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SA’s 2025 economic outlook, family finance, imposter syndrome, Gen Z travel trends and the business of sport

From 🇿🇦 The Money Show, published at 2026-01-02 18:30

Nokukhanya Mntambo speaks to Dr Dale McKinley, Political Economist, about South Africa’s economic performance in 2025 and the outlook for 2026, unpacking key finance, business and policy considerations. In other interviews, Siba Njoba, Director and Wealth Manager, discusses financial planning for new families, while clinical psychologist Charity Mkone explores how individuals can overcome imposter syndrome. The show also features SATSA Chairperson Oupa Pilane on why Gen Z is prioritising travel over family time, and sports business specialist Nqobile Ndlovu on the growing commercial and branding opportunities within the business of sport. The Money Show is a podcast hosted by well-known journalist and radio presenter, Stephen Grootes. He explores the latest economic trends, business developments, investment opportunities, and personal finance strategies. Each episode features engaging conversations with top newsmakers, industry experts, financial advisors, entrepreneurs, and politicians, offering you thought-provoking insights to navigate the ever-changing financial landscape.    Thank you for listening to a podcast from The Money Show    Listen live Primedia+ weekdays from 18:00 and 20:00 (SA Time) to The Money Show with Stephen Grootes broadcast on 702 https://buff.ly/gk3y0Kj and CapeTalk https://buff.ly/NnFM3Nk   For more from the show, go to https://buff.ly/7QpH0jY or find all the catch-up podcasts here https://buff.ly/PlhvUVe   Subscribe to The Money Show Daily Newsletter and the Weekly Business Wrap here https://buff.ly/v5mfetc   The Money Show is brought to you by Absa     Follow us on social media   702 on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TalkRadio702 702 on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@talkradio702 702 on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/talkradio702/ 702 on X: https://x.com/CapeTalk 702 on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@radio702   CapeTalk on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CapeTalk CapeTalk on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@capetalk CapeTalk on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ CapeTalk on X: https://x.com/Radio702 CapeTalk on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@CapeTalk567 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

New exchange rate band scheme in Argentina: the dollar rises and country risk falls

From 🇦🇷 Cara o Ceca, published at 2026-01-02 17:32

The new stage came into effect, in which the Central Bank will update the ceiling of the dollar's flotation band according to the previous month's inflation. With this, it seeks to strengthen the accumulation of reserves and order the external front. "In the agreement Argentina signed with the IMF, the Government failed to meet the reserve accumulation target. In January, the body's third review will take place, where its authorities will demand a commitment to this aspect," said Ramiro Tosi, economist and former Undersecretary of Financing, in a dialogue with Cara o Ceca. "The Treasury and the Central Bank must aim for a much more comfortable reserve position than what we have today," he added. "Surely, the closing inflation for 2025 will be around 31% and in 2026 I don't think it will increase much. So far, the Government has managed to keep the dollar from moving much. With this new scheme, we will see that inflation will go down, but much slower," he concluded. Zohran Mamdani took office as Mayor of New York Mamdani, 34, became the first Muslim to govern the city and took office from the vicinity of City Hall, to highlight his commitment to workers, after a campaign focused on the cost of living. "New York has always been against the American president; a Republican hasn't won in many years," said Mauricio Zabalza, a journalist from that city, on Cara o Ceca. "Mamdani insists that he wants to work for locals and not for tourists. That's why he proposes free transportation. New Yorkers spend around 300 dollars a month on transportation. Furthermore, his goal is to make the city safer," he added.

New Year Livestream | 2026: How to be a good Chinese person?

From 🇨🇳 不明白播客, published at 2026-01-02 16:32

Happy New Year, listeners!This podcast is an edited version of our New Year's live stream. If we were to use one word to describe 2025, many Chinese people might say: "endure." The economic downturn shows no clear turning point, relations between China and many countries remain tense, and the world is clearly deviating from the trajectory we've been familiar with for decades. Frankly, I've rarely felt so uncertain at the beginning of a year about what the world will look like by its end.Precisely for this reason, on the first day of 2026, we don't want to engage in a predictive discussion, much less offer seemingly certain answers. We want to discuss a more fundamental and personal question: In an era of high uncertainty, how should one conduct oneself? When we say "be a good Chinese person," what exactly do we mean? As the world order is being reshaped and identities are constantly being labeled, how can a Chinese person maintain judgment, dignity, and basic human principles in different positions?Today's guests include Li Houchen, the most diligent content creator on the Chinese internet and host of the YouTube channel "Bitter Tea of the World"; Liu Zongkun, the least anxious content creator on the Chinese internet, host of the YouTube channel "The Hiking Rider," and a retired lawyer; and Ya Mei, a talented, brave, and interesting Gen Z journalist.Click to watch the full video replay: https://youtube.com/live/pRdgWtwAPxITimeline02:09 What is one issue where countries are "backsliding" in 2025?05:28 How does Old Liu, the least anxious person on the Chinese internet, view people's anxiety?10:01 Ya Mei discusses the situation and sense of security for a journalist in 202513:55 How do the guests understand "being a good Chinese person"?20:57 Li Houchen forced to pretend to be Japanese in Taiwan?25:47 How do overseas Chinese cope with feeling like "neither here nor there"?32:34 Chinese people easily become part of the state's weaponization37:26 How to understand the shame associated with "pig liver-colored passports"?42:28 Amid economic downturn, how do ordinary people not recognized by the social evaluation system find meaning?45:53 Contemporary young people live in an ultra-high-difficulty environment right after graduation49:23 How to become insulated from the chain of public opinion fraud?52:04 In this era, how to face the political depression brought by clarity?56:52 What can 'run' solve, and what can it not solve?01:01:56 What's behind mourning the Ming Dynasty, the 'kill line,' and the US-China reckoning?01:06:11 Will the Chinese model truly defeat democratic systems?01:16:24 How to connect with like-minded people in an atomized China?01:24:42 Yuan Li and guests' New Year wishes01:30:25 Guest recommendationsGuest recommendations:Epictetus, *The Enchiridion**The Shawshank Redemption**Finding My Japanese Midwife*Yan Geling, *Youth**Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba – Infinity Castle*Mark L. Clifford, *The Troublemaker: How Jimmy Lai Became a Billionaire, Hong Kong's Greatest Dissident, and China's Most Feared Critic*Geng Jun, *Nice Friends* Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

How to live a meaningful life | Brian S. Lowery (re-release)

From 🇺🇸 TED Talks Daily, published at 2026-01-02 16:00

What makes for a meaningful life? Social psychologist Brian S. Lowery explores three ideas tied to the experience of meaning and shows why simply pursuing personal achievements isn't the best way to find it. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

[NeurIPS Best Paper] 1000 Layer Networks for Self-Supervised RL — Kevin Wang et al, Princeton

From 🇺🇸 Latent Space: The AI Engineer Podcast, published at 2026-01-02 15:59

From undergraduate research seminars at Princeton to winning Best Paper award at NeurIPS 2025, Kevin Wang, Ishaan Javali, Michał Bortkiewicz, Tomasz Trzcinski, Benjamin Eysenbach defied conventional wisdom by scaling reinforcement learning networks to 1,000 layers deep—unlocking performance gains that the RL community thought impossible. We caught up with the team live at NeurIPS to dig into the story behind RL1000: why deep networks have worked in language and vision but failed in RL for over a decade (spoiler: it's not just about depth, it's about the objective), how they discovered that self-supervised RL (learning representations of states, actions, and future states via contrastive learning) scales where value-based methods collapse, the critical architectural tricks that made it work (residual connections, layer normalization, and a shift from regression to classification), why scaling depth is more parameter-efficient than scaling width (linear vs. quadratic growth), how Jax and GPU-accelerated environments let them collect hundreds of millions of transitions in hours (the data abundance that unlocked scaling in the first place), the "critical depth" phenomenon where performance doesn't just improve—it multiplies once you cross 15M+ transitions and add the right architectural components, why this isn't just "make networks bigger" but a fundamental shift in RL objectives (their code doesn't have a line saying "maximize rewards"—it's pure self-supervised representation learning), how deep teacher, shallow student distillation could unlock deployment at scale (train frontier capabilities with 1000 layers, distill down to efficient inference models), the robotics implications (goal-conditioned RL without human supervision or demonstrations, scaling architecture instead of scaling manual data collection), and their thesis that RL is finally ready to scale like language and vision—not by throwing compute at value functions, but by borrowing the self-supervised, representation-learning paradigms that made the rest of deep learning work. We discuss: The self-supervised RL objective: instead of learning value functions (noisy, biased, spurious), they learn representations where states along the same trajectory are pushed together, states along different trajectories are pushed apart—turning RL into a classification problem Why naive scaling failed: doubling depth degraded performance, doubling again with residual connections and layer norm suddenly skyrocketed performance in one environment—unlocking the "critical depth" phenomenon Scaling depth vs. width: depth grows parameters linearly, width grows quadratically—depth is more parameter-efficient and sample-efficient for the same performance The Jax + GPU-accelerated environments unlock: collecting thousands of trajectories in parallel meant data wasn't the bottleneck, and crossing 15M+ transitions was when deep networks really paid off The blurring of RL and self-supervised learning: their code doesn't maximize rewards directly, it's an actor-critic goal-conditioned RL algorithm, but the learning burden shifts to classification (cross-entropy loss, representation learning) instead of TD error regression Why scaling batch size unlocks at depth: traditional RL doesn't benefit from larger batches because networks are too small to exploit the signal, but once you scale depth, batch size becomes another effective scaling dimension — RL1000 Team (Princeton) 1000 Layer Networks for Self-Supervised RL: Scaling Depth Can Enable New Goal-Reaching Capabilities: https://openreview.net/forum?id=s0JVsx3bx1 Chapters 00:00:00 Introduction: Best Paper Award and NeurIPS Poster Experience 00:01:11 Team Introductions and Princeton Research Origins 00:03:35 The Deep Learning Anomaly: Why RL Stayed Shallow 00:04:35 Self-Supervised RL: A Different Approach to Scaling 00:05:13 The Breakthrough Moment: Residual Connections and Critical Depth 00:07:15 Architectural Choices: Borrowing from ResNets and Avoiding Vanishing Gradients 00:07:50 Clarifying the Paper: Not Just Big Networks, But Different Objectives 00:08:46 Blurring the Lines: RL Meets Self-Supervised Learning 00:09:44 From TD Errors to Classification: Why This Objective Scales 00:11:06 Architecture Details: Building on Braw and SymbaFowl 00:12:05 Robotics Applications: Goal-Conditioned RL Without Human Supervision 00:13:15 Efficiency Trade-offs: Depth vs Width and Parameter Scaling 00:15:48 JAX and GPU-Accelerated Environments: The Data Infrastructure 00:18:05 World Models and Next State Classification 00:22:37 Unlocking Batch Size Scaling Through Network Capacity 00:24:10 Compute Requirements: State-of-the-Art on a Single GPU 00:21:02 Future Directions: Distillation, VLMs, and Hierarchical Planning 00:27:15 Closing Thoughts: Challenging Conventional Wisdom in RL Scaling

What the Public Speaker Profession Teaches Us | MM EP.2578

From 🇹🇭 Mission To The Moon, published at 2026-01-02 13:00

Taking the stage isn't just speaking; it's a performance where every detail must be designed. Many people view a speaker as simply getting up to talk, but the reality is they must deal with an inattentive audience, manage their own energy throughout the performance, and know when to inject humor and when to be silent. Panel Talks and Dinner Talks are not the same. A good slide isn't a beautiful one, but one that helps people remember. Even a clicker has techniques one must know. This Mission To The Moon EP shares 11 lessons from real stage experience, from content and stage control to attire, along with answering the question: "Can it be a main profession?" ..#PublicSpeaker#SpeakingSkills#missiontothemoon#missiontothemoonpodcast

Our 2026 Tech Resolutions + We Answer Your Questions

From 🇺🇸 Hard Fork, published at 2026-01-02 12:00

“When we came into the studio last year to record our resolutions, I had the best of intentions.”

Korea 24 - 2026.01.02

From 🇰🇷 Korea 24, published at 2026-01-02 12:00

Korea 24 is a daily current affairs show that covers all the biggest stories coming out of South Korea. Every weekday, Korea 24 brings you the latest news updates, as well as in-depth analysis on the most important issues with experts and special guests, providing comprehensive insight into the events on the peninsula.

Wartime vs Peacetime: Ben Horowitz on Leadership

From 🇺🇸 a16z Podcast, published at 2026-01-02 11:00

In this exclusive conversation from a16z’s Bio and Health BUILD Summit, founding partner Ben Horowitz sits down with general partner Jorge Conde. Originally released in August 2023, the episode covers everything from the inspiration behind Ben’s book The Hard Thing About Hard Things and how the open internet was secured, to the difference between wartime and peacetime CEOs, what it really means to scale culture, and how bio and healthcare innovation differs from other forms of technology. Ben’s Book: https://www.amazon.com/Hard-Thing-About-Things-Building/dp/0062273205

HERMÈS, ROCKEFELLER, DASSAULT…HOW DID THESE FAMILIES BECOME THE MOST POWERFUL IN THE WORLD?

From 🇫🇷 LEGEND, published at 2026-01-02 10:00

Sign up on Finary ➡️: https://link.influxcrew.com/finary-legend2To benefit from 20% off the Finary subscription, the promo code is as follows: LEGEND20 (to be used on the website during payment)Commercial collaborationAll investments carry risks, including a risk of capital loss. Past performance does not guarantee future results.The information presented in this video is provided for strictly informational and educational purposes. It does not constitute investment advice or a personalized recommendation. The simulations, numerical examples, and projections presented in this video are purely illustrative. They are based on theoretical assumptions (constant return, investment duration, absence of taxation and fees) which may not materialize.Thanks to Mounir Laggoune for coming back to see us at Legend.Mounir is the founder of Finary, an application dedicated to managing and investing one's assets (stocks, ETFs, cryptocurrencies). He came to Legend to share his entrepreneurial journey and provide his best advice for smart investing.Thanks also to Corentin, Head of Private Wealth Management at Finary, who enlightened us on the behind-the-scenes of his profession and revealed the wealth management strategies of prominent families.Find all information about our guest here ⬇️Mounir's book "Invest to be free" ➡️: https://link.influxcrew.com/INVESTIR-MOUNIR2To rewatch our first show with Mounir ➡️ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-S2swP2MEgc  For more information on risks ⬇️https://help.finary.com/fr/articles/8944189-quels-sont-les-risques-a-investir-en-cryptohttps://help.finary.com/fr/articles/9712751-les-principaux-risques-de-l-assurance-vieFINARY SAS is registered as a digital asset service provider with the Financial Markets Authority under number E2022-057.Finary SAS, member of the National Chamber of Wealth Management Advisors, with a share capital of €11,625,000.00, registered with the Paris Trade and Companies Register under number 892 357 724, whose registered office is located at 58 rue de Monceau 75380 Paris 8. Finary SAS carries out the activity of Financial Investment Advisor (CIF) and Insurance Broker referenced with Orias under number 21001279, member of the National Chamber of Wealth Management Advisors, an association approved by the Financial Markets Authority, with financial guarantees from MMA IARD Mutuelles Assurances.To get your LEGEND TOUR tickets, click here ➡️ https://www.legend-tour.fr/  Discover the LEGEND shop ➡️ https://shop.legend-group.fr/Find the full interview on YouTube ➡️ https://youtu.be/7ktoiAvk1FwFor all partnership inquiries: [email protected] us on all LEGEND social media!Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/legendmediafrInstagram : https://www.instagram.com/legendmedia/TikTok : https://www.tiktok.com/@legendTwitter : https://twitter.com/legendmediafrSnapchat : https://t.snapchat.com/CgEvsbWV Hosted by Acast. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information.

Most Replayed Moment: Make 2026 Your Best Year Yet! 5 Daily Practices For Health And Happiness

From 🇬🇧 The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett, published at 2026-01-02 06:00

Ryan Holiday is a best-selling author and the modern-day philosopher behind The Daily Stoic. Renowned for his deep exploration of Stoic philosophy, Ryan has brought ancient wisdom to a new generation. In today’s moment, Ryan reveals five powerful practices, rooted in Stoicism, that you can implement this year to cultivate more peace, purpose, and resilience. Listen to the full episode here! Spotify: https://g2ul0.app.link/vEIEZBwqlZb Apple: https://g2ul0.app.link/MpXjJ9oqlZb Watch the Episodes On YouTube: ⁠⁠https://www.youtube.com/c/%20TheDiaryOfACEO/videos Ryan Holiday: https://ryanholiday.net/

The multitasking brain (and the importance of leisure)

From 🇧🇷 O Assunto, published at 2026-01-02 03:16

Guest: Fernando Gomes, neurosurgeon, neuroscientist, and associate professor at the USP School of Medicine. In this first episode of 2026, O Assunto answers a question: what is the importance of doing a “mental cleanse” and giving your brain time to rest? In conversation with Natuza Nery, neuroscientist Fernando Gomes answers this and other questions related to the main organ of the human nervous system. Fernando details how the human brain works – and what our real capacity is for doing more than one task at a time. The doctor explains what happens when there is overstimulation – although our brain can switch its focus of attention, “multitasking” mode can lead to problems such as stress, anxiety, and memory loss, in addition to changes in blood pressure. In the conversation, Fernando discusses the cultural belief that women are, naturally, more adept at performing several tasks simultaneously. The neuroscientist evaluates that the act of doing many things at once is a "great fallacy" from a biological point of view. Finally, Fernando emphasizes the importance of leisure and maintaining sleep quality for brain health.

Bumper Christmas Best Off

From 🇬🇧 Sh**ged Married Annoyed, published at 2026-01-02 03:16

This week we have a little festive treat until some normality resumes! We've gone back to Christmas' past and we have some highlights from the last few years of festive episodes! Expect to hear from Barry and Belinda Beef, a trip to Lapland and an ill advised hat. Festive QFTP's involve the legend that is Jackie, some sweaty veg and some very inappropriate public heavy petting! The podcast will return for a PKMA episode on January 7th. If you want to get in touch with the podcast email: [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A year end stern cross-strait warning

From 🇹🇼 Taiwan This Week, published at 2026-01-02 02:15

We talk China's latest military exercises around Taiwan. -- Hosting provided by SoundOn

Baby Freeze & Sausage Stand

From 🇳🇴 Nesten hele uka med Lepperød, published at 2026-01-02 02:00

New year, same betas! Martin and Olli are back with the year's first episode, and at the same time say goodbye to producer Synne. Martin brings an absolutely insane snake story from Thailand, while Olli tells about when he, as a child, had to undress naked in front of the entire restaurant after an accident. In their New Year's resolutions, the betas cover both baby freeze, a hot dog stand, and the importance of always having what people ask for in the freezer. In this year's predictions, the guys envision a sex scandal involving Simen Velle, a new TV show with Lilli Bendriss - and how Marius Borg Høiby will complain about his game console in prison. And not least: Olli delivers a fiery New Year's speech. The episode is produced by Karoline Fjelldal.

JRE MMA Show #172 with Gable Steveson

From 🇺🇸 Joe Rogan Experience, published at 2026-01-01 18:00

Joe sits down with Gable Steveson, a mixed martial artist, wrestler, boxer, and Olympic gold medalist. www.gablesteveson.com Perplexity: Download the app or ask Perplexity anything at https://pplx.ai/rogan. Get a free welcome kit with your first subscription of AG1 at https://drinkag1.com/joerogan Athletic Brewing Co. Non-alcoholic Beer. Fit For All Times. Athletic Brewing Company LLC. Milford, CT and San Diego, CA. Near Beer <0.5% alc/vol. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A 3-step guide to believing in yourself | Sheryl Lee Ralph (re-release)

From 🇺🇸 TED Talks Daily, published at 2026-01-01 16:00

Sheryl Lee Ralph is a force, delivering iconic performances both on stage and screen. But she didn't always know if she'd make it big. In a lively talk sparkling with actionable advice, she shares how her struggles taught her what it takes to believe in herself -- and how we can all find the self-confidence to keep moving forward. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

10 Things That Will Continue in 2026 | MM EP.2577

From 🇹🇭 Mission To The Moon, published at 2026-01-01 13:00

2025 taught us many things, but the question is: what will we carry forward into 2026? In an era where everything changes rapidly, those who can move forward are not the ones who know the most, but the ones who know what to focus on. This Mission To The Moon EP. compiles 10 topics that will help you move forward next year, from AI that you must be able to use (not just know about) to defining "enough" for yourself. Perhaps what we need to learn in 2026 is not a new skill, but to "unlearn" what no longer works and dare to design a new life in our own way. #SelfImprovement #Insights #missiontothemoon #missiontothemoonpodcast

The Techno-Optimist Manifesto with Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz

From 🇺🇸 a16z Podcast, published at 2026-01-01 11:00

Originally aired in October 2023, this episode centers on Marc Andreessen’s essay The Techno-Optimist Manifesto, which lays out his vision for the future of technology. The piece sparked widespread discussion across traditional and social media by challenging the prevailing pessimistic narrative around technology and arguing instead that it can be a force for growth, progress, and abundance. In this one-on-one conversation, based on listener questions from X (formerly Twitter), a16z cofounder Ben Horowitz and Marc discuss how technological advances can improve quality of life, support marginalized communities, and shape how we think about humanity’s long-term future. Read the full manifesto: https://a16z.com/the-techno-optimist-manifesto/

E875. I served as a juror in the UK: After a week of closed deliberations, we reached a unanimous verdict.

From 🇨🇳 故事FM, published at 2026-01-01 10:24

Story FM - Episode 875 In early September, Xinlu, who had lived in London for many years, suddenly received a letter from the court stating he had been selected for jury duty. As a result, for his first time as a juror, Xinlu encountered a major case. It was a murder case, and the victim was Chinese. In the previous episode, Xinlu described to us the emergency call recording he heard in court, photos from the crime scene, and as many as 2000 chat messages. The episode concluded with the day of the incident, when the male party arrived at the female party's home. You can search for "I Was a Juror in the UK" in Story FM to get the link to the previous episode. Timeline 01:20 The defendant recounts the incident. 07:19 After confessing to the killing, how the defendant handled the scene. 10:38 The defendant pleads "not guilty"; the jury must ultimately rule whether the defendant is guilty of "murder" or "manslaughter" or "not guilty". 17:50 Key evidence: a backpack with splash-pattern bloodstains; the prosecution proposes another possibility for the victim's death. 19:58 The female victim had stated she would go to France alone for Christmas; investigation revealed she was lying. 22:39 The defendant had assured the female victim that he had not had sexual relations with any other person of the opposite sex during their acquaintance; investigation revealed he was also lying. 25:57 The trial phase concludes; the judge summarizes key clues for the jury; the jury enters a fully enclosed deliberation room. 33:41 After a week of deliberation, the jury finally reached a unanimous verdict. /Staff/ Narrator | Xinlu Host | @StoryFM Aizhe Interviewer | @StoryFM Aizhe Producer | Ma Xiaocheng Script Editor | Yu Keyi Sound Design | Ma Xiaocheng Operations | Mingming Use your voice, tell your story. Story FM is an audio program featuring first-person accounts. You can listen to our program on the following platforms: Apple Podcasts | NetEase Cloud Music | Ximalaya Qingting FM | Lizhi FM | Lazy Audio Xiaoyuzhou | QQ Music | Kugou Music | Kuwo Music Spotify | YouTube Music Business Cooperation: [email protected] WeChat Official Account: Story FM (ID: story_fm) Sina Weibo: @StoryFM_StoryFM Personal WeChat ID: gushi_fm02

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