Surviving Hard Times

Surviving Hard Times

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Surviving Hard Times episodes

  • Macroeconomics: Where a Strong Financial Future for You and Your Family Begins

    How can anyone – even the average Joe or Jane – start to build a bright financial future for themselves?

    Multi-millionaire entrepreneur, investor, macroeconomics expert, and founder of Rebel Capitalist, George Gammon, explains.

    Press play to explore:

    • The importance of understanding macroeconomics and the global monetary system
    • The solution for global consumer price inflation (HINT: it’s not more currency units)
    • Why price inflation occurs in the first place, how it’s being made worse by current policies, and how to adjust your portfolio accordingly
    • Thought experiment: would the problem of consumer price inflation be as severe as it is right now if COVID-19 and associated lockdowns never happened?
    • Inflation is political kryptonite – how are politicians currently dealing with it?
    • The difference between the 1940s and 1970s in terms of consumer price inflation, and the insight this lends to the current environment
    • What does the future of the U.S. economy look like?

    Interested in learning more?

    Tune in now and check out https://www.georgegammon.com/rebel-capitalist-pro/.

    57 min
  • Fungi, Food, and Flowers – Let’s Explore Plant-Pathogen Interactions

    It feeds on flesh, it kills but can’t be killed, and it’s coming for your fruits and veggies.  

    That’s right, I’m talking about Botrytis cinerea, a widespread necrotrophic fungal pathogen that affects over 200 different plant species, including common food crops.

    Tune in to learn:

    • What this fungus looks like, how it’s transmitted to plants, and what happens once a plant is infected
    • Plant defenses – how plants use small interfering RNA and extracellular vesicles to disrupt the production of fungal proteins
    • What allows certain plants to grow toward the sun
    • New insight into what might enable this fungus to be so widespread and difficult to kill

    PhD candidate at UC Riverside, Claire Whitaker, spends her days studying the relationship between this deadly fungus and its host, using Arabidopsis thaliana as the model plant in the lab. More specifically, she’s looking for certain fungal proteins responsible for the virulence of the fungus. She discusses the mode of transmission and method of attack, the use of fungicides, plant physiology, extracellular vesicles, and much more.

    Press play for all the details.

    35 min
  • Water Wonders and Woes – Treatment, Industrial Use, Safety and More

    We hardly even think about it, but it’s essential to almost everything we know and do: water.

    “What I never realized and I’ve grown to appreciate a lot is that it is truly a privilege for us to just walk up to pretty much anywhere in the U.S. and turn on a faucet and have running water that’s drinkable…” says Paul Frail, Senior Technical Leader at Suez Water Technologies & Solutions.

    Tune in for eye-opening information about water, including:

    • The three types of control necessary for water treatment: corrosion, deposition, and microbiological (and how this relates to the Erin Brockovich story)
    • The reuse and scarcity of water
    • The indispensability of industrial cooling systems, how they work, and in what ways they can contribute to harmful algal blooms in lakes, streams, rivers, and oceans
    • Under what circumstances individuals should consider a filtration or water softening system in their home
    • How to access a report of the quality of your municipal water  

    Suez Water Technologies & Solutions serves an extremely important function, which is to handle all of the water utilities for industrial companies, including refineries, hospitals, food and beverage, petrochemical plants, and power plants. Without having access to running, usable water, none of these industries that we rely so heavily on could exist.

    Press play and visit https://www.suezwatertechnologies.com/ to learn more about water, how to ensure yours is safe to drink, and what you can do to protect the environment while using it.

    29 min

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