Today, Explained

This week on Prof G Markets, we speak with Lynn Ulden, independent analyst and the author of Broken Money.

I heard a theme and message that's very consistent with a book that he wrote prior to taking this position that he has touted, continued to tout.

You might say we're ending The War on Warriors. I heard someone wrote a book about that.

Once upon a time in the land of the free, there lived a wizard called Kash, the distinguished discoverer.

Kash was known far and wide as the one person who could discover anything about anything.

I have discovered that the King, King Donald, is innocent. He did not work with the Russianians, and he did not cheat. You chose him, so he became King fair and square.

Somalia has been in effectively a state of civil war since the early 1990s. And the U.S. has been involved almost since the beginning. You know, the Black Hawk Down incident was 1993.

In the not too distant future, realistic looking images will probably have to be labeled like words as either fiction or nonfiction because it may be impossible to tell them apart.

We may have to rely on the image maker and not the image to tell us into which category certain pictures fall.

I began to think that the credibility of photography as a witness was vulnerable at that point.

And what troubled me then and troubles me even more now is if that breaks down, then we really have no shared sense of reality at this point in terms of what's happening outside of our immediate neighborhood, our immediate family, you know, what's happening in other countries.

So I wrote a piece for the New York Times magazine in 1984. I think they printed a million six hundred thousand copies, as I remember, with the idea that if people know in advance, they'll do something about it so that we will be able to preserve the photograph as a credible witness.

The first book I wrote on this was called In Our Own Image, the coming revolution of photography in 1990.

You can read all about her space experience in her new book, Sharing Space, an astronaut's guide to mission, wonder and making change.

One of the inspirations behind this piece was a book by Professor Jane Ward. Her book is called The Tragedy of Heterosexuality. And in the book, she has a chapter that is dedicated to the things that queer people say behind their straight friends' backs.

And Jane, you wrote a book that our last guest, Shantae Joseph, said was a bit of an inspiration for her viral article. The book was called The Tragedy of Heterosexuality.

So, you know, the book has clearly a provocative and playful title. But what got me thinking about this book is that queer people, at least in my orbit, had been having these conversations for decades. About are straight people okay?

I just finished reading Perfection by Vincenzo Latronico, which is like this book that I'm sure maybe listeners have heard of. But definitely when I finished Anna Karenina, I was like, how about something short? And it feels summery somehow, I think in part because it's like, I don't know, it's about like young people who are living abroad.

Together, they wrote the book, This Is So Awkward, Modern Puberty Explained.

Together, they wrote a book called This Is So Awkward. Modern Puberty Explained.

He wrote a book called The Little Big Number, how GDP came to rule the world and what to do about it.

GDP is gross domestic product and it's the sum total of all of the goods and services produced in a country in a single year. Everything.

This is a profoundly misleading and ultimately stupid and dangerous metric. We are in desperate dire need to find much better metrics, much better guidelines for what we do in our respective national economies.

chief among them a report by an organization called the Club of Rome that is probably to this very day a text on economics that has been read by more people than any other and that is called the Limits to Growth.

The world is in a completely unstable situation and is likely to fall to pieces if it doesn't stop growing.

Special thanks to Martin Wolf of the Financial Times. You should check out his book, The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism. It's really very good.

Jennifer Burns is a historian and author of this year's hottest book. It's called Milton Friedman, The Last Conservative.

David Gellis wrote a book about Jack Welch called The Man Who Broke Capitalism.

Everyone's asking those questions. Senator Bernie Sanders wrote a book this year, It's Okay to be Angry About Capitalism.

But Ann saw through the scam. She made it out to Montana long before the pandemic and around the time office workers around the world went remote she thought it'd be a good time to write a book about remote work.

The way that my co-author and I, Charlie Wurzel, talk about this in our book that's coming out is that offices are oftentimes monocultures.

As you may have heard, Anne Helen Peterson has a book about remote work coming out with her co-author and life partner, Charlie Warzel. It's called Out of Office and it drops in early December.

I'm a science writer and the author of a new book called Pipe Dreams, The Urgent Global Quest to Transform the Toilet.

And if you just can't get enough literature on toilets be sure to check out Pipe Dreams, the urgent global quest to transform the toilet.

I was at the Hoover Dam at the top of yesterday's show and I want to go back there for a minute, not physically but through a movie from the late 1900s called Bugsy.

It's about an American gangster named Ben Bugsy-Siegel who helped dream up the Las Vegas Strip.