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at a certain point I think book authors should be exempt from having to compete with the hit viral juggernaut The Body Keeps the Score

2 young billionaires are behind the prediction market boom. They hate each other The 20-something billionaires who run Kalshi and Polymarket are battling it out to be the top prediction market company. Observers and former insiders say the feud is just heating up.

At the center of the prediction markets boom is a bitter rivalry between two 20-something billionaire fintech bros vying for their companies to be distinct, despite everyone constantly lumping them together

"For them, it's existential," a former Kalshi employee told me

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Meet the Finest Boys in Finance What motivates finance boys besides their bank accounts? We don’t have the answers, but a few hard workers we cast on LinkedIn might.

"What motivates these baby-faced New Yorkers besides their bank accounts?"
answers itself, doesn't it? www.interviewmagazine.com/fashion/meet...

Meet three scientists who said no to Epstein The warning signs included a web search, a mother’s doubts, and inklings of a “sexist attitude”

one scientist approached by Epstein asked his mom for advice. she checked around + wrote back: “Be careful not to get sucked up in the slime-machine going on here...Since you don’t care that much about money, they can’t buy you.”

pretty obvious lesson here imo

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SCOOP: you'll never win

Apollo’s Rowan Says Epstein ‘Wasting My Time’ From the Grave Apollo Global Management Inc. Chief Executive Officer Marc Rowan said he only dealt with Jeffrey Epstein in his capacity as tax adviser for the firm’s co-founder Leon Black, and reiterated that Apollo...

setting aside the, uh, context

absolutely iconic thing to say www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Don't hate the replicator, hate the game : Planet Money The world of science has been stuck in an existential crisis over whether we actually know the things we thought we knew. Re-running an old study today doesn't always yield the same result. Same with ...

our @planetmoney.bsky.social report from attending a Replication Game -- one economist's proposal for how to help fix science's replication crisis. It was so fun, and so complicated: www.npr.org/2026/02/27/n...

can we do a quick multi part podcast series about Graceland

What an Epstein recording reveals about how elites get jobs : The Indicator from Planet Money What do the latest batch of documents tell us about convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and elite networking? Quite a bit. Today on the show, we analyze one exchange between Epstein and a former wo...

our great pals at the Indicator did a close listen of Jeffrey Epstein recordings to learn about elite networking www.npr.org/2026/02/25/n... @planetmoney.bsky.social

The ICE hiring boom : Planet Money Live event info and tickets hereICE is scaling up, with rapid new hiring. So we ask, has training new officers changed? At what cost? Also, the Trump administration has plans to pour billions of…

ICE is scaling up, with rapid new hiring. So we ask, has training new officers changed? At what cost?

it's good! it's about the Johnson family most of all

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Child’s Play, by Sam Kriss Tech’s new generation and the end of thinking

“For a long time, the tech industry liked to think of itself as a meritocracy: it rewarded qualities like intelligence, competence, and expertise. But all that barely matters anymore.”

Sam Kriss reports on the next generation of AI technologists.

a market for refunds and a picture of my dog, demi

i'm trying to make "yo" happen offtherun.substack.com/p/on-the-mar...

Episode 599: The Invisible Wall A man goes looking for the invisible wall that traps poor people in poverty. Finding it almost gets him killed.

Hernando de Soto was just appointed Prime Minister of Peru. Listen to our 2015 episode to hear his dramatic story trying to transform Peru’s economy.

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ahhh wonderful!! congratulations and excited to read.

The Supreme Court struck down a bunch of Trump's tariffs. Now what? : Planet Money Live event info and tickets here.The Supreme Court has spoken. Those big, sweeping tariffs that President Trump imposed early last year? They’re illegal. On today’s show: Why were those tariffs struck...

Yesterday, the Supreme Court struck down a bunch of President Trump’s tariffs. What does that mean? Will anyone get refunds? And … what about this new 10 percent tariff the President announced?

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so excited for this

Whether Trump can or will or should try to control or purchase Greenland, a territory that doesn’t want to be sold, is not the interesting question.

What is interesting is -- how we got to this moment. And how we might gracefully get out of it.

That’s on our latest show.
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ugh that's so kind!!! we try to make it look effortless but you are right it is extremely effort-ful <3

I completely agree

notorious radical left communist rag says tax the rich

The record-breaking cocaine boom — and its deadly fallout Cocaine has made a roaring comeback, and it's having some big negative effects in the U.S. and around the world.

Cocaine has made a roaring comeback, and it's having some big negative effects in the U.S. and around the world. n.pr/4rSgD0R

retail traders colocating for physical edge in prediction-market bets, now i've seen it all

It’s important to find something in the Epstein files just for YOU. Mine is when Jeffrey KEPT trying and failing to hang out with Gilbert Gottfried and ask him what elementary school he went to.

i know they are going to be our overlords soon etc but why are Claude's business mistakes SOO CUTE? don't send ur money to a venmo u hallucinated, you sweet silly baby!! www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

This was a great listen

ahh thank you!!