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Macro N Cheese

Steven D Grumbine

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A podcast that critically examines the working-class struggle through the lens of MMT or Modern Monetary Theory. Host Steve Grumbine, founder of Real Progressives, provides incisive political commentary and showcases grassroots activism. Join us for a robust, unfiltered exploration of economic issues that impact the working class, as we challenge the status quo and prioritize collective well-being over profit. This is comfort food for the mind, fueling our fight for justice and equity!
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The MMT Podcast offers economic analysis on current issues from a Modern Monetary Theory perspective. Aimed at anyone who has ever felt lost in the jargon used by mainstream economics commentators. We believe economics is for everyone. You can help sustain this podcast via Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/MMTpodcast
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Money on the Left

Money on the Left

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Money on the Left is a monthly, interdisciplinary podcast that reclaims money’s public powers for intersectional politics. Staging critical conversations with leading historians, theorists, organizers, and activists, the show draws upon Modern Monetary Theory and constitutional approaches to money to advance new forms of left critique and practice. It is hosted by William Saas and Scott Ferguson and presented in partnership with Monthly Review magazine. Check out our website: https://moneyon ...
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Call Me Limbo is your weekly dose of comedic therapy where pop culture and politics get tossed in a blender with personal stories, improv games, and zero chill. Hosted by Dai and David—two queer best friends with more opinions than filter—the show tackles everything from reality TV and music videos to capitalist hellscapes and Bad Bunny’s underwear. It’s entertainment with a little revolution on the side. Sometimes you’ll laugh until you cry. Sometimes you’ll cry until you’re organizing a un ...
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Hopping Mad with Will McLeod & Arliss Bunny

Will McLeod & Arliss Bunny

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Progressive politics and economics. Will covers political issues from around the world and Arliss does the same for financial news and monetary policy with special emphasis on modern monetary theory. Each week they are joined by a special guest for the interview. Both Will and Arliss are fond of carrots.
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Is bitcoin a macro asset? Over the course of 2019, there has been growing focus on the role of bitcoin in the larger global economy. Is it becoming a safe haven asset, akin to digital gold? Is it something even larger - a generational hedge against the rise of modern monetary theory? This pop-up podcast, produced in conjunction with CoinDesk's Invest: NYC conference, talks to some of the markets leading thinkers to explore bitcoin in the macro economic context. To hear more from these speake ...
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Join us for a series of insightful and thought-provoking discussions led by technologist and thought leader Chris Westland. In these conversations, Chris tackles a broad spectrum of contemporary technological issues, offering expert analysis on the rapid advancements that are reshaping industries, economies, and society at large. From artificial intelligence to blockchain, cybersecurity, and the ethical dilemmas posed by emerging technologies, Chris Westland brings a scholarly yet accessible ...
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I am Liam Kelly—owner and editor of The Weekly Input. I am writing this bio in an attempt to give you some background on this podcast and myself. The Weekly Input is a podcast centered around three main areas of study: politics, economics, and big questions/events affecting the world. I feel it is my duty to hold those who represent the American people accountable, and to offer honest feedback on world events. Modern America is a polarized place, not because we hate each other, but because w ...
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The Supply Side

Jonathan Doyle

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The Supply Side Podcast is for everyone who believes economies flourish when people produce goods and services that other people actually want. We talk low taxes, stable money, entrepreneurship and business development with the best thinkers on banking, investment and markets in the world. We prepare you for what happens when the bubbles finally pop.
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Sunday Letters

Larry G. Maguire | Psychologist

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The Sunday Letters Podcast is the weekly audio newsletter on the meaning & purpose of daily work from work and business psychologist Larry Maguire and philosopher Dmitri Belikov. We explore how human beings may break free from tiresome means-to-an-end labour and take command of their own working lives. Topics include daily work, jobs and careers, self-employment, socialism, capitalism, economics, slavery, colonialism, and society & culture. Content follows the written newsletter, which goes ...
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**Be sure to subscribe to our Substack. It costs you nothing to have all our new content delivered to straight to your inbox! https://realprogressives.substack.com/ Remember Labour's stunning defeat in the 2019 UK general election? When, under Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership, they won the lowest number of seats since 1935? Steve’s guest, Chris Williamso…
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This week, Dai and David eat secret sauce, decline the cheese, get called buddy, attend music festivals across the country, walk in the rainbow crosswalk, have their blood searched with a warrant, out homophobic and conservative lawmakers using Grindr, explain budgeting and cost controls, discuss the ending of three Salvation Army contracts in Denv…
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Our friend, physicist and economist Erald Kolasi, stops by the Macro N Cheese clubhouse to talk with Steve about the profound effects of AI on the energy grid, water resources, and societal infrastructure. The discussion focuses primarily on large-scale corporate AI, such as generative AI. Erald’s work bridges physics, economics, and ecology, revea…
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This week, Dai and David speak in gay voice (or just an Australian accent?), see the mountains for the first time, define tsunami, take the temperature of the ocean, ignore straight people, debate tornadoes vs. hurricanes, drive in the snow and ice, protect civil liberties, discuss the attempts to repeal same-sex marriage at the Supreme Court, and …
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**Our weekly online gathering, Macro ‘n Chill is the perfect place to discuss this week’s episode, especially since it includes terminology you might not be familiar with. Or there may be someone who needs your help understanding it. Community-buidling on Tuesday, August 12 at 8pm ET/5pm PT. Use this link to register What do you know about blockcha…
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This week, Dai and David fight the War of Northern Aggression, love whatever is wrong with you, bring back critical thinking, find love at a LaRussell concert in Chicago, get called "boss", start a Super PAC, take a collective breath, schedule car maintenance with an AI receptionist, (figuratively) push Trump off the roof of the White House, share …
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Patricia and Christian talk to Dr Phil Armstrong about recent events in the world of government budgeting, and the upcoming Anti-Austerity Conference on September 12th-13th. Full conversation here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/135071185?pr=true&cr=true Please help sustain this podcast! Patrons get early access to all episodes and patron-only episo…
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Charles Derber, a sociology professor at Boston College, talks with Steve about his book, 'Bonfire: American Sociocide, Broken Relations and the Quest for Democracy.' Steve suggests the book aligns with his own assessment that US sociocide (social disintegration) demands revolutionary change. Electoral politics are a distraction and a dead end. The…
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We speak with Vijay Raghavan, Professor of Law at the Brooklyn Law School, about his recent article, “The Radical Potential of Consumer Financial Protection,” published in Boston College Law Review in April 2025. Raghavan builds on the work of constitutional money theorists, as well as his legal experience in the public sector. In particular, he ar…
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This week, Dai and David commemorate 125 episodes, settle the barbershop singing debate, celebrate the Destiny's Child reunion, request gift cards to the electric company, buy bootleg parking lot t-shirts, get recognized in public, give a land acknowledgement, poop on the clock, cry beautifully on air, promote themselves on Grindr, eat warm cookies…
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If we had the power to design our own political system, what would it look like? Stanford Professor James Fishkin talks with Steve about deliberative democracy, a method that brings together diverse, representative groups to weigh policy trade-offs in a fact-based, civil environment. He maintains that when people get the chance to discuss issues in…
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This week, Dai and David tend to their joint pain, give a birthday recap, share therapist wisdom, draw an oracle card, shimmy shake, get really good at shadow work, enter their twink era, and discuss Denver Mayor Mike Johnston's 2025 State of the City Address, Laverne Cox previously dating a MAGA police officer, Trisha Paytas's new baby, and much m…
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Dr. Charles LeBaron is a retired CDC scientist and the author of Greed to Do Good: The Untold Story of CDC's Disastrous War on Opioids. He talks with Steve about the ill-considered response to the opioid crisis and the tragic and preventable consequences of the CDC’s 2016 guidelines. Restricting prescriptions without providing treatment (whether fo…
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This week, Dai and David play their new favorite game called "Who Wants To Guillotine A Billionaire?!" They also discuss their favorite candies, digital price tags, the penny being discontinued, quarter hoarding, banking, the ongoing Target boycott, the final dimension of hell that is Walmart, coupons, paid sick leave, swallowing pills, Big Chocola…
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**You’re invited to join us Tuesday evening for Macro ‘n Chill, an online gathering where we can listen to and talk about this episode. Tuesday July 15, 8pm ET/5 pm PT Click here to register This week we're releasing an interview Steve did as a guest of Jim Byrne, host of MMT101 podcast. Steve and Jim have much in common, so it’s interesting to hea…
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This week, Dai and David take a Jet2 holiday, make out with a ferris wheel, lock down their digital identities, namedrop a lot of people, recover from food poisoning, discuss artificial intelligence (AI) in human resources, AI for dating and romance, and AI as surveillance, and much much more. They also answer a listener question about car insuranc…
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**Tuesday evenings, we host an online listening party, Macro ‘n Chill, to discuss the current episode. It’s a great way to get to know other members of the community and talk about the ideas expressed in the podcast. Join us this Tuesday, July 8th, at 8 pm ET/5 pm PT Click HERE to register Scott Ferguson and Ben Wilson of the Money on the Left coll…
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In this special episode, Rob Hawkes joins Scott Ferguson and Will Beaman to discuss his new article “(Un)conditional Openness: Towards a Neochartalist Theory of Money and Trust,” which was recently published in Money on the Left: History, Theory, Practice. The conversation traces the development of Rob’s long-standing interest in theories of trust …
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This week, Dai and David chat about Pride, meeting famous people, harassing the mayor, Zohran Mamdani's New York City Democratic Party Mayoral Primary victory, the Do Nothing Democrats, Trump's Big Beautiful Bill, Medicaid cuts (proposed and historical), ICE funding, AI regulations, the American Dream, Alligator Alcatraz, and much much more! Celebr…
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Heterodox economist Jamee K. Moudud returns to Money on the Left to discuss his new book, Legal and Political Foundations of Capitalism: The End of Laissez-Faire? (Routledge, 2025). The phrase “institutions matter” is a common refrain among economists, including many who have proposed progressive alternatives to free market fundamentalism. For Moud…
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Part of our mission is to introduce MMTers to socialism and socialists to MMT. We’ve had a few metaphorical doors slammed in our faces along the way. Former friends from the MMT community now delight in slinging accusations worthy of a HUAC hearing, while some socialists suspect modern monetary theory is just a sideshow of bourgeois economics. So, …
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This week, Dai and David are joined by Nick/Nicole Castro, a non-monogamy and kink expert who founded New Worlds Together. The threesome chat about Liberated Relationships, desires, chosen family, capitalism, consumption, asexuality, aromanticism, porn R&D, fisting, flogging, chosen family, safety, consent, love, and much much more! Send a shirtles…
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In honor of the 50th anniversary of JAWS (1975), we are proud to publish a 2020 lecture about Steven Spielberg's film by Scott Ferguson. Far from a simple celebration, the lecture critically situates JAWS as the first genuine New Hollywood blockbuster and the originator of a distinctly neoliberal aesthetic that would come to dominate Hollywood for …
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If civilizations are judged by how they care for their elderly, our report card is already written. Should there be anyone left to judge us – should humanity exist long enough to judge us – we’ve flunked. Steve’s guest is Judy Karofsky, author of 'DisElderly Conduct: The Flawed Business of Assisted Living and Hospice,' who provides a critical exami…
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This week, Dai and David are joined by Sunkee Angel. Sunkee is someone who doesn’t just break the mold—she melts it down and builds something glittering and divine from the ashes. She’s a performer, a truth-teller, a trans icon — and honestly? A walking clapback to every hater who ever said we couldn’t live boldly. From the pews of a Southern churc…
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Christian talks to Professor Jakob Feinig about how right-wing politics is bolstered by the myth that humans are part of a mechanism they can neither understand nor change - The Market - and the efforts to further its mystification, known as “monetary silencing”. Please help sustain this podcast! Patrons get early access to all episodes and patron-…
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In this bonus episode, Dai and David talk about their experiences at their respective No Kings Protests held on Saturday, June 14, 2025. They talk about the purpose of protests, solidarity, electoralism, social capital, and much much more. Correction: Minnesota does not have universal pre-k. Support the show Sign Up for Our Substack Patreon, Venmo,…
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**On Tuesday evening, C. Derick Varn will join us AGAIN for Macro ‘n Chill, our weekly community gathering. While listening to this episode, we will have the opportunity to ask questions and engage in discussion about Part Two. June 17th, 8 pm ET/5 pm PT Click HERE to register The second half of Steve’s conversation with Derick Varn goes into the h…
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