Episodi

  • The Death of the American Dream

    The Death of the American Dream
    Jul 2 2026

    SpaceX just IPO'd, surged, and torched billions of small investors. It's the new American economy. From prediction markets to crypto to day-trading teens, we look at how the US quietly turned itself into the world's biggest casino, and why young Americans are gambling because they've given up on working.


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    33 min
  • The Man Who Broke the Global Economy

    The Man Who Broke the Global Economy
    Jun 30 2026

    Alan Greenspan just died at 100, and he might be the most consequential person of the last 30 years that nobody talks about. We unpack the wild story of the jazz clarinettist turned Fed chairman, the Ayn Rand cult he came from, the "Greenspan Put" that quietly rigged Wall Street, and why his fingerprints are all over Ireland's 2008 crash. Plus a strange historical twist: was Alan Greenspan related to the Jewish teenager whose shooting triggered Kristallnacht?



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    42 min
  • Why Did Brazil Never Make It?

    Why Did Brazil Never Make It?
    Jun 24 2026
    The country of the future has been stuck in the future for 100 years. We dig into Brazil's wild economic story; slavery, the secret "whitening" immigration policy that sent millions of Italians south, and why Brazilian football carries the weight of a whole nation's identity.

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    35 min
  • The EU Is Cracking

    The EU Is Cracking
    Jun 23 2026
    Europe just got overtaken, and it knows it. From a bar in Brussels, we unpack the ancient fault line tearing the EU apart, why China's rise has spooked the continent more than anyone admits, and why the "European way of life" might already be slipping away.

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    40 min
  • World Cup Series: Haiti

    World Cup Series: Haiti
    Jun 18 2026
    Haiti just qualified for its first World Cup in 50 years, and they come from the poorest country in the Americas, a place where gangs run the capital and the average person earns $45 a month. We trace how the world's first successful slave revolution ended up here: French gunboats, a 120-year debt, ecological collapse, and an island where one half (the Dominican Republic) is racing ahead while the other is forgotten.

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    44 min
  • Could Canada Have A Brexit Moment?

    Could Canada Have A Brexit Moment?
    Jun 16 2026
    Mark Carney is being hailed as the new leader of the free world. While he's facing down Trump abroad, his real headache is at home, Alberta, Canada's Texas, is gearing up for a referendum that could split the country in two.

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    43 min
  • Inside the World Cup's Narco State

    Inside the World Cup's Narco State
    Jun 11 2026
    We head down Mexico way to unpack the country hosting the World Cup, a $1.8 trillion economy living side by side with one of the most powerful criminal networks on earth. Drugs, guns, avocados, and the politics tying Trump and Sheinbaum together whether they like it or not.

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    41 min
  • Why Social Democracies Win World Cups

    Why Social Democracies Win World Cups
    Jun 9 2026
    The FT's Simon Kuper joins us to kick off our World Cup series, on why tiny social democracies keep producing the best football teams, why FIFA is laundering reputations for dictators, and why this tournament will say more about geopolitics than any leaders' summit this year.

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    41 min