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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…
6 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 …
6 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…
7 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…
7 months, 1 week 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…
7 months, 2 weeks ago
Demand Shock
Season 1 Episode 313
Tariffs promise protection but unleash deeper shocks - reshaping demand, distorting prices, and testing the resilience of an already-strained economi…
7 months, 3 weeks ago
"What the West Should Learn from China"
Season 1 Episode 312
China’s rise is often framed as a geopolitical contest, but Kaiser Y Kuo, host of the Sinica Podcast, pushes us to confront something deeper: what if…
7 months, 3 weeks ago
“The Longevity Dividend, or, Why You Shouldn’t Bathe in the Blood of Virgins”
Season 1 Episode 311
Aging quietly shapes everything - our economies, our politics, our families, and the horizon of what nations can become. Jacob and longevity expert D…
7 months, 3 weeks ago
“ChatGPT is so mid”, or, Why AI Won’t Change the World
Season 1 Episode 310
Technological revolutions rarely unfold the way we imagine. From the steam engine to AI, each wave reshapes who creates value - and who gets left beh…
8 months ago
The Legality of Trump’s Tariffs and U.S. Trade Power
Season 1 Episode 309
As the Supreme Court takes up one of the most consequential trade cases in decades, former Biden administration official and Yale-trained lawyer Pete…
8 months, 1 week ago