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Podcast: Bay Curious (LS 57 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Prop 37: Creates Middle-Income Homebuyer Program
Pub date: 2026-10-01

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Proposition 37 on the 2026 California ballot authorizes the state to borrow money to create a middle-income homebuyers program.

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Podcast: Planet Money (LS 83 · TOP 0.01% what is this?)
Episode: Who’s gonna pay for your Social Security?
Pub date: 2026-09-30

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Very soon, Social Security may not have enough money to make full payments to retirees. Very soon. Like by 2032, just six years from now. So what are we gonna do about it? 

Today on the show, we look at some of the most talked about possible solutions; and exactly whose wallets we’ll have to rifle through to find...

Podcast: The Daily (LS 90 · TOP 0.01% what is this?)
Episode: Are Prediction Markets Gambling? A Lot Rides on the Answer.
Pub date: 2026-09-29

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Prediction markets such as Kalshi and Polymarket have gained huge popularity over the past year. These marketplaces allow you to wager on just about anything — whether it’s who will win a football game or the weather in New York City.

David Yaffe-Bellany, a technology reporter for The New York Times, discusses the legal challen...

Podcast: Business History (LS 44 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Hitler's Gift to the Hippies: The VW Beetle Story Part I – Rerun
Pub date: 2026-09-30

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Business History is off this week, so we wanted to keep you entertained with a rerun, in case you missed our Beetle episode the first time around. (You can help us win a Signal Award for this episode by voting here.)

The VW Beetle was the biggest selling car of all time - and...

Podcast: The a16z Show (LS 63 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: The $1 Trillion AI Buildout | State of Markets
Pub date: 2026-09-30

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a16z’s David George, Sarah Wang, Alex Immerman, and Santiago Rodriguez unpack 25 key charts from the latest State of Markets presentation, from the scale of the AI infrastructure buildout to what adoption looks like inside companies today.

They examine why rising markets have so far been supported by earnings rather than multiple expansion, why hyper...

Podcast: Bay Curious (LS 57 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Prop 5: Recall Reform
Pub date: 2026-09-30

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Proposition 5 on the 2026 California ballot would change the rules around recalls of elected officials.

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Podcast: Bay Curious (LS 57 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Prop 4: Public Financing For Political Campaigns
Pub date: 2026-09-30

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Proposition 4 on the California 2026 ballot would repeal an earlier statewide ban on public financing programs. It would open the door for state and local governments to set up public financing programs for election campaigns. Candidates would have to meet certain eligibility criteria and agree to spending limits.

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Podcast: Bay Curious (LS 57 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Prop 2: The Rainy Day Fund
Pub date: 2026-09-29

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Proposition 2 on your 2026 California ballot would make changes to how the state's Rainy Day Fund would work. It would both allow lawmakers to set aside more money during abundant tax years and change the kinds of debt the state can pay off with that fund.

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Podcast: Bay Curious (LS 57 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Prop 3: Tax on High-Income Earners
Pub date: 2026-09-29

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California has what’s known as a “progressive tax system” – basically, the more money you make, the more you pay in income taxes. For years, California voters have approved certain tax rates for high income earners. And now, Prop 3 could make some of those rates permanent. 

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Podcast: Bay Curious (LS 57 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Prop 1: Affordable Housing Bond
Pub date: 2026-09-28

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Proposition 1 on the 2026 California ballot authorizes the state to take out an $11.25 billion bond to fund an array of affordable housing programs, including the construction and preservation of affordable housing and the CalVet program, which helps veterans become homeowners.

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Podcast: A Book with Legs (LS 55 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Liaquat Ahamed - 1873: The Rothschilds, the First Great Depression, and the Making of the Modern World
Pub date: 2026-08-03

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In this episode of A Book with Legs, Cole Smead, CEO and Portfolio Manager, and Bill Smead, Chairman and Chief Investment Officer at Smead Capital Management, sit down with Liaquat Ahamed to discuss his book, “1873: The Rothschilds, The First Great Depression and the Making of the Modern World.”

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Podcast: The a16z Show (LS 63 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: The Personal Agent Race Is Here | Anish Acharya & David Pawlan
Pub date: 2026-09-29

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a16z General Partner Anish Acharya sits down with Assistant Benchmark creator David Pawlan to unpack the sudden explosion of personal AI agents and what it will take for one to become part of everyday life.
David has been testing dozens of assistants across real-world tasks, from managing email and booking travel to han...

Podcast: The Knowledge Project (LS 69 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: Bill Ackman: The Biggest Fight of His Life
Pub date: 2026-09-29

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Bill Ackman is the founder and CEO of Pershing Square Capital Management, one of the most closely watched investment firms in the world.

In this conversation, he breaks down how he tells the difference between real innovation from hype, what he looks for before making a billion-dollar investment, and why he sold Netflix—and later bough...

Podcast: The Radio from Hell Show (LS 48 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Radio From Hell from September 25th, 2026
Pub date: 2026-09-28

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Kerry, Bill and Gina your Lords of Morning Radio have quite the show for you today. Sean Means is in for movie reviews, Jimmy The Wine Guy is in with a lovely scotch. Caity recaps her Lost Lands Experience, and Harvey Guillen joins for a quick interview while in town for FanX. All this and more on todays epi...

Podcast: Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy (LS 67 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: Noah Shinn - Building Instinct: The Personal Agent - [Invest Like the Best, EP.493]
Pub date: 2026-09-28

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My guest today is Noah Shinn. Noah is the founder of Instinct, a personal assistant that you text, call, or email the same way you would a person. It has its own phone and its own computer, and it can do almost anything on your behalf that you...

Podcast: Business History (LS 44 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: The Printing Press: The Invention Built on Debt and Sin
Pub date: 2026-07-29

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Before 1450, books were written out by hand. It was slow and expensive. But Johannes Gutenberg borrowed a ton of money to create a printing press that could crank out Bibles and pamphlets and documents in huge numbers. Science, politics and philosophy were all up-ended. 

For example, the Catholic Church seized on the invention to sell...

Podcast: TED Business (LS 60 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: The surprising origins of Southwest Airlines with Jacob Goldstein
Pub date: 2026-06-01

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In this special TED Business episode, Modupe is in conversation with Jacob Goldstein, reporter and co-host of the Business History podcast, to dig into the origin story ofSouthwest Airlines. From debunking the airline's founding myth, about a triangular route sketched on a napkin to discussing why Southwest chose to only fly Boeing 737s, Jacob shares the decisions that...

Podcast: The Investor's Podcast (We Study Billionaires) - The Investor’s Podcast Network (LS 70 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: TIP849: Average Returns Can Still Make You Wealthy w/ David Fagan
Pub date: 2026-09-27

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In this episode, Stig Brodersen speaks with David Fagan about Total Wealth Performance and why someone with average investment returns can still build a meaningful net worth. They discuss why saving is the first step in wealth creation, why financial independence is a matter of inten...

Podcast: Decoder with Nilay Patel (LS 67 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: Can Cloudflare save the web from AI?
Pub date: 2026-09-26

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Cloudflare discovered in June that bots already make up more than half of internet traffic — and CEO Matthew Prince says that bots could outnumber humans a thousand to one within five years.

That's a huge change to the internet, and if the web is going to keep existing, it needs a huge change to its busin...

Podcast: The Memo by Howard Marks (LS 54 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Shall We Repeal the Laws of Economics – Part III
Pub date: 2026-09-22

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In his latest memo, Howard Marks discusses recent attempts to rein in long-dated government bond yields.  He affirms that the only sustainable solution is responding to the underlying factors pushing interest rates up, even if politically uncomfortable.  Any other method simply represents an attempt to override the laws of economics – and that never works.

Podcast: The a16z Show (LS 63 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: Why a16z is Building a New School for the AI Era | Ben Horowitz
Pub date: 2026-09-22

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Ben Horowitz and Erik Torenberg sit down with Gagan Biyani to introduce the Horowitz and Andreessen Academy and discuss a bigger question: what should education look like when AI is rapidly changing the skills people need to build, work, and create?

Ben and Gagan explain why they believe lea...

Podcast: Planet Money (LS 83 · TOP 0.01% what is this?)
Episode: The Domino’s Pizza Tracker Theory of Everything
Pub date: 2026-09-18

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Did a pizza restaurant’s humble status page change how we wait forever? 

When you order a Lyft or Uber, you get texts every few minutes about your car approaching and arriving. When you have a package coming, you get a notification when it’s shipped, when it’s en route, and when it’s out for delivery. Why...

Podcast: Complex Systems with Patrick McKenzie (patio11) (LS 46 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Forced vacations are a fraud control
Pub date: 2026-09-17

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Patrick McKenzie (patio11) reads his Bits About Money essay "Financial systems take a holiday" (originally published February 2024), prompted by a conversation with a prior guest about how even exchanging calendars between financial institutions is hard. He explains why banks run at something closer to "five twos" of uptime than Google's five nines, using Japanese banks' idiosyncratic, com...

Podcast: Joys of Compounding (LS 43 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: America at 250: The Ideas of 1776 - [Joys of Compounding, EP. 39]
Pub date: 2026-09-17

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Our teachers today are Frank Cogliano, Brendan McConville, and Patrick Griffin, three of the world's leading historians of the American Revolution and contributors to The American Revolution at 250, a new collection of essays Frank edited for UVA Press.

Frank, Brendan, and Patrick compare the bicentennial they watched as kids in 1976 with the mood of...

Podcast: Moneywise (LS 54 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: I Asked 40 Millionaires Their Biggest Regret
Pub date: 2026-09-15

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We're still surprised people did this but... 50+ founders worth $10M to $4B reveal their personal finances. Here it is: https://joinhampton.com/mw-wr

Why do we do this? Because if you're an aspirational person or someone who runs a business and is making money, it's incredibly challenging to figure out what to do. Information is impossible to find — and that...

Podcast: The Knowledge Project (LS 69 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: Tobi Lütke: AI Agents, Better Decisions, and the Future of Work
Pub date: 2026-09-15

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Shopify founder and CEO Tobi Lütke joins Shane Parrish to discuss AI agents, better decision-making, and the future of work. He explains how he uses an AI council to examine his hardest decisions and why taste, judgment, and responsibility become more valuable as AI becomes more capable.

They go inside Shopi...

Podcast: About Place (LS 34 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: S6 E1: Energizing a culture of belonging, featuring Caroline Quick
Pub date: 2026-08-27

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At Cloudflare, Caroline Quick, VP and Head of Global Real Estate and Workplace, is building a workplace culture that embraces change, learns from the unexpected, and strengthens connection wherever work happens. Listen in as she discusses lessons from AI-native talent, how belonging is cultivated across teams, continents, and age groups, and why culture grows strongest when peo...

Podcast: The Economics of Everyday Things (LS 60 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: 74. Fonts
Pub date: 2026-09-14

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Behind almost every character you see displayed on a page or a screen, there’s a complex — and sometimes lucrative — web of licensing deals. Zachary Crockett is just your type. This episode was originally published on December 15th, 2024.

Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertisi...

Podcast: Acquired (LS 72 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: Home Depot
Pub date: 2026-09-14

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Home Depot's founding story is like an Avengers movie… if the Avengers got fired, went broke, and stacked empty paint cans ten feet high to look legitimate. After being unceremoniously fired from their previous hardware chain at ages 48 and 35, Bernie Marcus and Arthur Blank took the words of their New York banker Ken Langone (who had also just accidentally caused their firings) to heart: they'd just...

Podcast: I Am Home podcast (LS 33 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: REPLAY|| Ted Weschler on Berkshire, Buffet and big investments
Pub date: 2025-05-02

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With the Berkshire Hathaway Annual Shareholders Meeting happening this weekend, we're revisiting a standout episode of I AM HOME, originally recorded in 2023. This encore presentation features a special conversation with Ted Weschler, one of Berkshire Hathaway's top investment managers. Joining our hosts and Amy Myers, Chief Marketing Officer at NFM, Ted shares insights from his nea...

Podcast: The Economics of Everyday Things (LS 60 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: 73. Used Bookstores
Pub date: 2026-09-10

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Americans throw away 320 million books every year. How do some of them find a second life? Zachary Crockett is just browsing. This episode was originally published on December 8th, 2024.

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Podcast: Zacks Market Edge (LS 47 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Lessons from Ted Weschler’s $264 Million Roth IRA
Pub date: 2021-07-01

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He started investing at age 22 and just stuck with it. You can too. (0:30) - Wealth Building In A Roth IRA (3:45) - Ted Weschler’s Lessons To Investing (14:00) - The Power of Compounding: Can Anyone Achieve This Investing Success? (23:10) -  Where Is A Good Place To Start Investing: Tracey’s Top Stock Picks (32:45) - Episode Roundup: PYPL, BAC, SHW, JPM, WSBC...

Podcast: Planet Money (LS 83 · TOP 0.01% what is this?)
Episode: Cost-cutting, quiet guilt and the inflation generation
Pub date: 2026-09-09

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In this economy it is boom times and doom times all at once. The statistics aren’t really capturing it. K-shaped only goes so far as a metaphor. So … we asked you to help. And you delivered! 

One one hand, the stock market is on a prolonged, upward trajectory. Unemployment is low and inflation has come down from its peak...

Podcast: All the Hacks: Money, Points & Life (LS 60 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: Deep Dive on World of Hyatt: Points, Perks and Status
Pub date: 2026-09-09

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#294: Chris breaks down everything he's learned going all in on World of Hyatt. He covers the brands and footprint, earning points with Hyatt credit cards and transfers, what points are really worth, every status tier and milestone reward, and how to get Globalist treatment without having status.

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Podcast: Empire (LS 47 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Cloudflare CEO: The Man Deciding The Internet’s Next Business Model
Pub date: 2026-09-07

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What happens when AI agents become the internet’s dominant users?

This week, Jason sits down with Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince to explore how AI agents could fundamentally reshape the internet’s business model.

They discuss 1,000x agent traffic, why everything wrong with the world is Google's...

Podcast: Acquiring Minds (LS 49 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: An Engineer's Mini Berkshire: 2 Auto Shops in 1 Year
Pub date: 2026-09-03

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Sujith Shankar left 25 years in corporate to buy cash-flowing businesses: a $1.2m repair shop and a $2m body shop.

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Podcast: Frequent Miler on the Air (LS 53 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Visiting New York City without breaking the bank | Coffee Break Ep121 | 9-2-26
Pub date: 2026-09-02

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This podcast episode is sponsored by Saily. Saily is an ESIM service app created by the security experts behind NordVPN. Instead of paying absurd daily rates to your home carrier or swapping SIM cards on arrival, Saily gives you flexible prepaid data plans in over 200 destinations worldwide. Download Saily from you...

Podcast: The a16z Show (LS 63 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: Inside Moderna’s Personalized Cancer Vaccine
Pub date: 2026-09-02

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a16z General Partner Jorge Conde sits down with Moderna CEO Stéphane Bancel to discuss a major milestone for mRNA technology: positive Phase 3 results from Moderna and Merck’s individualized treatment for melanoma, after more than a decade of work on personalized cancer vaccines.

Stéphane explains how the treatment works by sequencing an individual patient’s...

Podcast: Moneywise (LS 54 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: He Ran PayPal With Elon. Now He Has $100M and Spends Nothing
Pub date: 2026-09-01

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We're still surprised people did this but... 50+ founders worth $10M to $4B reveal their personal finances. Here it is: https://joinhampton.com/mw-wr

Why do we do this? Because if you're an aspirational person or someone who runs a business and is making money, it's incredibly challenging to figure out wha...

Podcast: The a16z Show (LS 63 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: Gavin Baker: Why AI Demand Is Outrunning Compute Supply
Pub date: 2026-08-31

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a16z’s David George sits down with Gavin Baker to unpack the state of the AI boom, why demand for intelligence may still be dramatically underestimated, and why the outcome doesn't necessarily have to be winner-take-all.

David and Gavin explore the possibility that frontier labs, open-source models, applications, clouds, and NVIDIA can all c...