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In this essential look at the regrowth of the American Midwest, tech journalist Rebecca A. Fannin chronicles her return to America’s heartland, revealing the dramatic entrepreneurial comeback that is transforming the Rust Belt into the Tech Belt. Watch the full video on 24hourjournal.substack.com. Order Silicon Heartland: Transforming the Midwest from Rust Belt to Tech Belt on Am

In episode #207, our guest is the Co-Founder and CEO of Foreigners.cz, Andrea Tkačuková. For the last 13 years, Andrea and her team have been helping turn foreigners into expatriots in the Czech Republic. Foreigners.cz is a full-service agency helping expats with immigration services, relocation services, trade licenses, health care, language learning and assistance, and more. Th

Joslyn Davis is an alumna of UC Irvine, and she served as Host and Producer to ClevverTV, a pop culture media channel, which accumulated over 2 million YouTube subscribers and amassed 1.2 billion views. She’s appeared as herself in several TV shows including E! True Hollywood Story, Hollywood Estate Date, and the Amazing Race. Currently, you can find Joslyn on her Youtube channel

Jadrian Wooten is an Associate Professor at Pennsylvania State University within the Department of Economics. He’s the Publisher of the Monday Morning Economist on Substack, and he is an award-winning educator and researcher. Topics: Jadrian's dissertation on Sports Economics The retirement problem for Gen Z How to inspire economic lessons and personal finance lessons If you coul

In episode #204, Associate Professor of Economics at Haverford College, Carola Binder, discusses two papers -- Technopopulism and Central Banks, and Stuck in the Seventies: Gas Prices and Consumer Sentiment. Both papers give credence to the financial markets and economic policy as of late. If you enjoyed this episode and would like to hear from Carola Binder on the show again, plea

Episode #203 features Patrice Onwuka. Patrice Onwuka is a Senior Policy Analyst at Independent Women’s Voice and Director of the Center for Economic Opportunity at the Independent Women’s Forum. Onwuka has worked in the advocacy and communications fields for more than a decade. Prior to joining IWV, Onwuka served as national spokeswoman and communications director at Generation

Highlights from January's Federal Open Market Committee press conference, and earnings calls from Paypal, Ally Financial, Tesla, and BlackRock. Upcoming Episodes: Earnings for Lithia Motors, Penske Automotive, AutoNation, Group 1 Automotive, Sonic Automotive Patrice Onwuka, Director of the Center for Economic Opportunity at Independent Women's Forum Carola Binder, Associate Profess

Episode #201 features Alex J. Pollock. Alex J. Pollock is a student of financial systems. His work includes cycles of booms and busts, financial crises with their political responses, housing finance, government-sponsored enterprises, risk and uncertainty, central banking, banking and financial regulation, corporate governance, retirement finance, student loans, and the politics of

Special Purpose Acquisition Companies, or SPACs, have been a hot ticket item for private companies to go public since 2019. Three hundred deals have been completed totaling $540 billion. This type of activity has triggered SEC Chair, Gary Gensler, to scrutinize these deals and propose new recommendations as a way to better protect investors. Sounds great, right? Jennifer Schulp, Di

To conclude this calendar year, the Federal Open Market Committee held their last meeting to discuss the economic recovery, their plans for tapering and interest rate hikes, and answer all media questions. In episode #199, the listeners can recap this meeting and properly plan their personal and business finances into 2022. In particular, while the proposed interest rate hikes carr