Podcast Episodes

The Tip of a Peninsula with a Bunch of Crazy People

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Season 1 Episode 6

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Marko unloads on the myth that austerity worked in Greece, calling out lazy linear thinking, Eurozone nerds with Excel models, and Paul Krugman’s fantasy economics. He explains how Greece’s turnaroun…

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Published on 5 months, 3 weeks ago

Let Them Drink Bleach

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Season 1 Episode 5

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Trump's tariff chaos isn’t strategy - it’s a policy car crash in slow motion. Jacob Shapiro and Marko Papic walk listeners through how we got here: tariffs based on 6th grade math, no off-ramps, and …

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Published on 6 months ago

Riding on the Hog of a Fiscal Orgy

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Season 1 Episode 4

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Jacob and Marko convene an emergency episode to discuss Liberation Day. Afterwards, they speak to fellow cousin Matt Gertken about President Trump’s comments that he might serve a third presidential …

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Published on 6 months ago

Get Off Our Lawn!

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Season 1 Episode 3

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Jacob and Marko make a cousins episode happen even as Jacob is moving into a new office and Marko is on the road – at one point he was literally recording from a bathroom at a hotel in Fort Lauderdal…

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Published on 6 months, 1 week ago

Will the U.S. go to War with Iran?

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Season 1 Episode 2

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Jacob and Marko run down the most important issues of the week: Will the U.S. go to war with Iran? Why did President Erdogan arrest his top rival? Is Indonesia helping or hurting itself by courting i…

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Published on 6 months, 2 weeks ago

F*cking Around and Finding Out

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Season 1 Episode 1

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The inaugural episode of the Geopolitical Cousins podcast sees Marko and Jacob wax philosophical about net assessments, debate where the Trump administration thinks the world is multipolar, and inter…

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Published on 6 months, 3 weeks ago