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Hosted by Unknown Host · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 74 episodes
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Cut through the chaos of breaking news with sharp analysis that separates what matters from what doesn't. Each episode delivers essential context on the stories shaping our world, without the hype or hysteria.
Unknown Host hosts Signal & Noise, a news show with 74 episodes published.
A little-known layer of the American healthcare system — pharmacy benefit managers — quietly controls what drugs you can access, what your pharmacy gets paid, and why the cash price at the counter is sometimes cheaper th
In cities where teachers sleep in cars and nurses commute ninety minutes each way, millions of square feet of commercial real estate sit deliberately vacant — kept empty by tax codes, debt structures, and zoning laws tha
Across the country, it takes longer to get a license to braid hair than to become an EMT. We've built an occupational licensing regime so sprawling and so captured by incumbent interests that it quietly functions as a ta
Playgrounds with no swings. Doctors who over-test instead of diagnose. Cities that won't fix sidewalks until someone falls. This episode traces how a decades-long explosion in litigation risk quietly rewired American ins
Nobody voted for the rules that determine where you can live, how much you'll pay, and whether your city can grow — yet local zoning codes have quietly become the most consequential policy instrument in American life. Th
The federal workforce everyone argues about — hire them, fire them, shrink it, expand it — is almost beside the point. Behind every agency headline is a parallel government of private contractors that has quietly grown t
Rural hospital closures have been called a crisis for a decade, but the real story isn't the closures themselves — it's who's engineering them and why the math was designed this way. This week, we trace the financial arc
A small software company most people have never heard of helps set rent prices for millions of apartments across the United States — and federal prosecutors are now calling it a cartel. This week, we look at how algorith
Across the country, state legislatures are amending decades-old public records laws — not by repealing them, but by quietly narrowing definitions, extending response windows, and carving out exemptions one bill at a time
Across the country, small businesses — laundromats, restaurants, gyms — are quietly losing control of their own operations to a new class of software middlemen they never chose and can't easily leave. This week, we trace
A handful of companies now control which products get shelf space, how prices are set, and what you think you're choosing when you walk down the cereal aisle — and a wave of supermarket mergers is about to make that leve
A small number of algorithm-driven platforms now help set rental prices for millions of apartments across the country — and federal prosecutors are starting to pay attention. This week, we trace how a single piece of sof
Across the United States, dozens of state legislatures are advancing nearly identical bills — same language, same structure, same timing — with no obvious common author. This episode traces the invisible infrastructure b
Every major platform quietly restructured its terms of service in the past 18 months — and almost no one covered why, or what it means for who owns the data training the AI systems that are about to reshape your job, you
Every major insurer quietly withdrawing from California, Florida, and Louisiana isn't a story about weather — it's a story about who gets to know the future first, and what happens when the people pricing long-term risk
Inflation is the number everyone quotes and almost no one understands — not because the math is hidden, but because what we choose to measure, and what we quietly leave out, is a political decision dressed up as a statis
While headlines chase the drama of bank collapses and interest rate decisions, a slower and more consequential shift is reshaping who actually controls credit in America — and most people won't notice until they need a l
Dozens of American cities are quietly surrendering financial control to state-appointed overseers — not through drama or headlines, but through the slow arithmetic of pension obligations, shrinking tax bases, and deferre
Someone is redrawing the boundaries of what's insurable — and most people won't notice until they file a claim. This episode, we follow the quiet exodus of major insurers from entire states and regions, and explain why i
While everyone debates political polarization, a different story is hiding in plain sight: how foreign governments have quietly mastered the art of corporate lobbying to shape American policy. We trace the sophisticated
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Signal & Noise is hosted by Unknown Host. The show is categorised under News (culture) and has published 74 episodes.
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