Professor Mark Blyth and Professor Adam Tooze explore how coronavirus is laying bare the hidden risks embedded within our financial systems and how central banks worldwide are scrambling to paper over those chasms of danger. To them, it seems that the Federal Reserve has rewritten its remit, and they discuss how rather than try and keep prices stable or keep unemployment low, the sole focus of the Fed right now seems to be supporting asset prices at any cost, even if that means bailing out leveraged entities who took on too much risk. They also discuss Europe and how this crisis is heightening the contradictions within the Eurozone and pushing the European banking system to the brink. Filmed on April 22, 2020.
Geopolitics
Norman Finkelstein, The Thinking Muslim – 2 Years On: Has the Resistance Won?
7 October 2025 This week on The Thinking Muslim, we have Dr. Finkelstein to discuss Gaza two years after October 7, 2023. We explore the moral and political legitimacy of Palestinian resistance, Israel’s military response, […]
Austerity
Aufhebunga Bunga: Juche in North Britain? with Cat Boyd & David Jamieson
David Jamieson and Cat Boyd, writers and hosts of Conter, the Scottish anti-capitalist website and podcast, join us to to talk about the prospects for Scottish independence in advance of the Scottish parliamentary elections in […]
National Politics
Matt Orfalea – Ukraine: “Not About Nato” | “Never About NATO” | “Nothing to do with NATO”
An excellent three-minute clip featuring pundits and western officials in the mass media denying that the invasion of Ukraine had anything whatsoever to do with NATO – a claim recently refuted by the head of […]
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