Remember those giant arcade consoles before at home gaming was big? Did you have a favorite box you’d visit over and over? High Scores in Alameda, Ca (and a now in Hayward, Ca) is bringing the love of older arcade games back to the original… Read More »Beat My High Score with Shawn Livernoche
”There’s a long term chart that shows when the dollar goes up, oil goes down, when the dollar goes down, oil goes up. And it’s related, I’m not saying there’s a cause and effect, but it’s correlated.” We talk to Jeff Traum, a wealth manager… Read More »OPEC, and Money, and Markets, Oh My! with Jeffrey Traum
“The average American thinks about politics about 12 minutes over the course of a 2 year period.” Political strategists are often not seen, but heard through their candidates. We talk to Rick Ridder, a political strategist for over 25 years, about how the polls got… Read More »Looking For Votes in All the Wrong Places with Rick Ridder
If you have an idea for a start-up, or are thinking about investing in one, you need to listen to this segment. We talk to author Howard Love about his new book “The Start-Up J Curve: The Six Steps to Entrepreneurial Success” and break down… Read More »The Start-Up J Curve with Howard Love
Is Cash still King? Or has it fallen out of usage? We discuss with Claire Wang, a researcher and analyst for The Federal Reserve, about the usage of cash verses other means of currency like credit cards or paying with your phone. We also talk… Read More »The Cash Conundrum with Claire Wang
When you hear about people “sending money home” do you imagine envelopes stuffed with cash? That may have been the situation once upon a time, but today, people are using Xoom. Xoom is a San Francisco company that digitizes money, recently acquired by PayPal. We… Read More »Sending Money Back Home Through Xoom with Julian King
What kind of future are we actually steering towards: Star Trek or Mad Max? We talk to Distinguished Fellow at Carnegie Mellon University of Engineering Vivek Wadhwa about the future of technology and the responsibility, or lack of responsibility, of the tech industry. Vivek shares… Read More »The Future of Tech with Vivek Wadhwa
“Every child needs to have music in their lives because it’s too important to their overall development as creative and informed citizens of our democracy.” For Part 1 of our chat, we talk to Dave Wish, the Founder and CEO of Little Kids Rock, powered… Read More »Little Kids Rock in The Jam Zone part 1 with Dave Wish
In part 2 of our music education chat, we talk to Caroline Moore, the senior manager of corporate social responsibility at Harman International Industries, the parent company for JBL (you know, the speakers). The Jam Zone at Little Kids Rock is powered by Harman as… Read More »Little Kids Rock in The Jam Zone part 2 with Caroline Moore
“When you see real estate go up as fast as it was going up in 2005, then even if you don’t know with certainty that it is a bubble, you aught to act.” We talk to Sebastian Mallaby, a Senior Fellow on the council of… Read More »The Man Who Knew with Sebastian Mallaby
