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We’re less than a year out from the 2024 presidential election. And former President Donald Trump is still leading the pack of Republican candidates, by a lot.

This has us wondering: What would another Trump presidency mean for the economy?

On the show today, William Howell, professor of American politics at the University of Chicago explains how Trump’s plans to weaken the federal bureaucracy could disrupt the economy, how the former president’s proposals on immigration and Obamacare could go over, and what voters see in his economic agenda. Plus, what this could all mean for our democracy.

Then, we’ll get into a major data breach at the genetic testing company 23andMe. And, Moody’s lowered China’s credit outlook to negative. We’ll unpack what that means for China and what it has to do with political dysfunction in the U.S.

Later, thoughts on COP28 and some impressive Spotify Wrapped stats. Plus, what the owner of a gift wrapping service had wrong when she started her business.

Here’s everything we talked about today:

• • “Where Donald Trump stands on taxes, the economy” from The Washington Post

• • “The Republican Party’s Split on Economics” from The New York Times

• • “Trump’s plans if he returns to the White House include deportation raids, tariffs and mass firings” from AP News

• • “Some Republicans sound alarm after Trump revives focus on Obamacare” from CNN Politics

• • “Why the Supreme Court’s “administrative state” decision matters” from Marketplace

• • “What Trump’s Second Term Could Look Like” from The Atlantic

• • “Moody’s Cuts China Credit Outlook to Negative on Rising Debt” from Bloomberg

• • “Why invest in gold when the economic outlook isn’t great?” from Marketplace

• • “Data Breach at 23andMe Affects 6.9 Million Profiles, Company Says” from The New York Times

• • “23andMe confirms hackers stole ancestry data on 6.9 million users” from TechCrunch

If you’ve got a question, comment or submission for a state drink, send them our way. We’re at 508-UB-SMART or email makemesmart@marketplace.org.

Last week, the Supreme Court began its new term, picking up where it left off on the most contentious issues of the day, with cases connected to government power, gun rights and abortion.

Adam Liptak, who covers the Supreme Court for The Times, explains why, while previous terms produced major victories for the conservative legal movement, this term may be different.

Guest: Adam Liptak, who covers the Supreme Court and writes Sidebar, a column on legal developments, for The New York Times.

Background reading: 

• In cases this term, the justices will explore the scope of the Second Amendment, the fate of the administrative state and limits on free speech on the internet.
• From Adam Liptak’s Sidebar column: Does the Supreme Court’s cherry-picking of which questions to answer inject politics into judging?

For more information on today’s episode, visit nytimes.com/thedaily. Transcripts of each episode will be made available by the next workday. 

In this 144th in a series of live discussions with Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying (both PhDs in Biology), we discuss the state of the world through an evolutionary lens.

This week, we discuss the prestigious scientific journal Nature, and its promotion of an anti-scientific perspective on sex and gender. We also discuss the not-so-prestigious journal Transgender Studies Quarterly, and its take on species concepts, and also on the “Trans*-Ness of Blackness.” We discuss the new research that finds that covid vaccines do affect women’s menstrual cycles, and also the shortcomings both in that research, and in the Washington Post’s reporting on it. Bret offers pro bono marketing help to Pfizer. And we talk about Great Britain’s medical regulatory agency (MHRA) moving from its role as “watchdog” of outside entities, to that of “enabler.”

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Mentioned in this episode:

Currah, Paisley, 2022. To set transgender policy, look to the evidence. Nature, 9-27-22: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-03036-5

Transgender Studies Quarterly, main site: https://read.dukeupress.edu/tsq

Trans Species: https://read.dukeupress.edu/tsq/article/1/1-2/253/91865/Trans-Species

Hasenbush et al 2019. Gender Identity Nondiscrimination Laws in Public Accommodations: a Review of Evidence Regarding Safety and Privacy in Public Restrooms, Locker Rooms, and Changing Rooms. Sex Res Soc Policy 16: 70–83. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13178-018-0335-z

Livestream of protest of “Outright Vermont,” from 10-1-22, on the YouTube channel of the Disaffected Podcast: https://youtu.be/OBk5hWxPe4I

Washington Post article (by Amanda Morris, 9-27-22): Women said coronavirus shots affect periods. New study shows they’re right. https://www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/2022/09/27/covid-vaccine-period-late/

Edelman et al 2022. Association between menstrual cycle length and covid-19 vaccination: global, retrospective cohort study of prospectively collected data. BMJ Medicine, 1(1). https://bmjmedicine.bmj.com/content/bmjmed/1/1/e000297.full.pdf?with-ds=yes

The Digger, Phil Harper’s Substack: https://philharper.substack.com

Dr. June Raine’s talk at Oxford in March 2022, “From Watchdog to Enabler: Regulation in Covid and after”: https://youtu.be/xUQfzTqPUm4?t=1818

Timestamps:
(00:00) Welcome and announcements

(04:00) Sponsors

(11:53) Nature on Trans

(26:05) Trans gender studies quarterly

(36:32) Another research article from TGSQ

(39:45) Nature's responsibility

(50:18) WaPo on menstrual cycle length and COVID vaccination

(01:04:20) Uptake of new bivalent booster

(01:08:23) MHRA from watchdog to enabler

(01:26:00) Wrap up

Brianne Dressen participated in clinical trials and tells her story to RFK Jr in this episode.

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After the election in November, outgoing Presidents have an opportunity to pass last-minute (often unpopular and unpublicized) legislation as 'midnight regulations.' Learn more about midnight regulations in this HowStuffWorks podcast.

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