108 - How to fix the housing market
Public housing should be addressed with the same urgency as public health. If we can close down the economy, borrow billions, furlough millions and stop the world in the name of public health, we shou...
9 Feb 202135min
107 - Wall Street and the Short Selling Revolution Part 2
We take another look at the "day-trading" insurrectionists to examine who is actually in control, what human emotions are unleashed by the markets and what it all means for politics and economics. We ...
4 Feb 202137min
106 - Wall Street, Game Stop and the Short Squeeze Revolutionaries!
Something unusual is happening in the stock market: the little guy - or in this case, guys - are beating up the big multi-billionaire hedge-fund managers. This is in stark contrast to the usual market...
2 Feb 202147min
105 - The Rentier Economy
Ireland, like many economies is hostage to the rentiers, companies that sidle up to governments to get a licence to provide some product or service that the government used to provide. This is a licen...
28 Jan 202130min
104 - Doughnut Economics
The arrival of Joe Biden has led to a profound change in tone, with America quickly re-signing back up to the Paris Accord. The planet is back on the agenda and the mantra of growth at all costs irres...
26 Jan 202151min
103 - Doc Martins, the financialization of the global economy, IPO's, inequality and Joe Biden's political agenda
We explain by way of the SFX and Doc Martins how financial markets create inequality. Late stage financial capitalism generates super normal profits for owners of capital and debt by way of IPOs, and ...
21 Jan 202128min
102 - The last day of Trump
Trump is gone but what next for Trumpism? The saga is far from over. While the armed Boogaloo boys are mobilizing across the United States we talk with Professor William Black to get a thorough unders...
19 Jan 202146min
101 - How to end this Lockdown for good!
We still have time to do a New Zealand, with the vaccine roll out going so slowly, can we do a Taiwan and be out and about my St Patrick's Day? We talk zero Covid with Prof Aoife McLyset: How we can a...
14 Jan 202140min
