🛞 “Reinventing the Wheel” — The Tire Industry’s surprise win. Stanley’s pivot to dudes. The Fed’s interest rate holiday.
The Best One Yet
Nick & Jack Studios
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🗓️ 21 March 2024
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Summary
The EPA just set new rules that effectively require car companies to go 50% electric by 2030 — But the surprise winner of the electric car EV boom is tires.
Stanley’s 40 ounce tumblers are viral with women, but now the company wants to expand to men — Ironic, because for 100 years Stanley only sold to men.
The Federal Reserve just announced they were not changing interest rates, but predict 3 cuts by the end of the year — it got us thinking about the 1 big economic cost of the pandemic: inflation.
March Madness begins today. Know where that term came from? We’ll tell you the etymology.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Jack. |
| 0:02.0 | Jack. |
| 0:03.0 | It's Thursday, the new Friday, March 21st, and today's pod. |
| 0:07.0 | Today's pod, it is a newsy pod, it is the best one yet. |
| 0:12.0 | Nick and I are whipping up the top three pop business news stories you need to know today. |
| 0:16.6 | But first, Jack, the biggest thing today, uh, Reddit IPO. |
| 0:19.3 | It's happening, like now. |
| 0:20.4 | Right, the website that created Wall Street Betts can now be Bet on, on Wall Street. |
| 0:25.8 | The stock could go up, it could go down, it could be meme stock to the moon like a game stock |
| 0:29.6 | am C robinhood. |
| 0:30.9 | We'll cover Reddit's first day of trading on the New York Stock Exchange in tomorrow's |
| 0:34.9 | pie. In the meantime, we've got a wonderful show. Fantastic show. Jack, what are our three stories |
| 0:39.7 | for today's T-boy? For our first story, the Federal Reserve just announced that it's not |
| 0:44.9 | changing interest rates right now. But the Fed is changing something, it's changing the |
| 0:48.9 | thing and that thing is a great thing for our economy. For our second story, it's Stanley. |
| 0:54.6 | Sales of the viral water cup quadrupled last year |
| 0:57.7 | thanks to female customers. |
| 0:59.2 | So what's its next move next? |
| 1:00.7 | Jack, Stanley's next move is the dude mug. |
| 1:04.0 | Stanley is pivoting to men. |
| 1:06.3 | For our third and final story, the EPA just announced rules that will electrify |
| 1:11.2 | half of America's new cars by 2030. |
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