{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Health:Further","title":"207 - Sticky Inflation, Maternity Deserts, Drug Shortages, and AI's Doomsday Headlines","html":"<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless src=\"https://share.transistor.fm/e/33a20896\"></iframe>","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":3609,"description":"Health:Further — September 10, 2026\nIn this episode, we explore sticky inflation and the widening cost-of-living gap, a wave of nine-figure biotech rounds, mounting political pressure on AI labs, the hollowing out of hospital service lines, and a Robinhood-chain experiment that turns everyday spending into equity ownership — with insights into market trends, policy changes, and technological innovations shaping the future of health and money.\nKey Topics\nProducer price inflation and the Fed's narrowing path to a rate cut\nReal wage stagnation, housing affordability, and the K-shaped economy\nECB rate hike and Europe's economic squeeze\nBiotech season: three nine-figure rounds in immuno-oncology, rare disease, and pediatric CAR-T\nSenate scrutiny of OpenAI and the emerging case for AI liability\n$500 ACA rebate checks and politics ahead of the midterms\nMedicare drug spending outrunning IRA projections\nMaternity ward closures and the hollowing out of hospital service lines\nProviders demanding payment upfront as payer-provider trust erodes\nBiosimilar pipeline gaps and universal cancer drug shortages\nUnpaid Ebola workers and the global health funding gap\nTokenized equity, Robinhood's distribution advantage, and who owns your AI traces\nChapters\n00:00 Introduction — Vic at TMC in Houston, Marcus in Mexico City\n01:57 Producer price inflation accelerates to 0.4% in August\n02:39 Six charts on how Americans really feel about the economy: real wages and housing affordability\n07:55 ECB raises its benchmark rate to 2.5% to quell inflation\n09:06 VC deal review — biotech season, three nine-figure rounds: 09:33 Solstice raises $225M Series A for next-gen CTLA-4 immunotherapy\n10:12 GV-backed Encoded raises $275M Series F for Dravet syndrome asset and manufacturing scale-up\n10:32 BrainChild Bio raises $116M Series A for CAR-T in pediatric brain cancer\n11:20 OpenAI faces a Senate probe into the Hugging Face breach — and the case for AI liability\n16:51 Trump pledges $500 checks to 1...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/qQpNWNNt0Jii-gH3dDJO-qaNGcqviKTTp8BwIkelLC8/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9kMGIy/YjcyMGFhYTI5N2Zh/ODNjMjdhYzRkMTcz/NGQyNC5qcGVn.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}