The staff of America Trends Podcast would like to wish all are listeners A very Happy Thanksgiving Ira Chaleff, an expert in political followership reveals how political followers can make or ‘brake’ toxic leaders and what we can do-no matter our political sophistication or where we sit on the political spectrum-to support beneficial leaders …
Brody Mullins, and his brother, Luke, wrote the much heralded “The Wolves of K Street”, about how the last fifty years of corporate influence in Washington had shifted Washington D.C.’s center of power from elected officials to extravagantly paid operators, using a new bag of tricks, who bent public policy in favor of corporate interests. …
The doomsday clock is ticking…and who can we blame if the alarm is sounded and we find out it’s too late for the human species to recover? There’s a certain irony that all of the good things that science and technology have wrought, bring with them byproducts which are the key ingredients of our own …
And you think your family has some great achievements and enough demerits to warrant a book? Well, clearly, author and New Yorker writer, John Seabrook’s family, has all of that in triplicate and he spells it all out in the eminently readable “The Spinach King: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty.” His grandfather, …
For more than sixty years, the United States has trained fewer physicians than it needs. It is expensive and time-consuming to educate a new doctor, and much more expedient to bring immigrant doctors trained in other countries. And that’s what we’ve done. This all began, in earnest, with the passage of the Hart-Celler Immigration …
Bitcoin had been a bit player as people designed their financial portfolios. Investors would ask ‘is this a scam and am I chasing the latest shiny object?’ But today it seems as if cryptocurrency and the blockchain technology that undergirds it is getting newfound respect. The second Trump Administration has passed The Genius Act and …
Many of us are unwitting victims of the private equity industry. Some by virtue of being employed by companies they have bought whose future success or failure may have no impact on the private equity firm’s ability to profit from the leveraged buyout of those companies. In her new book, “Bad Company: Private Equity and …
It is said that we are in the midst of the sixth great extinction. Thus, we have taken some steps to protect endangered species–but clearly not enough. And while the stories we usually tell ourselves about global warming tend to focus on the damage inflicted on human societies by big storms, severe droughts, and rising …
It can be hard to explain how the actions of the top .01 percent have severe consequences for the rest of us, but in his book, “Burned by Billionaires,” Chuck Collins of the Institute for Policy Studies, lays it out chapter and verse. He demonstrates through words and charts how the rest of us …
America has many challenges in the health industry. And while our guest, who came to America as an immigrant, wanted desperately to be part of what he considered to be ‘the best medical system in the world’ back in 1975, he no longer holds that view. He says that our system has become too politicized, …