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2024:30 Common Law or Common Sense? Nimbyism's Grip on Housing
Season 2024 Episode 30
In this week's episode, we plunge headfirst into the contentious issue of Nimbyism – should property ownership grant individuals the power to stop developments? We don't think so! Particularly not wh…
Published on 1 year, 8 months ago
2024:29 Eat the Rich with Nick Hanauer
Season 2024 Episode 29
Are we truly living in a Plutocracy', where we are governed by the wealthy elites instead of those we voted for? As election season heats up around the globe, we tackle the age-old question: should w…
Published on 1 year, 8 months ago
2024:28 The Souk Versus The Citadel with Bassem Youssef
Season 2024 Episode 28
Palestine is one of the most, if not the most, tragic national stories of the 21st century. Divided, humiliated, abused, and abandoned by both West and East, the Palestinian nature has been strangled…
Published on 1 year, 8 months ago
2024:27 Sam Bankman Fried and Male Over-Confidence with Michael Lewis
Season 2024 Episode 27
Crypto entrepreneur Sam Bankman-Fried was sentenced Thursday to 25 years in prison for fraud on hundreds of thousands of customers that unraveled with the collapse of FTX, once one of the world's mos…
Published on 1 year, 8 months ago
2024:26 The Curse of Inheritance
Season 2024 Episode 26
Inheritance is a tricky one. We all want to leave something to our kids if possible, yet inheritance for society makes inequality permanent, favouring the children of the rich. Millennials are about …
Published on 1 year, 9 months ago
2024:25 Should We Copy The Swiss Or Is That Too Cheesy?
Season 2024 Episode 25
How best to run an economy and a country, bottom up or top down? A trip to Switzerland got me thinking should we invert power, making the local more consequential than the nation, should we devolve g…
Published on 1 year, 9 months ago
2024:24 The Dehumanisation of Curiosity
Season 2024 Episode 24
The US House of Representatives has just approved a bill with the potential to ban Tiktok from America. But this story is about much more than corporate America's jealousy over its Chinese rival's mo…
Published on 1 year, 9 months ago
2024:23 The Economics of the Creative Mind with Ed Guiney
Season 2024 Episode 23
The primary driver of economic growth is the innovative human mind. In this episode, we sit down with Ed Guiney, the visionary co-founder of Element Pictures, the powerhouse behind Oscar winners like…
Published on 1 year, 9 months ago
2024:22 The Irish Government, as trustworthy as a Kate Middleton photo-album?
Season 2024 Episode 22
No one trusts them, the Irish government or Katie M's doctored photos. For them its part of the national theatre, for us its a national threat. How did the government misread the public and why does …
Published on 1 year, 9 months ago
2024:21 Bitcoin is Still Not Money
Season 2024 Episode 21
Bitcoin is being touted as a revolutionary asset, but in reality, it's often the wealthy transferring wealth to unsuspecting individuals, marketed as a stroke of financial liberation. This asset is n…
Published on 1 year, 9 months ago