Can the unions win? w/ Polly Smythe
Polly Smythe, the labour movement correspondent for Novara Media joins PTO to talk about how strikes achieve their aims and the importance - or otherwise - of public support. We also discussed the new...
20 Jan 202341min
Macrodose - Davos, US in debt, and deadly heatwaves
On this week’s episode of Macrodose, James Meadway breaks down talk of a “poly crisis” at the World Economic Forum in Davos (00:50), the threat of default as the US breaches it’s debt ceiling (06:03),...
18 Jan 202319min
2023 Crisis is the new normal w/ James Meadway
James Meadway returns to discuss his predictions for the world economy in the year ahead, and why the notion of the polycrisis - while in some ways useful - fails to reckon with the fact that in a wo...
10 Jan 202347min
Macrodose - China’s downturn, Blackrock’s predictions and the struggling tech billionaires
In the latest episode of MACRODOSE, James Meadway breaks down a new IMF forecast that predicts China’s economic downturn, a set of predictions for our economic future from multinational asset manager ...
4 Jan 202317min
Excerpt - What happened to China's new Tiananmen moment? w/ Jane Hayward
Jane Hayward returns to PTO to discuss the situation in China following the scaling back of the zero-covid measures and the resulting decline in public protests. We talked about the apparent scale of ...
23 Dec 20222min
Macrodose - The economics of inactivity, covid contracts and Japan’s policy twist
On this week’s MACRODOSE James Meadway takes a look at a new House of Lord’s report on economic inactivity (0:52s), the financial waste of covid contracts (7:03) and an unexpected move by Japan’s cent...
21 Dec 202216min
Interregnum - Britain unravelling
Richard Seymour discusses Britain's fraying public infrastructure and the wave of strikes that are taking place, including the first ever nationwide strike by NHS nurses. We chatted about the extent t...
17 Dec 202240min
Macrodose - Public pay, bankers' bonuses, and who benefits from interest rate hikes?
On this week’s episode James Meadway breaks down the public sector pay dispute (0.50s), Sunak’s move to further deregulate finance (8:27), and the interest rate hikes by central banks (14:10)
14 Dec 202219min
