http://www.cffsr.org/ The U.S. Department of Agriculture reports there are 3,000 food deserts throughout the United States. Sounds like a lot, doesn’t it? While our guest gives a clearer definition of this designation, it basically means where people do not have access to a large format supermarket with healthy and nutritious food choices within walking distance. …
https://www.amazon.com/Apocalypse-Factory-Plutonium-Making-Atomic/dp/0393634973 In his compelling new book, ‘The Apocalypse Factory’, Steve Olson lays out the road to the Manhattan Project as it wends its way through Los Alamos, Oak Ridge, and to some degree forgotten, Hanford, Washington. He crafts a story of the scientists involved and the discovery of plutonium, which was a true game changer …
https://stephaniekelton.com/book/ Many pundits are fixated on the budget mess in Washington, D.C. and how we are burdening future generations with debt and deficits and that, by virtue of this spending, we are crowding out borrowing that will needed for investments in the private market. Stephanie Kelton, former chief economist on the U.S. Senate Budget Committee, …
https://www.fredphochberg.com/about The concept of free trade has gotten a bad name over the recent period as the current occupant of the White House has harpooned recent trade deals made by the United States as stupid and detrimental to the economic fortunes of the country. How can this be so when America wrote a lot of …
https://www.amazon.com/Ghost-Road-Anthony-M-Townsend/dp/1324001526 We’ve all been told that we will no longer have our hands on the steering wheel much longer. We will be replaced by artificial intelligence and the autonomous vehicle. Anthony Townsend, author of ‘ Ghost Road’, suggests we slow down the hype about the imminence of that changeover and recognize that this technology may …
https://bezonomics.com/books/ Amazon. How many of us can live without it in this pandemic age? Jeff Bezos and his spinwheel fueled by artificial intelligence(we explain that concept in the podcast) keep accelerating their impact in various sectors of our economy and in our lives. It’s an awe inspiring story, but there are damages in the wake …
https://www.amazon.com/Learning-Loss-Democrats-Seth-Masket/dp/1108482120 On Election Day 2020, we are posting this podcast, recorded on Friday, October 30, recounting the soul searching and internal debates that went on in the Democratic Party as they tried to understand Hillary Clinton’s loss to Donald Trump in 2016. Is this a conscious and helpful exercise? If you recall, the Republicans did …
https://www.amazon.com/People-No-Populism-Fight-Democracy/dp/1250220114 The word populism has been bandied around a lot lately in our politics. What does it really mean and what evidence do we have that it is a real force in American politics and not just a word co-opted by charlatans to bring people to their side? In his book, ‘The People, No’, author …
https://turnawaystudy.com/ There’s been a ten year study done of women who had an abortion and women who were turned away at a clinic because they missed the deadline to have one. The intent was to see the impact that this decision had on these two groups over a long sweep of time. The Turnaway Study …
https://www.amazon.com/Pharma-Greed-Lies-Poisoning-America/dp/1501151894 The nation’s pharmaceutical companies have worked very hard to make themselves indispensable to the world’s most medicated society. They have done it by selling cures and treatments for a range of conditions, accenting the positive and downplaying the side effects which, as in the case of opioids, often are catastrophic. Further, they have …