DeBraun Thomas fell in love with radio at a young age but only had interest in working in radio after learning Funk musician Sly Stone got his start in radio. A native of the San Francisco Bay Area, Thomas moved to Lexington in 2009 to attend the University of Kentucky and pursue a career in radio. Thomas joined WRFL in 2009 and through the UK school of Journalism, Thomas had 2 features air on WUKY. In October of 2012, Thomas began interning at WUKY and produced the Unghosting of Medgar Evers. In August of 2013 Thomas became a staff member at WUKY and since that time, Thomas regularly produces the weekly segment Local Music Mondays which highlights local musicians in Lexington. Thomas hosts the Crunkadelic Funk Show which airs Saturday nights at 9pm and also produced a documentary on the 50th anniversary of the March on Frankfort. In addition to producing and hosting a radio show, Thomas also explores his other passion as a musician in Lexington.
The Ricochet Effect Podcast is hosted by Bilal El-Amin, Melody Renee, and Coach Eric Sanford. In this episode, the Ricochet Effect crew is joined by Dale Morgan of Foundation 47 to discuss the importance of financial literacy.
very interesting right now around putin are the ones who are two, three, for not just down from the very top. there may be a statue of money over in switzerland. they may have an apartment in spain. they might ve funded by account in cypress. but if those people start to see all of their avenues of escape shut off or really see serious threats to their lifestyle, it s going to be the start to see because the brutal reality of russian history is that you always never have affective change of government or, essentially, change of leadership because of what s happening in the streets. it s been the people around the leader, the palace coup, that is the most effective. and that doesn t really come we come through that middle upper level. and so that i think is one of the groups of people that many of these new sanctions are intended to try and target. that potentially create that ricochet effect.
china. the issue is it is showing signs that it can t meet interest payments on a whopping $300 billion debt and there are lots of large banks exposed to that that and economists all around the world are worried about the ricochet effect that this potential failing of a huge property company could have not just on the chinese economy but the global economy. people are already starting to talk about this is china s liman brothers, a reference to the bank in the states that provigil is not too big to fail and started the global financial crisis of 2008, if you like. china s lehman brothers. all eyes are on what the company does in china, the effect on markets, on monday we saw a global sell off, today we are starting to see things recover at least in the uk where the ftse 100