58. Suez Canal /// Imperialist Infrastructure (ft. Laleh Khalili)
Okay, so the big boat is no longer blocking the Suez Canal. But that doesn’t mean we can go back to ignoring the global networks of capitalism and colonialism that make our world run. Laleh Khalili – ...
6 Apr 20211h 14min
57. The Arbiters of Asset Allocation (patreon teaser)
Premium – 57. The Arbiters of Asset Allocation We pick back up on our discussion of market indices and index providers, honing in on the close relationship they have with asset managers, how they exer...
3 Apr 20216min
56. The Kingmakers of Finance
This week’s episodes are part of our ongoing, irregular series where we dive into the deepest, darkest crevices of how financial and technological capital operates today. In a sequel to our episodes o...
31 Mar 20211h 15min
55. Journey into the Absurd (patreon teaser)
cw: we discuss school shootings and sexual assault in the second half of this episode. Cold open: We need to talk about AI ethics (H&M): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0x0zsVlp30 Sometimes you ju...
27 Mar 20219min
54. Shooting for the Stars (ft. Aaron Thorpe)
The great Aaron Thorpe — co-host of Trillbillies, host of A Time of Monsters, the poster formerly known as posadist_trapgd — joins us for an extremely fun episode as we riff about why aliens would be ...
24 Mar 20211h 13min
53. Necropolitics of the Techno-Fix (patreon teaser)
We go in on the dangerous obsession that billionaires like Bill Gates have with framing the most existential risks in society, from public health to climate catastrophe, as problems of market failure ...
20 Mar 20217min
52. Pharma Profiteers, Vaccine Apartheid
It’s time for a TMK fact check: coronavirus vaccine edition. We give five out of five pinocchios to the claim that Big Pharma won’t profit hand over fist from the production of vaccines. Five pinocchi...
17 Mar 20211h 26min
51. Clover the Big Red Flag (patreon teaser)
Cold open: CNBC turns on Chamath and Clover: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRWnxUsyVDg We pick back up on the story of Clover Health—which is sure to be a business school case study of investors b...
13 Mar 20216min
