After watching some of the news out of CPAC, the Conservative Political Action Conference, Kai Ryssdal thinks he has a pretty good idea of where the Republican Party and the U.S. government are headed in the next few years. Today, we’ll kick the tires on that prediction and talk a bit more about the SEC and Elon Musk. The “S” stands for “stonks.” Plus, like we do every Friday, a round of “Half Full/Half Empty.”

Here’s everything we talked about today:

“3 key takeaways from Friday’s CPAC event: Speakers stand behind Trump” from ABC News

“U.S. SEC suspends trading in 15 securities due to ‘questionable’ social media activity” from Reuters

Some other “questionable activity”

“Fed and Treasury chart path back to ‘full employment’” from “Marketplace”

“California can enforce its net neutrality law, judge rules” from “Marketplace Morning Report”

“Wearable tech shows promise for early COVID-19 detection” from “Marketplace”

“Twitter announces paid Super Follows to let you charge for tweets” from The Verge

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