Prof G Markets: The TikTok Showdown, UnitedHealth’s First Earnings Post-Shooting, and a Banking Boom

The Prof G Pod with Scott Galloway

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Careers, Entrepreneurship, Business

4.6 • 4.1K Ratings

🗓️ 20 January 2025

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Follow Prof G Markets: Apple Podcasts Spotify Scott and Ed open the show by discussing the latest inflation report, Meta’s next round of layoffs, and the uncertain future of TikTok. Then Scott breaks down United Health’s first earnings call since the killing of executive Brian Thompson, explaining why the company appeared to downplay its successful year. He delves into how profit incentives in sectors tied to social goods can create harmful externalities. Finally, Scott and Ed review fourth-quarter bank earnings, explaining why the results are clear evidence that mergers and acquisitions are back. Order "The Algebra of Wealth," out now Subscribe to No Mercy / No Malice Follow the podcast across socials @profgpod: Instagram Threads X Reddit Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:33.1	Today's number 41,000.
0:35.2	That's how many social media posts have the hashtag TikTok Refugee at the time of this recording. Ed, what is a negative thought?
0:43.0	What? TikTok.
0:56.7	That's kind of an existential one.
1:01.9	That's like that joke I heard that a Holocaust survivor ends up in heaven and he says to God,
1:04.5	hey, I'm thinking about telling a Holocaust joke.
1:06.2	And he's like, no, no, no Holocaust jokes.
1:07.1	It's just not funny.
1:12.4	And then the Holocaust survivor says, well, I guess you had to be there. You really gets you thinking. Two bums in a row. Well, I wanted to go after the Catholic Church, but I was worried
1:17.3	our interns are going to be witnesses in the lawsuit. Yeah, you've never done that before. My role model,
1:22.8	Sam Harris, I'm totally backbelling right now,, if you're wealthy and you have people who love you unconditionally, you should speak your mind.
1:29.0	I'm speaking my mind.
1:30.1	That's very good.
1:31.0	Have you seen what Sam Harris has been saying about Elon Musk?
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