Episodes

Weight Loss Drugs versus ultra processed food

Australia’s Voice to Parliament Referendum on October 14th 2023 was defeated 60% to 40%. Professor Wallace analyses what went wrong for the Yes campaign.

X/Twitter owes $13 billion to a syndicate of 7 banks who are eager to sell the loan to private investors and get it off their books. Will Musk buy the debt or will distressed debt funds buy it ?

What are the elements of a state ? Territory. Population, government, language ?

Covid 19 cases are on the uptick as a new booster shot is being rolled out. Masking continues to be an effective practice to lessen infection risk.

Hitchcock successfully navigated the censors in the UK and US to be the greatest filmmaker of mystery and suspense films of the 20th Century.

Exim Bank is playing a growing role in financing the export drive of US small business. In California alone, they have 650 exporter clients who ship overseas, product worth $14 billion. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/james-herlihy/message

Governor Newsom appoints Laphonza Butler as a Senator to fill out the last 15 months of the late Senator Dianne Feinstein’s term.

The CCP and Chinese Military have a unique relationship among developed nations. James Char explains.

Dianne Feinstein passed away on Thursday leaving a long legacy of service to San Francisco and California.

Skin color is a function of evolution. Its racial overtones is a relatively modern construct.

China’s one man rule policy is a concentration of power that’s at the root of poor policy making.

A cultural phenomenon film that’s earned $1.34billion at the box office globally.

Korea produces old Soviet era shells and ammunition that are interoperable with Russia’s current war machine. But why would Russia trade high tech weapons for shells and bullets ? Are they so weak ?

San Francisco’s 19th and 20th century growth was explosive creating dynastic elites. They exploited the natural resources of the environs for the benefit of The City.

A new 10 part docuseries about San Francisco’s Hyde Street Studios, where some of the great Rock n Roll hits of the late 60s and early 70s were made.

40 years of neoliberal social policy reforms has made the UK more unequal and key indicators like life expectancy, infant mortality, pay distribution among others are bearing out how the social progress of the 1950s and 1960s has been eroded.

How India and the United States are growing a global partnership for trade, finance, academic and cultural links to develop the defining relationship of the 21st century.

Sweden’s application to join NATO continues to be blocked by Turkey, jeopardizing security in the Baltic Region. What’s next ?

Tariffs, export and investment controls and the US’s $700 billion trading relationship with China. Raimondo reiterated what many US companies told her : China is becoming uninvestable.

The US is curbing the export of sensitive technology that has dual use - civilian and military. A change in the open globalization policies of the last 20 years.

David Solomon, CEO of Goldman Sachs, has had a Rocky few months . Will the board replace him ?

Putin from the start of the Ukraine invasion in 2022 has issued veiled threats of using nuclear weapons. Why now and why Ukraine ? Russia isn’t at existential risk so why threaten to use nukes ?

The Supreme Court’s Merits Docket has given us the landmark decisions that have shaped American society. But the lesser known emergency docket - the Shadow Docket - is playing an increasingly prominent role in the Court’s deliberations.