Introducing: News Items Podcast with John Ellis

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The Recount

Government, News, Politics

4.8 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 28 April 2021

⏱️ ? minutes

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Summary

Ninety percent of the news out there tells you nothing about where the world is going — ten percent of it tells you everything. On the News Items Podcast with John Ellis, John and Rebecca Darst dissect news items that help you understand where the world is going. Tune in every Monday through Thursday afternoon to hear decades of journalistic experience packed into 20 minutes of insight, plus guest interviews on finance, U.S. politics, foreign affairs, science and technology.

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0:00.0	Hi, Rebecca.
0:08.0	Hey, John.
0:09.0	And hello, World.
0:10.0	We're the host of the news items podcast.
0:12.0	And we look at the news a bit differently.
0:14.0	The podcast is really about three big themes.
0:18.0	The financialization of everything, a world in disarray,
0:22.0	and advances in science and technology.
0:25.0	Let's break them down.
0:27.0	So for some time now, the financing of things has been worth more than the making of things.
0:32.0	And today, finance is borderless.
0:34.0	A lot of it is online.
0:35.0	And new asset classes are emerging.
0:37.0	This changes the calculus around value and risk.
0:41.0	A world in disarray is pretty self-explanatory.
0:44.0	The post-World War II order has unraveled.
0:47.0	China has emerged.
0:49.0	And social and economic forces that once look like they sustained democracy
0:53.0	now seem to be working against it.
0:56.0	And advances in science and technology are moving at a breakneck pace.
1:00.0	For example, the development of the polio vaccine took two decades.
1:04.0	Our vaccines for COVID-19 were developed in under a year.
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