In this essential look at the regrowth of the American Midwest, tech journalist Rebecca A. Fannin chronicles her return to America’s heartland, revealing the dramatic entrepreneurial comeback that is transforming the Rust Belt into the Tech Belt. Watch the full video on 24hourjournal.substack.com. Order Silicon Heartland: Transforming the Midwest from Rust Belt to Tech Belt on Amazon. Video Chapters: 2:57 What was the inspiration behind Silicon Heartland 5:06 The technology reviving the Heartland 6:38 The most important inputs driving the transformation of the Rust Belt 8:33 Working remote or ..read more

In episode #207, our guest is the Co-Founder and CEO of Foreigners.cz, Andrea Tkačuková. For the last 13 years, Andrea and her team have been helping turn foreigners into expatriots in the Czech Republic. Foreigners.cz is a full-service agency helping expats with immigration services, relocation services, trade licenses, health care, language learning and assistance, and more. They have helped over 17,000 clients, have access to 14,000 apartments, and have a team of 38 professionals.   Topics discussed: - How her relationship with her Co-Founder help build the DNA of the company - Co ..read more

Joslyn Davis is an alumna of UC Irvine, and she served as Host and Producer to ClevverTV, a pop culture media channel, which accumulated over 2 million YouTube subscribers and amassed 1.2 billion views. She’s appeared as herself in several TV shows including E! True Hollywood Story, Hollywood Estate Date, and the Amazing Race. Currently, you can find Joslyn on her Youtube channel where she vlogs about her life, fashion, and flipping homes. In episode #206, Joslyn shares her greatest insights on how to get the attention of Hollywood. *****  Follow Joslyn Davis Youtube https://www.yout ..read more

Jadrian Wooten is an Associate Professor at Pennsylvania State University within the Department of Economics. He’s the Publisher of the Monday Morning Economist on Substack, and he is an award-winning educator and researcher. Topics: Jadrian's dissertation on Sports Economics The retirement problem for Gen Z How to inspire economic lessons and personal finance lessons If you could only teach three economic lessons, what would they be? Bonus question: Tips and recommendations to implement digital media in teaching lessons What economic lessons have you learned by traveling to other countries&n ..read more

In episode #204, Associate Professor of Economics at Haverford College, Carola Binder, discusses two papers -- Technopopulism and Central Banks, and Stuck in the Seventies: Gas Prices and Consumer Sentiment. Both papers give credence to the financial markets and economic policy as of late.   If you enjoyed this episode and would like to hear from Carola Binder on the show again, please share your thoughts: https://wiscoweeklypod.tiny.us/yvvdywbk     Passages: An important point is that under technopopulism, populists do not reject technocratic expertise, but instead rely o ..read more

Episode #203 features Patrice Onwuka.   Patrice Onwuka is a Senior Policy Analyst at Independent Women’s Voice and Director of the Center for Economic Opportunity at the Independent Women’s Forum. Onwuka has worked in the advocacy and communications fields for more than a decade. Prior to joining IWV, Onwuka served as national spokeswoman and communications director at Generation Opportunity, and worked at The Philanthropy Roundtable and the Fund for American Studies in policy and media roles. She also held consulting roles as a speech writer for a United Nations spokesman and a manager f ..read more

Episode #201 features Alex J. Pollock. Alex J. Pollock is a student of financial systems. His work includes cycles of booms and busts, financial crises with their political responses, housing finance, government-sponsored enterprises, risk and uncertainty, central banking, banking and financial regulation, corporate governance, retirement finance, student loans, and the politics of finance. Pre-order Alex Pollock's upcoming book Surprised Again!: The COVID Crisis and the New Market Bubble (Link) *****  Episode Notes Alex Pollock  |  https://www.alexjpollock.com/ Book  |&nb ..read more

Special Purpose Acquisition Companies, or SPACs, have been a hot ticket item for private companies to go public since 2019. Three hundred deals have been completed totaling $540 billion. This type of activity has triggered SEC Chair, Gary Gensler, to scrutinize these deals and propose new recommendations as a way to better protect investors. Sounds great, right? Jennifer Schulp, Director of Financial Regulation Studies at the libertarian think tank Cato Institute, doesn't think so. Tune in to hear her counter argument to Chair Gensler's proposed recommendations. Stay tuned for an investor educ ..read more

To conclude this calendar year, the Federal Open Market Committee held their last meeting to discuss the economic recovery, their plans for tapering and interest rate hikes, and answer all media questions. In episode #199, the listeners can recap this meeting and properly plan their personal and business finances into 2022. In particular, while the proposed interest rate hikes carry a reverberating effect throughout the economy, there are some areas where these hikes are not relevant. Tune in.   Consider subscribing to Wisco Weekly for automotive, technology, and finance issues affecting ..read more

"Communism, in all its forms, misleads, divides, and destroys." - Austin Prochko Oral tradition is a lost art, which is why it's important to bring forth the voices that still honor this tradition. In episode #198, Austin Prochko shares his grandmother's Communist stories that not only impact him personally, but how Communism seeps its way into US corporate culture that may affect him and the future of his 1-year old son. Tune in to hear how Austin's grandmother's stories play out in today's US corporate culture.   ***** Episode Notes Victims of Communism Day  |  https://t ..read more