ACFM Microdose: Making Sense of Sovereign Debt w/ Heidi Chow
After last week’s ACFM on the meaning and morality of personal debt, Keir and Nadia zoom out to the macroeconomics of debt. Joining them to make sense of concepts like sovereign debt, structural adjus...
2 Feb 20251h 9min
Novara FM: Time for a New Left Party? w/ Oliver Eagleton, Rachel Godfrey Wood and Joe Todd
It’s been five long years since the decisive defeat of Corbynism at the ballot box. How, if at all, should the left reconstitute itself? Should everyone join the Greens? Or do we just need Mick Lynch ...
30 Jan 20251h 36min
Downstream: Everything They Tell You About the Economy Is Wrong w/ Gary Stevenson
Fourteen years ago Gary Stevenson was one of Citibank’s best performing traders. The bet that brought him success was one few foresaw: that despite record low interest rates, Britain’s economy would s...
27 Jan 20251h 36min
ACFM Trip 49: Debt
The concept of debt is as slippery as it is powerful. In this Trip episode, Keir, Nadia and Jem explain why debt is more like a belief than a calculation, and wonder how to imagine a society without i...
26 Jan 20251h 51min
Novara FM: What Will ‘Technoking’ Elon Musk Do in the White House? w/ Quinn Slobodian
Elon Musk is the most symptomatic capitalist of our era: obsessed with publicity, by many accounts a fanatical workaholic, and increasingly in bed with the far right. But how did he go from Obama-era ...
23 Jan 20251h 14min
Downstream: Who’s Behind the Institute of Economic Affairs? w/ Kristian Niemietz
The Institute of Economic Affairs is one of the most powerful and secretive think tanks in the UK, known for promoting free-market Thatcherism as a solution to all of our economic woes. Who’s behind i...
21 Jan 20251h 23min
Downstream: Woke Capitalism Just Collapsed. Here’s Why w/ Brett Christophers
Donald Trump is the next president. Meta, Walmart and McDonald’s have forsaken their diversity policies. Elon Musk is demanding that Keir Starmer be removed as PM. Why is this all happening at the sam...
16 Jan 20251h 29min
ACFM Microdose: The Communist Manifesto
The ACFM gang gather for a midwinter reading of one of the most influential political tracts ever written. Download a version online and follow along as Nadia, Keir and Jem reassess The Communist Mani...
3 Jan 20251h 31min
