Something strange happened in late April: the price of oil went negative. This below-zero price tag didn’t last long, but it remains unusually cheap. And thanks to the coronavirus, it will likely stay that way for a while. In this episode Mark talks with Watson Associate Professor Jeff Colgan, an expert on the oil industry and the geopolitics that define it. They get into oil’s current price fluctuations, how it’s related to the coronavirus pandemic, and how changes to this singular commodity will affect industries and countries in a post-pandemic world.
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Aufhebunga Bunga: Quinn Slobodian – Order Not Freedom
On the unexpected origins of neoliberalism. Auhebunga Bunga talks to Quinn Slobodian, author of Globalists, about how neo-liberals look back to the Austro-Hungarian Empire and the League of Nations. Why does neoliberalism talk about freedom, […]
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Robert B. Reich – 3 Economic Mythologies
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Politics Theory Other – Adam Tooze on ‘Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World’ (Part 2)
Adam Tooze joins me for part two of our discussion on his new book, ‘Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World’. We spoke about the Brexit vote, Emmanuel Macron’s EU reform agenda, […]
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