America Trends Podcast

America Trends Podcast


Latest Episodes

EP 916 What Would America Do Without Foreign Born Doctors? We May Find Out
November 12, 2025

For more than sixty years, the United States has trained fewer physicians than it needs. It is expensive and time-consuming to educate a new doctor, and much more expedient to bring immigrant docto

EP 915 Has Cryptocurrency Really Arrived as an Investment Option?
November 10, 2025

Bitcoin had been a bit player as people designed their financial portfolios. Investors would ask is this a scam and am I chasing the latest shiny object? But today it seems as if cryptocurrency an

EP 914 Private Equity is Getting Away with Financial Murder
November 05, 2025

Many of us are unwitting victims of the private equity industry. Some by virtue of being employed by companies they have bought whose future success or failure may have no impact on the private equi

EP 913 Animal Species Greatly Affected by Climate Weirdness
November 03, 2025

It is said that we are in the midst of the sixth great extinction. Thus, we have taken some steps to protect endangered speciesbut clearly not enough. And while the stories we usually tell ourselv

EP 912 How Billionaires Use Their Wealth to Keep You from Getting Ahead
October 29, 2025

It can be hard to explain how the actions of the top .01 percent have severe consequences for the rest of us, but in his book, Burned by Billionaires, Chuck Collins of the Institute for Policy Stu

EP 911 Former NIH Chief Describes Health Challenges in America
October 27, 2025

America has many challenges in the health industry. And while our guest, who came to America as an immigrant, wanted desperately to be part of what he considered to be the best medical system in th

EP 910 Wellness Industry Sells a Better You: Does It Deliver?
October 22, 2025

While the ideal of the American woman was to be skinny, now they need to be skinny and have a glow acquired through some combination of daily yoga, vegan makeup and mushroom coffee or tea. Gwyneth P

EP 909 Refrigeration Changed the World and Now Threatens It
October 20, 2025

Refrigeration is considered to be the most impactful invention in the history of food and drink. And while we focus on our personal refrigerators there is an entire cold chain of cold storage wareh

EP 908 Education Thought Leader Changes Her Mind on School Reform Efforts
October 15, 2025

Diane Ravitch, Ph.D, is a historian of education. For decades now, she has written, lectured and been interviewed about her views on a range of subjects related to education reform, including standa

EP 907 What Goes on in That Ambulance Whizzing By?
October 13, 2025

While we might think that ambulances are always involved in step on the gas exercisesget the paddles out, extricate from a car wreck or save from the effects of a heart attack, in truth there are ma