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Monsignor Joe Rogan and the Tech Bro Confessions: Risk, Bubbles, and MAGA Tailwinds
Season 2025 Episode 4
This week, we’re talking risk. From California’s burning insurance markets to the fragile dominance of America’s “Magnificent Seven” tech giants. Are Apple, Tesla, and their crew as unshakable as the…
Published on 11 months, 2 weeks ago
The Epiphany: What Joyce, the Dead, Musk and Twitter Teach Us About Economic Power
Season 2025 Episode 3
We explore today's seismic changes in media and society, by tracing historical parallels between James Joyce’s The Dead (1907) and today’s digital age. Joyce’s observations on in The Dead about gener…
Published on 11 months, 3 weeks ago
America’s $30 Trillion Gamble: How Debt Could Rewrite the Global Economy
Season 2024 Episode 2
We examine the cracks forming in America’s financial dominance, with $30 trillion in debt—equal to 100% of GDP—making it the largest debtor nation in history. Drawing parallels to Britain’s fall from…
Published on 11 months, 3 weeks ago
Runways to Reality: How Airports Reflect the World Around Us
Season 2025 Episode 1
This week, we’re diving into a surprising truth: airports are the most democratic spaces in society. Think about it—everyone passes through them, from business tycoons to backpackers, families return…
Published on 11 months, 4 weeks ago
Swiftonomics and Centrist Dads: 2024 in Review
Season 2024 Episode 106
Happy New Year! Join us as we nurse our hangovers and take a ride through 2024’s greatest hits—economic and otherwise. From the explosive surge of Swiftonomics (yes, Taylor Swift boosted Ireland’s GD…
Published on 1 year ago
Putin’s Empire, the West’s Game: Revisiting Bill Browder’s Insight on Russia
Season 2024 Episode 105
As the war in Ukraine drags on, how do we untangle the web of money, power, and manipulation at the heart of Vladimir Putin’s regime? In this Christmas special, we revisit one of our most revealing e…
Published on 1 year ago
AI, Feudal Overlords, and the Fight for the Future: A Conversation with Martin Wolf
Season 2024 Episode 104
As we hurtle toward an AI-driven future, what’s really at stake? In this Christmas Eve special, we revisit our conversation with Martin Wolf, the Financial Times’ chief economics correspondent, and d…
Published on 1 year ago
The Bro-tocracy Rises: Top 10 World-Changing Events of 2024
Season 2024 Episode 103
Was 2024 the turning point for our economic, political, and cultural future? In this episode, we break down the top 10 seismic shifts that reshaped the world. From Trump’s polarising return and Ameri…
Published on 1 year ago
The Prosperity Paradox: Ireland’s Boom, Europe’s Bust, and the Price of Success
Season 2024 Episode 102
Ireland’s economy is booming, bolstered by its close ties to the American economic engine. But beneath the shine of GDP growth and high living standards lies a stark reality: a growing gap between st…
Published on 1 year ago
What's Next for Syria?
Season 2024 Episode 101
The fall of Assad’s 50-year regime marks a pivotal moment in Middle Eastern history, but what happens next? In this episode, we connect the dots between the collapse of Syria’s government, the geopol…
Published on 1 year ago