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Explore "economist" with insightful episodes like "Introducing The Weekend Intelligence", "Jack Smith has BIG SURPRISE for Trump and it’s DEVASTATING" and "Harry Markowitz found a free lunch in finance" from podcasts like ""Economist Podcasts", "Legal AF by MeidasTouch" and "Unhedged"" and more!

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Introducing The Weekend Intelligence

The Weekend Intelligence is a new podcast from the award-winning team at The Economist. It’s a space for our reporters and writers to take a break from the news cycle, to tell the stories that mean the most to them, and to broaden all of our horizons.

Hosts Ore Ogunbiyi and Jason Palmer introduce one story to take you somewhere new every Saturday.

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enOctober 25, 2023

Jack Smith has BIG SURPRISE for Trump and it’s DEVASTATING

The DC Grand Jury under Special Counsel Jack Smith is back in session and investigating Trump’s fraudulent use of fundraising dollars to pay to break into election equipment and computers in 4 battleground states. Find out from Michael Popok of Legal AF whether the grand jury’s September 15 expiration date will be extended by the Chief Judge and whether a new superseding indictment —Trump’s 5th— is due anytime soon. Go to https://PrizePicks.com/legalaf and use code legalaf for a first deposit match up to $100! Remember to subscribe to ALL the Meidas Media Podcasts: MeidasTouch: https://pod.link/1510240831 Legal AF: https://pod.link/1580828595 The PoliticsGirl Podcast: https://pod.link/1595408601 The Influence Continuum: https://pod.link/1603773245 Kremlin File: https://pod.link/1575837599 Mea Culpa with Michael Cohen: https://pod.link/1530639447 The Weekend Show: https://pod.link/1612691018 The Tony Michaels Podcast: https://pod.link/1561049560 American Psyop: https://pod.link/1652143101 Burn the Boats: https://pod.link/1485464343 Majority 54: https://pod.link/1309354521 Political Beatdown: https://pod.link/1669634407 Lights On with Jessica Denson: https://pod.link/1676844320 MAGA Uncovered: https://pod.link/1690214260 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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enSeptember 11, 2023

global issues

economist

election interference

fraud investigation

legal conflicts

Harry Markowitz found a free lunch in finance

Markowitz, a titan of finance who won the 1990 Nobel prize in economics, died last month. He showed, in a mathematically rigorous way, that diversification could bring higher returns without higher risk.

Alex Scaggs joins Ethan to explain how Markowitz’s work led to a way of thinking that has become ubiquitous in modern finance (and that has spawned legions of haters).

Also, we go short economic forecasting and long Beyonce.

Links:

- Read Alex Scaggs’s Markowitz obit in the FT.

For a free 90-day trial to the Unhedged newsletter go to: https://www.ft.com/unhedgedoffer

Follow Ethan Wu (@ethanywu) and Katie Martin (@katie_martin_fx) on Twitter. You can email Ethan at ethan.wu@ft.com.

Read a transcript of this episode on FT.com

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enJuly 06, 2023