Join Barron’s for an exclusive live conversation with journalists and guests. Our editors and reporters will examine the pandemic and its impact on markets, the economy, companies and individuals. Topics include Managing Your Money, The Future of Health Care, What to Watch in the Markets, Tech Stocks, and more.
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Plains Folk is a commentary devoted to life on the great plains of North Dakota. Written by Tom Isern of West Fargo, North Dakota, and read in newspapers across the region for years, Plains Folk venerates fall suppers and barn dances and reminds us that "more important to our thoughts than lines on a map are the essential characteristics of the region — the things that tell what the plains are, not just where they are."
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Cinema of Meaning is a conversational podcast that seeks to explore the depths of what cinema has to offer. Each week, we discuss an individual film to get a better understanding of its storytelling qualities, to examine its cinematic techniques, and to uncover its deeper meanings. Hosted by video essayists Tom van der Linden from the channel Like Stories of Old and Thomas Flight.
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Tom Nicholas tries to keep up with the zeitgeist, helped by some guests.
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Welcome to the Theodore Bolha podcast, where I discuss philosophical ideas and topics related to sentient experience, consciousness, life, death, ethics, naturalism, atheism and more.
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There are 24 hours in a day. Seems pretty straightforward. But what do you really know about the hours between say, 11pm-6am. From graveyard shift jobs to “secret identities”, who we are and what we do at night is often less fully perceived by others, whether by choice or by circumstance. Peering into the dusty corners of the night, Nocturne explores these often overlooked and undisclosed slices of life. Under cover of darkness, our thoughts and feelings can take on strange new shapes, somet ...
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The TaleWind pod features interviews with authors of books related to science, technology, and business.
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I’m Tom Kleese, founder of OnCampus College Planning, and my job is to help your family take positive steps on the journey to an incredible college experience.
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Tom Cox from grammaticus.co explores Plutarch’s Parallel Lives to introduce you to antiquity, encourage you in your education, or refresh your perspective on people and politics by stepping outside the news cycle. Biography invigorates the study of history by bringing it to life. Plutarch was the first master of this form, examining in a person the relationship between fortune, virtue, and excellence. Whether you just want to study antiquity from your armchair, sit at the feet of the greates ...
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Check us out at podcast.memod.com for our entire library of podcast episodes! Each week we do a deep dive into a nonfiction bestseller. Self-Help. Psychology. Business. Philosophy. In around 30 minutes we cover the major themes and ideas of a recent hit, an important work, or an ancient classic. The result: concentrated wisdom that goes beyond the headlines, makes you think and helps you succeed in relationships, career, or business. The podcast builds on the work of Tom Butler-Bowdon, autho ...
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Talking Markets with Sevens' Report Tom Essaye
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Barron's Senior Managing Editor Lauren R. Rublin and Deputy Editor Ben Levisohn speak with Tom Essaye, Founder and President of Sevens Report about the outlook for financial markets, industry sectors, and individual stocks.Door Barron's Live
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Every year is a mixed bag, always with its measure of miseries, but this one, 2024, is packed with celebratory milestones for me. Fifty years of college teaching under my belt. One hundred fifty years of successful agriculture on our family farm. And now, one thousand radio essays under the title, Plains Folk, composed and voiced for Prairie Public…
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I’ve been arguing, along with Richard Edwards and his new book, Great Plains Homesteaders, that we should rethink our history with the Homestead Act on the Great Plains. You can do some of this for yourself, of course. If you have a homesteading ancestor, then you can order up the land patent file from the National Archives and learn the gritty det…
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The Essays of Warren Buffett by Lawrence A. Cunningham
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Lawrence A. Cunningham is the Director of the John L. Weinberg Center for Corporate Governance at the University of Delaware. He currently serves as a Director for several publicly-traded companies: Markel Group (NYSE: MKL), Kelly Partners Group Holdings Limited (ASX: KPG), and Constellation Software (TSX: CSU), where he serves as Vice Chairman. Be…
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Talking Markets with First Eagle's Matt McLennan
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Barron's Senior Managing Editor Lauren R. Rublin and Deputy Editor Ben Levisohn talk with First Eagle portfolio manager Matt McLennan about the firm's "artisanal" approach to investing and some of McLennan's key investment ideas. Plus, a look at the latest earnings reports and economic data, and the election's potential impact on industry sectors.…
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An Economic Update from Point72's Dean Maki
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Barron's Senior Managing Editor Lauren R. Rublin and Deputy Editor Ben Levisohn discuss the outlook for markets and companies in the news. They will also speak with Dean Maki, Chief Economist at Point72, about his economic and interest-rate forecasts.Door Barron's Live
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In the Enderlin Museum a few days ago I noticed an old handbill on display, dating from 1897, and addressed “To Cattle Owners”: The undersigned hereby wishes to announce that he is again ready to receive orders for herding cattle during the coming season, from May 1st to October 1st, 1897. Good and sufficient drinking water can be found on the land…
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The Highest Calling by David Rubenstein
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Special family episode this week featuring my father, David Rubenstein, on his new book, The Highest Calling. From Simon and Schuster: For years, bestselling author David M. Rubenstein has distilled the contours of American democracy through conversations with noted leaders and historians. In The Highest Calling, he offers an enlightening overview …
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What to Watch in the Markets this Week
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Barron's Senior Managing Editor Lauren R. Rublin and Deputy Editor Ben Levisohn discuss the outlook for financial markets, industry sectors, and individual stocks.Door Barron's Live
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Sometime soon I will come to Prairie Public studios and record Plains Folk radio feature no. 1000. I am not winding down, but ramping up toward that recording, wherein I will, of course, offer some wise and witty remarks about life on the Great Plains of North America and the enterprise of telling their stories.…
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To lovers of the outdoors, the legacy of Gunlog Bjarni “G. B.” Gunlogson is evident. Just visit Icelandic State Park, in Pembina County, established in 1964 following Gunlogson’s gift of a 200-acre nature preserve along the Tongue River to the state of North Dakota. See the homestead buildings of his Icelandic immigrant parents, Eggert and Rannveig…
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Coal, Metals, Mining? We Need to Talk
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Traditional and new energy sources alike are playing starring roles in the energy transition and modernization of the grid. Therein lie opportunities for investors. Barron's Senior Managing Editor Lauren R. Rublin and Deputy Editor Ben Levisohn talk with Dr. James Stevenson, Executive Director, Coal, Metals & Mining, at McCloskey by OPIS, a Dow Jon…
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Women and men and how they get along, or not, are not just matters for contemplation and commiseration in our personal lives. They are historical questions in the settlement and development of the Great Plains. The homesteading era often featured men going out alone to stake claims. Historically, however, the late nineteenth century in America saw …
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Into Under Through Again
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Nocturne is turning 10 YEARS OLD next month! In honor of this huge milestone, we are revisiting an early listener favorite, with a twist. It turns out, the night, with it's hidden, pulse quickening, mystery, may not be something to triumph over, it might be something to savor. Support Nocturne by donating at www.patreon.com/nocturnepodcast Into Und…
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In a previous essay, I left you in the lurch, having quoted, in closing a discussion of the early work of the Institute for Regional Studies at North Dakota Agricultural College, now NDSU, a poem by John R. Milton. This opening poem of The Loving Hawk, a chapbook published by the Institute, ranges from the fall of man to the endless issues of place…
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North Dakota Congressman, Hjalmar Nygaard, he knew his way around legislative corridors. A teacher and a businessman, his fellow citizens of Steele County had elected him to multiple terms in the state legislature, and then in 1961 he took office in the United States House of Representatives. One day in 1963, in the Capitol Building, Representative…
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Threshing time in McIntosh County, 1926, and the thresherman Gottlieb Bendewald was in the field. A young bundle pitcher, a neighbor from just a mile away, sixteen years old — Christian Lux — hailed the thresherman to collect wages for work he had done, and things went badly from there. Witnesses disagreed what was said and done, and the parties di…
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“When I went to Kent State in 1961,” recalls Shirley Fischer Arends, a great scholar of the history, language, and culture of the Germans from Russia, “I had no idea that I was part of any kind of a unique cultural people. I thought I was simply an American.”Door Tom Isern
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A Bull Market Restart? Talking with Jim Paulsen
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Barron's Senior Managing Editor Lauren R. Rublin and Deputy Editor Ben Levisohn speak with Jim Paulsen, author of the Paulsen Perspectives newsletter on Substack about the outlook for financial markets, industry sectors, and individual stocks.Door Barron's Live
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The local press of Casselton reported in 1883 that a “broom brigade of ladies” assembled in town to march on the “residence of a grass widow with the expectation of finding their husbands.” They discovered, however, that their wayward mates were all occupied at a poker game in the saloon.Door Tom Isern
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What's Ahead for the Fed?
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Barron's Senior Managing Editor Lauren R. Rublin, Deputy Editor Ben Levisohn, and Tom Porcelli, Chief U.S. Economist at PGIM, discuss the outlook for the economy, interest rates, and the Federal Reserve's annual economic symposium in Jackson Hole, Wyo. -- and what changes in monetary policy will mean for the markets.…
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A dry, wry farmer was hired to look after exhibits at the Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893. A central figure in the exhibits was a female form composed of grasses and grains, a picture of fertility. The farmer was attending to business when a smart aleck Hoosier from Indiana came up and said, “I say, pardner, this ’ere show is great. You mus…
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When the Heavens Went on Sale by Ashlee Vance
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Disclaimer: The content in this episode should not be considered financial or investment advice. Although this could change in the future, at the time of recording and releasing, the host did not own shares in any of the companies discussed. In When the Heavens Went on Sale, Ashlee Vance illuminates our future and unveils the next big technology st…
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What to Watch in the Markets this Week
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Barron's Senior Managing Editor Lauren R. Rublin and Deputy Editor Ben Levisohn discuss the outlook for financial markets, industry sectors, and individual stocks.Door Barron's Live
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There are scores of local historical museums across North Dakota, nobody knows just how many — county museums, community museums, organizational museums, special-interest museums. Some people regard this as a problem, for how can they be maintained and their collections cared for?Door Tom Isern
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Cheaper, Faster, Better by Tom Steyer
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The consequences of climate change—rising waters, extreme weather, record temperatures—are transforming our lives, as global warming accelerates more rapidly than scientists predicted even a few years ago. At the same time, the clean energy revolution is forging ahead faster than nearly anyone anticipated. As Tom Steyer sees it, these two trends to…
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Healthcare Investing with Neal Kaufman of Baron Funds
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Barron's Senior Managing Editor Lauren R. Rublin, Reporter Josh Nathan-Kazis and Baron Funds' Vice President Neal Kaufman discuss the outlook for the healthcare market, industry sectors, and individual stocks.Door Barron's Live
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How Life Works by Philip Ball
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Biology is undergoing a quiet but profound transformation. Several aspects of the standard picture of how life works—the idea of the genome as a blueprint, of genes as instructions for building an organism, of proteins as precisely tailored molecular machines, of cells as entities with fixed identities, and more—have been exposed as incomplete, mis…
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The hospitality was great when I took a gang of students to Ashley last spring to pilot the first cloud-cataloging project in a local museum in North Dakota.Door Tom Isern
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An early tragedy led Tom Turcich to examine what he wanted out of life, so over the course of seven years, he and Savannah walked around the globe. Tom is the 10th man to walk around the world, and Savannah is the first dog. Support Nocturne by donating at www.patreon.com/nocturnepodcast Tom and Savannah Credits Nocturne is produced by Vanessa Lowe…
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Tech, Pain Trades, and Central Banks
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Barron's Deputy Editor Ben Levisohn, Associate Editor Al Root, and Senior Writer Nicholas Jasinski discuss the outlook for tech earnings, the stock market, and the Federal Reserve.Door Barron's Live
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The last time we pulled into the Starlite in Fingal, we stumbled into a hotbed of community memory, as it was all-school reunion day. The Starlite still stands. Its rounded roof spans white stucco walls. Top front, above the entry, is the Starlite Garden sign, indescribably inviting. The building now opens for events and functions.…
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Boom and Bust by William Quinn and John D. Turner
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A conversation with William Quinn about Boom and Bust, which he co-authored alongside John D. Turner. Published in 2020, Boom and Bust explores financial bubbles across a number of different markets, geographies, and time periods. Why do stock and housing markets sometimes experience amazing booms followed by massive busts and why is this happening…
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In 1918 a farm boy from McLean County, Clell Gannon, entered the Art Institute of Chicago, full of hope. Two or three years later, disillusioned and debilitated by diphtheria and influenza, he was back in Bismarck. In 1924 he published (with a pay-to-play publisher, Gotham Press of Boston) his book of poems, Songs of the Bunch Grass Acres. Wherein …
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Barron's Roundtable Member Todd Ahlsten on His Investment Style
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Barron's Senior Managing Editor Lauren R. Rublin, Deputy Editor Ben Levisohn and Parnassus Investments' Chief Investment Officer Todd Ahlsten discuss the outlook for financial markets, industry sectors, and individual stocks.Door Barron's Live
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This new work from North Dakota State University Press, Lynched — it’s not a feel-good book. “The fact that we were a nation where lynching was a common occurrence should never be forgotten or excused,” say the authors, Doreen Chaky and Adrienne Stepanek, of Williston.Door Tom Isern
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The book is about justice, and it is justice. It has a long title: In Order that Justice May Be Done: The Legal Struggle of the Turtle Mountain Band of Pembina Chippewa, 1795-1905. The editorial team who worked on it at North Dakota State University Press, among themselves, called it “the justice book.”…
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The Great Rotation: Nvidia, Apple, and What Was Left Behind
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Barron's Deputy Editor Ben Levisohn, Associate Editor Al Root and Mizuho Securities’ Managing Director Jordan Klein discuss Nvidia's recent weakness, Apple's recent strength, and where to look for opportunities in a market that is desperately trying to broaden out from Big Tech.Door Barron's Live
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The Outlook for Energy - and Energy Stocks
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Barron's Senior Managing Editor Lauren R. Rublin and Deputy Editor Ben Levisohn speak with OPIS’ Chief Oil Analyst Denton Cinquegrana on the outlook for energy and financial markets.Door Barron's Live
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Coming home from the Midwestern History Conference, changing trains in Chicago, laying over a few hours at a fourth-floor table in the downtown Harold Washington Library, writing this essay. I am quite certain I am in the midwest. Dawn tomorrow morning I’ll ride the Empire Builder into the Red River Valley and alight in Fargo. At that point I will …
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The Fed and Fixed Income: Talking with BlackRock’s Rick Rieder
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Barron's Senior Managing Editor Lauren R. Rublin and Deputy Editor Ben Levisohn speak with BlackRock’s Chief Investment Officer of Global Fixed Income Rick Rieder, on the outlook for financial markets, industry sectors, and individual stocks.Door Barron's Live
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When in 1950 Dean Ernst Giesecke proposed an Institute for Regional Studies at North Dakota Agricultural College, not many people had a clear idea what he was talking about. President Hultz went along, though, and on 8 March 1950, the state board concurred, establishing the institute as a program of the School of Applied Arts & Sciences.…
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Send us a text Full Show Notes Greek Parallel - Timoleon Important People Perseus - A tyrannical Macedonian leader who acts as a foil to Aemilius's virtues. They are like parallel lines running in opposite directions, even down to their family lives. Tubero - An obscure character worth keeping an eye on. Raised in a frugal, Roman home supporting Ro…
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The Outlook for Travel-Related Stocks
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Barron's Senior Managing Editor Lauren R. Rublin and Deputy Editor Ben Levisohn talk with Vontobel’s Portfolio Manager Markus Hansen about promising travel-related stocks and other consumer-focused investments.Door Barron's Live
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Lessons from the Titans by Rob Wertheimer, Scott Davis, and Carter Copeland
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A conversation with Rob Wertheimer about the book he co-authored in 2020, Lessons from the Titans: What Companies in the New Economy Can Learn from the Great Industrial Giants to Drive Sustainable Success. The conversation focuses particularly on the chapters that Rob authored in which he analyzes Caterpillar, Stanley Black & Decker, and United Ren…
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