Podcast Episodes

Moon Age Daydream, Iran So Far Away, The Empire Strikes Back

Season 1 Episode 121

Gold is going to the moooooooon. Fantastic news for gold bugs. Until someone works out that this is a short against America, and the Wall Street types celebrating are effectively blowing the kazoo fo…

Published on 7 months, 3 weeks ago

Special Edition: Bretton Woods 3

Season 1 Episode 120

This week, in a special experiment, we've gone live on Twitter Spaces.

As Trump's tariffs bite, and the current account deficit zooms to the front of modern political economy, we're revisiting the i…

Published on 7 months, 4 weeks ago

Special Edition: Tariffs!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Season 1 Episode 119

This week we scrubbed the decks and sounded the five bell alarm.

Donald Trump had only gone and done it. Tariffs. Thousands of them.

What could the greatest regression from the norms of globalisation…

Published on 8 months ago

Special Edition: The Coming Bear Market and Fortress Europe

Season 1 Episode 118

Coming up this week: an audio essays special edition. 

Philip and Andrew, going head to head, a half hour each, on two big stories that have a more medium-term feel than the usual weekly news pegs. 

In…

Published on 8 months, 1 week ago

Premium Edition Teaser: Jeffrey Has Entered the Chat Man-Who-Kuo?, Fight for Your Reich to Party

Season 1 Episode 117

Was the editor of the Atlantic actually accidentally included in some rangy groupchat among bros that included a denunciation of European defence policy? 

Are you stupid? Have you recently had an aneu…

Published on 8 months, 2 weeks ago

Punching Right, School of Hardware Knocks, The Trump Put

Season 1 Episode 116

The British right is starting to fracture on the Ukraine issue. Where once they would reliably be called upon to paint themselves blue and yellow and raise a whip-round down the dog & duck    for mor…

Published on 8 months, 3 weeks ago

Nasty NASDAQ, Of Euro-Bondage, Syria Seems to Be The Hardest Word

Season 1 Episode 115

Tesla is tanking. On the NASDAQ, the Magnificent 7 have become merely the 7. The talk is all of quarterly earnings in Musk towers. But is this just a smokescreen for the fact that DeepSeek has DeepFo…

Published on 9 months ago

Special Edition: Zelensky Takes A Direct Strike, The Steel Porcupine, RIP Collingwood

Season 1 Episode 114

As the world blows up, again, Andrew Collingwood has a dread cold.

Gavin Haynes fills in as best he can, with a soft Newcastle brogue.

We cover everything - from the rumble in the White House to the …

Published on 9 months, 1 week ago

Premium Edition: Kaiser Friedrich IV and Trumpian Grand Strategy

Season 1 Episode 113

In Germany, there’s been an election.

And The Reichstag is on fire - with a new cohort of AfD members . 

Will Keiser Merz see this as his opportunity to seize total control? 

After all, on Saturday, the…

Published on 9 months, 2 weeks ago

Special Edition: Munich!

Season 1 Episode 112

A piece of our time: a special edition covering the Vance speech, the Ukraine peace plan, and the EU response.

Published on 9 months, 3 weeks ago