A New Threat to Global Shipping, and a Huge Drop-Off in Food Stamps
The episode highlights escalating geopolitical tensions in the Middle East as Yemen’s Houthi militia threatens to block a key Red Sea shipping route, while also exposing domestic fallout from policy changes to SNAP benefits and the unchecked rise of AI-generated books on Amazon. It unders
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