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Who Gets What?

Who Gets What?

By: Morton Marcus/John Guy
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 Distribution of goodies in our society is determined by families, firms, and governments. Attempts to change how rewards and punishments, benefits and costs, are spread through the population cause conflict. The hosts are an economist, Morton Marcus, and a financial advisor, John Guy. Expect whimsy.©2025 Economics Management Management & Leadership Personal Finance
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  • Grants Awarded; Grants Withdrawn, with grant writer Anne Laker

    Grants Awarded; Grants Withdrawn, with grant writer Anne Laker
    Sep 4 2025

    United States withdrawal of programed funds is a challenge for grant-writer Anne Laker. In this conversation, she lists specifics, while also stating that future applications must not contain certain words that guarantee rejection. Yet we must not forget: "funders are people too."
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    27 mins
  • Roads, The Electronics That Guide You

    Roads, The Electronics That Guide You
    Aug 26 2025

    Improvement in traffic control/flow, and advances in methods to recognize whether a vehicle, bicycle, or human, is in the intersection, will improve safety and comfort of trips. Our guest, Darcy Bullock, is Lyles Family Professor of Civil Engineering and Director of the Joint Transportation Research Program with Courtesy Appointments in Mechanical Engineering and Electrical and Computer Engineering.

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    24 mins
  • Mid-Decade Redistricting

    Mid-Decade Redistricting
    Aug 18 2025

    To increase the number of Republican seats in The House of Representatives, certain states have been asked to re-district, or, perhaps better expressed, to "gerrymander" in favor of the Republican administration. Julia Vaughn, Executive Director of Common Cause Indiana, which long has campaigned that districts should be drawn impartially, with no original bias. If successful, parties in the future could re-district at will instead of just after the decennial census.

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    26 mins
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