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Kenneth Rapoza

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Covers:  BRIC countries first and foremost. Major corporations there, investing ideas, political risk as it relates to investing, some off beat or A-lister travel.
Doesn't Cover: entertainment, food and wine, sports, US politics, healthcare
Senior Analyst at the Coalition for a Prosperous America. Former WSJ Sao Paulo. Ex-Forbes BRICS corrie. Markets. Intel. Forecasting. Friend of the show.

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Kenneth Rapoza writes daily for Forbes, covering primarily business, finance and some geopolitics regarding Brazil, Russia, India and China. Also ex-WSJer. Lucky enough to give me opinion from time to time, but no advocacy hack. Yuck.

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Obama Gets Left Behind - Forbes

Obama Gets Left Behind - Forbes

From drone attacks to Wall Street regulation, President Obama has been unable to please the left wing voters …

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Why China's Property Bubble is Different - Forbes

Why China's Property Bubble is Different - Forbes

Headline says it all. Examines the differences between the housing bubble in China and the ones that exploded…

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Who Are The Real 1%? - Forbes

Who Are The Real 1%? - Forbes

Not all one percenters are created equal. Story argues that the wealthy are not the problem, but an elite cir…

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The Sell Side Of Investment Banking Slowly Being Dismantled - Forbes

The Sell Side Of Investment Banking Slowly Being Dismantled - Forbes

The sell-side of the Western world's investment banks is slowly being dismantled. In the war zone that is mod…

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Brazil's Ridiculous $80,000 Jeep Grand Cherokee - Forbes

Brazil's Ridiculous $80,000 Jeep Grand Cherokee - Forbes

The 2012 Jeep Grand Cherokee is viewed on the floor of the New York International Auto Show. Brazilians love …

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Parenting through the apocalypse

Parenting through the apocalypse

Once in a while, I freelance bitter-sweet daddy/daughter parenting stories for Salon. This is one: When my da…

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CCP Committee Questions Reasons Behind Some China Investment in U.S.

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By Kenneth Rapoza Verified
| Coalition for a Prosperous America
The House Select Committee on the CCP’s recent hearing about China’s economic espionage and corporate influence in the U.S. suggests the Committee is taking China corporate investment here as a potential problem. Everyone has heard of the China IP theft. That tale is now as old as time. This week, news broke that Alibaba targeted Anthropic with a distillation attack to steal Anthropic’s intellectual property.
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Sen. Gillibrand Raises Concerns About China’s Ability To Attract U.S. Biotech Investment, Partners

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By Kenneth Rapoza Verified
| Coalition for a Prosperous America
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) has become one of the Democratic Party’s leading voices raising concerns about the pharmaceutical industry’s growing ties to China. U.S. drugmakers are increasingly turning to Chinese firms for research and development, early-stage clinical trials, biologics work, and licensing agreements that allow American companies to market Chinese-developed medicines under their own brands.
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Quicknode Co-Founder: Blockchain Is The Brawn Behind Agentic AI, Not The Brain - Coinbase Global (NASDAQ:

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By Kenneth Rapoza Verified
| Benzinga
“The bottleneck for autonomous agents isn’t intelligence, it’s money movement,” said Quicknode co-founder Dmitry Shklovsky. “An agent can reason its way to a decision, but it can’t open a bank account or get issued a card to act on it. Blockchain isn’t the brain. It’s the wallet, and that’s the part we handle." According to Quicknode, autonomous AI agents will need a way to buy data, compute power and digital services without human approval.
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What was your first job as a journalist?

WBUR-FM, Boston's NPR Station. I wrote copy for Morning Edition.

Have you ever used a typewriter?

Yes.

How is social media changing news?

Makes everything faster, often gimmicky. Also makes it a popularity contest. No, I'm not always pleased about that.
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