Ozempic, Fair Tax Act, Credit Card Rewards

Ozempic [03:29]

What To Know About Ozempic (Forbes, 1/18/23)
Wegovy works. But here’s what happens if you can’t afford to keep taking the drug (NPR, 1/30/23)
Hollywood’s Secret New Weight Loss Drug, Revealed: The Hype and Hazards of Ozempic (Variety, 11/21/22)
TikTok trend wipes out Ozempic supply, leaving people with diabetes dizzy, scared (LA Times, 12/23/22)
AMA #29: GLP-1 Agonists – The Future of Treating Obesity? (Peter Attia, 11/15/21)
Semaglutide (Rx) (Medscape)
America Isn’t Ready for the Weight-Loss-Drug Revolution That’s Coming (The Ringer/Plain English with Derek Thompson, 1/20/23)
Off-Label Drug Use: What You Need to Know (WebMd, 2009)
What to know about off-label drug use (Medical News Today, 6/30/20)
Once-Weekly Semaglutide in Adults with Overweight or Obesity (New England Journal of Medicine, 3/18/21)
Once-Weekly Semaglutide in Adolescents with Obesity (New England Journal of Medicine, 12/15/22)
Highlights of Prescribing Medication (FDA, 12/17)
Unlocking the Obesity Challenge: a >$50bn Market (Morgan Stanley, 7/14/22)
Anti-Obesity Medication Use in 2.2 Million Adults Across 8 Large Healthcare Organizations: 2009-2015 (NCBI, 10/11/19)

Credit Card Rewards [23:14]

Your credit card rewards might not be worth it (Vox, 1/17/23)
The ugly truth behind your fancy rewards credit card (Vox, 6/3/21)
Is Congress Going To Kill Credit Cards Rewards? (Nerdwallet, 10/18/22)
How responsible credit card users profit off everyone else (Quartz)
The Dark Side of Cash-Back Credit Cards (The Motley Fool, 4/6/17)
Where Does Money for Credit Card Rewards Come From? (NerdWallet, 12/21/22)
Where Does the Money for Credit Card Rewards Come From? (The Balance, 6/30/21)
How credit card companies reward the rich and punish the rest of us (Brookings, 12/23/19)
Americans are piling up credit card debt — and it could prove very costly (NPR, 1/11/23)
A growing number of Americans face potentially crippling credit-card debt (The Hill, 1/21/23)
All the Hacks Podcast
Who Pays For Your Rewards? Redistribution in the Credit Card Market (SSRN, 12/6/22)

Fair Tax Act [38:02]

GOP national sales tax talk backfires, as Dems see political gold (Politico, 1/29/23)
Will the House GOP Really Walk the Plank for the Fair Tax? (The Bulwark, 1/12/23)
FairTax, the GOP plan for a 30 percent national sales tax, explained (Vox, 1/26/23)
A National Sales Tax Is a Terrible Idea (The Atlantic, 1/23/23)
H.R.25 – 118th Congress (2023-2024): FairTax Act of 2023 (Congress.gov)
Carter introduces Fair Tax Act (Rep. Buddy Carter Press Release, 1/10/23)
Post-Trump Republicans Are All About Lower Taxes (Bloomberg, 1/15/23)
What House Republicans Should Know about the Fair Tax (National Review, 1/19/23)
Whatever the Fate of the Fair Tax Act, Congress Should Still Abolish the IRS (Reason, 1/13/2023)
House Republicans Want a Vote On the FairTax. Is It Worth Supporting? (Reason, 1/11/23)
The GOP’s Fair Tax Masochism (Wall Street Journal, 1/20/23)
House Republicans to vote on bill abolishing IRS, eliminating income tax (Fox News, 1/10/23)
Liberal Hypocrisy is Fueling American Inequality. Here’s How. | NYT Opinion (The New York Times, 1/2022)

Voicemails [49:14]