Bill Black and Yanis Varoufakis discuss financial corruption in the USA and the EU. Bill Black needs no introduction. As a lawyer he filed over 1700 indictments for financial corruption in the US, from the S&L scandal to this day. He was also the nemesis of five US Senators who did their utmost to cover up financial fraud. He is also an academic, best-selling author and former bank regulator. Currently an associate professor of economics and law at the University of Missouri, Kansas City, Bill assisted Icelandic and French leaders responding to their fiscal crises and has testified to US Congress about the financial crisis, specifically on regulatory failures and the role of control fraud in the bubble and crisis.
Geopolitics
John Mearsheimer, Alexander Mercouris, Glenn Diesen – How will US political upheaval influence Ukraine?
26 July 2024 I had a discussion with Professor John Mearsheimer and Alexander Mercouris on the Duran about how the political upheaval in the US will influence the Ukraine War. Kamala Harris will likely continue […]
Economics
David Graeber: Bullshit Jobs, Direct Democracy & the End of Capitalism
James Butler is joined by David Graeber to talk through the meaning of direct democracy, the ennui at the heart of neoliberalism, and examine the relationship of political thinking to political practice. Listen here
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