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On today’s show, we discuss:
- Might we, in fact, gotta hand it to Cathie Wood?
- Offices around America hit a new vacancy record
- US office buildings face $117B debt time bomb: Mortgages due this year threaten to sink US economy as thousands of workplaces remain empty
- Is the West talking itself into decline?
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