Episode Details

Part 1: We talk with Tom Carter.
We discuss the influence of Leonard Leo, as a representative of a far right Catholic group, 'Opus Dei', and a power broker among MAGA members. Leo has been essentially the person who has chosen the last 6 member of the Supreme Court, all Catholics, and has shaped the Supreme Court to advance the MAGA Catholic cause, and the cause of the oligarchs who now dominate US politics.
Part 2:
We talk with Nitish Pahwa, staff writer for business and technology at Slate.com.
We discuss the meme stock economy now prevalent, as illustrated by the IPO of SpaceX, and the kinds of market conditions that are being created for companies like this: guarantee of a baseline trading level, unavailable holding information, status reporting periods now longer, less oversight by the SEC, etc.  

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Music: "That's how every empire falls," John Prine