Omnibus (08-03-26).
Max and 99 are back again! They dive into headlines on school choice draining public education, a for-profit hospital disaster, young adults...
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20 of 436 episodesOn The Record (07-28-26).
This week we dug into the Maduro kidnapping as the entry point for something much bigger—the Cold War racism and corporate vengeance t...
Trump and the Black Jelly Bean Theory: CLOs Echo the MBS Fiasco from the GFC.
The New York Fed released a troubling report detailing the risk of Collateralized Loan Obligation (CLO) exposure in the insurance industry....
Omnibus (07-23-26).
Max and 99 are back for another round of Omnibus. They hit headlines on the Trump administration restricting visas for foreign journalists,...
Shitty: The Quest to Make Everything Terrible.
Everything is getting worse, but the country hasn't collapsed. This is all by design. Donald Trump is a useful idiot for the people behind t...
On The Record (07-21-26).
This week we went to see The Odyssey and came out thinking about Bronze Age collapse, because Nolan's Odysseus is haunted by the wreckage of...
On The Record (07-14-26).
This week we read the federal budget the way it's meant to be read: as a moral document. What it shows is individuals paying more, corporati...
Omnibus (07-11-26).
Max and 99 are back for another round of Omnibus. They hit headlines on the left's role in silencing Platner's accusers, the ICE shooting of...
The New Republicrats: Snakes of the Democratic Party.
Ten sitting house democrats and five candidates just signed the "Promise to America" pledge ensuring the public they are not socialists. It...
On The Record (07-07-26).
This week we asked whether 2026 is 2008 or something worse, and the answer is: different disease, same symptoms. The hiring freeze, the hous...
The Bear and the American Male Archetype: Carmen Shrugged.
The hit series The Bear has finally concluded. The final episode is so uplifting that most reviewers appear to believe the arc of the show's...
On The Record (6-30-26).
This week we mapped out how Wall Street has talked itself into a story it can't stress-test—Accenture getting punished whether AI succ...
Is Private Credit the Pin That Pops the Bubble?
Is private credit the pin that pops the market bubble? The short answer is no—but that's the wrong question entirely. Private credit i...
Omnibus (6-27-26).
Max and 99 are back, back, back again. They hit headlines on the Supreme Court shielding Roundup from cancer lawsuits, Stephen Miller quietl...
On The Record (6-23-26).
This week we said goodbye to Alan Greenspan, the man who spent two decades quietly rigging the economy for the wealthy, and encouraged worki...
We Lost More Than This War: Iran Ascendant.
Trump lost more than the war with Iran. U.S. media tends to look at things through a bilateral or ethnocentric lens of winners and losers. T...
Omnibus (6-20-26).
Your host pals Max and 99 are back for another round of Omnibus! They hit headlines on AI as a political problem dressed up as a spiritual o...
On The Record (6-16-26).
This week we took a detour into the joy of the Knicks championship and what it says about New York, collective identity, and why Zohran Mamd...
Omnibus (6-13-26).
Max and 99 are here for another round of Omnibus. They hit headlines on Jared Kushner's foreign entanglements, the screwworm outbreak threat...
Demand Destruction and the “Resilience Paradox.”
Donald Trump has already destroyed much of the global economy, but the worst has yet to hit the United States. This "resilience paradox" is...