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Conversations with Tyler (Tyler Cowen)

Economist Kenneth Boulding's 1978 book "Stable Peace" offers a dynamic framework for understanding peace not as a static condition but as a resilient system balancing "strain" (destabilizing pressures) against "strength" (institutional resilience), defining peace negatively as the absence of war rather than the presence of abstract goods like justice.

In Good Company (Nicolai Tangen)

Givaudan CEO Gilles Andrier reveals how the world's largest fragrance and flavor company combines neuroscientific principles with artistic creativity to serve B2B clients, while navigating the tension between consumer testing data and bold innovation in a market being reshaped by Gen Z self-expression trends.

This Week in Startups (Jason Calacanis)

Peter Steinberger explains how a 1-hour WhatsApp-to-CLI prototype evolved into OpenClaw, the fastest-growing GitHub repository in history (175,000+ stars), by creating a self-modifying AI agent that prioritizes fun and accessibility over corporate polish.

The David Lin Report

Michael Gentile warns that unsustainable government debt and continuous money printing are driving a secular de-dollarization into hard assets, while AI disruption introduces new economic uncertainties. He argues that gold mining stocks remain deeply undervalued despite record bullion prices, offering exceptional free cash flow yields as central banks accumulate physical metal for the long term.

GaryVee

GaryVee predicts collectible-driven marketing (like cereal toys) will dominate retail, advises local businesses to create national shippable products to unlock live shopping platforms while pushing local services, and emphasizes that leadership requires ruthless accountability while personal fulfillment comes from daily joy and empathy toward critics.

Joe Rogan Experience

Comedian Donnell Rawlings joins Joe Rogan to discuss aging-related health sensitivities, deceptive tobacco marketing tactics targeting Black communities, and the underground economics of prison systems.

The Prof G Pod (Scott Galloway)

As China enters the Year of the Fire Horse—a zodiac alignment last seen in 1966 during the Cultural Revolution—astrological anxiety about political volatility coincides with a demographic crisis, as urban women increasingly prioritize career autonomy over marriage and motherhood despite government incentives to reverse declining birth rates.

80,000 Hours Podcast (Rob Wiblin)

AI researcher Ajeya Cotra explains why predictions about artificial general intelligence range from modest economic growth to "10,000 years of technological progress" by 2050, largely due to disagreements over whether AI will automate physical infrastructure as quickly as cognitive work, and whether historical steady growth or long-term acceleration is the better guide to the future.

Adam Taggart | Thoughtful Money

Housing demand has crashed to historic lows with sales down 42% from peak levels, triggering severe price corrections in Sunbelt markets and threatening broader declines as both domestic and international migration slow to multi-decade lows.

New York Times Podcasts

The Trump administration, led by Cuban-American Secretary of State Marco Rubio, has engineered Cuba's worst economic crisis in 67 years by cutting off oil supplies from Venezuela and Mexico, creating conditions experts believe may finally force regime change after decades of failed US attempts.

New York Times Podcasts

The Trump administration, led by Secretary of State Marco Rubio, has engineered an acute fuel crisis in Cuba by cutting off oil shipments from Venezuela and Mexico through tariffs and regime change in Caracas, pushing the 67-year-old communist regime to its most precarious position yet.

Impact Theory

The video argues that opposition to the SAVE Act—which would require proof of citizenship and photo ID to vote—stems not from concerns about voter suppression, but from a political strategy to leverage census counting of non-citizens to gain House seats and electoral votes, while potentially creating a permanent future voting bloc.