In this essential look at the regrowth of the American Midwest, tech journalist Rebecca A. Fannin chronicles her return to America’s heartland, revealing the dramatic entrepreneurial comeback that is transforming the Rust Belt into the Tech Belt.

Watch the full video on 24hourjournal.substack.com.

2:57 What was the inspiration behind Silicon Heartland
5:06 The technology reviving the Heartland
6:38 The most important inputs driving the transformation of the Rust Belt
8:33 Working remote or physically moving to the Heartland
9:41 Who are the millennials moving in
12:49 How innovation has evolved in Youngstown, Ohio
16:05 Retooling traditional factories
19:38 What do the "winners" look like in the Rust Belt
24:31 What does the current version of the "factory worker" look like
27:05 Rebeccas’s writing process for Silicon Heartland
33:49 Czech company highlight — Likos

Rebecca A. Fannin is a journalist, author, and a media entrepreneur who has covered global innovation for more than 20 years. She grew up in the Ohio heartland and graduated from Ohio University. She began her career at the Dayton Journal Herald. Then from a reporter’s cubicle at Crain Communications in Manhattan to the hottest dotcom magazine, Red Herring, in San Francisco, ventured to Beijing and Shanghai, and became one of the first American journalists to document China’s entrepreneurial rise.

Inspired by the tech founders she interviewed, she formed Silicon Dragon Ventures as her own media and events group. During Covid she added an online show featuring venture capitalists. She became a regular contributor to CNBC, and her articles also have appeared in Harvard Business Review, Inc., Fast Company, and Forbes.

Rebecca’s forward-looking books Silicon Dragon, Startup Asia, and Tech Titans of China, launched her as a commentator and public speaker. A guest on BBC, Bloomberg, Fox News, and NPR, and a quoted expert in the New York Times, she also has spoken at the Brookings Institution, Asia Society, and many universities including Harvard, Yale, and Oxford.

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In episode #207, our guest is the Co-Founder and CEO of Foreigners.cz, Andrea Tkačuková. For the last 13 years, Andrea and her team have been helping turn foreigners into expatriots in the Czech Republic. Foreigners.cz is a full-service agency helping expats with immigration services, relocation services, trade licenses, health care, language learning and assistance, and more. They have helped over 17,000 clients, have access to 14,000 apartments, and have a team of 38 professionals.

Topics discussed:

- How her relationship with her Co-Founder help build the DNA of the company
- Comparing expats in 2009 vs 2022
- White-collar expats vs blue-collar expats
- Quality of life for expats
- How Czech citizens view their country versus expats
- Bonus segment (viewable on 24hourjournal.com)

If you are considering living or working in the Czech Republic, this episode is for you!

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Joslyn Davis is an alumna of UC Irvine, and she served as Host and Producer to ClevverTV, a pop culture media channel, which accumulated over 2 million YouTube subscribers and amassed 1.2 billion views. She’s appeared as herself in several TV shows including E! True Hollywood Story, Hollywood Estate Date, and the Amazing Race. Currently, you can find Joslyn on her Youtube channel where she vlogs about her life, fashion, and flipping homes.

In episode #206, Joslyn shares her greatest insights on how to get the attention of Hollywood.

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Jadrian Wooten is an Associate Professor at Pennsylvania State University within the Department of Economics. He’s the Publisher of the Monday Morning Economist on Substack, and he is an award-winning educator and researcher.

Topics:

• Jadrian's dissertation on Sports Economics
• The retirement problem for Gen Z
• How to inspire economic lessons and personal finance lessons
• If you could only teach three economic lessons, what would they be?
• Bonus question: Tips and recommendations to implement digital media in teaching lessons
• What economic lessons have you learned by traveling to other countries

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Episode Notes

• Jadrian Wooten | Web | Substack
• BOOK: Parks and Recreation and Economics | Amazon

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• An important point is that under technopopulism, populists do not reject technocratic expertise, but instead rely on it to translate their causes into policy. Central banks thus face pressure to use their technocratic discretion to do more to serve the people, and to be directly accountability to the people rather than to elected representatives. In return for greater responsiveness, they gain even greater power and discretion. The technopopulist logic, I argue, implies that central banks will increasingly become “the only game in town,” both reflecting and exacerbating democratic discontent. (from Technopopulism and Central Banks)
• Consumers become more pessimistic about national economic conditions when local gas prices rise. (from Gas Prices and Consumer Sentiment

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• Carola Binder | Web | LinkedIn | Twitter
• PAPER: Technopopulism and Central Banks | https://wiscoweeklypod.tiny.us/52ky27u3
• PAPER: Stuck in the Seventies: Gas Prices and Consumer Sentiment | https://wiscoweeklypod.tiny.us/33tj3yrp
• BOOK: Technopopulism: The New Logic of Democratic Politics | https://wiscoweeklypod.tiny.us/bdfxw7jx

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Wisco Weekly is a business education podcast, and is part of the 'Not Your Father's Economy' podcast channel on Apple Podcasts. Host, Dennis Wisco, shares weekly insights into current economic conditions like navigating this post-COVID economy.

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• Indepedent Women's Voice | https://www.iwv.org/
• Independent Women's Forum | https://www.iwf.org/
• State Policy Work | https://spn.org/
  
  

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Highlights from January's Federal Open Market Committee press conference, and earnings calls from Paypal, Ally Financial, Tesla, and BlackRock.

Upcoming Episodes:

• Earnings for Lithia Motors, Penske Automotive, AutoNation, Group 1 Automotive, Sonic Automotive
• Patrice Onwuka, Director of the Center for Economic Opportunity at Independent Women's Forum
• Carola Binder, Associate Professor of Economics at Haverford College
  
  

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• Larry Fink's Letter to CEOs | https://wiscoweeklypod.tiny.us/2p8h3w9p

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Episode #201 features Alex J. Pollock.

Alex J. Pollock is a student of financial systems. His work includes cycles of booms and busts, financial crises with their political responses, housing finance, government-sponsored enterprises, risk and uncertainty, central banking, banking and financial regulation, corporate governance, retirement finance, student loans, and the politics of finance.

Pre-order Alex Pollock's upcoming book Surprised Again!: The COVID Crisis and the New Market Bubble (Link)

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Episode Notes

• Alex Pollock | https://www.alexjpollock.com/
• Book | Boom and Bust: Financial Cycles and Human Prosperity | https://tinyurl.com/yauaxyd8
• Book | Finance and Philosophy: Why We're Always Surprised | https://tinyurl.com/6mb3pnkd
• Mises Institute | https://mises.org/

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• To Regulate or Not To Regulate SPACs with Jennifer Schulp | https://tinyurl.com/2p82nu59
• SPAC Retail Investor or Board of Director | https://tinyurl.com/z6sepdxp
• From Communism to ESGs with Austin Prochko | https://wiscoweeklypod.tiny.us/hkfkpwyy

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