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  • America’s Homelessness Crisis: Billions Spent, Few Results

    America’s Homelessness Crisis: Billions Spent, Few Results
    2025/08/08
    US cities are spending record sums on homelessness, yet rates continue to rise. A tangled web of public agencies and nonprofits, high administrative costs, poor coordination, and expensive housing projects hinder real progress. Many programs focus on costly, inefficient solutions while failing to address root causes like unaffordable housing. Political and organizational incentives perpetuate inefficiency, making lasting solutions elusive.

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  • How Private Equity Really Works

    How Private Equity Really Works
    2025/08/01
    Private equity is a $4.7 trillion global industry investing in non-public assets, often through buyouts funded by investor capital and loans. Firms structure as Delaware partnerships, raise money by investing their own funds, and earn fees and a share of profits. They target companies for operational improvements or cost-cutting, then sell at a profit. Tax advantages and high compensation drive its appeal, but its impact on industries and jobs is controversial.

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  • Why Top CEOs Always Fail Upwards

    Why Top CEOs Always Fail Upwards
    2025/07/25
    Despite costly failures, many CEOs receive huge payouts and continue to land top jobs due to a system prioritizing experience, elite networks, and powerful negotiating positions. Golden parachutes, boardroom politics, and the high value placed on leadership over technical skills allow executives to fail upwards, often at the expense of regular workers and shareholders. This entrenched system makes it almost impossible for top executives to truly fall from grace.

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  • The Dark Side of Senior Care Profits

    The Dark Side of Senior Care Profits
    2025/07/18
    America’s nursing homes and senior care facilities, often run for profit and increasingly owned by private equity, are plagued by cost-cutting, understaffing, and poor conditions—leading to thousands of premature deaths. Driven by an aging population and financial incentives, investors exploit the system, prioritizing profit over care. Regulatory gaps, abusive guardianships, and creative financial maneuvers further harm vulnerable elderly residents, making age care a broken business model.

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  • The Dumbest Business Idea in History

    The Dumbest Business Idea in History
    2025/07/06

    In this episode, we talk about how decisions meant to maximize shareholder value reshaped companies like Ford Motor Company, General Electric, Silicon Valley Bank, and Lehman Brothers. The story covers the Ford Motor Company court case that set a precedent, the rise of Jack Welch’s aggressive cost-cutting at General Electric, the dramatic surge in executive pay compared to worker wages, the decline in average stock holding periods, and how short-term thinking has triggered massive layoffs, quality declines, and some of the biggest corporate failures in modern history.

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  • How the New Work Economy Eats Itself

    How the New Work Economy Eats Itself
    2025/07/04

    We trace the tangled, unraveling threads of the nine-to-five job — a system once fought for by workers to protect their time but now hollowed out by mass layoffs, gig work, and the relentless hunt for profit. From overemployed remote workers secretly stacking paychecks to delivery drivers risking it all for flexible hours, this story pulls apart the myth of job security and reveals the hidden costs of freedom sold by gig apps and contract deals. Listen as we unpack why companies love to abandon permanent roles, how workers are left paying the price for their own benefits, and what the quiet extinction of the traditional workday means for anyone still trying to trade time for a steady living.

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