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Healthy Climate Skepticism (?)
Season 1 Episode 328
North Dakota State Climatologist Daryl Ritcheson joins the show for his annual check-in about the climate (our fourth???) - He and Jacob revisit last…
4 months, 3 weeks ago
The Cold War That Wasn’t
Season 1 Episode 327
Louis-Vincent Gave joins The Jacob Shapiro Podcast to unpack a world that looks chaotic... but may be quietly reordering itself. From a surprising th…
4 months, 3 weeks ago
Takaichi's New Japan
Season 1 Episode 326
Something extraordinary just happened in Japan... but of course no one is paying attention!
A ruling party written off as tired and scandal-plagued di…
5 months ago
War With Iran
Season 1 Episode 325
Hamidreza Azizi joins the pod for an emergency episode on the current state of Iran amidst escalating tensions with the United States. Azizi examine…
5 months, 2 weeks ago
Land, Debt, and Decline
Season 1 Episode 324
Jacob sits down with agricultural economist Dr. David Kohl to unpack what a brutal downturn in farm profitability reveals about globalization, capita…
5 months, 2 weeks ago
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…
5 months, 3 weeks 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…
5 months, 4 weeks 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…
6 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…
6 months 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…
6 months, 1 week ago