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Why are businesses acting like there’s a recession?

1/27/2023 • 27 min

Wealthy companies like Google and Microsoft are announcing unprecedented layoffs — all while the economy is trending in the right direction. Vox’s Emily Stewart explains. This episode was produced by Miles Bryan, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Paul Robert Mounsey, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram. Transcript at vox.com/todayex… Play episode

Peru’s democracy crisis
Fine dining isn’t fine
Why Mexico’s top cop is on trial in NYC
Thanks but no tanks, Ukraine
The politics of India’s biggest blockbusteRRR
It’s debt ceiling season
The half-baked gas stove debate
Compost yourself
What’s up, docs?
Too much water for California
The Taliban vs. women
Brazil’s January 6?
Andrew Tate: The king of toxic masculinity
Will Kevin McCarthy become speaker?
Why we’re all on antidepressants
The many lies of George Santos
Let’s eat lab meat
Abortions before Roe
How to save kids from online extremism
Why the Ukraine war happened
What’s the dill with pickleball?
Why gaslighting is the word of the year
Criminal referrals for Donald Trump
The case against movie trailers
Do I have to care about the Twitter Files?
Megan Thee Stallion
Throwing soup at art
Art-ificial intelligence
Hint of crime
R-E-S-P-E-C-T (for Marriage Act)
The prisoner swap for Brittney Griner
Power-tripping sheriffs
The Moscow murders
Digging tunnels for cars
8 billion humans
China’s biggest protests since Tiananmen Square
Disney’s boomerang CEO
Nancy podcast
Can you spare some climate change?
NASA wants to live in space
Little influencers, big business
Gen Z in the House
Ticketmaster (Taylor’s Version)
World Cup: How 2 B a legend
Pushing the Russians back
An inconvenient glacier
The FTX cryptocalypse
The tech boom is over
World Cup: They built this city
A vaccine for RSV
No red wave
What if you HAD to vote?
Kari Lake is MAGA’s rising star
World Cup: Welcome to Qatar!
Elon’s Twitter hell
How does the war in Ukraine end?
The teen’s gambit
A win for Lula (and democracy) in Brazil
Our annual Halloween hysteria
Supermarket supermerger
Teflon Ron
A police sketch based on DNA
Investigating women’s soccer
On with Kara Swisher (and Stacey Abrams)
Nikola (not Tesla)
Truss fall
The devil’s bargain on inflation
The Los Angeles city council meltdown
Legal weed’s half-baked promise
Made in China
A new law to “save the animals”
#MahsaAmini was just the beginning
If Republicans win the midterms
Fettermania

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