Mar 08 2025 64 mins 1
Vic & Marcus dive into the latest economic and business news, starting with the ADP jobs report showing the smallest job gains since July. They analyze the impact of tariffs on U.S. markets, discuss the drop in credit scores among student loan borrowers, and examine a $100 billion investment in U.S. chip manufacturing. The conversation shifts to healthcare with funding updates in pediatric care, ophthalmology, and chronic pain treatment, followed by insights on the growing AI cloud market. They also discuss RFK Jr.'s policy changes on vaccine committees, Blue Cross Blue Shield’s antitrust lawsuit, and opioid settlements for hospitals. The episode rounds out with a deep dive into AI’s rapid expansion in healthcare, humanoid robots performing household tasks, AI-generated human-like voices, and major policy changes impacting SNAP benefits.
1:18 - US Firms Add 77,000 Jobs, Smallest Gain Since July
2:01 - Stocks Sink, Trump Says Tariffs on Some Mexican
5:23 - Steep Drop in Credit Scores Hits Student-Loan Borrowers
6:50 - Trump, Chip Maker TSMC Announce $100 Billion
9:07 - Banks Loan $2 Billion to Build a 100-Acre AI Data
9:48 - Value-based pediatrics practice Bluebird Kids Health clinches $31.5M
11:36 - Lumata Health raises $23M Series B
12:24 - Nervonik Raises $13 Million in Series A Financing to Advance...
12:57 - GEM HEALTH Raises $7M in Series A Funding FinSMES
13:23 - AI cloud provider CoreWeave files for IPO
14:17 - General Catalyst is considering an IPO
15:20 - RFK Jr.’s Health Department Heightens
16:47 - ROBERT F. KENNEDY JR.: Measles outbreak
18:52 - In new lawsuits, dozens of health systems opt out of $2.8B Blues...
20:51 - Court approves $700M prescription opioid
23:04 - Wellvana buys CVS Medicare savings unit
24:20 - Headspace inks partnership with US Navy
25:38 - Walgreens Nears Roughly $10 Billion Deal
26:06 - Mayo Clinic unveils $1.9B expansion to Phoenix
27:28 - Novo Nordisk cuts Wegovy prices, following
29:39 - Bayer Warns of Lower Earnings as Turnaround
30:09 - The New Thinking on Concussions in Sports
32:58 - Mystery Disease Linked to Bats Kills Scores in Congo
34:12 - RFK Jr. and His Allies Target Trump’s Beloved Soda
37:12 - AvaSure debuts bedside AI virtual care
38:01 - Google Cloud expands AI-powered
38:43 - Microsoft launches voice-activated AI assistant
39:18 - Baxter debuts voice-activated wearable
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