Rich welcomes Kory to The Common Bridge, a Substack author and Twitter personality of "Show Me The Data." They cover a broad range of topics, including living partially off the grid, student debt, the ease with which porn purveyors access children, a unique take on Black History Month, and others from a data-driven and perhaps Libertarian perspective. Don't miss this episode!

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The Godfather of Supply Chain, Bill Michels, returns to The Common Bridge. Mr. Michels’ forecasts from his earlier appearances have proven accurate. Today he calls for Agility, Flexibility and Resiliency as the economy grapples with the Geopolitical situation, interest rates, stress on manufacturing companies, looming bankruptcies, the end of seeking cheap labor globally, and pandemic changes becoming permanent.

How big a role will Automation and artificial intelligence play and at what cost to good jobs? Will inventory-measuring drones, 

Integrated and Competing Supply Chains mean good times ahead or more strife? Listen, watch or read this week’s episode of The Common Bridge to find out.

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Two things that are certain, death and taxes. The Common Bridge has covered tax policies from many angles. So, this week we will wade into the topic of death. In these times of great division, one thing we can agree on is that death is a certain eventuality. Today a leader from the funeral industry – a  pioneer, teacher and practitioner, Martha Thayer, discusses the art, science and the law of death and funerals.

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To celebrate his 200th episode of The Common Bridge, Rich spends a few minutes reflecting on his take of modern journalism, then replays an earlier episode  where he has author, journalist, and political analyst, Matt Taibbi on to talk about the circling of the drain of American journalism.   

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Voters want compromise yet parties depend on partisanship...

The 50 states are said to be the laboratories of democracy...

There is widespread voter unease with the current voting system....
In our continuing series about election reform ideas, Rich welcomes to The Common Bridge Joe Kirby from South Dakota.

 Could open primaries bring better candidates? Would representatives be more in touch and more responsive with the electorate? Open primaries - a way of reforming or even disintermediation the major political parties?  

Have a listen to this 30-minute episode of The Common Bridge or view on YouTube or read at Substack

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Rich and former Michigan Attorney General, Mike Cox, discuss the environmental disaster, contamination, and resulting illnesses from Camp Lejeune, North Carolina. For 35 years, Marines, soldiers, Navy personnel and others were infected with contaminated water. How did this happen? What’s the VA‘s role? What are the ABCs of getting justice?

Watch, Listen or Read about this and more in this week’s episode of The Common Bridge.

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Authors of the epic book, “Nothing is Too Big to Fail" Kerry and Linda Killinger return to the Common Bridge. An update on bubbles, government policy and the disconnect between United States citizens and the policies and viewpoints of their government. These Pulitzer nominated authors, have data that encompasses nearly every aspect of the economy that affects nearly every person. Don't miss this outstanding episode.

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Justin Higgins, host of the “Politics and Media 101” podcast, joins Rich on The Common Bridge for a fresh take about issues of the day and media coverage. Higgins brings first-hand knowledge from our nation’s capitol in part 2 of this 2-part series. These two rising independent journalists cover Hunter Biden’s Laptop, House Committee Assignments, Green Shoots of Bipartisanship, COVID policies, Ukraine, China, Nuclear War and end with a great look at the 2024 POTUS election. 

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Justin Higgins, host of the “Politics and Media 101” podcast, joins Rich on The Common Bridge to talk about issues of the day and media coverage or non-coverage. Higgins brings the Washington insider look at what’s important In part 1 of a 2-part series, these two Independent interviewers discuss Chinese balloons, who’s got what documents, Federal Debt, Social Security with today’s demographics, Twitter files,
Disinformation about Russian Disinformation,  and Hamilton 68.

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In celebration of Black History Month, Rich invites Brian Kruger to The Common Bridge to talk about his Emmy-Nominated documentary, “Black and Blue- The Story of Gerald Ford, Willis Ward, and the 1934 Michigan-Georgia Tech Football Game.”

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