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The Prof G Pod (Scott Galloway)

Professor Eswar Prasad discusses his book 'The Doom Loop,' arguing that globalization's uneven benefits have trapped economics, domestic politics, and geopolitics in a destabilizing feedback loop where populist resentment and zero-sum competition are replacing the post-Cold War order, while Super Bowl ad trends suggest AI may be following crypto into bubble territory.

Forbes

Howard University graduates Joanne Price and Dr. Lawrence Morris reflect on building Fairview Capital Partners from a reluctant start in 1994 to a $9 billion fund-of-funds firm, emphasizing that trust and performance metrics—not diversity marketing—sustained them through three decades of market cycles.

freeCodeCamp.org

Shawn Wang (Swyx) discusses how AI is transforming hackathons through both democratized development and preparatory cheating, while arguing developers should shift from 'just-in-case' to 'just-in-time' learning as abstraction layers accelerate, though fundamental literacy remains crucial for debugging AI limitations.

Forbes

Sherrese Clarke, founder and CEO of Harborview Equity Partners, details how her $2 billion private equity firm acquires music catalogs and entertainment IP to generate returns for public pension funds and institutional investors while positioning itself as the 'Netflix of the space' through diversified, technology-enabled content distribution.

Reuters

Live coverage of the first Friday prayers of Ramadan 1447 AH from Mecca's Grand Mosque, featuring a sermon by Sheikh Abdullah Al-Juhany emphasizing fasting as a means to attain piety, along with prayers for Muslim communities worldwide including Palestine.

Reuters

World leaders at the India AI Impact Summit announced a strengthened US-India technology alliance to secure AI and semiconductor supply chains through the 'Silica Declaration,' while India detailed plans to train one million chip designers across 315 universities and Brazil unveiled its $4.5 billion national AI investment strategy.

Financial Education

The market is at a critical inflection point with retail-favorite growth stocks and crypto experiencing brutal 30-70% drawdowns while defensive names thrive, testing new investors' resolve and creating a divide between emotional short-term sellers and long-term holders positioned for the next cycle.

Forbes

Former Goldman Sachs banker Galey Alix leveraged her Wall Street "story selling" expertise to build a DIY empire, attracting 10,000 weekly design requests by documenting surprise home renovations while strategically delaying monetization to maintain authenticity.

My First Million

This episode explores how flawed decision-making stems not from mathematical errors in Bayesian updating, but from people restricting their 'model set'—the range of explanations they're willing to consider a priori. When groups socially exclude certain hypotheses, members invent increasingly convoluted interpretations to maintain their worldview rather than updating beliefs.

The Prof G Pod (Scott Galloway)

Kai Ryssdal argues the U.S. economy presents a stark paradox of soaring corporate profits and record stock markets alongside a fearful, stagnant labor market and dangerous income inequality (Gini coefficient 83), compounded by a complete vacuum of political leadership and institutional decay that threatens long-term stability.

How I Built This (NPR)

This episode covers the Winter Olympics men's hockey quarterfinals where Team USA survived a sudden-death thriller against Sweden while Canada narrowly avoided an upset, alongside reports of defective medals breaking off ribbons and emotional highlights from Mikaela Shiffrin and Jordan Stolz.

Benjamin Cowen

Four market analysts debate whether Bitcoin can stage a near-term bounce toward $70K based on seasonal patterns and extreme sentiment, while warning that broader risk assets—including stocks and gold—face significant drawdown risks due to historic volatility compression and overextension.