On The Record (07-21-26).
Quite the Odyssey.
This week we went to see The Odyssey and came out thinking about Bronze Age collapse, because Nolan’s Odysseus is haunted by the wreckage of a civilization that mistook conquest for strength—and the parallels basically write themselves. Then we checked in on the Leading Economic Index, which has been declining for years while the coincident index keeps climbing, and the gap between those two lines is the gap between Wall Street and everyone else: the market’s fine, the C-suite’s fine, but the person trying to build or buy a house is living in a completely different economy.
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Episode Timestamp + Link | Clip Link
- 00:01:37 | Guardian News: Britain’s new prime minister Andy Burnham makes address
- 00:02:41 | NBC News: Trump imposes 50% tariffs on dairy, alcohol, and cars from Canada
- 00:03:18 | The Hill: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announces annual testosterone screenings for service members
- 00:04:17 | Fox Business: Bessent delivers remarks on far-left political terrorism
- 00:07:11 | The Majority Report w/ Sam Seder: Trashfluencer Clavicular Is Too Stupid To Understand What’s Going On
- 00:15:28 | Drop Site News: Jeremy Scahill and Ro Khanna CLASH Over Palestinian Armed Resistance and Iron Dome
Resources
- Netflix: Bill Maher Mark Twain Prize
- Forbes: Here’s The Odyssey’s Budget And Break-Even Point At The Box Office
- Africa Is a Country: Odyssey to Africa’s last colony
- The Conference Board: Leading Economic Index® (LEI) for the US Declined in June and Partially Reversed Gains from Prior Two Months
- ACLU: Defending Our Vote: The ACLU’s election safeguarding program
- Grist: New York governor orders first statewide data center moratorium
- The Lever: Repeat Food Contaminator Gave $2.2 Million to GOP. Now Thousands Are Sick
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