Why Is The Internet Broken?

On today’s show, we’re reviewing a new book by Andrew Ross Sorkin called 1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History, and How It Shattered a Nation.Sorkin is best known for Too Big to Fail, his account of the 2008 financial crisis. In this book, he goes back nearly eig ...  Show more

Cost Segregation Is The Key to Bonus Depreciation. To Take advantage of bonus depreciation and lower your taxes, reach out to the Cost Segregation Guys.-------------Panama is not in the headlines, but maybe it should be. Today we’re talking about water levels in the Panama Canal. ...  Show more

Whether finding a restaurant or fact-checking a new claim, search engines are one of the main avenues we use to navigate the world. So why are modern engines so clunky and frustrating – and how is AI already changing the infrastructure we use to access information on the internet ...  Show more

Whether finding a restaurant or fact-checking a new claim, search engines are one of the main avenues we use to navigate the world. So why are modern engines so clunky and frustrating – and how is AI already changing the infrastructure we use to access information on the internet ...  Show more

Ezra Klein joins Search Engine this week to answer a question that's increasingly confounded us: how do I use the internet now? How do I get information about the things I care about, without getting sucked into a vortex of opinion, unearned certainty, and yelling?If you'd like r ...  Show more

The internet is where much of our modern cultural, societal and political history is stored, but as researchers are discovering, the internet has a big memory problem. Without businesses paying to keep servers and archives up, more and more of our history online is disappearing f ...  Show more