lot of claims about why productivity growth was destined to be stuck, that we were either not innovating enough, or we were not able to capture that into GDP, or else there are just some secular reasons, and so I think it's an instructive moment. If people are actually looking at the data, the last two years, real output and productivity growth has been very impressive, objectively. And it's not just about, “Hey, we're reverting to the pre-pandemic trend and nothing more.” I think there are signs that this is something at least a little different from what an honest forecast pre-pandemic would've suggested.Drivers of growth (7:24)The three-legged stool is one where you want have a labor market that's strong, fixed investment that's growing (ideally faster than usual), and on the third leg it's the set of things that you can do to control really salient costs that everyone's paying.Let's talk about those signs, but first let's take a quick step back. When you look at what drove growth, and productivity growth, specifically, in the '90s, give me the factors that drove growth and then why those factors give us lessons for policymaking today.I think there are three drivers I can point to that are a little bit independent of each other.One is we had — I don't want to say a tight labor market, but especially a fully employed labor market is helpful in so far as, and we see this now over multiple episodes, especially when you're at high levels of prime-age employment, that's typically a point when there's a lot of human capital that's accumulated. People who have been employed for a while, they've been trained up, there's a little more returns to scale, they can scale revenue, they can scale output better. You don't need to add an additional worker to add additional unit of GDP.In the more tangible sense, it's that people are trained up, they have more tangible experience, productive experience. You're able to see output gains without necessarily having to add hours worked. We generally saw over the late ‘90s: Hours worked slowed down, but real GDP growth held up very well.The labor market wasn't contracting by any stretch, it was just, largely speaking, finding an equilibrium in which employment levels were high, job growth was solid if not always spectacular, but we were still seeing that real GDP growth could still be scaled up in a lot of ways. So there is a labor market dynamic to this.There is a fixed investment dynamic. Fixed investment growth is very strong in the late '90s. That was about information processing equipment, IT, software. We did telecommunications deregulation in 1996, which is meant to really expand and accelerate the rollout of things. That became the fiber boom. We saw a lot of construction that went into those sectors, and so we saw it really touch construction, we saw it touch equipment, and we also saw it effect intellectual property.An investment to prevent the millennium bug?There was probably a lot of overinvestment that also was born of some of that deregulation, but at least in terms of it adding to our welfare, making it easier for us to use the internet and the long-term benefits of that, a lot of that was built in the late '90s. You could probably point to some stuff in policy, obviously interacting with technology that was very favorable.The third thing I would say is also probably underrated is inflation fell over that whole period. While some of that inflation falling would've been some fortuitous dynamics, especially in the late '90s around food and energy prices falling, the Asian financial crisis, there were also things that were very important for creating space for the consumer to spend more. Things like HMOs. Healthcare inflation really fell throughout the '90s.Now, HMOs became more unpopular for a lot of reasons. These health management organizations were meant to control costs and did a pretty good job of it. This is something that Janet Yellen actually wrote about a long time ago, talking about the '90s and how the healthcare dynamic was very underrated. In the 2000s, healthcare inflation really picked up again and a lot of the cost-control measures in the private sector were less effective, but you could see evidence that that was also creating space in terms of price stability, the ability for the consumer to spend more on other types of goods and services. That also allows for both more demand to be available but also for it to be supplied.I think with all these stories there's a demand- and a supply-side aspect to them. I think you kind of need both for it to be successful. The three-legged stool is one where you want have a labor market that's strong, fixed investment that's growing (ideally faster than usual), and on the third leg it's the set of things that you can do to control really salient costs that everyone's paying. Like healthcare, obviously there's a lot of cost bloat, and thinking about ways to really curb expenditure without curbing quality or real consumption itself, but there's obviously a lot of room for reforms in that area.The boomy '20s? (11:38)Right now, you have still an increasing number of people who have had meaningful work experience over the last one, two, three, years. That human capital should accumulate and be more relevant for GDP growth going forward . . .So you've identified what, in your view, is a very successful mix of these very critical factors. So if you want to be bullish about the rest of this decade, which of those factors — maybe all of them — are at play right now? Or maybe none of them!Right now, the labor market is still holding up rather well. While we may not be seeing quite the level of labor market dynamism we saw earlier in this expansion, at the same time, that was also a period of great turbulence and high inflation. Right now, you have still an increasing number of people who have had meaningful work experience over the last one, two, three, years. That human capital should accumulate and be more relevant for GDP growth going forward, assuming we don't have a recession in the next year or two or whatever.If we do, I think it obviously would mean a lot of people are probably likely to not be as employed, and if that's the case, their marketable and productive skills may atrophy and depreciate. That's the risk there, but, all things considered, right now, non-farm payroll growth has been roughly speaking 160,000 per month. Employment rates adjusted for demographics are a little higher than they were before the pandemic. It's pretty historically high. That's not a bad outcome to start with and those initial conditions should hopefully bode well for the labor market's contribution to productivity growth.The challenge is in terms of real GDP growth. It's also a function of a lot of other factors: What are we going to see in terms of cost stability? I would generally say there's obviously a lot of turbulence right now, but what's going to happen to a lot of these key costs? On one hand, commodity prices should hopefully be stable, there's a lot of signs of, let's say, OPEC increasing production.On the other hand, we have also things about tariffs that are pretty significant threats on the table and I think you could also be equally concerned about how much this could matter. We've already had a bigger run-through of this with a lot of this supply chain turbulence, pandemic error stimulus, and how that stuff interacted. That was quite turbulent. Even if tariffs aren't quite as turbulent as that, it could still be something that detracted from productivity growth.We saw, actually, in the first two quarters of 2022 when inflation exploded, there were a compounding number of shocks on the supply side with the demand side that it did have a depressing effect on productivity in the short run. And so you can think if we see things on the cost side blow out, it will also restrict output. If you have to mark up the price of a lot of things to reflect different costs and risks, it's going to have some output-throttling effect, and a productivity-throttling effect. That's one side of things to be concerned about.And then the other side of it, in terms of fixed investment, I think there's a lot of reasons for optimism on fixed investment. If we just took the start of the year, there's clearly a lot of investment tied to the artificial intelligence boom: Data centers, all of the expenditures on software that should change, expenditures on hardware that should be upgraded, and there's a whole set of industrial infrastructure that's also tied to this where you should see capital deepening really emerge. You should see that there should be more room to scale up in capital formation relative to labor. You can probably point to some pockets of it right now, but it hadn't shown up in the GDP data yet. That was the optimistic case coming into this year and I think it's still there. The challenge is there's now other headwinds.The tariffs make me less optimistic. I really worry about the uncertainty freezing business investment and hiring, for that matter.I share your sentiment there. I think we learned in 2018 and -19, there were tariffs being implemented but on much smaller scale and scope, and even those had a pretty meaningful or identifiable impact on the manufacturing sector, leave aside even the other sectors that use manufactured inputs from imports or otherwise. So these are going to be likely headwinds if you're any kind of company that exports at any point in time to something across borders, you have to now incorporate higher costs, more uncertainty. We don't know how long this is supposed to stick. Are you supposed to assume this is going to be a transition period, as Treasury Secretary Bessent said, or is this something that is just like a little negotiation tactic, you get a win and then we move on?I don't think anyone's quite sure how this is supposed to play out and I worry both for the manufacturing sector itself because, contrary to the popular conception of it, we still export a lot of things. We still export, and the most competitive industries are exporting industries, and so that's a concern for whether you're a manufacturing construction machinery, you're Caterpillar, or if you're agricultural machinery and you're John Deere, you have to start to think about this stuff more and the risk that's attached to it. The hurdle rates to investment go up, not down.And on the other side of the ledger then we have, or at least in terms of the sectors that use manufactured inputs. Transformers are really important for building out the energy infrastructure if we're going to have load growth that's driven by AI or whatever else, we're kind of entering more uncertainty on that side as well, and not really clear what the full strategy is. It strikes me as going to be very challenging.And then on the monetary policy [side], and this is the difference, you had in the '90s a Federal Reserve which seems to have defeated the Great Inflation Monster of the 1970s while the Fed today is battling inflation.What do you make of that as far as setting the stage for a productivity boom, a Fed which is quite active and still quite concerned about that inflation surge and perhaps tariffs further playing into it going forward?I think the Fed's stuck in a hard spot here. If you think about a trade shock as likely being some mix of — well, it could be output throttling. Maybe the output throttling and the effects in the labor market are more outsized than the inflation effects? That was what we saw in 2018 and 19, but it's not a given that that's going to be the case this time. The scale of the threats are much bigger and much wider, and especially coming through a period now where there's higher inflation, maybe there's more willingness to raise prices in response to these shocks. So these things are a little different.The Fed has basically said, “We don't know exactly how this is going to play out and we're going to need to watch the data, keep an open mind, be pretty risk-averse about how we're going to adjust interest rate policy.” We've seen evidence of inflation expectations going up. That will not give the Fed a lot of confidence about cutting interest rates in the absence of other things getting worse. What the Fed's supposed to do in response to supply shock is almost a philosophical question because you obviously don't want to break things if there's really just a supply shock that is a one-off that you can see through, but if it starts to have longer term consequences, create bigger pain points in terms of inflation, it's just a tough spot.When I try to square the circle here — and this will be no surprise to the listeners — I can't help but thinking, boy, it would be really fantastic if all the most techno-optimist dreams about AI came true, and this is not just an important technology, but an unbelievably important technology that diffuses through the economy in record time. That would be a wonderful factor to add into that mix.If there are ways for that to be a bigger tailwind — and there could be, I wouldn't be too pessimistic about how that could filter through even the GDP data amidst a lot of these trade policy headwinds, we're expected to see a lot grand buildout of data centers, for example. There's an energy infrastructure layer to that.But even beyond the investment side, actually being used, improving total factor productivity. Super hard to predict, and no one wants to do a budget forecast under the assumption we're going to be doubling a productivity growth, but it would be nice to have.Sure would. I will say about one of the things on the inflation side, especially with the Fed, we've come through a period now where the Fed has kept restrictive interest rate policies, but only more recently have we seen a little bit more of that show up in financial markets, for example. So the stock market over the last two years has ran up quite a bit, historically, and only now we've seen some signs of maybe some pricing of risk and some of the issues around the Fed.Inflation data itself coming into this year, relative to the Fed's target on the Fed's gauges, it was right now about 2.6, 2.7 percent. Most of that reflects a lot of lags of the past, I would say. If you look through the details, you see a lot of it in how inflation is measured for housing rent. How inflation is measured for financial services really tracks the stock market, and then there's obviously some other idiosyncratic stuff around where they're using wages as the measure of prices in PCE, which is the Fed's inflation gauge. If you take that stuff out, we still have a little bit of inflation work to do in terms of getting inflation down, but it would sound pretty manageable. If I told you, actually, if you take away those lags, you probably get some only 2.2 percent, that seems like we're almost there.Let's take away a little more, then we get to two percent. We can just keep cutting things outAnd there would probably be conditions for a lot. But if we can give the benefit of the time and do no harm, there's probably a positive story to be told. The challenge is, we may not be doing no harm here. There may be new things that rear up, to your point. If you start just deducting stuff just because you think it lags, but you don't think about forward-looking risks, which there are, then you start to get into a more challenged view of how things improve on the inflation side.I think that's a big dilemma for the Fed, which is, they have to be forward-looking. They can't just say, well, this stuff is lagging, we can ignore it. That doesn't cash when you have forward-looking risks, but if we do see that maybe some of these trade policy risks go away, if there's a change of heart, a change of mind, I think you can possibly tell yourself a more positive story about how maybe interest rates can come down a bit more and financial conditions can be more supportive of investment over time. So I think that that is the optimistic case there.Full employment and the Fed (22:03)Taking people away from their job and then trying to just bring them back in several years later, don't expect the productivity dividends to be quite the same.For someone who cares about full employment, how would you rate the Fed's performance after the global financial crisis? Too tight?It was too tight and also it was an environment in which the Fed, at various points from 2010, maybe 2009, through to 2015, they were very eager to try and get interest rates up before the economy was giving their hard signal that it was time to raise interest rates. Inflation hadn't really reared its head, nor had we seen evidence of really strong labor markets. We were seeing a recovery that was very gentle, and slow, and maybe we were slowly getting out of it, but it was a slow grind. GDP growth was not particularly stellar over that period. That's pretty disappointing, right? We don't want do that again. Obviously, there are things like maybe fiscal policy could have been done differently, as well as monetary policy on some level, but I think the Fed was very eager to get off of zero to the point where they weren't looking at the data, just didn't like the fact they were at zero.Coming out of it, now it's like that recovery is a lot of wasted output. We lost a lot of output out of that. We lost a lot of employment out of that. It's kind of just a big economic waste. Obviously, this past recovery has been very different and Covid was a different type of shock relative to the global financial crisis.The thing that worries me is actually, when we start to look at the global financial crisis and we look at, say, even the recession from the dot com boom, or even the recession, to your point, in the early '90s, prime-age employment rates took a long time to recover and it's not ideal from a productivity perspective that you want to have people out of the labor force for long periods of time, people out of employment for an extended number of years —Also not good for social cohesion.The social fabric, yeah. There's a lot of stuff it's not great for. We don't want hysteresis of that kind. We don't want to have people who are, “Oh, because I lost my job, I'm not going to be able to get a new job in the foreseeable future.” A lot of skills, general intangible knowledge, that's kind of part of how people become more productive and how firms become more productive. You want that stuff to keep going on some level. That's also probably why even Covid was very turbulent. It's a lot of things that we kind of have in motion, we just switched it off and then switched it back on. Even that over a short horizon can be very disruptive. There was a reason, on some level, to do it, but it is also something to learn from: Taking people away from their job and then trying to just bring them back in several years later, don't expect the productivity dividends to be quite the same.So I look at those three recessions at least to say, if we're going to have slow recoveries out of those, it's going to cause problems. So it's a balance of Fed and fiscal policy, I'd say, because there are certain things — there was a 2001, -2, -3, there were attempts to lower taxes at the same time. That actually may have been the key catalyst, more so than the Fed cutting rates, but when you think about how the Fed is sometimes antsy to get off of low rates when the economy is depressed, that's not great. Right now the Fed has a very different set of trade-offs. Thankfully, on some level, for full employment especially, [we're] not in that world, we're now more trying to defend full employment, protect full employment, ideally not have a recession now, would be great.Demographics in the data (25:37)When you see how population growth has a twofold dynamic, we typically see in periods of high population growth are the periods also where you tend to see both strong investment but also inflation risk.I would love to avoid that. That's the last thing we need.I have two questions: One, how much do demographics, and there's been a lot of talk about falling fertility rates, is that something you think about much?I think demographics play a lot of tricks on the data itself. When you see how population growth has a twofold dynamic, we typically see in periods of high population growth are the periods also where you tend to see both strong investment but also inflation risk. Obviously, when you know that there's a bigger base of people who you can sell your goods and services to, you might be more inclined to go forward with a longer-dated investment with some confidence that there will be growth to validate it. On the other hand, it's also because there's more spending that's happening in the economy, that's higher growth, there might be more inflation risk.I think that those background conditions then filter in various ways. You can kind of see how Japan and Europe have, generally speaking, at least maybe prior to this pandemic-era episode of inflation, are seeing lower inflation rates, lower growth rates, though, too. So lower real growth, lower inflation, real per capita outcomes are always hard to square in terms of Japan's population is declining, but also Japan's real GDP, is it declining as much more or less? These things are very hard to identify going forward.I think it's going to just muddy a lot of different math as far as what counts as strong investment. We've gotten used to a world of non-farm payroll growth every month in the job report. If it's like 150,000 to 200,000, that's pretty solid and great. Do we need to change our expectations to it being a 100,000 is good enough because we're not actually expanding the working age population as much? Those things are going to have an effect on the macroeconomic data and how we evaluate it in real time. Even just this year, because for some people's assessments of what counts as strong payroll growth, there was a sense that payroll employment was strong in '23 and '24 because of immigration. I'm a little bit more skeptical than most of those claims, but if it's true, which I think it's still possibly true, that it's then the case right now if we do see less immigration, is that the breakeven, the place where what counts as healthy employment growth might be a lot lower because of it.Policies for productivity (27:55)Healthcare cost growth and managing it will be important both in terms of what people see in the budgetary outcomes, but also inflation outcomes.My last question for you, I'll give you a choice of what to answer. If you were to recommend a pro-productivity piece of public policy, either give me your favorite one or the least-obvious one that you would recommend.Right now, I'd say the things that worry the most in productivity, and it's on the table, is the trade policy. This stuff has adverse impacts on prices and investment, and it may have impacts on employment, too, over time, if they stick. We're talking about really high, sizable numbers here, in terms of what's threatened now. Maybe it's all bark and no bite, but I would say this is what's on the table right now. I don't know what else is on the table at the very moment, but I'd say that's a place where you have to wonder what's the merits of any of this stuff, and I think I'm not seeing it.I am more intellectually flexible than most about where sometimes some very specific, targeted, narrow trade barriers have a lot of sense in them, either because solving a particular externalities, over-capacity kind of problem that might exist. There are some intellectualized reasons you can offer if it's narrow and targeted. If you're doing stuff at a really broad-based level, the way it's currently being evaluated, then I have to ask, what are we doing here? I am not sure this is good for investment, and investment is also part of how we are able to unlock a lot of general corporate technologies, able to actually see total factor productivity growth and increase over time. So I worry about that. That's top of mind.Things that are kind of underrated that I think is really important over time, that'll probably be also important, both for people who are thinking about efficiency, thinking about where there's room for public policy to support productivity growth, I'd say healthcare is a really prominent place right now. Healthcare cost growth and managing it will be important both in terms of what people see in the budgetary outcomes, but also inflation outcomes. There's just a lot of expenditures there where there's not a lot of incentive for rationalization that needs to be brought. And there's a way to do it equitably. There's a lot of low-hanging fruit out there in terms of ways we can reform the healthcare system. Site neutral payments, being one easy example to point to.The federal government itself and private insurers, both of them, though, in terms of paying for healthcare, how they pay for healthcare and actually ensure cost control in that process, if we're able to do that well, I think the space for productivity is pretty underrated and could be quite sizable. That's also, I'd say, an underrated reason why the 2000s became far less productive. Healthcare services inflation, healthcare cost growth really exploded over that period, and we did not get a good handle on it, and we kind exited the '90s productivity boom phase. It was more obvious towards the latter half of the 2000s as a result.On sale everywhere The Conservative Futurist: How To Create the Sci-Fi World We Were PromisedMicro ReadsFaster, Please! is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. This is a public episode. 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Februārī uz sarunu esam aicinājušas kinorežisoru un kinoscenāristu Uģi Olti, kas kopš 2000. gada darbojas Vides filmu studijā un ir vairāku filmu, tajā skaitā “Upurga” (2021) un Atbrīvošanas diena (2016), režisors un scenāriju autors. Ko un cik daudz lasa kino režisors? Vai izlasītais iedvesmo jauniem kino projektiem?Klausies sarunu Ievas vadībā!Saruna tapusi ar biedrības "Skanda" tehnisko atbalstu.

As economic data shows resilience and market expectations shift, how can investors navigate these mixed signals?This week on Facts vs. Feelings, Neil Dutta, Head of Economic Research at Renaissance Macro Research, and Skanda Amarnath, Executive Director at Employ America, join hosts Ryan Detrick, Chief Market Strategist at Carson Group, and Sonu Varghese, VP, Global Macro Strategist at Carson Group, to assess the economy's current strength and potential headwinds.From surprising 3% GDP growth and possible consumer spending slowdowns to pressures in the housing market driven by high mortgage rates, they discuss why current market optimism might be short-lived. Neil and Skanda also explore how inflation trends, influenced by wage growth and energy prices, could shape future economic stability.So, tune in as they further explore geopolitical risks, such as fiscal policy changes, and their implications for investors as the 2024 election approaches—offering strategies to stay informed and balanced in uncertain times!Key Highlights:Economic Growth Outlook: The strong 3% GDP growth might not last, with possible Q4 slowdowns stemming from decreased consumer and equipment spendingConsumer Spending Concerns: Challenges from stagnant real income growth and high mortgage rates could weigh on spendingFederal Reserve Strategy: A cautious approach to rate cuts, guided by labor cost data, points to measured future actionsInflation and Prices: While lower energy costs help curb inflation, core issues persist amidst moderated wage growthMarket Enthusiasm: Is optimism justified, or are markets overlooking key risks?Labor Market Shifts: Slowing job growth may impact consumer-driven economic momentumPolitical Uncertainty: Upcoming fiscal and policy changes may inject volatility into market forecasts and investment strategiesAnd much more!Resources:Any questions about the show? Send it to us! We'd love to hear from you! factsvsfeelings@carsongroup.com Connect with Ryan Detrick: LinkedIn: Ryan DetrickX: Ryan DetrickConnect with Sonu Varghese: LinkedIn: Sonu VargheseX: Sonu VargheseConnect with Neil Dutta: LinkedIn: Neil DuttaRenaissance Macro ResearchConnect with Skanda Amarnath: Twitter: Skanda AmarnathEmploy America

Featuring ThyGappers - Nuthan, Aries Ahmad, Harish, Neha, Praneeth S, Praneeth K, Akhil, Venkatesh, Creative Kaptures, Shaik Karthi John, SK Rafi!Movies in conversation - Athadu, Kapatadhaari, Anni Manchi Sakunamule, Waltair Veerayya, Skanda, Operation Valentine, Mathu Vadalara 2, Saripodha Sanivaaram, Ashta Chemma, SWAG, Happy Birthday (Brut's Review)!____________________Subscribe, and Share!***Instagram: @_ThyGap |Twitter: @ThyGap |Email: mindthygap@gmail.com |Discord: https://discord.gg/mPS4aNWa94All Links: https://linktr.ee/thygap

On the coastal island of Lamu, off Kenya's east coast, workers are turning plastic waste into furniture, even boats. Lamu is contending with mounds of plastic waste—some washed up on its beaches, others created by its own population. “We are collecting the waste plastic around Lamu archipelago, and we process those ones to make boats, furniture, and also doing a lot of research on what we can do with the plastic,” explains Ali Skanda, co-founder of the Flipflopi Project, an NGO founded in 2016. The Flipflopi Project receives grants from other NGOs which they then use to buy plastic waste from locals. After it arrives at their facility, workers sort it into different types and colors. It's then crushed, washed, dried, melted, then molded into different colors, shapes and sizes. “After pre-sorting, we have our sorters, and they categorize into different types and colors. So, they keep plastic into types and colors, separately,” explains Skanda. From there, plastic waste is upcycled into furniture and dhow boats. But Skanda says recycling also comes with challenges. He says nowadays, plastic manufacturers are adding additives to plastics, which makes it more difficult to recycle. Elsewhere, some plastics may be degraded by the sun and lose quality. Since 2019, the NGO has been sailing Flipflopi, claimed to be the world's first recycled plastic sailing dhow. They've gone on expeditions, including sailing from the Indian Ocean to Lake Victoria, and have launched a further two boats made using recycled plastic waste. “We are doing this just for the world to understand that plastic is not waste,” says Skanda. “We can add value and make something like furniture, things like this. And more others, we are making dhows.” Each day, the equivalent of 2,000 garbage trucks full of plastic are dumped into the world's oceans, rivers and lakes, according to the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). People are increasingly breathing, eating and drinking tiny plastic particles. Plastic production continues to ramp up globally and is projected to double or triple by 2050 if nothing changes.  This article was provided by The Associated Press. 

Raidieraksta oktobra viešņa – harismātiskā Anna Panna, īstajā vārdā Anna Birmane. Anna ir četru pavārgrāmatu autore, uzņēmēja un liela grāmatu cienītāja.Kāda ir grāmatu loma Annas un viņas ģimenes dzīvē? Kādas ir Annas attiecības ar bibliotēkām? Kurš ir viņas un meitas Hannas mīļākais grāmatu žanrs? Par šo un vēl daudz ko citu klausies sarunā, kuru vada Ieva (IG @mrs.lasitaja).Īpašs paldies par sērijas tehnisko atbalstu Jurim Garjānam un ierakstu studijai "Skanda". 

BG 10.24-25 Of priests, O Arjuna, know Me to be the chief, Bṛhaspati, the lord of devotion. Of generals I am Skanda, the lord of war; and of bodies of water I am the ocean. Of the great sages I am Bhṛgu; of vibrations I am the transcendental om. Of sacrifices I am the chanting of the holy names [japa], and of immovable things I am the Himālayas. Please feel free to join our Kṛṣṇa Consciousness Telegram group chat (for both prabhujīs and mātājīs): https://t.me/iskmnews

Due to having asthma early in life, Skanda Coffield-Feith was turned away the first time he tried to enroll in a scuba course. Years later, while on a backpacking trip, he would find himself on Koh Tao experiencing his first breaths underwater. For a time, he enjoyed diving recreationally on holiday, until a random encounter introduced him to a dive club near his home in Australia. During a trip with the club, he found himself in Mt Gambier, here in the heart of the limestone coast, his journey into the overheard would begin. Please enjoy.Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/skandacophield/https://www.instagram.com/protecdivecenters/Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/skanda.cophieldhttps://www.facebook.com/protecdivecentersWebsite:https://protecdivecenters.com/

This episode unpacks the rich symbology in the gods causing Śiva to spill his sacred seed in order to father Kārttikeya, General of the Celestial Army. What can we learn about sacred masculine, sacred feminine and their divine union? This story is embodied in the yoga posture skandāsana, war god pose. Hosted by Dr. Raj Balkaran, a Sanskrit scholar, seasoned storyteller and spiritual lineage holder. He teaches at the Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies and at The Indian Wisdom School. He is also the author of "The Stories Behind the Poses: The Indian Mythology that Inspired 50 Yoga Postures” and runs a thriving one-on-one spiritual guidance practice. Personal Website: https://rajbalkaran.com Courses (Get a 14-day free trial): https://indianwisdomschool.com Podcast: https://indianwisdompodcast.com

The Strategic Petroleum Reserve is the world's largest emergency supply of crude oil. In huge underground salt caverns along the Gulf of Mexico, the American federal government can store up to 714 million barrels, more than what the country uses in one month. Historically, the SPR has been tapped at the discretion of the president when natural disasters or crises cause the price of oil for consumers to spike.But when Russia invaded Ukraine and oil prices went haywire, Arnab Datta and Skanda Amarnath proposed a novel idea: what if the SPR wasn't just used as a stockpile of a commodity? If it used its ability to acquire oil strategically, could it support American industry and calm oil markets? Today, we talked to both of them.Timestamps:(00:00) Introduction(00:40) How do oil markets work?(02:25) How has the SPR been used historically?(07:42) Why oil investment kept dropping(16:53) Arnab and Skanda's big idea(20:55) Convincing the Biden administration(23:45) "Fixed-price forward contracts"(34:54) Isn't the SPR too small to shape oil markets?(42:10) The SPR pilot buy fails(51:09) A more aggressive approach(58:01) Keeping the political coalition together(01:02:26) The importance of elite media(01:09:43) Did the SPR "beat OPEC"?(01:12:52) Lessons for policy advocates This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.statecraft.pub

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Part Two of our conversation with official Double Pivot Financial Shenanigans Correspondent Skanda Amarnath (@irvingswisher). And while there are a lot of important details, there's a simple takeaway. Chelsea's PSR crunch is significantly worse than has been generally reported.Support the show

There has been a lot of news about the Premier League's PSR with the Everton points deduction, reports of violations at Nottingham Forest, and all the stories about how clubs are seeking to get into compliance with these regulations. But we think the actual news here has not been well explained in much football media. So we called in an actual finance expert, the Double Pivot's Financial Shenanigans Correspondent, Skanda Amarnath (@IrvingSwisher) to walk us through what has actually changed -- it's not the rules -- and why a PSR system with teeth is in some crucial ways not only different from North American salary caps but the opposite of a salary cap. Support the show

Skanda Gautam is a distinguished Staff Photojournalist at The Himalayan Times, with a remarkable portfolio that spans prestigious publications like The Guardian, The New York Times, and more, he brings a wealth of experience to the table. He is also the Nepali Photographer to be features in the cover of Premiere Pro. On the podcast, he discusses the nuances of photojournalism, delving into topics like copyright laws, ethics, and his own captivating experiences behind the lens.

Featuring ThyGappers - Anirudh, Prasad, Sam, Apurva, Creative Kaptures, Nuthan and Arthur Wayne. Movies in conversation - Hi Nanna, Mukhachithram, Guntur Kaaram, Animal, Hanuman, Keeda Cola, Kapatadhaari, Skanda. ____________________Subscribe, and Share!***Instagram: @_ThyGap |Twitter: @ThyGap |Email: mindthygap@gmail.com |Discord: DM our socialsAll Links: https://linktr.ee/thygap

High Reliability, The Healthcare FM Podcast is brought to you by Gosselin/Martin Associates. Our show discusses the issues, challenges, and opportunities within the Healthcare Facilities Management (FM) function.The @HealthcareFacilitiesNetwork welcomes Skanda Skandaverl to the Network. Skanda began his tenure as the American Society for Healthcare Engineering (ASHE) President in January 2024. Skanda is the Division Director of Facilities Management, Energy, and Infrastructure, Midwest, at CommonSpirit Health. Skanda's home base is Omaha, NE, and he has accountability for more than 30 hospitals in 4 states.  Over the course of our episode, we discuss Skanda's interesting career path, his entry into healthcare, his goals as ASHE President, his belief that collaboration, not competition, is the future, and the challenges facing healthcare engineering.  Thanks for listening. Check out the https://www.youtube.com/@HealthcareFacilitiesNetworkCheck us out at https://gosselin-associates.com

Skanda Amarnath is the executive director of Employ America, a think tank that promotes full employment in the American economy, and Preston Mui is also a senior economist at Employ America. Skanda and Preston join Macro Musings to talk about U.S. disinflation and the debates surrounding it, as well as what we can expect from Fed policy in 2024 and beyond, and finally, the Fed's framework review that is set to begin later this year.   Transcript for this week's episode.   Skanda's Twitter: @IrvingSwisher Skanda's Medium archive   Preston's Twitter: @PrestonMui Preston's Github profile   Skanda and Preston's Employ America bios   David Beckworth's Twitter: @DavidBeckworth Follow us on Twitter: @Macro_Musings   Join the Macro Musings mailing list! Check out our new Macro Musings merch!   Related Links:   *Ten Thoughts on the Tribal “Transitory” Debate as We Enter 2024* by Skanda Amarnath   *Three Motivations for Interest Rate Normalization: A Playbook for Fed Policy in 2024* by Preston Mui and Skanda Amarnath   Jerome Powell's Opening Remarks at Monetary Policy Challenges in a Global Economy, a policy panel at the 24th Jacques Polak Annual Research Conferences, hosted by the IMF

Danske krigsskibe har i 15 år patruljeret Arktis med kanoner, der ikke kunne skyde. Regeringen vil give voksne SOSU-elever elevløn for at få flere hænder. Et vinduesparti blæser ud under en flyvning, sandsynligvis pga. løse skruer. Nu er der fundet løse skruer på flere andre fly. Vært: Annika Wetterling. Medvirkende: Mads Korsager, DR's forsvarskorrespondent. Hans Christian Stigaard, seniorkonsulent og har tidligere arbejdet med flysikkerhed.

Foreign ki pampe consultancies deggara paisalu kaalchukovatam kanna, ee cinema chudandi Telugu yuvatha!Also dont miss Skanda joining the prestigious ThyGap Shitpot!____________________Subscribe, and Share!***Instagram: @_ThyGap |Twitter: @ThyGap |Email: mindthygap@gmail.com |Discord: DM our socialsAll Links: https://linktr.ee/thygap

A story about Kartikeya or Murugan or Skanda, the Son of Shiva, who defeated the invincible Tarakasura, and a hill-carrying Asura all while he was still a child Transcript and show notes: https://sfipodcast.com/shiva-kartikeya-ep-235-stories-from-india-podcast/ Music: https://www.purple-planet.com Related episodes: Tripura – Shiva – {Ep.146} - Stories From India Episode 6.5 – All in the Family - Stories From India  Episode 122 – Mahabharata – Nahush and Ashoksundari Episode 28 – His Girl Friday - Stories From India Episode 9 – A clever Minister in King Akbar's court - Stories From India  #sfipodcast #Kartikeya #Shiva #Parvati #Murugan #Skanda #Shanmukha #Subhramanya #Ganesha #Ganesh #Narada #NaradaMuni #Tarakasura #Indra #Brahma #Om #Aum --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/storiesfromindia/message

Exploring what it is to be a Youthful/Loving/Warrior --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/dharmayogashram/support

Maa Skandamata is the fifth manifestation of Goddess Durga, and her worship is observed on the fifth day of the Hindu festival of Navratri. She is the mother of Lord Kartikeya, also known as Skanda or Murugan, who is considered the commander of the celestial armies and the epitome of courage and wisdom. The Navratri story of Maa Skandamata highlights her maternal love and her role as the mother of Lord Kartikeya. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nilnia/support

The Approaching Macro Shock Wave with Skanda Amarnath (public preview)  Link to report referenced in podcast: https://www.employamerica.org/blog/july-inflation-preview-used-car-downside-can-hasten-path-to-2-core-pce-outcomes/Listen to the entire conversation at:  https://www.patreon.com/HughHendry   ⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️ 

Azim Ahmed visits one of Wales' most fascinating religious communities, now celebrating 50 years since it was founded in a peaceful corner of Carmarthenshire, near the village of Llanpumpsaint. This monastery and temple complex is devoted to worship and to service to both animal and human lives. Boasting no fewer than three elephants, the Community of the Many Names of God was established back in 1973 by a former Sri Lankan florist based in London, Guru Sri Subramanium. The Guru came to Wales guided by a vision. From unpromising beginnings - he had spotted a derelict farm for sale in the small ads of the Farmers Weekly magazine - the Guru built up a temple complex that is nowadays home to some twenty permanent members, and many more lay people and devotees. Still guided by the late Guru's vision, Skanda Vale attracts many thousands of worshippers annually, and is home not only to a human community - it is also home to numerous animals, including no fewer than three elephants! https://www.skandavale.org/

Krystal and Saagar discuss the tumultuous DeSantis 2024 announcement over Twitter Spaces with Elon Musk, Trump mauls DeSantis with mocking memes, Dems Freak over Republican progress on Debt Ceiling, Uvalde One Year Later as there is nearly zero consequences for the cops who abdicated their duty, CIA admits Ukraine behind Drone attacks on Russia, Krystal looks into how one city solved their Rent Nightmares, Saagar looks into Biden losing to China on the Electric Vehicle race, and we're joined by guest Skanda Amarnath from Employ America to talk about 1 Weird Trick That Could Solve the Debt Ceiling.Skanda's Article: https://www.employamerica.org/blog/14th-amendment-debt-ceiling-perpetual-bonds-the-treasurys-political-misjudgments-are-hiding-in-technocratic-failure/To become a Breaking Points Premium Member and watch/listen to the show uncut and 1 hour early visit: https://breakingpoints.supercast.com/To listen to Breaking Points as a podcast, check them out on Apple and SpotifyApple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/breaking-points-with-krystal-and-saagar/id1570045623 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4Kbsy61zJSzPxNZZ3PKbXl Merch: https://breaking-points.myshopify.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Krystal and Saagar discuss the tumultuous DeSantis 2024 announcement over Twitter Spaces with Elon Musk, Trump mauls DeSantis with mocking memes, Dems Freak over Republican progress on Debt Ceiling, Uvalde One Year Later as there is nearly zero consequences for the cops who abdicated their duty, CIA admits Ukraine behind Drone attacks on Russia, Krystal looks into how one city solved their Rent Nightmares, Saagar looks into Biden losing to China on the Electric Vehicle race, and we're joined by guest Skanda Amarnath from Employ America to talk about 1 Weird Trick That Could Solve the Debt Ceiling. Skanda's Article: https://www.employamerica.org/blog/14th-amendment-debt-ceiling-perpetual-bonds-the-treasurys-political-misjudgments-are-hiding-in-technocratic-failure/ To become a Breaking Points Premium Member and watch/listen to the show uncut and 1 hour early visit: https://breakingpoints.supercast.com/ To listen to Breaking Points as a podcast, check them out on Apple and Spotify Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/breaking-points-with-krystal-and-saagar/id1570045623   Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4Kbsy61zJSzPxNZZ3PKbXl   Merch: https://breaking-points.myshopify.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this captivating podcast, we dive into an in-depth Skanda Amarnath interview with Michael Gayed, where they discuss the most crucial upcoming catalysts and inflection points shaping the economy and financial markets. Skanda Amarnath, an accomplished economist and the Executive Director of Employ America, shares his invaluable insights on the evolving economic landscape, monetary policies, and the potential triggers of market volatility.Throughout the conversation, the Skanda Amarnath interview with Michael Gayed explores the intricate connection between fiscal policy, inflation, and asset prices, allowing viewers to better understand the complexities of today's global economic environment. From discussing timely market trends to unpacking the potential impact of various fiscal policies, this interview sheds light on how investors can stay ahead of the curve and make informed financial decisions.Michael Gayed, an award-winning market strategist and publisher of the Lead-Lag Report, steers this engaging conversation, providing viewers with an unparalleled opportunity to learn from Skanda Amarnath's vast experience and expertise in the field. The podcast is packed with meaningful discussions and valuable lessons, making it a must-listen for anyone interested in the world of finance and economics.By listening to this Skanda Amarnath interview with Michael Gayed, viewers will gain a comprehensive understanding of the intricate dynamics shaping today's economy and financial markets, and be better equipped to navigate the world of investing. Don't miss out on this exceptional opportunity to learn from two of the brightest minds in the financial sphere - hit that like button, subscribe to our channel, and be sure to share this insightful podcast with others who might benefit from this knowledge.ANTICIPATE STOCK MARKET CRASHES, CORRECTIONS, AND BEAR MARKETS WITH AWARD WINNING RESEARCH. Sign up for The Lead-Lag Report at www.leadlagreport.com and use promo code PODCAST30 for 2 weeks free and 30% off.Don't forget to like, share, and subscribe!Twitter: https://twitter.com/leadlagreport​​​​​Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/leadlagreport​​Instagram: https://instagram.com/leadlagreport​​​Check out Lead-Lag Live on all your favorite podcast platforms.Nothing on this channel should be considered as personalized financial advice or a solicitation to buy or sell any securities. The content in this program is for informational purposes only. You should not construe any information or other material as investment, financial, tax, or other advice. The views expressed by the participants are solely their own. A participant may have taken or recommended any investment position discussed, but may close such position or alter its recommendation at any time without notice. Nothing contained in this program constitutes a solicitation, recommendation, endorsement, or offer to buy or sell any securities or other financial instruments in any jurisdiction. Please consult your own investment or financial advisor for advice related to all investment decisions.See disclosures for The Lead-Lag Report here: https://www.leadlagreport.com/static/termsandconditionsFoodies unite…with HowUdish!It's social media with a secret sauce: FOOD! The world's first network for food enthusiasts. HowUdish connects foodies across the world!Share kitchen tips and recipe hacks. Discover hidden gem food joints and street food. Find foodies like you, connect, chat and organize meet-ups!HowUdish makes it simple to connect through food anywhere in the world.So, how do YOU dish? Download HowUdish on the Apple App Store today:

It's applied mythology time! We are going to use Skanda's seven mothers as seeds for seven biz check in journaling prompts. Thanks, Brahmani (Saraswati) Mahesvari (Raudani) Kaumari (Karttikeyani) Vaishnavi (Lakshmi) Varahi, Indrani and Chamunda (Chamundi)!REFERENCES:Matrikas, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matrikas accessed 5 April 2023 Support the show by becoming a Patron here: www.patreon.com/AmyMcDonaldLearn all about the Abundant Yoga Teacher Retreat here: https://www.amymcdonald.com.au/retreats

What's going on with non-state soccer owners trying to sell their teams? What's going on with the aggressive non-state money coming in to soccer? What, for real, is going on with Chelsea and Clearlake? We talk to Skanda Amarnath (@irvingswisher) about the baseline state of play in the sports business.Support the show

Skanda - Maa Parvati 4 – 145 bpm 1. Acid Rain (Original Mix) - Alpha Portal - Shamanic Tales 2. Tweaky (Volcano Remix) – Astrix - Sacred Technology 3. Agate (Original Mix) - Astrix, Ritmo - HOMmega Productions 4. Parvati Valley (Original Mix) – Blastoyz - Nutek Records 5. Hypnotic Light Encounters (Original Mix) - Hypnoise, Inner Lux - Maharetta Records 6. Wild South (Original Mix) - Ital, Avan7 - Sonoora Records 7. In Da Jungle (Avalon & Outsiders Remix) - Jumanji (aka Dickster & Eskimo) - Nano Records 8. Cinematech (Original Mix) – Melodeep - Future Music Records 9. Psychedelic Destroyer (Original Mix) - Sartor, Housedown, Rastafire, Perfect Ohm - Espiral Records 10. Into the Groove (Original Mix) – Shenanigan - Digital Shamans Records 11. Sky High (Original Mix) - Mad Tribe, Alpha Portal - Future Music Records 12. Bansuri (Original Mix) - Electric Universe - Sacred Technology

Scripture class on Devi Gita, chapter 1, verse 46 - 48, given by Rev. Dr. Swami Bhajanananda Saraswati to students of Ramakrishna Seminary via Zoom on 8 February 2023.   देवीं वाचमजनयन्त देवास्तां विश्वरूपाः पशवो वदन्ति | सा नो मन्द्रेषमूर्जं दुहाना धेनुर्वागस्मानुप सुष्टुतैतु || ४६ || devīṃ vācam-ajanayanta devā-stāṃ viśva-rūpāḥ paśavo vadanti | sā no mandreṣam-ūrjaṃ duhānā dhenur-vāg-asmān-upa suṣṭutaitu || 46 || 46. "The gods created the Goddess Speech, whom animals of all sorts speak. This Speech is pleasing to us, this cow yielding food and strength. She is well praised; may She come to us."   कालरात्रीं ब्रह्मस्तुतां वैष्णवीं स्कन्दमातरम् | सरस्वतीमदितैं दक्षदुहितरं नमामः पावनां शिवाम् || ४७ || kāla-rātrīṃ brahma-stutāṃ vaiṣṇavīṃ skanda-mātaram | sarasvatīm-aditaiṃ dakṣa-duhitaraṃ namāmaḥ pāvanāṃ śivām || 47 || 47. "To Kalaratri, praised by Brahma, to Vaishnavi, to the Mother of Skanda, to Saraswati, to Aditi, the Daughter of Daksha, we bow, to the pure Auspicious One."   महालक्ष्म्यै च विद्महे सर्वशक्त्यै च धीमहि | तन्नो देवी प्रचोदयात् || ४८ || mahā-lakṣmyai ca vidmahe  sarva-śaktyai ca dhīmahi | tanno devī pracodayāt || 48 || 48. "We know You as Mahalakshmi, we meditate on You as the Shakti of all. May the Goddess inspire that knowledge and meditation of ours."   ____________ https://kalimandir.org/ https://www.ramakrishnaseminary.org/ Support the work of Kali Mandir>>  

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Skanda - Maa Parvati 3 – 142 bpm 1. Elipsy (Original Mix) - Vegas (Brazil) - Alien Records 2. Digital Mind (Original Mix) – Melodeep - Future Music Records 3. Before the Rain (Original Mix) - California Sunshine - Krembo Records 4. Infinity Network (Original Mix) – Syxtra - Dacru Records 5. Sex Style (Spectra Sonics Remix) – Astrix - Shamanic Tales 6. Lakshmi (Original Mix) - Electric Universe - Sacred Technology 7. Recharge (Original Mix) – Intersys - Noga Records 8. Devil's Pact (Original Mix) – Psiger - Dacru Records 9. Thuban (Original Mix) – Pleiadians - PsyWorld Records 10. Time & Space (Spirit Architect Remix) - Burn In Noise, Avalon - Dacru Records 11. The Dance Temple (Laughing Buddha Remix) - Raja Ram, Burn In Noise, Avalon - Nano Records

Skanda - Maa Parvati 2 – 144 bpm 1. Lay Me Down (Extended Version) - Ranji, Berg, Ghost Rider - Blue Tunes Records 2. Ocean of Motion (Original Mix) – Arhetip - TechSafari Records 3. Wait for Me (Original Mix) - Jacob, Synna - Odiva Records 4. In the Dirt (Original Mix) – Ticon - memo604 5. Audio Drugs (Sun Project Remix) - X-Dream, Sun Project, TSUYOSHI SUZUKI - Blue Tunes Records 6. Symmetry (Airi Remix) – Protonica - Iboga Records 7. Deep Jungle Walk (Original Mix) – Astrix - HOMmega Productions 8. Freaky (Original Mix) - Circuit Breakers - Zero One Music 9. Creatures (Original Mix) - Alpha Portal - Future Music Records 10. Klingons (Original Mix) - Virtual Light, Imagine Mars - Zero One Music 11. Dragonfly (Original Mix) - Electric Universe - Sacred Technology 12. Change It Or Control It (Original Mix) – Freakulizer - Alchemy Records

This week's episode is a bit mind-blowing. Skandamata is the fifth Navadurga, and the embodiment of Parvati as mother of Skanda (Kartikeya, the war god). Skanda is born to defeat a demon called Tarakasura--the demon of salvation, who is the grandson of Diti (limitation). Skandamata also embodies the Visuddha chakra, where sound and speech are born. How do these fit together? Listen to this week's episode to find out.

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Master K. Parvathi Kumar

Skanda - Maa Parvati 1 – 146 bpm 1. Watercolor (Original Mix) - Vegas (Brazil), Grynder - SYNK87 2. Spider Sense (Original Mix) - Woza, CR3WFX - DistroKid 3. Let It Go (Original Mix) - Cloud7, Hybr!d - Blue Tunes Records 4. Mirrors Of Reality (Original Mix) – Vertex - TesseracTstudio 5. Departure Feat. Ticon (Static Movement Remix) - Ticon, Protonica - Iboga Records 6. Below Surface (Bauglyx Remix) - Burn In Noise, Altruism - DM7 Records 7. Crossing Universe (Original Mix) - Elzeden, Deadly Poizon - Nutek Records 8. Mother Nature (Original Mix) – Zahar - SYNK87 9. Time Machine (Imagine Mars Remix) - Vertical Mode - VM Music 10. Shadows (Original Mix) - Spirit Architect, Djantrix - Digital Om 11. Abracadabra (Synthaya Remix) - Spinal Fusion, Reversed Logic - Profound Records 12. Shana Vahavatu (Original Mix) – Sonochrome - Dacru Records

Master K. Parvathi Kumar

Master K. Parvathi Kumar

Master K. Parvathi Kumar

Master K. Parvathi Kumar

Master K. Parvathi Kumar

Skanda Amarnath is the executive director of Employ America, an organization that advocates for strong labor markets. He recently published a research note titled "What Are You Expecting? How The Fed Slows Down Inflation Through The Labor Market", in which he and co-author Alex Williams explores how the Federal Reserve's tools work to influence employment outcomes and the prices of goods and services. Skanda joins Cardiff to discuss: — The definition of full employment — How to investigate all the competing theories for what really causes inflation — The specific channels through which monetary policy affects inflation — What the Fed should do now to combat high inflation in the US — What Skanda has learned about monetary policymaking in the pandemic eraRelated links: Skanda's Twitter feed Employ America main site"What Are You Expecting? How The Fed Slows Down Inflation Through The Labor Market" See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Meet Skanda, a cave diver and mapper by profession, a man of ease and acceptance at his core, and one who reminds me what it is to show up and give effort for another. We talk about his life growing up in Australia and India, and how his parents desire to share the world with him impacted his ability to move to a new country. He shares about the value he sees in living in a culture where so many people are from somewhere else.  We talk about time management and the talent of keeping in touch with friends in a different time zone, the purpose he feels will make itself known by being in the right place at the right time, and his desire to teach others and share his joy with them. Skanda is someone I am excited to share with you both for his authenticy and his sincerity, his willingness to show up and share this time with me is something I am so grateful for and I'm honored to share a part of who this man is with you. To follow along or connect with Skanda follow him here @skandacophield