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The Black Sea Isn’t Quiet Anymore
Season 1 Episode 323
Andrey Sizov, a Black Sea agricultural markets, joins the pod to talk about about why the Russia-Ukraine war has disrupted global grain trade far les…
2 months ago
Fed Under Fire
Season 1 Episode 322
Economist Mike Konczal joins the show to unpack the escalating pressure campaign against the Federal Reserve, new inflation data, and what all of thi…
2 months ago
Measuring Risk
Season 1 Episode 321
Shock, instability, climate stress, financial panic, political rupture: the question isn’t who avoids disruption, but who absorbs it and keeps moving…
2 months ago
For My Friends, Everything; For My Enemies, The Law
Season 1 Episode 320
Venezuela has become the flashpoint for a new era of American hard power - not just a regime change, but a raw assertion of dominance over the "backy…
2 months, 1 week ago
Bye Bye Maduro, You Gone Now
Season 1 Episode 319
Jacob takes on the U.S. seizure of Nicolás Maduro and what it reveals about American power, imperial strategy, and hemispheric priorities. This was l…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
Money and Control
Season 1 Episode 318
What if the money in your pocket wasn’t a tool for freedom, but a mechanism for control? Inflation, surveillance, and financial exclusion actively sh…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
Right Wing Ascendant
Season 1 Episode 317
Elohim Monard joins The Jacob Shapiro Podcast to discuss Latin America.
A massive geopolitical integration in LatAm is quietly underway, fueled by a …
2 months, 3 weeks ago
The Return of Imperial Strategy
Season 1 Episode 316
Power gets loud when it’s insecure. Strategy becomes theater. And ideology sneaks in wearing policy jargon. The White House's newest U.S. National Se…
3 months ago
The Geography of a Missing Daughter
Season 1 Episode 315
Book episode!
What happens when a policy meant to shape a nation reaches into the most intimate corners of a family’s life? Journalist Barbara Demick…
3 months, 2 weeks ago
The Geopolitics of Personalized Money
Season 1 Episode 314
As global finance strains under shifting power structures, author and fintech thinker Emmanuel Daniel, founder of TAB Global, argues that the real di…
3 months, 3 weeks ago