Inflation returns (kinda), what would James Joyce think?
Inflation is back. Don't panic....unless you bought Bitcoin in the past year. Inflation will abate as the policy and the economy adjust, but it may take a bit of time. Plus Bloomonomics - the economic...
14 Jun 202238min
Platinum Jubilee, Sordid Slavery
As the UK celebrates the Queen Elizabeth's Jubilee, we forget that monarchies have historically sat on top of an economic system with slaves, colonies and extractive settlements, the objective of whic...
9 Jun 202232min
What hairdressers and Lobster Thermidor tell us about the economy, employment and inflation
The economy is changing rapidly, we are seeing challenges everywhere, almost all have to do with an excess of demand and deficient supply. This is, in the context of the past hundred years economic hi...
7 Jun 202231min
Putin and the long game against the West
Last week president Zelensky addressed Davos asking the WEF to help Ukraine rebuild, we talk being at Davos, and why in many ways Davos Man has been involved with Russia long before the Ukraine war ca...
2 Jun 202244min
Brexiternity - the only way the Tories to stay in power
We focus on our closet neighbour the UK today as it turns its back on the metric system. Yes, true, you believe it? We explore why the Tories have to keep Brexit going. It's their only electoral meal ...
31 Mai 202235min
There's great dryin' in that wind!
Economics is energy and energy is economics. Imagine a country blessed with renewable energy, able to power itself and export electricity, faced with the opportunity to completely transform its econom...
26 Mai 202238min
A Global Perfect Storm
Markets are suffering from global contagion. Stock markets are down 22% this year. Bonds are tanking too. There are at least four if not five proximate reasons as the global economy heads towards coor...
24 Mai 202228min
Living with inflation, the story of Turkey
Today’s episode is going to be exploring the intersection between Turkey and inflation, a country that has been living for many years with what traditional metrics would call “out of control” inflatio...
19 Mai 202246min
