Your browser does not support the audio format.0% playedShare Now on:HTML EMBED:Share Now on:HTML EMBED:The cost of cord-cutting is going up. This week, YouTube TV — Google’s live alternative to cable — tacked on another $15 to its monthly bill making for a total of $65.It’s now almost double what it cost when it first launched a few years ago. Another virtual TV service, FuboTV, is raising prices, too — by $10 a month, also to $65.Viewers will be getting more to watch. YouTube and Fubo make licensing deals with channels to share their shows. For example, YouTube recently bought...…Your browser does not support the audio format.0% playedShare Now on:HTML EMBED:Share Now on:HTML EMBED:The cost of cord-cutting is going up. This week, YouTube TV — Google’s live alternative to cable — tacked on another $15 to its monthly bill making for a total of $65.It’s now almost double what it cost when it first launched a few years ago. Another virtual TV service, FuboTV, is raising prices, too — by $10 a month, also to $65.Viewers will be getting more to watch. YouTube and Fubo make licensing deals with channels to share their shows. For example, YouTube recently bought...WW…

Your browser does not support the audio format.0% playedBut new reporting shows Microsoft, Amazon and Google are doing a lot more defense and law enforcement work than perhaps was realized.Share Now on:HTML EMBED:But new reporting shows Microsoft, Amazon and Google are doing a lot more defense and law enforcement work than perhaps was realized.get the podcastget the podcastGoogle made a for more defense work this week, with an approach to cloud computing it thinks should appeal to government customers. Until now, Google has mostly sat those lucrative contracts out, in part because it’s...…Your browser does not support the audio format.0% playedBut new reporting shows Microsoft, Amazon and Google are doing a lot more defense and law enforcement work than perhaps was realized.Share Now on:HTML EMBED:But new reporting shows Microsoft, Amazon and Google are doing a lot more defense and law enforcement work than perhaps was realized.get the podcastget the podcastGoogle made a for more defense work this week, with an approach to cloud computing it thinks should appeal to government customers. Until now, Google has mostly sat those lucrative contracts out, in part because it’s...WW…

For five years, Danny, his wife and daughter — all asylum seekers from Honduras — have been under surveillance by a growing electronic monitoring program by Immigration and Customs Enforcement.Danny described his time under monitoring as “stressful” and “psychologically bad” as he’s been turned away from jobs due to his ankle monitor, panicked about technological glitches and complied with frequent ICE check-ins. He’s asked to use only his first name as he fears retaliation. He and his wife were tracked through an ICE electronic monitoring program that has more than doubled in size under...…For five years, Danny, his wife and daughter — all asylum seekers from Honduras — have been under surveillance by a growing electronic monitoring program by Immigration and Customs Enforcement.Danny described his time under monitoring as “stressful” and “psychologically bad” as he’s been turned away from jobs due to his ankle monitor, panicked about technological glitches and complied with frequent ICE check-ins. He’s asked to use only his first name as he fears retaliation. He and his wife were tracked through an ICE electronic monitoring program that has more than doubled in size under...WW…

Your browser does not support the audio format.0% playedShare Now on:HTML EMBED:Share Now on:HTML EMBED:— that’s how many Americans filed first-time claims for unemployment last week. That’s about 6% fewer than the week before, and a big improvement over the worst weeks of the early pandemic, just about a year ago, when the number went into the millions for a couple of months. But it’s still way worse than the number 52 Thursdays ago: just 211,000. We took a dive into a year’s worth of unemployment numbers.To try to get a sense of the scale and severity of unemployment over the past year,...…Your browser does not support the audio format.0% playedShare Now on:HTML EMBED:Share Now on:HTML EMBED:— that’s how many Americans filed first-time claims for unemployment last week. That’s about 6% fewer than the week before, and a big improvement over the worst weeks of the early pandemic, just about a year ago, when the number went into the millions for a couple of months. But it’s still way worse than the number 52 Thursdays ago: just 211,000. We took a dive into a year’s worth of unemployment numbers.To try to get a sense of the scale and severity of unemployment over the past year,...WW…

Your browser does not support the audio format.0% playedSen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass. joins the show to discuss the wealth tax she introduced last week, which would impose a 2% tax on individual net worth above $50 million and an additional 1% surtax on net worth above $1 billion. Plus, COVID relief payments could hit bank accounts as soon as this weekend. And, China's antitrust regulator fines some of the country's largest tech giants.Share Now on:HTML EMBED:Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass. joins the show to discuss the wealth tax she introduced last week, which would impose a 2% tax on...…Your browser does not support the audio format.0% playedSen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass. joins the show to discuss the wealth tax she introduced last week, which would impose a 2% tax on individual net worth above $50 million and an additional 1% surtax on net worth above $1 billion. Plus, COVID relief payments could hit bank accounts as soon as this weekend. And, China's antitrust regulator fines some of the country's largest tech giants.Share Now on:HTML EMBED:Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass. joins the show to discuss the wealth tax she introduced last week, which would impose a 2% tax on...WW…

Your browser does not support the audio format.0% playedShare Now on:HTML EMBED:Share Now on:HTML EMBED:In 2020, while millions of Americans struggled with job loss and economic turmoil due to the coronavirus pandemic, the richest 100 Americans’ fortunes grew by . This is the backdrop for the introduced by Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., last week.The Ultra-Millionaire Tax Act, co-sponsored in the House by Rep. Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash., and Brendan Boyle, D-Pa., would impose a 2% tax on individual net worth above $50 million and an additional 1% surtax on net worth above $1 billion....…Your browser does not support the audio format.0% playedShare Now on:HTML EMBED:Share Now on:HTML EMBED:In 2020, while millions of Americans struggled with job loss and economic turmoil due to the coronavirus pandemic, the richest 100 Americans’ fortunes grew by . This is the backdrop for the introduced by Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., last week.The Ultra-Millionaire Tax Act, co-sponsored in the House by Rep. Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash., and Brendan Boyle, D-Pa., would impose a 2% tax on individual net worth above $50 million and an additional 1% surtax on net worth above $1 billion....WW…

Your browser does not support the audio format.0% playedSome economists say interest rates of 4% or 5% could be in the cards for the Federal Reserve. Plus: The state of the economy, as told by JPMorgan's earnings report.Share Now on:HTML EMBED:Some economists say interest rates of 4% or 5% could be in the cards for the Federal Reserve. Plus: The state of the economy, as told by JPMorgan's earnings report.get the podcastget the podcastFor the most part, the news is pretty good.Stan Honda/ AFP via Getty ImagesHTML EMBED:Share Now on:Subscribe Using:We don't know. But the Taylor principle says...…Your browser does not support the audio format.0% playedSome economists say interest rates of 4% or 5% could be in the cards for the Federal Reserve. Plus: The state of the economy, as told by JPMorgan's earnings report.Share Now on:HTML EMBED:Some economists say interest rates of 4% or 5% could be in the cards for the Federal Reserve. Plus: The state of the economy, as told by JPMorgan's earnings report.get the podcastget the podcastFor the most part, the news is pretty good.Stan Honda/ AFP via Getty ImagesHTML EMBED:Share Now on:Subscribe Using:We don't know. But the Taylor principle says...WW…