The John Batchelor Show

Friday 15 March 2024

Air Date: 
March 15, 2024

CBS EYE ON THE WORLD WITH JOHN BATCHELOR

FIRST HOUR

9-915
#NYC: Depopulation and terrifying subway disorder. Harry Siegel, TheCity.nyc

https://www.thecity.nyc/category/migrant-crisis/

915-930
#PacificWatch:   High Speed Rail to the Las Vegas A's!   @JCBliss

https://secretlasvegas.co/brightline-train-rancho-to-vegas-price/?utm_campaign=later-linkinbio-secretlasvegas_smn&utm_content=later-41723716&utm_medium=social&utm_source=linkin.bio

930-945
#SmallBusinessAmerica: Fresh worries about producer costs and demand. @GeneMarks  @Guardian @PhillyInquirer
https://genemarks.medium.com/how-to-avoid-being-laid-off-e08bfb4701ae

945-1000

#SmallBusinessAmerica: Preparing for AI.  @GeneMarks  @Guardian @PhillyInquirer
https://genemarks.medium.com/ai-is-coming-heres-how-small-business-owners-can-prepare-their-companies-e607d3a9f1fd

SECOND HOUR

10-1015

#KeystoneReport:  Sherrod Brown and the doubts about the Mahoning Valley working class vote. Salena Zito, Middle of Somewhere, @DCExaminer Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, New York Post, SalenaZito.com

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/2920197/kristi-noem-brings-populist-star-power-to-ohio-primary/

1015-1030

j#LancasterCounty: The high price of housing means a worker shortage in manufacturing, 
  Jim McTague, former Washington Editor, Barrons. @MCTagueJ.  Author of the "Martin and Twyla Boundary Series."  #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety

1030-1045

#SEC: Gary Gensler and greenhouse gases calculated for the investor class portfolios. . Richard Epstein, Hoover Institution

https://www.hoover.org/research/disclosure-rules-no-investor-needs

1045-1100

#TikTok: Unneeded,Unacceptable, Unknown threat. Richard Epstein, Hoover Institution
https://www.forbes.com/sites/petersuciu/2024/03/15/the-tiktok-ban-is-truly-an-issue-of-national-security/?sh=29fa275a7ca0

THIRD HOUR

1100-1115

1/4: Wild Ride: A short history of the opening and closing of the Chinese economy
by  Anne Stevenson-Yang  (Author)

 

https://www.amazon.com/Wild-Ride-history-opening-closing/dp/173942431X

 

How did China grow from an impoverished country to become the second largest economy in the world in just over four decades? And how did this economic miracle come to an end, as seems the case today? To understand the story of China's rapid rise and equally rapid fall, author Anne Stevenson-Yang takes us back to the beginning, when Deng Xiaoping took over and opened its moribund economy to Western money and know-how. Stevenson-Yang, who lived and worked in China for a quarter of a century, traces each decade of China's tumultuous development, from the roaring 1980s to today's malaise. In her first-hand account, Wild Ride, Stevenson-Yang concludes that China is returning to the poverty and isolation of the Mao era. What happened to the promise of the political change that would come with the opening of the economy? And the institutional reforms of the last four decades? The author says all that change was all an illusion. Communist China, being interested only in survival, played along and the West fell for it. With the rise of Xi Jinping, that capitalist experiment is over. 'It took me years to understand that I was an unwitting player in an elaborate dramatic confection.'

 

1115-1130
2/4: Wild Ride: A short history of the opening and closing of the Chinese economy
by  Anne Stevenson-Yang  (Author

1130-1145
3/4: Wild Ride: A short history of the opening and closing of the Chinese economy
by  Anne Stevenson-Yang  (Author

1145-1200
4/4: Wild Ride: A short history of the opening and closing of the Chinese economy
by  Anne Stevenson-Yang  (Author

 

 

FOURTH HOUR

12-1215

#CA: Winner and Loser Adam Schiff vs the Winning Dodger Steve Garvey. Bill Whalen, Hoover Institution


https://www.hoover.org/research/californias-primary-results-polemics-1-policy-debates-0

 

1215-1230

#ITALY: Return of the Falcon and her brood as the economy soars past France and Germany. Lorenzo Fiori, Ansaldo Foundation
https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/interestrates/italy-trade-balance-swings-to-surplus-1033168104

 

 

1230-1245
#SPACEX: Success and what's next?  Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com

https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/essays-and-commentaries/spacexs-superheavy-starship-successfully-launches/

1245-100 am
#VOYAGER1: Call home. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com

https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/engineers-report-progress-in-restoring-proper-communications-with-voyager-1/