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What's Really Going on In Venezuela? Oil, Empire & the Next Proxy War
Season 2025 Episode 105
Venezuela once rivalled Switzerland in wealth, today it’s produced more refugees than Syria. What happened? We go straight to Buenos Aires to talk to leading Latin American analyst Juan Gabriel Tokat…
Published on 5 hours ago
2025: China’s Year
Season 2025 Episode 104
For 2,000 years, China has played a different game. While Europe fragmented, fought, and conquered outward, China focused inward, on standardisation, stability, and turning a vast empire into a singl…
Published on 1 week ago
Was Genghis Khan the World’s First Globalist?
Season 2025 Episode 103
We usually remember Genghis Khan as history’s ultimate destroyer but what if he was also its first great economic integrator? In this episode, we rethink the Mongol Empire not as pure terror, but as …
Published on 1 week, 5 days ago
Can Wind Power Make Us Rich Again?
Season 2025 Episode 102
Ireland controls seven times more sea than land, and with the Atlantic blowing 25% stronger winds than the North Sea, we sit on one of the greatest untapped energy jackpots on Earth. This episode div…
Published on 2 weeks ago
Europe Under Threat: Can the Centre Hold?
Season 2025 Episode 101
Europe is under pressure militarily, economically, and politically. NATO spending is up 45% since 2014. Germany’s exports to China have dropped 11% in a single year. France is bracing for a possible …
Published on 2 weeks, 5 days ago
The Great Affordability Lie?
Season 2025 Episode 100
Around the world, people feel poorer, even when the numbers say we’ve never been richer. In Ireland, GDP is soaring, household wealth has more than doubled since 2014, and yet most families are pinne…
Published on 3 weeks ago
Petty Lines in the Sand
Season 2025 Episode 99
We’re diving into the economics of borders, the lines we pretend are ancient but were mostly scratched into the earth by soldiers, surveyors and empire-builders with rulers. From Ukraine’s shifting f…
Published on 3 weeks, 5 days ago
China Explained with Dan Wang
Season 2025 Episode 98
We talk to writer and analyst Dan Wang, whose book Breakneck argues that China is an engineering state, run by people who build, while America, Ireland and the wider Anglosphere have become lawyer st…
Published on 4 weeks ago
Is Central Asia the Next Front Line of Global Power? with Peter Frankopan
Season 2025 Episode 97
Leaving the US after weeks on the road, we zoom out from New York and Washington and asks a question we almost never ask in Europe: what if the real future of geopolitics isn’t in Brussels, Beijing o…
Published on 1 month ago
Why Can’t the West Build Anymore?
Season 2025 Episode 96
Reporting from New York, with a Bitcoin slump at his heels and the Hollywood-launch buzz of Money: A Story of Humanity still in the air, we dive into one of the most important economic questions of 2…
Published on 1 month ago