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Ep 220 - Left of Boom with Bill Black
Episode 220
It’s been two years since Bill Black was last on with Steve. We’ve invited several guests to talk about the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank, so it on…
3 years, 3 months ago
Ep 219 - Nicaragua with Dan Kovalik
Episode 219
Author Dan Kovalik talks to Steve about his recent book, Nicaragua: A History of US Intervention and Resistance. His perspective includes his own exp…
3 years, 3 months ago
Ep 218 - Beware! the Counter-Revolution with C. Derick Varn
Episode 218
C. Derick Varn is a poet, teacher, and “arm-chair theorist” (his words, not ours), but Steve called on him for his deep knowledge of history, specifi…
3 years, 3 months ago
Ep 217 - Bank Failures 101 with Brian Romanchuk
Episode 217
When you learned of the run on Silicon Valley Bank, did the image of George Bailey come to mind, facing the mob demanding full withdrawals from Baile…
3 years, 4 months ago
Payments and Panopticism with Raúl Carrillo
Episode 216
Steve always says the beauty of MMT is “it takes the most convoluted spaghetti diagram and turns it into a straight line.” When it comes to banking, …
3 years, 4 months ago
The Misery of Austerity with David Fields
Episode 215
Austerity is a potent weapon of class warfare. Political economist David Fields talks with Steve about the ways austerity serves to discipline labor,…
3 years, 4 months ago
Surfing the Wayback Machine: 2017 with Fadhel Kaboub
Episode 214
Dr. Fadhel Kaboub was recently appointed Under-Secretary-General for Financing for Development of the Organisation of Educational Cooperation (OEC), …
3 years, 4 months ago
The Four Freedoms with Harvey J. Kaye
Episode 213
Historian Harvey J. Kaye joins Steve to talk about the complicated legacy of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Kaye acknowledges many points in our criticis…
3 years, 5 months ago
Ep 212 - A South American Currency Union? with Daniel Conceição
Episode 212
Recent episodes of this podcast have looked at the many ways in which the US attempts to maintain global hegemony through the deep state, the banking…
3 years, 5 months ago
The Myth of Venture Capital with Julia Ott
Episode 211
We revere venture capitalists, don’t we? Without their brave acts of derring-do — AKA investing in uncertain ventures — how would society achieve pro…
3 years, 5 months ago