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Economics
MMT Podcast – Warren Mosler: Anatomy of a Bank Run
Patricia and Christian talk to MMT founder Warren Mosler about the recent collapse of Silicon Valley Bank and more Listen HERE
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Economics
Wolfgang Streeck: Back to the Nationstate?
In this talk Wolfgang Streeck will explain why the sovereign nation-state is the only democratic form of political organization in post-neoliberal capitalism. Wolfgang Streeck was Professor of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (1988-1995) and […]
Economics
Bungacast: The New Scramble for Africa
On geopolitical competition over Africa. In light of the ‘new Cold War’, we look at what the US, Europe, Russia and China’s respective “pitches” are to African countries – what are they selling? And we […]
Economics
Steve Keen, Phil Dobbie – Who will win the money war between BRICS and the West?
If the west decouples itself from China and other autocratic regimes, just as we have done, to an extent with Russia, what does that mean for international trade? What does it mean for international investment […]
Economics
Steve Keen, Phil Dobbie – SVB collapse shows there’s no safety in government bonds
The collapse of Silicon Valley Bank last week can be put down to two things – first a management team that clearly ignored the falling value of the assets they held, and second the fact […]
Deregulation
Radhika Desai, Michael Hudson – The US Dollar System After Breaking Its Link to Gold
RADHIKA DESAI: Hi everyone. Welcome to the fifth Geopolitical Economy Hour, the fortnightly show about the political and geopolitical economy of our times. I’m Radhika Desai. MICHAEL HUDSON: And I’m Michael Hudson. RADHIKA DESAI: So […]
Finance
Tech Won’t Save Us: What new EU rules might mean for gig workers
Paris Marx, host of the Tech Won’t Save Us podcast, is joined by Ben Wray, Gig Economy Project co-ordinator, to discuss the fight to win a pro-worker Platform Work Directive in the European Union, Uber’s […]
National Politics
Craig Murray – Truth and Ukraine
A brilliant talk: Facts and arguments which have had no discernible place in the public discourse on Ukraine on any “side” and were new to most people there.
Climate Crisis
Clare Daly – A Peaceful Europe?
The European Union’s foundation myth links “ever closer union” to peace on the European continent, but the ideal of a peaceful Europe has been in retreat for some time. Prior to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, […]
Fake News
Chris Hedges, Jeff Gerth: The failure of the US press in the Trump-Russia saga
Walter Lippmann in his 1920 book Liberty and the News warned that when journalists “arrogate to themselves the right to determine by their own consciences what shall be reported and for what purpose, democracy is […]