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On today’s show, we discuss:
- American Companies Are Buying Their Own Stocks at a Record Pace
- Apple remains a relentless buyback machine
- Sick as a Dog: The cheapness of US healthcare stocks
- OpenAI’s Sam Altman sees AI bubble forming as industry spending surges
- The Era of Big Raises for Low-Paid Workers Is Over
- Americans are getting priced out of homeownership at record rates
- There Are 7 Major Metros Where You Can Still Buy a Luxury Home For Less Than $1 Million. Five Years Ago There Were 30.
- YouTube Is Making a Play to Host the Oscars
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