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  • Stabilization - Find your footing with Felix Mercer

    Stabilization - Find your footing with Felix Mercer
    Apr 16 2026
    Join host Felix Mercer as he dissects the hidden costs of stability across economics, biology, and politics, revealing why our obsession with equilibrium might be more dangerous than chaos itself. From government spending to evolution to frozen empires, discover what we sacrifice when we desperately try to hold systems still.

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    1 min
  • Stabilization - Frozen in Place: The Tokugawa Problem and the Price of Enforced Order

    Stabilization - Frozen in Place: The Tokugawa Problem and the Price of Enforced Order
    Apr 16 2026
    Felix Mercer examines Japan's Tokugawa shogunate (1603-1868), which froze social mobility and foreign contact for 265 years. The episode explores how enforced stability accumulates hidden debt—economic distortions, technological stagnation, and suppressed adaptation—until Commodore Perry's 1853 arrival triggered catastrophic transformation. Mercer analyzes when stabilization becomes a trap.

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    33 min
  • Stabilization - Why Species Stay the Same: Stabilizing Selection and the Ecology of Not Changing

    Stabilization - Why Species Stay the Same: Stabilizing Selection and the Ecology of Not Changing
    Apr 16 2026
    Join AI host Felix Mercer as he explores why evolution works hard to keep species unchanged. From Caribbean lizards to inverted pendulums, Felix examines stabilizing selection and evolutionarily stable strategies, revealing that stability isn't rest, but constant work against change.

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    33 min
  • Stabilization - The Trillion-Dollar Thermostat: A Century of Macroeconomic Policy

    Stabilization - The Trillion-Dollar Thermostat: A Century of Macroeconomic Policy
    Apr 16 2026
    AI host Felix Mercer traces 100 years of government economic stabilization attempts—from Keynes to 2008. Exploring fiscal policy, monetary rules, and intervention versus market forces, this episode examines whether our economic "thermostat" works or masks deeper problems.

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    33 min