The Dive | Business News

The Dive | Business News

Author: Equity Mates Media Language: English Episodes: 100
Ever feel like the business headlines are speaking a different language? The Dive | Business News cuts through the noise without the dry, technical jargon that can make finance feel inaccessible. Host Sascha Kelly and her colleagues at Equity Mates Media take a single, pressing question sparked by the day’s events and explore it with a conversational, thoughtful approach. They pull back the curtain on how market movements, corporate decisions, and economic shifts actually connect to everyday life. What you’ll find in this daily podcast is a genuine discussion that places each story into a broader context, making sense of complex topics in a way that’s both engaging and substantive. It’s business news that remembers there are real people behind the charts and data. Tune in for clear-eyed analysis that doesn’t take itself too seriously, delivered in a format designed to fit into your routine, whether you’re commuting or just need a break from the scroll. This is a show for anyone curious about the forces shaping our world, who prefers explanation over exclusion.
Episodes
The Wagner Group & the business of private armies [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 21:26
Over the weekend, The Wagner Group, led by outspoken Yevgeny Prigozhin, staged a rebellion that seized two Russian cities. But it was a blink and you miss it moment, almost over as soon as it began. Reaching a deal with…
The Fake Meat Shakeout [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 15:48
It was heralded as the next big global trend… but now it appears meatless meat , it turns out, seems less a world-changing innovation than another food trend whose novelty is wearing thin. Today Alec and Sascha consider…
The future of TV is … fast? [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 15:50
We’re living in the Golden Age of television - inundated with choice. Netflix alone has 17,000 titles on offer. - and then there’s Paramount, Disney, Stan, Binge, Prime. When we were in the states recently, I watched Jur…
Add AI to your deck, add a zero to your valuation [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 13:56
Here's a headline: 4 week old AI startup raised $113 million dollars. That's the amount for a company with no revenue, and no product, they managed to convince investors to put in more than $100 million dollars. It feels…
Is supply *really* the reason for the housing affordability crisis? [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 24:44
In a changing economic climate - amidst all of this conversation of interest rate rises, and cost of living pressures - one thing seems to always be the same - the price of property ticks ever upwards. But why? Only a fe…
PGA v LIV: What happens next in this golfing drama? [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 19:38
Over the last year, there’s been a drama unfolding in the headlines. Two war-ing factions who’ve been sledging each other in the courts and the media, there’s been allegations of betrayal, and hypocrisy, and most notably…
Is carbon neutral all it's cracked up to be? [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 18:25
A number of notable companies have been using carbon offsets to achieve climate goals. I mean, the starting point here is that no company is truly carbon neutral. If you use computers, transport any physical goods or use…
Why does the PWC scandal matter? [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 18:40
The last few weeks have been dominated with headlines around the PricewaterhouseCoopers tax scandal. The consulting firm have found themselves under fire over revelations some senior partners misused confidential informa…
Will you spend $3,500 on Apple's Mixed Reality glasses? [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 23:19
Apple launches are huge. When the company announces a new product - it's becomes both a technological and cultural touchpoint. Think about some of the big trends in years past - the iPod, the iPhone, Airpods! Cause when…
Much like their tech creators, AI is hallucinating [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 19:09
We're back! Did you miss us? Today Alec and Sascha discuss a legal debacle involving a lawsuit against Colombian airline, Avianca. Plaintiff Roberto Mata claimed to be injured by a serving cart during a flight, but a bri…