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Unknown Host hosts Unf*cking The Republic, a news show with 413 episodes published.
This week we made the case that AI breaks a fundamental economic law: the bigger it gets, the more expensive it is to run, which is the exact opposite of how transformative technologies are supposed to work. The IPO trio
Show notesMax and 99 return to close out the month with another Omnibus. They hit headlines on the Jacobin AI debate, U.S. complicity in the flotilla torture, and USDA plans, then tackle listener emails on financial repression, mo
Show notesThis week we looked at the AI capital black hole—three companies with a combined $3 trillion in prospective market cap preparing to go public while public R&D budgets get gutted and the rest of the economy gets starved o
Show notesMax and 99 are back, again! They hit headlines on Cuba, prediction markets, AI getting booed at graduations, and James Murdoch. Then they tackle listener corrections, emails on data centers and why Americans cling to emp
Show notesThe charges against Raúl Castro are the pretext for another invasion into a neighboring country in Latin America. Our sick paternalistic attitude toward the LAC region is a cancer on the world, and it’s clearly not in ou
Show notesThe Trump family crypto grift moved into high gear by clearing an important legislative hurdle this week. The CLARITY Act officially moved out of committee and now goes to the Agriculture Committee before being paired wi
Show notesThis week we dug into the Treasury’s TIC data—the report nobody reads but everybody should—which shows central banks quietly stepping back from U.S. debt while private money fills the gap. That’s a problem when you’re ca
Show notesInflation figures came out this week and they were absolutely brutal. April CPI was startling enough, but the Producer Price Index (PPI), which is an indicator of inflation in the pipeline was shocking. Oil reserves are
Show notesEconomics is too often weaponized by jargon. High concept terms of art to explain basic behaviors or circumstances that should otherwise be accessible. Socioeconomics takes the math off the page and puts it into a human
Show notesMax and 99 are back for another episode of Omnibus. They hit headlines on vitamin K refusal, abortion pill access hanging by a thread, Germany asking Israel for jet fuel, and a robotic companion with AI surveillance buil
Show notesJavier Milei is brash and audacious, and he loves Donald Trump. But in many ways Donald Trump is the one who is following Milei. Argentina has an 18 month head start on Russell Vought’s wet dream of implementing a harsh
Show notesThis week we took a hard look at Canada’s Mark Carney. Competent, well-spoken, yet quietly running a neoliberal playbook. Then we checked Trump’s approval numbers, where even Republicans are starting to feel the gas pric
Show notesMax and 99 are back for another round of Omnibus. They hit headlines on Google selling AI to the Pentagon, Sergey Brin’s rightward shift, military impact on marine life in the Strait of Hormuz + more. Then they tackle li
Show notesThis week we zoomed out to take stock of the greatest financial heist in recorded history. Sixteen years of bailouts, money printing, and acronym soup that kept corporate America whole while the rest of us fell further b
Show notesMax and 99 are back! They hit headlines on constitutional war powers, Tucker Carlson turning on Trump, digital life preservation, and Anthropic’s dangerous AI model, then tackle listener emails on identity politics, econ
Show notesThis week’s On the Record covers how Donald Trump is killing our collective brain cells. We’re giving flowers to Brittany Page of the Page Perspective, talking about an aspect of the looming private credit crisis that fi
Show notesThis edition of On The Record highlights Amy Goodman of Democracy Now and Mike Figueredo of the Humanist Report. Max Notes digs into the economic weeds to make sense of how the war in Iran is going to shake out. Plus: Ch
Show notesMax and 99 are back for another episode of Omnibus. They break down why the 25th Amendment won’t work, hit headlines on climate math, vigilantes, and Trump’s Diet Coke cancer theory. Then they tackle listener emails on T
Show notesIt’s week two of the Spring Fund, Friend and Hell Raiser (become a yearly member by 4/30/26 and get an exclusive UNFTR hat)! Max and 99 dive into the Iran crisis, breaking down the impossible logistics of war and the abs
Show notesLeaders far smarter and more capable than Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth have started foreign wars that turned to quagmires. So in this regard they are not special. What’s different this time around is that incompetence p
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