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Deepfakes, Big Tech, and the Coming AI Crash?
Season 2025 Episode 75
AI investment is exploding: the “Magnificent Seven” of Apple, Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Meta, Tesla, and NVIDIA, are ploughing almost 7% of US GDP into AI and data centres. That’s the same scale as …
Published on 9 hours ago
France on the Brink: Debt, Drama, and a Possible Sixth Republic
Season 2025 Episode 74
Broadcast from Île de Ré, we dive into France’s mounting fiscal mess and political paralysis. With Macron a lame-duck, bond markets charging Paris more than Athens, and a nationwide strike looming, w…
Published on 2 days, 9 hours ago
Economics in a Tent: Live at Electric Picnic 2025
Season 2025 Episode 73
We took economics to a music festival, and somehow packed the tent. In this Electric Picnic highlights episode from Mindfield, we rock up bleary-eyed and buzzing, then dive straight into the big stuf…
Published on 1 week ago
Is America The Richest Third World Country?
Season 2025 Episode 72
Is the US drifting into Peronism? We trace the playbook, tariffs and import substitution, national champions, censorship-by-intimidation, and a war on independent institutions, and map it onto Trump’…
Published on 1 week, 2 days ago
Germany, 10 Years After “Wir Schaffen Das”, What Really Happened? with Katja Hoyer
Season 2025 Episode 71
Ten years ago, Angela Merkel opened Germany’s doors to more than 1.1 million asylum seekers in a single year with the words “Wir schaffen das” (“We can do this”). Today, Germany has over 3.4 million …
Published on 2 weeks ago
The Nationalisation of the New Home Market
Season 2025 Episode 70
The state has quietly become the biggest buyer of new homes. In fact, builders like Cairn Homes now have forward sales of nearly €946 million, much of it locked in by government deals. That means up …
Published on 2 weeks, 2 days ago
Ukraine at the Crossroads: From Donetsk to the Garrison State
Season 2025 Episode 69
After nearly 11 years of war, Putin’s maximalist demands have shrunk to a sliver of land in Donetsk, a pyrrhic victory after countless lives lost and millions displaced. But while the Kremlin clings …
Published on 3 weeks ago
Ireland is a Hostage to Fortune
Season 2025 Episode 68
Have we caught a case of Dutch Disease? Ireland’s dependence on foreign multinationals looks less like a golden goose and more like Japanese knotweed, invasive, overwhelming, and slowly strangling ev…
Published on 3 weeks, 2 days ago
America’s Dutch Disease: How Debt Became the World’s Hottest Export
Season 2025 Episode 67
We’ve always known Dutch Disease as what happens when a country strikes oil or gas and accidentally hollows out the rest of its economy. But what if the United States’ great “resource discovery” wasn…
Published on 4 weeks ago
From The Godfather to the Blockchain: How Easy Money Seduced Wall Street (and the White House)
Season 2025 Episode 66
We’ve always said to understand the economy, you have to understand human nature, and nothing reveals that better than watching the biggest players do a Godfather-style U-turn for easy money. In this…
Published on 4 weeks, 2 days ago