Episode notes
Alex Schmidt and Katie Goldin explore why credit scores are secretly incredibly fascinating.
Visit http://sifpod.fun/ for research sources, handy links, and this week’s bonus episode.
LINKS FOR KATIE GOLDIN:
- Katie Goldin on Bluesky
- @ProBirdRights on Bluesky
- ‘Creature Feature’ podcast (iHeartRadio)
- When Is a Bird a ‘Birb’? An Extremely Important Guide (Audubon)
RESOURCES USED TO INFORM THE EPISODE’S LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT:
- native-land.ca
- U.S. Department Of Arts And Culture
- The True Native New Yorkers Can Never Truly Reclaim Their Homeland (Smithsonian)
- “Finding Lenapehoking” (YouTube / Hudson River Maritime Museum)
- Why Do They Call It Beacon? (The Highlands Current)
- Dutch & Native American Heritage In The Hudson River Valley (National Park Service)
RESEARCH SOURCES:
- When did credit scores start? A brief look at the long history behind credit reporting (CNBC)
- The Long, Twisted History of Your Credit Score (Time Magazine)
- Who Made America?: Lewis Tappan (PBS)
- Lewis Tappan, the Man Who Hired Abe Lincoln to Spy on Sinners (New England Historical Society)
- Oyez.org listing for the SCOTUS case “United States v. The Amistad”
- The Gist of Freedom: “Abolitionist V. Slave Trade Documentary ~Pinckney Castle, Amistad” (YouTube)
- Fair Isaac Corporation / FICO (American Bankers Association)
- What is the difference between a credit report and a credit score? (Consumer Finance Protection Bureau)
- American Experience: The Panic of 1873 (PBS)
- The Financial Panic That Led to the Start of the Federal Reserve (History.com)
- How do credit scores work? 2 finance professors explain how lenders choose who gets loans and at what interest rate (The Conversation)
- My family came to the US to start a new life. An obscure credit score held us back (The Guardian)
- A Hill to Die On (The Paris Review)
- A Speculative Endeavor: Education has become an investment. But what are its returns? (Lapham’s Quarterly)
- DC’s Smithsonian Loses Triple-A Rating After US Credit Downgrade (Bloomberg News)
- U.S. debt tops $38 trillion for the first time, worsened by government shutdown (CBS News)
- Not Even Congress Knows How Much Money DOGE Cut (The New York Times)
- Trump got a short-term win in Argentina. The long term is much harder. (MSNBC)
- Chinese Whispers: “Mythbusting the social credit system” (The Spectator)
- Money: The True Story of a Made-Up Thing by Jacob Goldstein
- “Security without identification: transaction systems to make big brother obsolete” by David Chaum
- Remarks by Vice President Pence on the Administration’s Policy Toward China — October 4, 2018 (Trump White House Archives)
- China’s social credit score – untangling myth from reality (Mercator Institute for China Studies)
- China’s Corporate Social Credit System and Its Implications (Stanford Center on China’s Economy and Institutions)
- China executes two for tainted milk scandal (The Guardian)
- China launches chopsticks that tell you if your food is safe to eat (The Guardian)
- How the Hitler Youth Turned a Generation of Kids Into Nazis (History.com)
- Good Job, +15 Points: How the internet makes sense of China’s Social Credit Score system (Diggit Magazine)
- Secretly Incredibly Fascinating: Credit Unions
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A weekly podcast about the history, science, lore and surprises that make everyday things secretly incredibly fascinating. Hosted by comedy writer, emoji creator, and ‘Jeopardy!‘ champion Alex Schmidt. Join Alex & his co-host Katie Goldin for a joyful deep dive into seeing the world a whole new way!
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