What Comes Next Following 2021’s Strong Economic Performance; Also, What’s Happening in Planetary Systems Far, Far Away

February 01, 2022 00:57:24
What Comes Next Following 2021’s Strong Economic Performance; Also, What’s Happening in Planetary Systems Far, Far Away
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What Comes Next Following 2021’s Strong Economic Performance; Also, What’s Happening in Planetary Systems Far, Far Away

Feb 01 2022 | 00:57:24

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James Keys Tunde Ogunlana

Show Notes

With 2021 going down as the best year in decades as far as GDP growth in the U.S., James Keys and Tunde Ogunlana consider the extent to which such a performance is surprising and the extent to which we should fear what comes next (01:19).  The guys also discuss some of the interesting things coming from NASA about the exoplanets that have recently been discovered and are being studied (45:06).

Believe it or not, the economy grew last year at the fastest pace since 1984 (NPR)

U.S. Economy Grows as Fourth-Quarter GDP Shows Strongest Year in Decades (WSJ) (Apple Link)

NASA Has Found Over 5,000 Potential Alien Worlds—Here Are Some of the Weirdest (Newsweek)

The Past, Present, and Future of Faraway Worlds (The Ringer)

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