In a recent Becker's Healthcare podcast, Grant Thornton’s Healthcare Industry Growth Leader Claudia Douglass and Business Consulting Principal Deirdre Dillehunt, paint a picture of today's challenging and unprecedented healthcare environment with the passage of OBBBA tariffs and cuts to NIH funding, and offer a roadmap for survival and success.

Healthcare leaders describe pathways to sustainability

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Potential rate cut sends markets to record highs

Angie Kappel unpacks CPI data, noting tariffs are already raising import prices and sharing her outlook for the year ahead. Fed rate cuts are likely, though political pressure on its independence worries markets. Cheaper borrowing could spur growth, yet the dollar stays weak as investors eye other currencies.

 

08/14/2025: Angie Kappel - Inflation, Tariffs & the Fed: Market Crosscurrents Ahead

This week, U.S. President Donald Trump prepared for his upcoming meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska, holding calls with European leaders, and warning that Russia may face severe consequences if negotiations falter. In the Indo-Pacific, the U.S. and China have agreed to extend the deadline for the mutual reimposition of tariffs by another 90 days as negotiations continue. Beijing has insisted the talks must address U.S. removal of advanced tech export controls. In the Middle East, Israel continued preparations to launch a campaign to occupy Gaza while Iran expressed willingness to consider resuming  nuclear negotiations with the U.S. under certain conditions.

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Global Hotspots: All Eyes on Trump-Putin Meeting in Alaska

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stronger Economic Data Dims Hopes for a Rate Cut

Leslie welcomes back Scott Paul, President of the Alliance for American Manufacturing, for an in-depth look at four timely topics shaping the global economy and American industry.
 
They break down China’s worsening economic crisis and what it means for global markets, and unpack the latest developments in U.S. tariff negotiations with key trading partners.

The pair also highlights practical Made-in-America products perfect for outfitting a dorm room or first apartment, and finally, explores how programs like Manufacturing USA and the Manufacturing Extension Partnership are fueling innovation, strengthening supply chains, and creating good-paying jobs here at home.

AAM's website is AmericanManufacturing.org and their YouTube channel is youtube.com/@AmericanMfg (where you can watch episode's of AAM's podcast, "The Manufacturing Report")
If you want to listen to episodes of "The Manufacturing Report," visit AmericanManufacturing.org/Podcast.
Their handles on X and BlueSky are @KeepItMadeInUSA, and @keepitmadeinusa.bsky.social, respectively.
Scott's handle on X is @ScottPaulAAM.

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Leslie Marshall Show - Economic Shocks, Tariff Talks, and Dorm Room Blocks: Manufacturing a Stronger America

PROLOGUE
"Two households, both alike in dignity,

In fair Toronto where we lay our scene,

From ancient grudge break to new mutiny,

Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.

From forth the fatal loins of these two foes,
A pair of star-cross'd lovers take to stage with song, to air their grievances with the big and beautiful wall that separates the fertile farmland of Indiana from the majestic lakes and streams of Ontario."
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Excerpt from Amerigo's journal...
(Amerigo let his girl, Kenna Daisy, read it...)
She really likes him a lot now!
She thinks he's really artsy -
...and all he wants is to be together, 
Once again - Havin' fun.
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8/15/25
Oh Canada,
Why haven’t you called?
Why haven't you written? 
Why haven't you texted me back?

I’m not asking for asylum, exactly—I’m asking to be part of something that still feels like a society. Down here, everything’s a little busted and everything is branded. I am tired of being a singularity. I’m tired of being this ... let's just call it, product. I’m tired of being alone in a crowd of people who’ve been told that togetherness is a weakness.

My country sold me a myth: that freedom means isolation, that dignity means never asking for help, that needing people is a kind of failure. And now we’re all stranded in our separate little worlds, posting opinions into the void, pretending it’s enough. You can’t lean on people. You can’t count on anyone. And the worst part is—you’re not even supposed to want to.

Every street’s a battlefield of entitlement. Every conversation’s a minefield of performance. Grief is private. Joy is commodified. Even empathy feels curated now. Everyone’s out here fighting to prove they don’t need anyone, that they built themselves from nothing, that they’re winning when they're alone... I don’t want to win that game. I want no part of that!

And from where I sit, it seems like you—my Northern friend—still kind of believe in things. You haven’t yet turned society into a threat. You haven’t made selfishness your national identity. You haven’t convinced your citizens that community is a fucking trap.

And you know what else? I do like that you’ve stopped buying our crap... I mean some of that crap is decent, but I like that you have stopped buying our sweet corn, our sodas, our over-sloganed fatty snacks. And I love that you won't come to Cape Cod anymore, even though it's always lovely, because it means you’re still capable of coordinated defiance. You still do things together. We don’t boycott much here, we just sit around and bicker.

And down here, in our little states of stormy confusion, we just die alone. Everything’s a god damn contest and everyone here is losing. And I’m supposed to feel proud? I’m supposed to fucking cry "Freedom" like Wallace in Braveheart?

I don’t want to keep carrying this trauma like it’s a badge. I don’t want to keep pretending. I want to be somewhere that knows what realism is. Where people say, "Let's figure this shit out!"

I’m not asking for a flag. I’m not asking for forgiveness. I’m asking for a place that believes citizens owe something to each other. That we’re not just consumers with boundaries—we’re neighbors with a responsibility...

So if there’s still room, Oh Dear Canada, can you make space for a simple 16 year old dude who wants to unlearn all this madness?

I’ll come quietly... And I will come gratefully. And if you do let me in some day, I will make it my business to skate on over to a Timmy Hortons for a dozen Boston Creams.... with my girl, Kenna Daisy, of course!

We might even start speaking a little bit of French.... Un peu de Francais!

-XOAmerigo

Are we still dating? {Amerigo & Kenna Daisy}

Stocks drift lower as war grinds on in Ukraine

On WBAL News Now at 6 Sagamore Spirits President and CEO Robert Cullins talks about the impact of Canada's ban on the sale of US made spirits in response to President Trump's tariffs on Canadian alcohol.

WBAL News Now in Depth Sagamore Spirts on Canada Banning US Liquor Sales

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Tech Stocs fall on Hot housing data as rate cut hopes dim

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