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Despite geopolitical uncertainty and trade tensions, the US economy remains strong, says our latest guest on the AFIRE podcast: Moody's Chief Economist Mark Zandi, the recipient of the Consensus Economics 2024 Forecast Accuracy Award. “So far, the data shows yellow flares everywhere,” Zandi observes. “But no red flares yet.” In conversation with AFIRE CEO Gunnar Branson, Zandi shares his views on the way trade tensions will affect the broader economy, as well as US commercial real estate specifically. The pair also discuss a forthcoming Moody's study on the housing shortage, hotspots in the US CRE market and how ESG and DEI discussions are evolving under the new administration. The conversation concludes with Zandi worrying that the dissolution of Fed independence could set the stage for much higher inflation. “I do think the economy is resilient,” Zandi says. “We should be able to navigate through and, you know, we could be in a very different place a year or two down the road.” Access the episode webpage featuring links to audio-only platforms here: https://www.afire.org/podcast/202511cast/

Chuck Todd is joined by Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody's Analytics, to discuss the damaging effects of President Donald Trump's tariffs and trade war on the U.S. economy.Chuck opens the episode by framing the nation's economic struggles as entirely self-inflicted, warning against political pressure on the Federal Reserve, and explaining why the consequences of current policy decisions could take years to reverse.Mark Zandi then joins to share his economic risk assessment, explore why markets failed to anticipate the trade war, and project the level of fallout the U.S. economy could face in the coming months and years.They break down why Trump's push to reshore American manufacturing is unlikely to succeed, how China could emerge as the real winner of the trade war, and why troubling signals from the bond market spell concern for the broader economy.Zandi also outlines the risks of firing Fed Chair Jay Powell, explains why the trade war is a lose-lose scenario, and discusses why government intervention may be far less effective in responding to a self-inflicted economic crisis.Finally, Chuck wraps up with listener questions in the Ask Chuck segment.Don't forget to like and subscribe to The Chuck ToddCast!Timeline:0:00 Introduction0:30 Why Chuck wanted to have Mark Zandi on the show1:30 We could have a man made economic disaster on our hands3:00 Pressuring the fed to lower interest rates is a bad idea5:15 Immigration has been a boon, not a negative for America7:00 Trade has helped America have a higher standard of living than anywhere else8:00 Rebuilding will take years8:45 Trump administration has been a mess11:55 Mark Zandi joins the show 12:55 What is Moody's Analytics? 15:55 How is a country's political system factored into economic risk assessments? 17:15 War gaming the trade war 19:10 Why didn't markets price in the trade war? 21:10 Tariffs in Trump 1.0 were more damaging than people realize due to pandemic. 22:55 When will the tariff impacts show up?24:25 Are any companies reshoring manufacturing due to tariffs? 26:10 How many companies are going to do whatever it takes to get an exemption? 27:25 Consumers and corporations are already changing their spending decisions 28:25 Government cuts are self defeating 29:55 How will this affect China's economy? 32:55 Will the EU spurn the US in favor of China? 34:25 Nixing the TPP was a mistake 35:40 What does the health of the bond market tell us? 37:10 We're in a crisis 38:10 How does this affect financing our debt? 39:10 What would stabilize the market? 39:55 What would happen if he fired fed chair Jay Powell?42:40 How similar is the current situation to the 1920's-30's? 45:25 US received more pushback from other countries in the 20's-30's 46:40 Which countries are most vulnerable to the trade war? 48:55 This is a lose-lose for everyone 49:55 In an emergency are the only choices inflation or recession? Which is preferable? 52:25 Government intervention will be less viable because government caused the crisis53:25 Chuck's thoughts on conversation with Mark Zandi54:20 Ask Chuck - Will Trump's trade war become the new normal or just a phase?55:55 Tariffs are a tool, and shouldn't be used for everything57:30Trump's goal is to replace income taxes with tariff revenue59:55 How can citizens not be part of the problem when it comes to hyperpartisan media?1:00:30 Diversifying your media diet is important1:04:45 If tariffs cause a severe recession, could Trump issue an EO to postpone the midterm elections?1:07:00 Trump can't waive a magic wand and postpone elections(Timestamps vary based on advertisements)

Mark Zandi calls tariffs “baffling, disconcerting, and hard to fathom.” He says it's unclear what we're trying to achieve, saying that tariffs won't fix the trade deficit, only lower economic activity. The odds of a recession are “60% and rising” in his view, and Mark expects the “next thing to go” will be the job market.======== Schwab Network ========Empowering every investor and trader, every market day.Subscribe to the Market Minute newsletter - https://schwabnetwork.com/subscribeDownload the iOS app - https://apps.apple.com/us/app/schwab-network/id1460719185Download the Amazon Fire Tv App - https://www.amazon.com/TD-Ameritrade-Network/dp/B07KRD76C7Watch on Sling - https://watch.sling.com/1/asset/191928615bd8d47686f94682aefaa007/watchWatch on Vizio - https://www.vizio.com/en/watchfreeplus-exploreWatch on DistroTV - https://www.distro.tv/live/schwab-network/Follow us on X – https://twitter.com/schwabnetworkFollow us on Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/schwabnetworkFollow us on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/schwab-network/About Schwab Network - https://schwabnetwork.com/about

In this episode of The Watering Hole, Rhett & Jager sat down to talk with Zandi Holup!Huge thank you to our sponsors for making what we do possible!CH Lonestar Promo & Tumbleweed Dancehall!Zandi Holuphttps://zandiholupmusic.comThe Watering Hole Instagram @wateringholeofficialhttps://www.instagram.com/wateringholeofficial/

Key Timestamps:00:43 – Welcome, and let's take a deep dive into our guest's world, Zandi Ndhlovu aka The Black Mermaid03:21 – A lesson from the water: learning to be present04:43 – The dangers of looking back and how it impacts your life06:35 – Let's take it back to the beach: The significance of being exposed to the ocean at the age of 1209:05 – Zandi's upbringing and career path before discovering her passion for freediving10:20 – The fears and oppositions you deal with as the first Black female diving instructor14:20 – What sparked the mission to have inclusion in the ocean16:10 – How to cultivate mindfulness and discipline daily17:52 – Why is the Woolworths Farming for the Future Initiative significant for Zandi and the future of South Africa20:38 – How does the Farming for the Future initiative impact us on a daily basis?26:14 – How does holistic practice play a role in the commitment to sustainable farming and how other industries can adopt this sustainable practice?29:10 – How conservation can look in daily life33:28 – The meaning of regenerated farming in simple terms36:00 – The bigger picture of ocean preservation and how it ties with Farming For The Future37:19 – The ripple effect of eating well41:06 – The message echoed through Zandi's song42:58 – How to overcome fear and how overcoming it can change you45:00 – The hope that comes with the Woolworths Farming For The Future initiative    Thank You for Tuning In!Visit our website for updates: Wisdom & Wellness - A Vibrant CommunityJoin our mailing list for exclusive news: Sign Up HereFollow us on Instagram: @wisdomwellness_

Van vluchteling naar succesvol ondernemer: Milad Zandi deelt zijn inspirerende verhaal vol doorzettingsvermogen en ambitie.

Sarunas pirmajā daļā izjautāju Diānu Zandi par viņas profesionālo ceļu - ko viņa darīja pēc aktrises profesijas, kā darbu apvienoja ar 5 bērnu audzināšanu, ko no viņas prasīja iegūt psiholoģijas zinātņu doktores grādu klīniskajā psiholoģijā. Tas ir ļoti iedvesmojošs stāsts, kas pamudinās nepazaudēt sevi vecāka lomā, un palīdzēs ieraudzīt risinājumus, kā sākt jaunu profesionālo dzīvi, neskatoties uz līdzšinējo karjeru.Sarunas otrajā daļā Diāna piedāvāja risinājumus partnerattiecībām, jo uzskats, ka "mīlestībā visam jānotiek dabiski" ir maldinošs un arī kaitīgs. Viņa stāstīja arī par emocionālās un seksuālās tuvības saistību. Starp citu, Diāna savā Instagram @diana_zande veido interesantus un noderīgus video ierakstus par attiecībām un iespējām dzīvot labāk. Iesaku noklausīties iepriekšējās intervijas ar Diānu Zandi:Pirmā #117 bija par drošu piesaisti un tās ietekmi uz cilvēka dzīvi.Otrā #142 – kā veidot veselīgākas attiecības ar saviem vecākiem.Trešā #171, lai svētki nes prieku, nevis iznes smadzenes.Vairāk informācijas ir sarunas lapā.******************Šo epizodi samontējām ar atbalstu no dalībniekiem mūsu jaunākajā programmā „Jaudīga Partnerība“. Šo programmu Laura un Mišels izveidoja, lai Cilvēkjaudas faniem būtu vēl foršākas attiecības un lai partneri ir spēcīgāka komanda, kurā katrs gan sasniedz savus mērķus, gan kopīgos, gan arī ikdienā piedzīvo vairāk prieka.Ja šīs tēmas tev ir aktuālas, tad šomēness piedalies programmā Jaudīga partnerība. Tā tu izdarīsi divas labas lietas vienlaicīgi – tu gan parūpēsies par savu attiecību kvalitāti, gan arī palīdzēsi mums turpināt Cilvēkjaudas podkāstu.******************SARUNAS PIETURPUNKTI:6:32 Lāsmiņas loma kulta filmā “Limuzīns Jāņu nakts krāsā” – Diānas dzīves lielā dāvana un problemātiskā blakne vienlaicīgi10:21 “Baidies, bet dari” – dzīvot atšķirīgi no pieņemtā16:40 Līkumainais meklējumu ceļš cauri skolām un profesijām, paralēli audzinot piecus bērnus23:09 “Man ir četrdesmit gadu. Beidzot es zinu, ko es gribu” – cik viegli ir mainīt dzīvi šajā vecumā27:38 Grūtākie brīži studējot psiholoģiju35:17 Nevis “afirmēt”, bet plānot, kapāt un darīt40:50 “Sākt no nulles” nenozīmē sākt no nulles50:07 Praktisks vingrinājums, kā domāt par savu dzīvi un saviem gadiem49:32 “Ikvienam lēmumam ir arī negatīvas sekas”52:48 Spēt stāvēt pāri sabiedrības aizspriedumiem un darīt savu lietu59:59 Kad pašpārmetumu tārpiņš izbāž galvu, ko likt viņam pretī1:05:19 Kas ir galvenie četri iemesli, kādēļ pāri meklē terapeita palīdzību1:09:09 Ko iekļauj mīlestības trijstūra teorija1:11:07 Kāda noderīga informācija ir atrodama Diānas Zandes Instagram kontā1:15:38 Vai iemīlēšanās stadijā ir iespējama patiesa tuvība1:20:24 Kā emocionālā tuvība ietekmē seksuālo tuvību1:23:41 Saistības, kas ietekmē attiecības1:25:20 “Mīlestībā visam jānotiek dabiski” – cik aplams ir šis apgalvojums1:28:13 Kompetences modeļa skaidrojums kognitīvi biheiviorālajā terapijā1:31:57 Nepamatotās gaidas un ilūzijas “ja tu mani mīli, tad tu zini, ko man vajag”1:36:34 “Kāpēc mums šķiet, ka otrs jutīs, ko man vajag, ja es pati no nevaru definēt”1:45:21 Kā nepieļaut, ka attiecību zupas garša un kvalitāte ar laiku mazinās

I början av 2024 sprider en okänd man skräck bland Stockholms prostituerade kvinnor. På det hemliga forumet ”Blackbox” kan kvinnorna varna varandra. Där skrivs inlägg efter inlägg om en beväpnad sexköpare som våldtar och rånar. När polisen inleder jakten på serieförbrytaren leder spåren till Salar Zandi, en 43-årig småbarnsfar som arbetar som handläggare på socialtjänsten. Gäst: Katrin Krantz, krimreporter på Expressen Producent: Anna Westman Swantesson

The ocean covers 70% of the Earth's surface, making it the largest living space on our planet. It's a vast world, largely unexplored, and has the ability to both soothe and terrify. Embracing both these on a daily basis is Zandile Ndlovu, lovingly known by many as The Black Mermaid. Conservationist, activist, filmmaker, author, and South Africa's first black female freediving instructor, Zandi has now added one more title to her long list of achievements – penguin warrior. We sit down with this formidable woman of the water to find out more about life under the sea, embracing fear, saving penguins, and changing lives. Save African Penguins from Extinction · Black Mermaid Foundation · The Black Mermaid · Carte Blanche Website · Chat on X · Chat on Facebook

Join the Super Legit Podcast crew and special guest Ian Zandi as they delve into the ridiculous things people do to impress others. Ian kicks it off with a tale of dressing up as Ryan Gosling characters, Josh shares his vegetarian Thai food mishap, and Stephen reveals a chipped tooth incident. From emotional moments to hilarious scenes, this episode has it all! Don't miss the Omaha Snakes ad and a cavalcade of Matrix jackets. This is one episode that will leave you going… “Whoa!”  Cast: Sean Michael Boozer, Stephen C. James, Jarrett Lennon Kaufman, Josh Spence, Chris Sanders  Special guest: Ian Zandi  Ads: Omaha Snakes (improvised by Stephen C. James)  Original release date: 10/9/24  Actual episode count: 120  Show references:  https://zandimancam.com  https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10227245052573523&set=a.1434087813608  Intro and outro music credit to Matt Walker  Various sound effects and music from https://freesfx.co.uk/  Additional music and sound credits:  Wagon Wheel by Kevin MacLeod  Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4601-wagon-wheel  License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license 

Atgriežoties darbā pēc atvaļinājuma, ikviens vairāk vai mazāk intensīvi izjūt sindromu, ko psihologi dēvē par "post-holiday blues"– pēcatvaļinājuma skumjām. Tās ilgst vidēji divas trīs dienas un izpaužas kā grūtības atkal koncentrēties darbam, nomākta oma un dezorientācija sakrājušos darbu gūzmā. Kā ar to tikt galā ātri un nesāpīgi? Pēc psihologu pētījumiem, cilvēkam pēc atvaļinājuma vajag apmēram 3-10 dienas, lai atkal adaptētos darba vidē, pierastu pie veicamajiem pienākumiem, mainītā dzīves ritma, lietišķā komunikācijas stila. Skaidrojam kopā ar psihoterapeiti Diānu Zandi un juristu Kasparu Rācenāju.

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With a career spanning over four decades, Steve Earle has proven himself a master storyteller and one of the most acclaimed singer-songwriters of his generation. In 1986, his record Guitar Town, was released to wide-spread critical acclaim, shooting to number one on the country charts, and is today, regarded as a classic of the Americana genre. While he first won an audience as a country artist, it didn't take long for him to demonstrate that designation was too narrow for him. His rough neck poetics, outspoken and unapologetic lyrical stance, and literate yet down to earth musings, have captivated audiences across genres, with his music running the gamut from country, bluegrass, and folk to the blues, roots, and rock. With 22 studio albums under his belt, he has found room for both personal and the political, often writing about the stuff of everyday life and the forces that shape and define our existence. Some of his most notable releases including his commercial breakthrough Copperhead Road (1988), and Grammy Award winning records The Revolution Starts...Now (2004), Washington Square Serenade (2007), and TOWNES (2009). The versatility in his discography, the strength of his work, and consistent critical acclaim has helped Earle attract a loyal following, who are more than happy to continue following his stylistic evolution. Cut from the same cloth as legendary folk singer-songwriters like Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, and Joni Mitchell, Zandi Holup's raw brand of original folk country flourishes through raw unfiltered storytelling reminiscent of Dolly Parton and emphasized by her emotive vocals. Her edgy, deeply emotional lyrics and unique voice set her apart. She sings about the good, the bad, and the ugly. Her music is a voice for the unheard. A Grassroots following placed her on the map as snippets of demos and unreleased songs resonated across social media in increasing numbers. Her first release, “Wait for You,” sat at No. 1 on the all-genre Spotify Fresh Finds playlist, amassing over a million streams with no promotion outside of her TikTok following. Named a 2023 Artist to Watch by The Nashville Briefing, Holup signed a publishing deal with Arthouse Entertainment and TurnTable Music in partnership with Universal Music Publishing, and a record deal with Big Loud Records in 2023.         EPISODE CREDITSMichael Perry - Host Phillip Anich - Announcer Keenan McIntyre - Engineer Gina Nagro - Marketing Support FOLLOW BIG TOP CHAUTAUQUA https://www.facebook.com/bigtopchautauqua/ https://www.instagram.com/bigtopchautauqua/ https://www.tiktok.com/@bigtopchautauqua https://twitter.com/BigBlueTent FOLLOW HOST MICHAEL PERRYhttps://sneezingcow.com/ https://www.facebook.com/sneezingcow https://www.instagram.com/sneezingcow/ https://twitter.com/sneezingcow/ 2024 TENT SHOW RADIO SPONSORSAshland Area Chamber of Commerce - https://www.visitashland.com/  Bayfield Chamber and Visitor Bureau - https://www.bayfield.org/  Bayfield County Tourism - https://www.bayfieldcounty.wi.gov/150/Tourism  The Bayfield Inn - https://bayfieldinn.com/  Cable Area Chamber of Commerce - https://www.cable4fun.com/  SPECIAL THANKSWisconsin Public Radio - https://www.wpr.org/ 

Inside Economics regular Dante DeAntonio joins the podcast to discuss the April jobs report. It was something of a surprise, but a happy one, at least for Dante and Mark.  The job market remains strong, but is cooling, opening the window just a bit for the Fed to begin cutting rates. But Cris and Marisa weren't so sure, worried that the report may signal the start of a more serious slowdown.Follow Mark Zandi @MarkZandi, Cris deRitis @MiddleWayEcon, and Marisa DiNatale on LinkedIn for additional insight.

Zach and Jordan (a first time combo!) speak to Zandi and Julia, two activists from South African Jews for a Free Palestine, about what their group can offer to our present moment, locally and globally. We also touch on the connections between Jewishness in a particular context between racism and settler-colonialism, providing context and frameworks for wider perspectives from Jews of colour.Some of the Articles cited from in this episode:newint.org/2024/africas-pandoras-boxkh-uia.org.il/about-us/governors/martin-moshal/sajr.co.za/moshal-puts-money-on-better-sa-leadership/dailyinvestor.com/south-africa/32930/anc-da-and-effs-biggest-funders-revealed/Ben White, Israeli Apartheid: A Beginner's GuidePatreon: patreon.com/TheJewishDiasporistYouTube: youtube.com/@JewishDiasporistMakingMenschesInstagram: instagram.com/thejewishdiasporistpod/Endless Gratitude to Aly Halpert for the intro music: open.spotify.com/artist/5ilJZ0nHG41CYddwNuP3f6?si=EH0Uy2JATLK0w-x-IAIIRA

Cognitive dissonance abounds in commercial real estate. On the one hand, the Fed is citing strong employment figures and predicting a soft landing. https://www.afire.org/podcast/202401cast/ And yet, the commercial real estate industry is navigating serious issues in the office sector. Will office distress trigger bank failures? Will those bank failures affect the broader economy? When will interest rates go down? And when they do, will the Fed cut enough to benefit commercial real estate?  In his conversation with AFIRE CEO Gunnar Branson, Moody's Analytics Chief Economist Mark Zandi sounds off on all these topics and more. “If I was at the Fed, I would argue: let's cut rates now,” Zandi says. “Obviously there's a lot of uncertainty, but I think the most likely scenario is June.” Plus: Zandi talks AI, China and other geopolitical risks, and how he expects the upcoming US election will affect market volatility. Listen now on your favorite podcast platform, or watch on the AFIRE YouTube channel.

The latest episode of On the Evidence features Mark Zandi, the chief economist at Moody's Analytics. On the episode, Zandi speaks with Paul Decker, Mathematica's president and chief executive officer, about comprehensive immigration reform, artificial intelligence, labor shortages, remote work, the merits of pursuing a nonacademic career in economic research, and how Zandi seeks to influence politically charged policy debates with data and credibility. Zandi is the author of two books related to the Great Recession and hosts the Inside Economics podcast. A video version of the episode as well as a full transcript is available at https://mathematica.org/blogs/mark-zandi-chief-economist-of-moodys-analytics-on-data-driven-decisions-in-public-policy Listen to the Inside Economics podcast that Zandi hosts along with Cris deRitis and Marisa DiNatale for Moody's Analytics: https://www.moodys.com/web/en/us/about/insights/podcasts/moodys-talks-inside-economics.html Read Paul Decker's blog about how Mathematica used evidence to guide the company's approach to reopening in-person offices after the COVID-19 pandemic: https://www.mathematica.org/blogs/letting-evidence-guide-decisions-about-reopening-offices Read an op-ed co-authored by Paul Decker for the website RealClearPolicy, which proposes comprehensive immigration reform and other solutions to address current labor shortages: https://www.realclearpolicy.com/articles/2023/04/25/without_immigration_reform_americas_labor_shortage_is_here_to_stay_895672.html

CBS News royal contributor Tina Brown joins “CBS Mornings” to talk about Princess Kate's cancer announcement and what it means for the royal family.As the Supreme Court prepares to deliberate on its most significant abortion access case since the reversal of Roe v. Wade and the potential for former President Trump's criminal prosecution, it does so without the presence of the long-serving liberal Justice Stephen Breyer, who retired two years ago. Breyer is now spotlighting his judicial philosophy with the release of his new book, "Reading the Constitution.”In the heart of Northern California, Paradise stands as a testament to strength and community spirit. David Begnaud revisits the scene of the 2018 devastating wildfire, the deadliest in the state's history, to uncover a story of loss, hope, and a stolen treasure that brought the community closer together.Zandile Ndhlovu was 28 years old when she snorkeled in the ocean for the first time and fell in love with the sea. Now nicknamed "The Black Mermaid," she is on a mission to make the ocean more inclusive. She's out with a new children's book called "Zandi's Song," about a young girl who transforms into a mermaid, exploring the beauty of the ocean and finding a sense of belonging.Actor Simon Baker is getting rave reviews for his role in the new movie "Limbo." Baker is known for "The Devil Wears Prada," and for seven seasons on the CBS series "The Mentalist." In "Limbo," Baker returns to his Australian roots as Detective Travis Hurley, who's investigating the unsolved murder of an Aboriginal woman.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Recruitment valt nu nog vaak onder de hr-afdeling, is het daar niet een ondergeschoven kindje? En hoe werft recruitmentbureau Timetohire werknemers en zorgt dat ze blijven hangen? Te gast is Milad Zandi, oprichter van Timetohire is te gast in BNR Zakendoen.  Macro met Mujagić  Elke dag een intrigerende gedachtewisseling over de stand van de macro-economie. Op maandag en vrijdag gaat presentator Thomas van Zijl in gesprek met econoom Arnoud Boot, de rest van de week praat Van Zijl met econoom Edin Mujagić.  Lobbypanel  Het was erop of eronder voor de salderingsregeling voor de energiesector. En: zijn de heftige protesten de enige manier voor de boeren om aandacht te generen. Dat en meer bespreken we om 11.10 in het lobbypanel met Arco Timmermans, bijzonder hoogleraar Public Affairs Leiden en Pieter Walraven, Managing partner bij Public Matters  Luister | Lobbypanel: https://www.bnr.nl/podcast/lobbypanel  Contact & Abonneren  BNR Zakendoen zendt elke werkdag live uit van 11:00 tot 13:30 uur. Je kunt de redactie bereiken via e-mail.  Abonneren op de podcast van BNR Zakendoen kan via bnr.nl/zakendoen, of via Apple Podcast en Spotify. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

When Rachel McCoy and Dr. Zandi Ndlovu laced up their running shoes during lockdown, little did they know that they'd cross marathon finish lines in their mid-40s and at 50, rewriting their own narratives and shattering age expectations. Our latest episode is a testament to their extraordinary journeys, packed with laughter, resilience, and the sheer joy of running that knows no age. These women, who once cheered from the sidelines, now inspire us as they share the transformative power of putting one foot in front of the other, and how support from loved ones has amplified their triumphs.Our conversation flows into the mental tenacity that marathon training demands, and the personal victories beyond the physical feat. The stories shared here are about more than just running; they're about the mental fortitude it builds within us. Rachel and Zandi recount the visceral thrill of the crowd's energy at the London Marathon and how it catalyzed their own leap from spectators to participants. This episode celebrates the unexpected paths to empowerment and the remarkable realization that what seemed insurmountable can become a cherished part of our identity.Lastly, we unfold the fabric of the running community, a network of support likened to a family that extends far beyond the track. To those contemplating their first stride, know that it is never too late to join this invigorating tribe. We delve into the practicalities and spiritual connections of group runs, and how virtual platforms have bolstered our bonds, especially in a world slowly emerging from isolation. Whether you're seeking advice on starting out or contemplating your next big race, let Rachel, Zandi, and The Start Line be your cheerleaders on this exhilarating journey of self-discovery and communal celebration.We'd love to hear from you, so please follow us on Instagram or Facebook by searching for @thestartlinepod.  You can also follow the show on your favourite podcast provider or at our website thestartlinepod.com.  We'd also love to stay in touch, so don't forget to subscribe to our email list so that we can notify you when the latest episode is coming out!Follow Rachel on Instagram -  @justrach2023Follow Zandi on Instagram - @zandi__ndlovuSupport the show

Menopause Whist Black Season 5 Episode 10!  The Finale! Our guest this week is Dr Zandile Ndlovu @zandi__ndvolu. Zimbabwean, Dr Zandile Ndlovu is the daughter of political activists who fled Rhodesia in the sixties. Zandie worked in D&I within the financial sector before bringing her considerable expertise and passion for equity and equality to her current role as Head of Consulting of an award-winning HR advisory firm.  She was recently awarded her doctorate (WOOP!) which explores the phenomenon of ‘inclusion' in order to create organisational cultural shifts. Zandi thought she had dodged a peri-menopause bullet for a few years until she found herself developing obvious symptoms - especially the dreaded hot flushes. But it was at a party where a friend mentioned how she was managing her own menopause that Zandi started to take steps towards her own care.  ‘Zandi'  offers some insight into her menopause experience touching on the following topics: The validation in seeing herself reflected back on TV Reconciling childlessness and perimenopause Speaking up and the power of sisterhood Private vs NHS menopause care Her unexpected love of running. …and so much more. Zandi celebrates herself in such a beautifully joyful way. We hope that you'll be encouraged to tangibly big yourself up regularly too! This episode is available to watch on YouTube and listen on iTunes, Spotify, Amazon or wherever you get your aural candy. If Zandi's story or any of the previous episodes resonate with you, don't forget to share with others who may benefit!  You can also leave a comment or positive review on your chosen platform as this goes a long way to getting us to the people who need these words.  We'll be back with Season SIX after a well deserved break. Keep talking, lovelies. Let's normalise menopause everywhere!   CONNECT Zandi on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/zandi__ndvolu/  NOTES Online Menopause Clinic London based Black running crew Emancipated Run Crew New to running? Couch to 5K iOS | Android Help with your running - Nike running app. Run-cation fun! The Race, Atlanta  Karens travel treat Away luggage Davina McCall: Sex, Myths and the Menopause Stress help Headspace app Please note: These episodes are conversations between humans discussing their own menopause experiences. They are no substitute for advice and consultation with a qualified health professional. No two menopause experiences are the same so do remember to do your own research. Don't forget to subscribe wherever you listen or hop over to YouTube for your visual fix and recommend to a friend (or three) you think would enjoy this episode.  Jiggle your bits to our Spotify Playlist Email the show: thekarenarthur@mail.com Like, subscribe, follow and rate Menopause whilst Black on Instagram, Facebook and YouTube. Karen Arthur is a menopause activist and campaigner and host of this podcast plus a new bi-weekly weekend radio show on Golddust radio 'Can We Talk'. Listen to the latest episode on Soundcloud:  *We recognise that inclusive language is important in ensuring that ALL who experience menopause are seen and heard. The term ‘women' is used whilst mindful of this. Join our mailing list.  Team MWB: Producer and Editor: Beyongolia Productions   Digital design and communications: Yaa Studio Space  

With a career spanning over four decades, Steve Earle has proven himself a master storyteller and one of the most acclaimed singer-songwriters of his generation. In 1986, his record Guitar Town, was released to wide-spread critical acclaim, shooting to number one on the country charts, and is today, regarded as a classic of the Americana genre. While he first won an audience as a country artist, it didn't take long for him to demonstrate that designation was too narrow for him. His rough neck poetics, outspoken and unapologetic lyrical stance, and literate yet down to earth musings, have captivated audiences across genres, with his music running the gamut from country, bluegrass, and folk to the blues, roots, and rock. With 22 studio albums under his belt, he has found room for both personal and the political, often writing about the stuff of everyday life and the forces that shape and define our existence. Some of his most notable releases including his commercial breakthrough Copperhead Road (1988), and Grammy Award winning records The Revolution Starts...Now (2004), Washington Square Serenade (2007), and TOWNES (2009). The versatility in his discography, the strength of his work, and consistent critical acclaim has helped Earle attract a loyal following, who are more than happy to continue following his stylistic evolution. Cut from the same cloth as legendary folk singer-songwriters like Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, and Joni Mitchell, Zandi Holup's raw brand of original folk country flourishes through raw unfiltered storytelling reminiscent of Dolly Parton and emphasized by her emotive vocals. Her edgy, deeply emotional lyrics and unique voice set her apart. She sings about the good, the bad, and the ugly. Her music is a voice for the unheard. A Grassroots following placed her on the map as snippets of demos and unreleased songs resonated across social media in increasing numbers. Her first release, “Wait for You,” sat at No. 1 on the all-genre Spotify Fresh Finds playlist, amassing over a million streams with no promotion outside of her TikTok following. Named a 2023 Artist to Watch by The Nashville Briefing, Holup signed a publishing deal with Arthouse Entertainment and TurnTable Music in partnership with Universal Music Publishing, and a record deal with Big Loud Records in 2023.     EPISODE CREDITSMichael Perry - Host Phillip Anich - Announcer Keenan McIntyre - Engineer Gina Nagro - Marketing Support FOLLOW BIG TOP CHAUTAUQUA https://www.facebook.com/bigtopchautauqua/ https://www.instagram.com/bigtopchautauqua/ https://www.tiktok.com/@bigtopchautauqua https://twitter.com/BigBlueTent FOLLOW HOST MICHAEL PERRYhttps://sneezingcow.com/ https://www.facebook.com/sneezingcow https://www.instagram.com/sneezingcow/ https://twitter.com/sneezingcow/ 2024 TENT SHOW RADIO SPONSORSAshland Area Chamber of Commerce - https://www.visitashland.com/  Bayfield Chamber and Visitor Bureau - https://www.bayfield.org/  Bayfield County Tourism - https://www.bayfieldcounty.wi.gov/150/Tourism  The Bayfield Inn - https://bayfieldinn.com/  Cable Area Chamber of Commerce - https://www.cable4fun.com/  SPECIAL THANKSWisconsin Public Radio - https://www.wpr.org/ 

This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp. Give online therapy a try at betterhelp.com/MASTYORASTY and get on your way to being your best self.-------------------------Rana is a cognitive designer passionate about pushing the boundaries of design and exploring the fascinating realm of Human-Computer Interaction. Besides her studies about consciousness she also has an only fans. We talk about all of these things on this episode. -------------------------To learn more about psychedelic therapy go to my brother Mehran's page at: https://www.mindbodyintegration.ca/ or to https://www.legacyjourneys.ca/ for his next retreat.***Masty o Rasty is not responsible for, or condone, the views and opinions expressed by our guests ******مستی و راستی هیچگونه مسولیتی در برابر نظرها و عقاید مهمان‌های برنامه ندارد.***-------------------------King Raam Tour:Melbourne - Feb 16Sydney - Feb 17London - Apr 20Toronto - June 14kingraam.com/tourSupport the showSocial Media: @kingraam Voice Messages: www.t.me/mastyorasty Merch: www.kingraam.com/merch NFT: www.foundation.app/kingraam Donations: paypal.me/raamemami Venmo: @kingraam

The train is leaving the station - get on or get run over. Inflation is turning and now there is what? Fed rally - just in time for Christmas. PLUS we are now on Spotify and Amazon Music/Podcasts! Click HERE for Show Notes and Links DHUnplugged is now streaming live - with listener chat. Click on link on the right sidebar. Love the Show? Then how about a Donation? Follow John C. Dvorak on Twitter Follow Andrew Horowitz on Twitter Warm Up - AND it is LIVE - CTP Cup for 2024 - More layoffs - End pf year - bullish sentiment and candy cane dreams - AMAZING - NOW Deflation is starting to bubble up - Fed-Ex Earnings... Market Update - Data matters - but only bull case - Yields - next stop? What is it saying about the future economy? - Adobe M&A stopage - Homebuilders - hitting new highs - Hacking - another hit - Supply Chain Redux? Fed Rally - Then Chill - This is getting out of hand... - Just days after a Federal Reserve meeting that penciled in an ample course of interest rate cuts next year, which in turn unleashed a broad rally in financial markets, one of the U.S. central bank's top policymakers pushed back on the ebullience on Friday. - "We aren't really talking about rate cuts right now," New York Fed President John Williams said in an interview with CNBC.  (WHAT????) - When it comes to the question of lowering rates, "I just think it's just premature to be even thinking about that" as the central bank continues to mull whether monetary policy is in the right place to help guide inflation back to its 2% target, he said. DEFLATION concept entering the market - Deflation is happening on the "goods" side of the U.S. economy, or the tangible objects that Americans buy, economists said. - For one, a strong U.S. dollar makes imported goods cheaper. Some of those savings get passed on to consumers, said Mark Zandi, chief economist of Moody's Analytics. ----- A strong dollar is a likely contributor to deflation in certain categories like household furniture and appliances, Zandi said. Additionally, weaker demand may be a factor: Households that spent liberally on home goods in the early days of Covid-19 lockdowns are likely no longer doing so, he added. --- Broadly, the pandemic snarled global supply chains, causing shortages that fueled big spikes in prices. Energy costs surged when Russia invaded Ukraine, pushing up transportation and other distribution costs. ------ Now, supply-chain disruptions are largely in the rearview mirror, economists said. The Global Supply Chain Pressure Index, for example, has fallen back to pre-pandemic levels from historic highs at the end of 2021. - Some prices, like those for airline tickets and eggs, are also falling back to earth after hitting record-high levels. The latter, for example, soared largely due to a historically deadly bout of avian flu among egg-laying hens. Egg and airline ticket prices are down about 22% and 12% in the past year, according to CPI data. Year Over Year November - Not Seasonally Adjusted - Does not include rents/housing. ( A big part of the the CPI index) Deflation - Food/Energy Deflation - All Items (X) Red Sea - War is hell - now ships diverted - Have to go around Cape Horn adding massive time for deliveries - Will this cause any price hikes? - Oil Prices? FedEx Earnings - FedEx shares tumbled 8% in after-hours trading Tuesday after the package-delivery giant lowered its revenue forecast as weaker demand hit sales. - The company said it expects a low-single-digit decline in revenue for the fiscal year, down from a previous forecast for flat sales year-over-year - less that analysts predicted. - It's the second consecutive quarter FedEx has lowered its sales outlook. - Meanwhile - Apple lowered its numbers for several quarters and the stock still rallies (Buybacks) Layoffs Auto - General Motors plans to lay off about 1,300 workers in Michigan starting early next year due to ve...

Svētki ne vienmēr ir tikai priecīgi notikumi. It īpaši Ziemassvētki un gadu mija. Problēmas var sagādāt dažādās gaumes, kā svinēt, vilšanās par notiekošo, pienākuma sajūta, kuras dēļ darām to, ko paši nemaz nevēlamies darīt, dāvanu tēriņi un klapatas to sagādē vai "kur tās likt". Kādam svētkos ir drīzāk skumīgi, nekā priecīgi. Citam svētkos apskrienas dūša no ģimenes kārtējās kasīšanās vai pat drāmas. Kad Cilvēkjaudas auditorijai jautāju, kas uztrauc vai sāp gaidāmo svētku sakarā, saņēmu daudz atbilžu.Ko darīt nevieglajās situācijās, lai svētki "neiznes smadzenes", bet ir patīkamāki, nekā līdz šim, es jautāju psiholoģijas zinātņu doktorei un kognitīvi biheiviorālajai terapeitei, supervizorei Diānai Zandei. Viņas skaidrojumi varētu ne tikai iedot idejas, kā risināt sarežģījumus, kas saistīti ar svētkiem, bet pat noslēgt mieru ar tiem. Tagad man ir vēl lielāks pamats visiem klausītājiem vēlēt: "Gaišus svētkus!"Šī ir jau trešā saruna ar Diānu Zandi. Pirmā bija par drošu piesaisti un tās ietekmi uz cilvēka dzīvi, bet otrā - kā veidot veselīgākas attiecības ar saviem vecākiem.Vairāk informācijas sarunas lapā.SARUNAS PIETURPUNKTI:2:58 “Svētki ir daļa no dzīves, uz tiem attiecas tieši tie paši principi”9:01 “Ģimene strādā pēc sistēmas principa” – kāpēc kopā sanākšana svētkos bieži vien beidzas ar konfliktiem21:47 Metodes, kā saglabāt mieru situācijās, kas draud beigties ar emocionālu sprādzienu37:43 “Neuzstādīt nevienam notikumam dzīvē obligātības pieskaņu”39:47 Sezonalitāte un grūtsirdība, kā to pastiprina uzsvērtais priecāšanās uzstādījums41:45 “Jūtas ir īstas, bet jūtas nav fakti” – risinājumi, ja svētku laikā jūties bēdīgi49:30 Kā nejusties vainīgam, ja vēlies priecāties53:11 “Bērni nav vecāki saviem vecākiem” – kā atrisināt vientuļo vecāku jautājumu svētkos58:54 Ieteikumi, kā neiekrist sevis žēlošanā, ja svētkos esi viens1:08:58 Mana māte, tava māte, vīra māte, sievas māte – saspringtu situāciju izrullēšanas varianti1:16:54 Jautājums, ko sev ir vērtīgi uzdot, par katriem svētkiem1:21:52 “... tie gudrie nāca un dāvināja. Vai mēs atceramies, kāpēc mēs vispār dāvinām dāvanas?”1:26:50  Idejas un risinājumi, lai dāvanu jautājums šajos Ziemassvētkos būtu vairāk priecīgs un mazāk mokošs1:31:12 Ieteikumi, kā praktiski un emocionāli atrisināt situācijas, kad tev uzdāvina lietas, kas galīgi neiet pie sirds1:40:42 Dāvanas kā mīlestības valoda – vai tā piemīt katram cilvēkam1:47:46 Svētki un alkohols. Kā risināt situācijas ar pārmēru iereibušiem tuviem un tālākiem radiniekiem1:55:41 Neiekrist ilūziju valgos par ideālajiem svētkiemBez Cilvēkjaudas fanu finansiālā atbalsta mēs nevaram turpināt podkāstu. Mēs to saņemsim, ja tu pieteiksies uz nodarbības ierakstu par to, kā izveidot savu jaudas rokasgrāmatu, lai uzturētu iekšējo spēku un dzīvesprieku. Piesakies: cilvekjauda.lv/izveido-rokasgramatu un esi atbalsts, lai Cilvēkjauda arī turpmāk visiem ir pieejama bez maksas. Bez Cilvēkjaudas fanu finansiālā atbalsta mēs nevaram turpināt podkāstu. Mēs to saņemsim, ja tu pieteiksies uz nodarbības ierakstu par to, kā izveidot savu jaudas rokasgrāmatu, lai uzturētu iekšējo spēku un dzīvesprieku. Piesakies: cilvekjauda.lv/izveido-rokasgramatu un esi atbalsts, lai Cilvēkjauda arī turpmāk visiem ir pieejama bez maksas.

THE BLACK MERMAID Zandile Ndhlovu is the founder of The Black Mermaid Foundation, an organization dedicated to changing mindsets and bringing people (particularly for Black and Brown people) closer to the ocean. She is South Africa's first Black free-diving instructor and through this work, Zandi is providing equitable access to nature and showing that our beliefs about the ocean can coexist with exploring its depths. Our conversation is an exploration of how she came to this work and how it has evolved over the years. Zandi's story is one of resilience and transformation. Before becoming a free-diving instructor, she was navigating racism in corporate South Africa. After exiting this world, she used her experiences as a catalyst for change, leading her to establish her own consultancy. And that was just the beginning. As you listen, you'll discover how she carved out her path to becoming a visible and prominent figure in the world of sustainability.  Dive into Zandi's world of storytelling, and you'll find yourself captivated by her tales of teaching children from townships about the ocean and the joy she finds in it. You'll also hear about her children's book, "Zandi's Song," a transformative story that has been essential to furthering her cause. She is a testament to the power of dreams, the beauty of the ocean, and the strength in breaking barriers. LINKS AND MENTIONS The Black Mermaid Film Zandi's Ted Talk – You can watch Zandi's Ted Talk here Explore other stories of black women doing incredible things in water here Support the showNEWSLETTER, stay in the loop and subscribe to our newsletterLISTEN ON Apple and Spotify FOLLOW US ON Instagram and FacebookSUPPORT this work so that we can keep it free. Become a MONTHLY SUPPORTER

In today's episode I'm chatting with Zandi Ndhlovu – an ocean explorer, South Africa's first Black woman free diving instructor and the founder of the Black Mermaid Foundation. Zandi discovered free diving when she was 28, and fell in love with this beautiful practice and the underwater world. Ever since she's been using her voice to advocate for more diversity and access in the ocean space and change the narrative that black people don't belong in the ocean.Through the Black Mermaid Foundation she started in 2020 in Cape Town, she teaches local kids how to swim and helps them discover the wonders of the ocean through snorkeling. She told me how she realised that working with kids had a much broader impact on the community, as they come home from a snorkeling adventure and tell their parents all about what they have learned and discovered that day. She also said that kids are the leaders and decision makers of tomorrow, and so by getting them to understand the ocean, they will learn to love it and want to protect it. She told me how they're usually terrified of getting into the water but once they do, they gradually learn to love it and marvel at the beauty of what they see.Want to dive deeper?The Black Mermaid Foundation - https://www.blackmermaid.co.za/home-1To get in touch with the foundation directly - blackmermaidinfo@gmail.comWatch WaterBear's documentary about Zandi - https://www.waterbear.com/watch/the-black-mermaidCome say hi!Zandi on Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/zandithemermaid/The Black Mermaid Foundation on Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/theblackmermaid_foundationWhy We Care on Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/whywecarepodcast/Tiphaine on Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/tiphainemarie_/Discover Earth on Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/discoverearth/If you enjoyed the episode and want to help the podcast, I would be super grateful if you could leave a little review or share it with a friend who might like it. A big thank you as well to Discover Earth for partnering with Why We Care and helping raise awareness of the importance of ocean conservation.Thank you for caring and sending you lots of love! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Season 18, Episode 17: Weekly Roundup The US Regional Championships are in the books, where Pioneer took the spotlight once again. 1200 players descended upon Dreamhack Dallas to do battle with the strongest decks in the format, and put the newcomer Boros Convoke (”Boros Hogaak”) to the test. In the end, it was Engimatic Fires that ran the tables in the swiss, and Rakdos Sacrifice and Azorius Spirits that posted the top winrates overall. Boros, meanwhile, languished at a mere 47% win rate, and stock Rakdos Midrange (the most popular deck by far) performed even worse. Lawson Zandi returns to analyze the state of Pioneer and share his findings testing for the event. What went wrong for Boros, and what can we expect going foward? Lawson and Cavedan also pick out under the radar sleepers from the RC, including a brand new Inverter-style combo using Archfiend of the Dross and Metamorphic Alteration. Like our content? Support us on Patreon and join our brewing community! Decklists for this episode can be viewed at FaithlessBrewing.com Decklists Mono Green Devotion vs Lotus Field Matchup Strategy Enigmatic Fires by Elliot Raff Dimir Rogues by Toph Robinson Boros Convoke by Max McVety Mono Green Devotion by Evart Moughon Rakdos Goblins by Luke Goodwin Neoform Atraxa by Brent Waggoner Archfiend Alteration by cftsoc

Season 18, Episode 17: Weekly Roundup The US Regional Championships are in the books, where Pioneer took the spotlight once again. 1200 players descended upon Dreamhack Dallas to do battle with the strongest decks in the format, and put the newcomer Boros Convoke (”Boros Hogaak”) to the test. In the end, it was Engimatic Fires that ran the tables in the swiss, and Rakdos Sacrifice and Azorius Spirits that posted the top winrates overall. Boros, meanwhile, languished at a mere 47% win rate, and stock Rakdos Midrange (the most popular deck by far) performed even worse. Lawson Zandi returns to analyze the state of Pioneer and share his findings testing for the event. What went wrong for Boros, and what can we expect going foward? Lawson and Cavedan also pick out under the radar sleepers from the RC, including a brand new Inverter-style combo using Archfiend of the Dross and Metamorphic Alteration. Like our content? Support us on Patreon and join our brewing community! Decklists for this episode can be viewed at FaithlessBrewing.com Decklists Mono Green Devotion vs Lotus Field Matchup Strategy Enigmatic Fires by Elliot Raff Dimir Rogues by Toph Robinson Boros Convoke by Max McVety Mono Green Devotion by Evart Moughon Rakdos Goblins by Luke Goodwin Neoform Atraxa by Brent Waggoner Archfiend Alteration by cftsoc

I'm doing something new on this week's episode of the Own Your Business Podcast.  Over the past 90+ episodes, I've done a few different types of approaches: Me talking about a specific topic Having Katy, my wife and copywriting expert, on to talk shop with me about websites Bringing on an expert, like Katelyn Magnuson or Sara Dunn, in a specific field to share their expertise where we can't Industry stars, like KT Merry and Shannon Leahy, to share their journey to the top Today, we're going to add a fifth type of episode, and that's a client case study. Done before on video lives over the past few winters, and even a couple times in early 2022 on the podcast, and we've had great responses from the audience. I'm folding them into the content calendar over the next several months because it's helpful to hear the transformation people go through to get from where they are to where they want to be. Information is good. Don't get me wrong. But the hills people climb and hurdles they have to overcome make it interesting. And show us that success doesn't happen overnight. Everyone struggles. Including me!  And my clients, when they first come to me.  It takes courage to ask for help. The three hardest words for any business owner or boss are often, I don't' know. That's exactly what Romin, today's guest, said to me when he first reached out five years ago. Things were going well for him, but he know he hadn't reached his full potential. He didn't know what he didn't know, but he knew that much - and that was all he needed when he first reached out. Romin and I were on a call yesterday, in fact, and he said he's the happiest he's been as a person, and feels more fulfilled as a business owner than he's ever been. Enjoy the conversation about how he got there. It's a good one.

Season 18, Episode 7: Brew Session (Yargle and Multani) What if they printed a creature with LITERAL DEATHTOUCH FOR PLAYERS? No, I'm not talking about that pesky Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer. Not talking about Phage, the Untouchable either. No, I'm talking about everyone's favorite Frog Spirit. Yargle and Multani is a foolish card. An insipid card. A team-up no one asked for that earned, at best, a mirthless chuckle during previews. And yet… it has 18 power. Is 18 power the same as literal deathtouch for players? Not quite, but it's tantalizingly close. Cavedan has Frog Stew on the brain, and the craving won't go away until he does his darnedest to convert Yargle's 18 power into damage applied directly to the face. He's been rummaging around in the bulk bins pulling out every copy of Cragganwick Cremator, Morgue Burst, Voldaren Thrillseeker, and Manifold Key he can find, with a little help from Goryo's Vengeance and Shadowspear. For a card with no text, Yargle and Multani allows a surprising number of Modern brews. Meanwhile, Lawson Zandi has been on an insane quest of his own. Lawson is a full hundred matches deep with Windbrisk Heights brews in Modern, and while he has yet to post any 5-0s, he's been winning at a steady 67% clip. Can he crack the code on Hideaway and finally snag that trophy? More importantly, can he save Cavedan from himself before all his tickets are incinerated on terrible Frog brews?   Like our content? Support us on Patreon and join our brewing community!   Decklists for this episode can be viewed at FaithlessBrewing.com   Timestamps [3:05] Brewing with Windbrisk Heights [21:06] Bad Ideas: Yargle and Multani Combos [27:34] Rakdos Cragganwick Kitchen [32:56] Gruul Yargle's Kitchen [37:50] Gruul Cragganwick Evolution [44:57] Final thoughts [47:27] Postscript: In the Heights

Season 18, Episode 7: Brew Session (Yargle and Multani) What if they printed a creature with LITERAL DEATHTOUCH FOR PLAYERS? No, I'm not talking about that pesky Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer. Not talking about Phage, the Untouchable either. No, I'm talking about everyone's favorite Frog Spirit. Yargle and Multani is a foolish card. An insipid card. A team-up no one asked for that earned, at best, a mirthless chuckle during previews. And yet… it has 18 power. Is 18 power the same as literal deathtouch for players? Not quite, but it's tantalizingly close. Cavedan has Frog Stew on the brain, and the craving won't go away until he does his darnedest to convert Yargle's 18 power into damage applied directly to the face. He's been rummaging around in the bulk bins pulling out every copy of Cragganwick Cremator, Morgue Burst, Voldaren Thrillseeker, and Manifold Key he can find, with a little help from Goryo's Vengeance and Shadowspear. For a card with no text, Yargle and Multani allows a surprising number of Modern brews. Meanwhile, Lawson Zandi has been on an insane quest of his own. Lawson is a full hundred matches deep with Windbrisk Heights brews in Modern, and while he has yet to post any 5-0s, he's been winning at a steady 67% clip. Can he crack the code on Hideaway and finally snag that trophy? More importantly, can he save Cavedan from himself before all his tickets are incinerated on terrible Frog brews?   Like our content? Support us on Patreon and join our brewing community!   Decklists for this episode can be viewed at FaithlessBrewing.com   Timestamps [3:05] Brewing with Windbrisk Heights [21:06] Bad Ideas: Yargle and Multani Combos [27:34] Rakdos Cragganwick Kitchen [32:56] Gruul Yargle's Kitchen [37:50] Gruul Cragganwick Evolution [44:57] Final thoughts [47:27] Postscript: In the Heights

Ryan Donovan is the President of the Council of Federal Home Loan Banks.The Council is dedicated to enhancing public awareness and understanding of the Federal Home Loan Bank System. It is the primary public voice of the FHLBank System and its function is to represent the positions and views of its members to Washington, DC policymakers. The FHLBank System was created by the Federal Home Loan Bank Act of 1932 as a government sponsored enterprise to support mortgage lending and community investment. The System is composed of 11 regional banks which are privately capitalized and owned as cooperatives by their members. Their regional distribution enables each bank to focus on the distinct needs of their individual communities.While only financial institutions may belong to a FHLBank, people everywhere benefit from them. Each year, the FHLBanks provide access to billions of dollars in low-cost funding to approximately 6,600 of America's banks, credit unions, insurance companies and community development financial institutions. Without access to FHLBank advances, most members would find it difficult to support lending within their community. FHLBanks carry out their core mission of providing liquidity by raising funds in the global financial markets, then lending that money in the form of “advances” (loans) to members and local communities. Each FHLBank is operated independently and receives no taxpayer assistance. Each bank is registered with the SEC and is supervised and regulated by the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA). The Office of Finance serves as the fiscal agent for the FHLBanks. The new paper from Jim Parrott and Mark Zandi is an opening salvo in what will likely be a high-stakes battle over the future of the lenders. The FHLB system has come under fire in recent weeks for loans made to now-collapsed financial institutions Silicon Valley Bank, Signature Bank and Silvergate Capital Corp. FHLB loans come with favorable interest rates due to implied US government backing, despite the banks being cooperatives owned by financial institutions. Critics say they can encourage risky behavior by financial firms.However, Parrott, a former Obama administration housing adviser, and Zandi, chief economist at Moody's Analytics, said on Tuesday that the FHLBs are vital sources of liquidity for financial institutions and act as a “first responder” in crises. If anything, the system should be expanded, they said in an Urban Institute paper. “Without the FHLBs, these downturns in the economic cycle would have been significantly more painful, with greater swings in the cost and availability of credit, exacting greater damage on the economy,” they wrote. Week of SVB: The Federal Home Loan Bank System issued $304 billion in debt last week, according to a person familiar with the matter, who asked not to be identified discussing non-public data.That's almost double the $165 billion that liquidity-hungry lenders tapped from the Federal Reserve. The Next to Last Resort

"If it bleeds, it leads!" This week, Briana and special guest Ian Zandi try to convince Cozi to watch the 2014 crime thriller Nightcrawler. Jake Gyllenhaal plays Lou Bloom, a persistent and intelligent conman who gets into the dark business of crime journalism, selling footage of the bloodiest crimes and accidents to local news stations. With an excellent performance from Gyllenhaal, a smart and thrilling screenplay, and more, will Cozi give this film a shot? Listen and find out! Recommendations: Ian – Andor (TV series) on Disney+ Cozi – The insane French comedy Smoking Causes Coughing (2022) Bri – I Love That For You (TV series) on Showtime --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/youneedtoseethis/support

Season 18, Episode 2: Brewer's Guide to March of the Machine, Vol. 2 The hits keep coming for March of the Machine. There's so much to unpack, we needed brewing reinforcements, so we brought back special guest Lawson Zandi to help make sense of it all. Chrome Host Seedshark has the potential to dominate battlefields in multiple formats. The power of Shark Typhoon on a 3 drop opens up explosive lines with free spells and cost reduction spells, and works with artifact synergies as well. New Convoke removal spells like Pile On or Temporal Cleansing could be a piece of the puzzle. In Modern, Surge of Salvation is a huge boon for Hammer Time, providing counterplay against Force of Vigor and Rakdos Scam alike. Deeproot Wayfinder has echoes of Ragavan and Wrenn and Six. It dies to removal, but joins a roster of kill-on-sight creatures that can rapidly deplete the opponent's interaction. And don't rule out Omen Hawker, which provides explosive mana that fuels infinite combos with Freed from the Real, or powers up Urza's Saga and Elvish Reclaimer. Which cards have what it takes for Modern and Pioneer? We will find out in just two short weeks. Like our content? Support us on Patreon and join our brewing community! Decklists for this episode can be viewed at FaithlessBrewing.com Timestamps [1:33] Updates on Shining Shoal [7:06] Housekeeping [9:05] Another perspective on Battles [14:05] Invasion of Regatha — Furnace Disciples [17:10] Omen Hawker [21:37] Captive Weird — Compleated Conjurer [24:44] Surge of Salvation [28:27] Pile On [31:06] Temporal Cleansing [34:09] Invasion of Mercadia — Kyren Flamewright [36:48] Dusk Legion Duelist [40:02] Ozolith, Shattered Spire [41:34] Deeproot Wayfinder [44:48] Errant and Giada [48:04] Guardian of Ghirapur [51:27] Sword of Once and Future [54:01] Voldaren Thrillseeker [56:51] Polukranos Reborn — Polukranos, Engine of Ruin [1:01:07] Chrome Host Seedshark [1:08:45] Halo Forager [1:11:06] Ayara, Widow of the Realm — Ayara, Furnace Queen [1:13:31] Tribute to the World Tree [1:17:12] Baral and Kari Zev [1:21:18] Invasion of Dominaria — Serra Faithkeeper

Season 18, Episode 2: Brewer's Guide to March of the Machine, Vol. 2     Like our content? Support us on Patreon and join our brewing community! Decklists for this episode can be viewed at FaithlessBrewing.com

The chief economist of Moody's Analytics joins host Shirin Mohammadi to discuss the US Federal Reserve's recent rate decision and response to banking stress, recession risks and more. Speaker: Mark Zandi, Chief Economist, Moody's AnalyticsHost: Shirin Mohammadi, VP – Senior Research Writer, Moody's Investors Service

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Season 17, Episode 14: Brew Session (Shining Shoal) + Lord of the Rings First Look Shining Shoal is well on its way to becoming a Modern staple. It provides massive swings in a red-heavy metagame and generally terrorizes the combat step against creature decks. It is also one of the trickier cards in the format, both in understanding its niche interactions and in finding the correct shell to harness its power. Today on Faithless Brewing we welcome special guest Lawson Zandi (Zanman on MTGO) who has played some 50 leagues with Shining Shoal in various configurations, stacking up trophies in the process. Lawson explains the strengths and weaknesses of the original Shining Humans list with Chancellor of the Annex, the transition to Hatebears and Taxes strategies using Ondu Inversion, and the possibilities of Leyline Binding in a “5 color Mono White” manabase. We also take a first look at The One Ring (which one co-host describes as “the most powerful planeswalker legal in Modern”) and track new developments with Atraxa, Grand Unifier. Like our content? Support us on Patreon and join our brewing community! Decklists for this episode can be viewed at FaithlessBrewing.com Timestamps [2:45] Q&A with Lawson Zandi [6:55] Housekeeping [7:33] Lord of the Rings First Look [9:48] Gandalf the Grey [14:13] The One Ring [20:47] The 2023 Hunter Burton Memorial Open [24:22] Brew Session: Shining Shoal [35:30] Shining Humans by Hank the Obese [44:07] UW Shoal Hatebears by Zanman [50:47] Mono White Ponza by Zanman [59:18] 5c Mono White Stoneblade by Zanman [1:09:00] The future of Shining Shoal [1:12:34] Dan's pick: Neoform Atraxa [1:16:53] Lawson's pick: Atraxa Goryo's More from Lawson: https://faithlessbrewing.podbean.com/e/wild-modern-with-lawson-zandi/

Season 17, Episode 14: Brew Session (Shining Shoal) + Lord of the Rings First Look   Like our content? Support us on Patreon and join our brewing community! Decklists for this episode can be viewed at FaithlessBrewing.com

In this weeks episode, we go behind the scenes of Zandi Land, a beauty line for pre and post hair removal. My Instagram- @tampawaxer Guest speaker- Zandilandproducts TWP Facbook group- The Waxing Podcast TWP Brazilian Online Training- Thewaxingguide.com *Use code PODCAST10 to save 10% on The Waxing Guide

In this episode, Tim talks with Zandi Ndhlovu, the Black Mermaid, about free diving, bull sharks, peace, and finding one's self. This is, without a doubt, one of Tim's favorite conversations. You may listen to this one twice...! To learn more about Zandi, or to learn from her, check her out here: https://www.blackmermaid.co.za/home-1 --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/original-strength/support

Ian joins Jennifer and David on a Bridge to discuss LA Improv and Standup, how he got started, and how his imdb page displays his degree status. Ian Zandi is an LA-based comedian jack-of-all-trades. With origins based in improv/sketch training, Ian uses those skills in his current pursuits as a standup comic.  Ian's work has been featured at various comedy theaters such as Second City and Pack Theater, satire sites including The Onion, and numerous festivals. instagram.com/ianzandi

Unemployment is down but inflation is up. Layoffs are at new lows, but unfilled positions are near record highs. Why are experts calling the economy "weird"? Here to explain is Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody's Analytics. He's the host of Inside Economics podcast, the co-founder of Economy.com, a trusted advisor for policymakers and expert for journalists, business leaders and consumers.According to Zandi, wage growth is strong, but inflationary pressures were mounting before the pandemic. He tells us why the Federal Reserve is feeling the pressure to navigate troubling economic waters. But he also explains why he's not too worried that we are heading into a recession.So why does the Federal Reserve keep raising interest rates? And how does that help us?We may not have all the answers yet, but Zandi will help you understand the shocks jolting the economy, how we're fighting inflation and what's to come.Mark Zandi➤twitter.com/MarkzandiYou can follow Jessica Yellin here:➤Instagram: instagram.com/jessicayellin​➤Twitter: twitter.com/jessicayellin➤Twitter: twitter.com/newsnotnoise➤Facebook: facebook.com/newsnotnoise➤YouTube: youtube.com/newsnotnoise➤Website: NewsNotNoise.com➤Newsletter: newsnotnoise.bulletin.comSupport this work:➤patreon.com/NewsNotNoiseJessica Yellin is the founder of News Not Noise, a channel dedicated to giving you news with real experts and providing facts, not panic attacks. Jessica is a veteran of network news, traveling the globe, covering conflict and crisis. A former Chief White House Correspondent for CNN, she reported from around the world and won awards. Now, Yellin uses her voice to break down the news, calmly and clearly for you -- free of punditry, provocation, and yelling.

In this Real Estate News Brief for the week ending September 17th, 2022... what the job market says about recession, why home prices might be peaking, and how much lot prices have contributed to high home prices.Hi, I'm Kathy Fettke and this is Real Estate News for Investors. If you like our podcast, please subscribe and leave us a review.Economic NewsWe begin with economic news from this past week. Moody's chief economist, Mark Zandy, says “we're not even close” to a recession right now. He spoke at the National Multifamily Housing Council's fall meeting last week. He says it's difficult to even think we're in a recession with such great data on the job market. We've got high job creation numbers, a high number of unfilled positions, a high “quits rate” which means that employees feel confident about quitting one job to find another, and a low number of layoffs. (1)He also says it's likely that GDP numbers will be revised higher, and the average homeowner has about $185,000 in equity with money in the bank. According to Zandi, the only part of the economy that is unhealthy right now is the federal government's debt. But he also says the government has a triple-A rating so he isn't worried about that.One thing he did warn about is the impact of monetary tightening on the housing market because housing costs are a big part of the Consumer Price Index. He says: “The Fed is telling us, ‘We have to raise interest rates,' but this is complicating the situation significantly because now many are having a harder time affording to pay rents. This has or will cause ‘demand destruction' and people will soon have to begin dipping into their bank accounts.”And we did get some big numbers in the latest report on the CPI. The government says the index was up .1% in August, which isn't much, but the core rate was up a worrisome .6%. That's double the increase from July. The Fed considers the core rate a more accurate gauge of inflation because it omits volatile food and energy prices. (2) The annual core rate rose from 5.9% to 6.3% while the overall CPI came down from 8.5% in July to 8.3%.The Producer Price Index also showed al .1% increase in wholesale prices, but the core rate was only up .2%. That brought the core rate down from 5.8% to 5.6%, and the overall rate from 9.8% to 8.7%. (3) Zandi is predicting that inflation will fall to 4% by the end of next year.Consumers are feeling more confident about the economy. The University of Michigan's consumer sentiment survey shows it rose to 59.5 which is a 5-month high, mostly because of lower gas prices. Prices for just about everything else are higher. Consumers are expecting to see a sharp decline in prices over the long term, however. The survey shows they expect to see it drop to 2.8% over the next five years. (4)The big economic news will come from the central bank in the days ahead. Many economists Fed officials to hike the overnight lending rate by a hefty .75% to fight inflation. But some economists say the Fed may go higher than that, with a rate hike of 1%. The last time the Fed raised rates by that much was in 1982. (5)Mortgage RatesMortgage rates rose above the 6% level last week. Freddie Mac says the average 30-year fixed-rate mortgage was up 13 basis points to 6.02%. The 15-year was up 5 points to 5.21%. (6) In other news making headlines...Are Home Prices About to Peak?We could be getting close to a peak in home price growth. Although prices are still rising, the annual rate of growth fell to 11.7% for the week ending September 10th with a national home price median of $435,000. (7)Prices have been growing but slowing at a rate of 15 to 16% in July and 13 to 15% in August. The September numbers represent a substantial slowdown.. Realtor.com's chief economist, Danielle Hale, says: “the rate (of home price growth) took a notable step back this week to the lowest pace since January.” It's also the time of year that home price growth typically slows. In fact, Realtor.com says the best time to buy a home is the end of September. Prices are expected to be about $20,000 lower than they were in June.The latest housing trends also include a 13% drop in new listings, an extra six days on the market, and an average mortgage rate that is now above 6%.Home Lot Prices Still Heading SkywardContributing to high prices for new homes is the cost to purchase buildable lots. The National Association of Home Builders recently issued a report for last year that shows six out of nine census areas hit new records. (8)The NAHB says the national median is now $55,000 per lot with the most expensive lots in New England. They were almost four times as much as the national median, at $200,000. That's mostly due to low-density requirements and larger lots for single-family homes. Lots along the West Coast were the second most expensive with a median of $143,000. Remember, these lots are also smaller than lots in other parts of the country. The Mid-Atlantic had a median of $90,000 and the mountain region had a median of $75,000. The South to South Atlantic and East South Central had the lowest price growth for lots.Declining lot prices were found in a few places including the West South Central, which includes Texas, and the East North Central areas. That's it for today. Check the show notes for links. And please remember to hit the subscribe button, and leave a review!You can also join RealWealth for free at newsforinvestors.com. In addition to becoming part of our RealWealth family, you get access to in-depth rental market data and real estate professionals who can help get you started as an investor. Just click on the “Join for Free” button at the top of our website.Thanks for listening. I'm Kathy Fettke.Links:1 -https://www.globest.com/2022/09/19/mark-zandi-says-were-not-even-close-to-being-in-a-recession/2 -https://www.marketwatch.com/story/coming-up-consumer-price-index-for-august-11663070838?mod=economic-report3 -https://www.marketwatch.com/story/u-s-wholesale-inflation-falls-for-second-month-in-a-row-due-to-cheaper-gas-11663159253?mod=mw_latestnews4 -https://www.marketwatch.com/story/consumer-sentiment-climbs-to-5-month-high-but-americans-still-worried-about-economy-11663337724?mod=economy-politics5 -https://www.mortgagenewsdaily.com/markets/mortgage-rates-091620226 -https://www.freddiemac.com/pmms7 -https://www.realtor.com/news/trends/column-weekly-housing-market-update-notable-turn/8 -https://www.globest.com/2022/09/15/home-lot-values-approach-those-of-2005-housing-boom/

Mark Zandi, who has been an economist for more than three decades, says he's never seen so many people convinced that a recession is imminent. And while he believes the US economy can still avoid an economic downturn, sentiment is so poor that it poses its own risks.  Zandi, the chief economist at Moody's Analytics, joined the “What Goes Up” podcast to discuss his outlook after government data this week showed the highest level of inflation in almost 41 years. “I talk to CEOs, CFOs, investors, friends, family—to the person, they think we're going into recession. I've never seen anything like it,” Zandi says. “When sentiment is so fragile, it's not going to take a whole lot to push us in.” See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Happy Friday Jr. everyone, this is Garrison Hardie stepping in for ya boy, the Chocolate Knox, for Thursday, July 14th, 2022. Before we take a dive into the news, lets talk about our conference! FLF Conference Plug: Folks, our upcoming Fight Laugh Feast Conference is just about 3-months away from happening in Knoxville TN, October 6-8! Don't miss beer & psalms, our amazing lineup of speakers which includes George Gilder, Jared Longshore, Pastor Wilson, Dr. Ben Merkle, Pastor Toby, and we can’t say yet…also dont miss our awesome vendors, meeting new friends, and stuff for the kids too…like jumpy castles and accidental infant baptisms! Also, did you know, you can save money, by signing up for a Club Membership. So, go to FightLaughFeast.com and sign up for a club membership and then register for the conference with that club discount. We can’t wait to fellowship, sing Psalms, and celebrate God’s goodness in Knoxville October 6-8. Now as we talk about heading into our conference in October, that’s heading into the winter time right? Reformation Day, Thanksgiving, Christmas… to me, that’s just really the best time of year. Getting to spend time with your family, the weather is getting colder, (as a ginger that’s great), and we get to celebrate the birth of our savior, Jesus Christ. Well, not if our government has any say over it!!! https://unherd.com/thepost/brace-for-winter-lockdowns/ Brace for winter lockdowns This is from Unherd.com. Many of those who opposed lockdowns for the pandemic, predicted that the policy — if normalised — could one day be taken advantage of by opportunistic political forces to deal with almost any crisis. It was, as Lord Sumption once suggested, a potential pathway to authoritarianism. “If we confer despotic powers on government to deal with perils, which are an ordinary feature of human existence, we will end up doing it most or all of the time,” he wrote in November 2021. Well, we are now facing just such a crisis. And there is a not insignificant chance that lockdowns might be revived, not just as a knee-jerk reaction to cope with a prevailing health crisis, but also, troublingly, an economic one. The monkeypox health scare may have failed to get traction, but as Covid cases begin to rise again, the slow beat of pro-lockdown messaging is beginning to circle again in the mainstream media. For now, the public remains far from receptive. But this could change as soon as energy shortages and supply chain issues begin to bite this winter, which they surely will. The public has already been primed to believe that lockdowns were great for generating energy savings. We saw the evidence of that with our own eyes. Traffic jams disappeared. Oil prices went negative. Air pollution reversed. In the face of late Soviet-style chaos on the streets, unconstrained inflation, not enough electricity to heat the homes of the vulnerable, the prospect of order emanating from the “temporary” suspension of a market economy might seem appealing. It’s even easy to predict the messaging that might feel compelling: ‘Stay Home. Don’t queue. Save Energy.’ Or, ‘Bread and energy is cheap if you stay home!’ But here is why we must not fall for this line of logic. Planned economies are what got us into this mess to begin with. Covid, the war in Ukraine and sanctions against Russia may have all added accelerants to the fire, but the smoulders were burning ever since the 2008 global financial crisis nearly brought down the system. It’s just that the consequences of papering over the flaws in the system rather than properly addressing them only became visible in late 2021. It took 70 years for the communist system to fall apart under the weight of its own capital misallocation. We’ve managed to achieve it in about 14 years. At the heart of the problem is the poorly thought-out subsidisation of negative-sum business models propelled by excessive cheap money in the system. In the communist period, this sort of misdirection was the fault of state bureaucrats who had no idea about what people really wanted. This time it’s been driven by deep-pocketed Western venture capitalists who became convinced that outsized rents from monopoly interests could compensate for short-term non-profitability. That’s not to say the market economy is perfect or free of its own negative externalities. It definitely needs political guidance and a moral backbone to stay on course. But locking people down is not the answer. This only addresses the symptoms, not the cause. Our best path out of this mess is to keep the system as free as possible so that the people themselves can innovate their way out of trouble. Necessity, as they say, is the mother of invention. Allowing human ingenuity to thrive in a free system is our best chance to solve our economic woes. Wow… terrifying stuff. This is what CrossPolitic has been arguing for all along by the way, and maybe that’s a reason why we’ve been banned from Youtube time after time… also, this is another good reason to come to our conference by the way! Our topic seems pretty in line with the story no? https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/who-chief-urges-bring-back-27470930 WHO chief urges 'bring back face masks' as Covid pandemic 'nowhere near over' The World Health Organisation is urging governments to reinstate Covid measures like masking and ventilation as its leader speaks of concerns over an “increasing trend of deaths”. As the British government, along with many others of wealthy countries, have all but abandoned coronavirus restrictions, the WHO director-general Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has said the pandemic is “nowhere near over”. It comes as new ONS figures have today showed that more than 200,000 people in the UK have had Covid-19 recorded on their death certificate since the pandemic began. Infections and hospital admissions are once again on the rise, driven by the coronavirus subvariant Omicron BA.2. Experts have warned that new variants can re-infect even those with some form of antibody immunity, in a matter of weeks. Amid a spike in Covid transmission and increasing hospitalisations, Dr Ghebreyesus urged governments to “deploy tried and tested measures like masking, improved ventilation and test and treat protocols”. "I am concerned that cases of Covid-19 continue to rise - putting further pressure on stretched health systems and health workers," he said. One of the more concerning variants and subvariants being tracked by the WHO was BA.2.75, nicknamed the centaurus. Scientists believe the Covid strain, which was first discovered in May in India, may be able to spread rapidly and infect people regardless of immunity from vaccines and antibodies. Governments were now facing several “interlinked” challenges around their response to coronavirus, Dr Ghebreyesus said, including the Omicron sub-variants and reduced testing and sequencing. He went on to explain that there was a disconnect in Covid-19 risk perception between scientific communities, political leaders and the general public. Another challenge was communicating risk and building community trust in health tools, as well as public health social measures like masking, distancing and ventilation, he said. The pandemic was “nowhere near over”, he said, adding that we were in a better position than at the beginning of the pandemic to push back. While progress had been made in the form of tools preventing hospitalisations and deaths, these should not be taken for granted. Dr Ghebreyesus urged governments to regularly review and adjust their Covid-19 response plans based on changing situations. The idea of restrictions being brought back in the UK was raised on Tuesday if an increase in cases worsens the backlog facing the NHS. The WHO’s warning came just days after a SAGE advisor blasted the Tories for failing to take the urgent action needed to stop huge numbers of hospitalisations and unnecessary deaths. Britain could grind to a standstill as Covid-19 cases surge - but the government’s policy is to ‘shut your eyes and let it rip,’ Susan Michie has warned. Moving on, and back to our bad economy, https://www.yahoo.com/now/rents-us-rise-fastest-pace-161957394.html Rents in US Rise at Fastest Pace Since 1986, Buoying Inflation (Bloomberg) -- Rents rose in the US last month at the fastest pace since 1986, helping to propel overall inflation to a fresh four-decade high. An index measuring rent of a primary residence was 0.8% higher in June than the month before, an acceleration from the 0.6% increase recorded in May, according to the Labor Department’s report on consumer prices published Wednesday. In the 12 months through June, rents were up 5.8% Those costs are soaring across the country as would-be homebuyers get priced out by the fastest-rising mortgage rates in decades and slide back into the overcrowded rental market. But rent growth may be peaking as affordability concerns mount, and a surge in construction of new units is poised to start adding to the available inventory. The Labor Department measure tends to lag behind other estimates, so it is likely that rent increases will contribute to rising inflation in the consumer price index through the rest of this year, according to Mark Zandi, chief economist of Moody’s Analytics. “The big increase in CPI rents is catch-up with the consistent double-digit growth in market rents,” Zandi said. “The good news is that market rents appear to be topping out, as renters are not able to afford the higher rents and are balking. More rental supply is also coming, although this will take a year or two to have a meaningful impact on market rents.” Nearly 836,000 multifamily units are under construction, the most since 1973, according to Jay Parsons, chief economist at RealPage. But most new construction targets higher-income tenants and not the lower end, where supply shortages are most extreme, he said. Rents, along with a category known as owners’ equivalent rent that often moves in tandem, account for more than 30% of the consumer price index, giving them outsize weight in overall inflation trends. Given the close ties between rents and wages, the accelerating pace of increases will keep Federal Reserve officials on an aggressive tightening path. Average hourly earnings for production and nonsupervisory workers rose 6.4% in the 12 months through June and have generally outpaced rents since the pandemic began -- a reversal of the trend that prevailed throughout much of the economic expansion of the 2010s. But the gap has narrowed in recent months as increases in earnings have moderated and rental inflation has accelerated. You know, our economy may be weak, but you don’t want your children’s education to be weak either do you? That’s why you need to talk to our sponsors, Classical Conversations. Classical Conversations supports homeschooling parents by cultivating the love of learning through a Christian worldview in fellowship with other families. We provide a classical Christ-centered curriculum, local like-minded communities across the United States and in several countries, and we train parents who are striving to be great classical educators in the home. For more information and to get connected, please visit our website at ClassicalConversations.com. Again that’s ClassicalConversations.com. Before we go, it’s time for the topic that I love… sports! https://www.yahoo.com/news/lebron-james-says-brittney-griner-175538850.html LeBron James says Brittney Griner should question returning to United States NBA star LeBron James questioned if WNBA star Brittney Griner should return to the United States whenever she is released from her incarceration in Russia. The Los Angeles Lakers star made the comment about the Phoenix Mercury star in a trailer for his show, The Shop, which is scheduled to air on Friday on Uninterrupted's YouTube channel. "Now, how can she feel like America has her back?" James said. "I would be feeling like, 'Do I even want to go back to America?'" James later took to Twitter to clarify his comments. "My comments on 'The Shop' regarding Brittney Griner wasn’t knocking our beautiful country," he tweeted. "I was simply saying how she’s probably feeling emotionally along with so many other emotions, thoughts, etc inside that cage she’s been in for over 100+ days! Long story short #BringHerHome" This isn't the first time James has commented on Griner's situation. In June, he demanded action from Joe Biden and Kamala Harris to bring Griner back to the United States, although now he apparently wonders if she should come back to the U.S. "We need to come together and help do whatever we possibly can to bring BG home quickly and safely!!" James posted on Twitter. "Our voice as athletes is stronger together." Griner has been detained since Feb. 17 after vaping cartridges containing oil derived from cannabis were allegedly found in her luggage while going through an airport outside of Moscow. Interestingly, Phoenix Mercury coach Vanessa Nygaard recently wondered if Griner's situation in Russia would be resolved already if it were James, not Griner that was detained. "If it was LeBron, he'd be home, right?" Nygaard asked. "It's a statement about the value of women. It's a statement about the value of a black person. It's a statement about the value of a gay person. All of those things. We know it, and so that's what hurts a little more." Wait a minute, wait a minute… what is a woman? Is Nygaard a biologist? Here’s the deal, I don’t want Griner to rot in a Russain jail, despite her hateful and uneducated view of America, or the fact that she’s rejecting God’s natural law for marriage, or the fact that she thinks she could beat DeMarcus Cousins in a game of 1-on-1… you get the idea. Keeping image bearers of God in cages is wrong and wicked, and we need to get back to a Biblical form of justice… so here’s hoping she’s out soon. This has been your CrossPolitic Daily News Brief. If you liked the show, hit that share button for me would ya? If you want to sign up for our conference, a magazine subscription, or become a club member… you can do all of that at fightlaughfeast.com! And as always, if you’d like to become a corporate partner of CrossPolitic, let’s talk. Email me, at garrison@fightlaughfeast.com. For CrossPolitic News, I’m Garrison Hardie. Have a great day, and Lord bless.

Happy Friday Jr. everyone, this is Garrison Hardie stepping in for ya boy, the Chocolate Knox, for Thursday, July 14th, 2022. Before we take a dive into the news, lets talk about our conference! FLF Conference Plug: Folks, our upcoming Fight Laugh Feast Conference is just about 3-months away from happening in Knoxville TN, October 6-8! Don't miss beer & psalms, our amazing lineup of speakers which includes George Gilder, Jared Longshore, Pastor Wilson, Dr. Ben Merkle, Pastor Toby, and we can’t say yet…also dont miss our awesome vendors, meeting new friends, and stuff for the kids too…like jumpy castles and accidental infant baptisms! Also, did you know, you can save money, by signing up for a Club Membership. So, go to FightLaughFeast.com and sign up for a club membership and then register for the conference with that club discount. We can’t wait to fellowship, sing Psalms, and celebrate God’s goodness in Knoxville October 6-8. Now as we talk about heading into our conference in October, that’s heading into the winter time right? Reformation Day, Thanksgiving, Christmas… to me, that’s just really the best time of year. Getting to spend time with your family, the weather is getting colder, (as a ginger that’s great), and we get to celebrate the birth of our savior, Jesus Christ. Well, not if our government has any say over it!!! https://unherd.com/thepost/brace-for-winter-lockdowns/ Brace for winter lockdowns This is from Unherd.com. Many of those who opposed lockdowns for the pandemic, predicted that the policy — if normalised — could one day be taken advantage of by opportunistic political forces to deal with almost any crisis. It was, as Lord Sumption once suggested, a potential pathway to authoritarianism. “If we confer despotic powers on government to deal with perils, which are an ordinary feature of human existence, we will end up doing it most or all of the time,” he wrote in November 2021. Well, we are now facing just such a crisis. And there is a not insignificant chance that lockdowns might be revived, not just as a knee-jerk reaction to cope with a prevailing health crisis, but also, troublingly, an economic one. The monkeypox health scare may have failed to get traction, but as Covid cases begin to rise again, the slow beat of pro-lockdown messaging is beginning to circle again in the mainstream media. For now, the public remains far from receptive. But this could change as soon as energy shortages and supply chain issues begin to bite this winter, which they surely will. The public has already been primed to believe that lockdowns were great for generating energy savings. We saw the evidence of that with our own eyes. Traffic jams disappeared. Oil prices went negative. Air pollution reversed. In the face of late Soviet-style chaos on the streets, unconstrained inflation, not enough electricity to heat the homes of the vulnerable, the prospect of order emanating from the “temporary” suspension of a market economy might seem appealing. It’s even easy to predict the messaging that might feel compelling: ‘Stay Home. Don’t queue. Save Energy.’ Or, ‘Bread and energy is cheap if you stay home!’ But here is why we must not fall for this line of logic. Planned economies are what got us into this mess to begin with. Covid, the war in Ukraine and sanctions against Russia may have all added accelerants to the fire, but the smoulders were burning ever since the 2008 global financial crisis nearly brought down the system. It’s just that the consequences of papering over the flaws in the system rather than properly addressing them only became visible in late 2021. It took 70 years for the communist system to fall apart under the weight of its own capital misallocation. We’ve managed to achieve it in about 14 years. At the heart of the problem is the poorly thought-out subsidisation of negative-sum business models propelled by excessive cheap money in the system. In the communist period, this sort of misdirection was the fault of state bureaucrats who had no idea about what people really wanted. This time it’s been driven by deep-pocketed Western venture capitalists who became convinced that outsized rents from monopoly interests could compensate for short-term non-profitability. That’s not to say the market economy is perfect or free of its own negative externalities. It definitely needs political guidance and a moral backbone to stay on course. But locking people down is not the answer. This only addresses the symptoms, not the cause. Our best path out of this mess is to keep the system as free as possible so that the people themselves can innovate their way out of trouble. Necessity, as they say, is the mother of invention. Allowing human ingenuity to thrive in a free system is our best chance to solve our economic woes. Wow… terrifying stuff. This is what CrossPolitic has been arguing for all along by the way, and maybe that’s a reason why we’ve been banned from Youtube time after time… also, this is another good reason to come to our conference by the way! Our topic seems pretty in line with the story no? https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/who-chief-urges-bring-back-27470930 WHO chief urges 'bring back face masks' as Covid pandemic 'nowhere near over' The World Health Organisation is urging governments to reinstate Covid measures like masking and ventilation as its leader speaks of concerns over an “increasing trend of deaths”. As the British government, along with many others of wealthy countries, have all but abandoned coronavirus restrictions, the WHO director-general Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has said the pandemic is “nowhere near over”. It comes as new ONS figures have today showed that more than 200,000 people in the UK have had Covid-19 recorded on their death certificate since the pandemic began. Infections and hospital admissions are once again on the rise, driven by the coronavirus subvariant Omicron BA.2. Experts have warned that new variants can re-infect even those with some form of antibody immunity, in a matter of weeks. Amid a spike in Covid transmission and increasing hospitalisations, Dr Ghebreyesus urged governments to “deploy tried and tested measures like masking, improved ventilation and test and treat protocols”. "I am concerned that cases of Covid-19 continue to rise - putting further pressure on stretched health systems and health workers," he said. One of the more concerning variants and subvariants being tracked by the WHO was BA.2.75, nicknamed the centaurus. Scientists believe the Covid strain, which was first discovered in May in India, may be able to spread rapidly and infect people regardless of immunity from vaccines and antibodies. Governments were now facing several “interlinked” challenges around their response to coronavirus, Dr Ghebreyesus said, including the Omicron sub-variants and reduced testing and sequencing. He went on to explain that there was a disconnect in Covid-19 risk perception between scientific communities, political leaders and the general public. Another challenge was communicating risk and building community trust in health tools, as well as public health social measures like masking, distancing and ventilation, he said. The pandemic was “nowhere near over”, he said, adding that we were in a better position than at the beginning of the pandemic to push back. While progress had been made in the form of tools preventing hospitalisations and deaths, these should not be taken for granted. Dr Ghebreyesus urged governments to regularly review and adjust their Covid-19 response plans based on changing situations. The idea of restrictions being brought back in the UK was raised on Tuesday if an increase in cases worsens the backlog facing the NHS. The WHO’s warning came just days after a SAGE advisor blasted the Tories for failing to take the urgent action needed to stop huge numbers of hospitalisations and unnecessary deaths. Britain could grind to a standstill as Covid-19 cases surge - but the government’s policy is to ‘shut your eyes and let it rip,’ Susan Michie has warned. Moving on, and back to our bad economy, https://www.yahoo.com/now/rents-us-rise-fastest-pace-161957394.html Rents in US Rise at Fastest Pace Since 1986, Buoying Inflation (Bloomberg) -- Rents rose in the US last month at the fastest pace since 1986, helping to propel overall inflation to a fresh four-decade high. An index measuring rent of a primary residence was 0.8% higher in June than the month before, an acceleration from the 0.6% increase recorded in May, according to the Labor Department’s report on consumer prices published Wednesday. In the 12 months through June, rents were up 5.8% Those costs are soaring across the country as would-be homebuyers get priced out by the fastest-rising mortgage rates in decades and slide back into the overcrowded rental market. But rent growth may be peaking as affordability concerns mount, and a surge in construction of new units is poised to start adding to the available inventory. The Labor Department measure tends to lag behind other estimates, so it is likely that rent increases will contribute to rising inflation in the consumer price index through the rest of this year, according to Mark Zandi, chief economist of Moody’s Analytics. “The big increase in CPI rents is catch-up with the consistent double-digit growth in market rents,” Zandi said. “The good news is that market rents appear to be topping out, as renters are not able to afford the higher rents and are balking. More rental supply is also coming, although this will take a year or two to have a meaningful impact on market rents.” Nearly 836,000 multifamily units are under construction, the most since 1973, according to Jay Parsons, chief economist at RealPage. But most new construction targets higher-income tenants and not the lower end, where supply shortages are most extreme, he said. Rents, along with a category known as owners’ equivalent rent that often moves in tandem, account for more than 30% of the consumer price index, giving them outsize weight in overall inflation trends. Given the close ties between rents and wages, the accelerating pace of increases will keep Federal Reserve officials on an aggressive tightening path. Average hourly earnings for production and nonsupervisory workers rose 6.4% in the 12 months through June and have generally outpaced rents since the pandemic began -- a reversal of the trend that prevailed throughout much of the economic expansion of the 2010s. But the gap has narrowed in recent months as increases in earnings have moderated and rental inflation has accelerated. You know, our economy may be weak, but you don’t want your children’s education to be weak either do you? That’s why you need to talk to our sponsors, Classical Conversations. Classical Conversations supports homeschooling parents by cultivating the love of learning through a Christian worldview in fellowship with other families. We provide a classical Christ-centered curriculum, local like-minded communities across the United States and in several countries, and we train parents who are striving to be great classical educators in the home. For more information and to get connected, please visit our website at ClassicalConversations.com. Again that’s ClassicalConversations.com. Before we go, it’s time for the topic that I love… sports! https://www.yahoo.com/news/lebron-james-says-brittney-griner-175538850.html LeBron James says Brittney Griner should question returning to United States NBA star LeBron James questioned if WNBA star Brittney Griner should return to the United States whenever she is released from her incarceration in Russia. The Los Angeles Lakers star made the comment about the Phoenix Mercury star in a trailer for his show, The Shop, which is scheduled to air on Friday on Uninterrupted's YouTube channel. "Now, how can she feel like America has her back?" James said. "I would be feeling like, 'Do I even want to go back to America?'" James later took to Twitter to clarify his comments. "My comments on 'The Shop' regarding Brittney Griner wasn’t knocking our beautiful country," he tweeted. "I was simply saying how she’s probably feeling emotionally along with so many other emotions, thoughts, etc inside that cage she’s been in for over 100+ days! Long story short #BringHerHome" This isn't the first time James has commented on Griner's situation. In June, he demanded action from Joe Biden and Kamala Harris to bring Griner back to the United States, although now he apparently wonders if she should come back to the U.S. "We need to come together and help do whatever we possibly can to bring BG home quickly and safely!!" James posted on Twitter. "Our voice as athletes is stronger together." Griner has been detained since Feb. 17 after vaping cartridges containing oil derived from cannabis were allegedly found in her luggage while going through an airport outside of Moscow. Interestingly, Phoenix Mercury coach Vanessa Nygaard recently wondered if Griner's situation in Russia would be resolved already if it were James, not Griner that was detained. "If it was LeBron, he'd be home, right?" Nygaard asked. "It's a statement about the value of women. It's a statement about the value of a black person. It's a statement about the value of a gay person. All of those things. We know it, and so that's what hurts a little more." Wait a minute, wait a minute… what is a woman? Is Nygaard a biologist? Here’s the deal, I don’t want Griner to rot in a Russain jail, despite her hateful and uneducated view of America, or the fact that she’s rejecting God’s natural law for marriage, or the fact that she thinks she could beat DeMarcus Cousins in a game of 1-on-1… you get the idea. Keeping image bearers of God in cages is wrong and wicked, and we need to get back to a Biblical form of justice… so here’s hoping she’s out soon. This has been your CrossPolitic Daily News Brief. If you liked the show, hit that share button for me would ya? If you want to sign up for our conference, a magazine subscription, or become a club member… you can do all of that at fightlaughfeast.com! And as always, if you’d like to become a corporate partner of CrossPolitic, let’s talk. Email me, at garrison@fightlaughfeast.com. For CrossPolitic News, I’m Garrison Hardie. Have a great day, and Lord bless.