May 1
How the Iran War is Accelerating the Decline of Empire (w/ Richard Wolff) | The Chris Hedges Report
The global economic impacts of the American-Israeli war on Iran are already being felt, particularly in Asia, through shortages of fuel and other necessities, the closure of factories and the loss of jobs. We are now on a path heading for a global recession, or even worse, a glob ... Show More
45m 51s
Apr 30
The Revolutionary Spirit of Iran (w/ Behrooz Ghamari) | The Chris Hedges Report
The United States, in its recent war on Iran, has completely misread the Iranian people and failed to recognize the deep revolutionary spirit that pervades Iranian culture. Rather than inciting Iranian people against their government, the US-Israeli war on Iran has united the pop ... Show More
50m 46s
Jul 2025
Revealing the Secret Architects of Capitalism, with Chris Hughes
<p>After the 2008 financial crisis, and especially after the COVID pandemic of 2020, an increasing number of Americans are questioning the wisdom of unregulated markets and envisioning a more active role for the state. Scholars have coined a panoply of neologisms to capture this ... Show More
49m 27s
Oct 2021
#275: Supply chains, government incompetence, Bitcoin, and Uranium with Kuppy
Join Marty as he sits down with Kuppy, Founder and CIO of Praetorian Capital and the man behind the Adventures in Capitalism blog, to discuss:
- Supply chain disaster
- Government incompetence
- What lies ahead
- Energy markets
- Bitcoin
- Why Kuppy is very bullish on Uranium
- m ... Show More
1h 2m
Aug 2025
Todd Mcgowan, "Pure Excess: Capitalism and the Commodity" (Columbia UP, 2024)
Todd McGowan forges a new theory of capitalism as a system based on the production of more than what we need: pure excess. He argues that the promise of more—more wealth, more enjoyment, more opportunity, without requiring any sacrifice—is the essence of capitalism. Previous soci ... Show More
1h 5m
Jul 2021
Will DAOs Break the Power of Venture Capitalists?
In addition to the deep dive into distributed autonomous organizations, or DAOs, and their future in venture capital, today’s “The Brief” covers:
Bitcoin futures trading approved for some Bank of America clients
Stablecoin discussions entering the upper echelons of U.S. gove ... Show More
17m 1s
Nov 2024
Nick Bernards, "Fictions of Financialization: Rethinking Speculation, Exploitation and Twenty-First Century Capitalism" (Pluto Press, 2024)
Since the global financial crisis that began in 2008, the role of the financial sector in contemporary capitalism has come under increasing scrutiny. In the global North, the expansion of the financial sector over the last 40 years has paralleled a decline in manufacturing employ ... Show More
1h 21m
Feb 2021
Episode 91, 'How to Save the World from Financialisation' with Grace Blakeley (Part II - A Green Future, Further Analysis and Discussion)
<p class="">'History has ended, and capitalism is the last man standing. The innovations and freedoms enjoyed by the Global North have shown that the free market is the only viable economic system; it is almost impossible to imagine a coherent alternative.'</p> <p class="">This w ... Show More
26m 59s
The year 2008 signaled to many the weak foundations of modern capitalism in the hands of the greedy, untethered financial sector—the “vampire squid” investment banks as journalist Matt Taibbi called them. Rising from the ashes of the crash, these banks used government money—”socialism for the bankers”—to enrich themselves and Big Business. This money never g ... Show More
