Markets Cheer for TACO Trade Return & Ryanair vs. Musk is Good for Biz

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🗓️ 22 January 2026

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Episode 763: Neal and Toby dive into the markets’ reaction to Trump walking back his threats of European tariffs over Greenland during his address at the World Economic Forum in Davos. Then, Ryanair’s spat with Elon Musk over Starlink has actually been good for Ryanair. Also, Amazon is building its largest physical retail store as it flirts with the big box. Meanwhile, Neal shares his favorite numbers (from Davos) on chimney sweeping, the Golden Gate bridge, and how to market time. Grab your desktop calendar with games now! https://shop.morningbrew.com/products/2026-daily-games-desk-calendar Explore Indeed’s full findings at https://www.indeed.com/2026hiringtrends Learn more about Lightspeed at https://www.lsvp.com Subscribe to Morning Brew Daily for more of the news you need to start your day. Share the show with a friend, and leave us a review on your favorite podcast app. Listen to Morning Brew Daily Here:⁠ ⁠⁠https://www.swap.fm/l/mbd-note⁠⁠⁠ Watch Morning Brew Daily Here:⁠ ⁠⁠https://www.youtube.com/@MorningBrewDailyShow⁠ This special episode is produced in partnership with Lightspeed Venture Partners. Lightspeed holds the largest early-stage AI portfolio in the world both number of companies and capital deployed, investing in 165 AI companies and deploying over $5.5 billion in AI investments. Lightspeed's invested in some of the most valuable AI companies globally, including Anthropic, Mistral AI, Glean, Reflection AI and more. Learn more about Lightspeed's recent investments in Skild AI here, and stay tuned for more exciting AI coverage on the show this week: https://www.skild.ai/blogs/series-c Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	AI is incredible. They can teach you how to fry an egg and even write a poem, pirate style.
0:07.0	But it knows nothing about your work. Slackbot is different. It doesn't just know the facts.
0:14.0	It knows your schedule. It can turn a brainstorm into a brief and it doesn't need to be taught.
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0:28.8	to learn more. Good morning, Brutley Show. I'm Neil Fryman and I'm Toby Howell. Today it's Tacos for Breakfast as Trump
0:38.6	backs off Greenland tariff threats. Ben, is Elon Musk really going to buy Ryan Air? It's Thursday,
0:44.8	January 22nd. Let's ride. This winter, America is turning into a nation of monks.
0:56.6	Not only is dry January in full swing, but a new even more hardcore test of discipline
1:01.0	has surged in popularity.
1:02.9	No by January.
1:04.9	The Wall Street Journal notes that many younger people, inspired by social media, have taken a
1:09.0	pledge to avoid purchasing anything that's not
1:11.8	essential, things like clothes or electronics, for the 31 days of January. It's not necessarily new,
1:18.0	but it is far more mainstream than before. Google searches for no buy January hit a five-year
1:23.3	high this December, according to PWC, and a survey by Nerd Wallet found more than one quarter
1:28.2	have tried no spend January, with 12% hopping on the trend in 2026. Toby, what do you think
1:33.8	is easy for you? Dry January or no buy January? See, I'm more of a financially crippling
1:40.3	February kind of guy, a multi-buy March, an affluent April, a massive debt-May kind of guy.
1:46.6	In reality, I do love any January challenge.
1:49.7	So for the last eight or nine days of the year, I'm not buying anything either in solidarity
1:54.9	with my no-bye brother.
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