(Mis)Anthropic: The Math Ain’t Mathing So Good.
Reuters "leaked" information from the forthcoming Anthropic prospectus and the numbers were pretty brutal. But that isn't stopping all of Wa...
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Unf*cking The Republic (UNFTR) is a series of audio essays on the grand American experiment lovingly curated and presented by a quasi-anonymous political writer. Each essay reflects on a sin...
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20 of 469 episodesOn The Record (10-20-26).
This week we went deep on the structural argument that should underpin everything else—disaster privilege, capitalism as the constant,...
Omnibus (10-18-26).
Max and 99 are back for another round of Omnibus. They cover headlines on the SSI asset trap keeping 7.5 million Americans in poverty and th...
Why We’re Still Living in Milton Friedman’s Neoliberal World.
More than 20 years after his death, we're still living in the neoliberal world Milton Friedman made. The arc of neoliberalism begins in 1947...
Phone A Friend: Francesca Fiorentini of The Bitchuation Room.
The Bitchuation Room's Francesca Fiorentini returns to UNFTR's Phone A Friend to break down the midterms, what Democrats need to be focusing...
On The Record (10-13-26).
This week we connected some dots that should scare everyone—Russell Vought's think tank's 7 step playbook for refusing to seat elected...
Omnibus (10-12-26).
Max and 99 are back for another round of Omnibus. They hit headlines on what comes after hyperpolitics and whether the DSA becomes a career...
On The Record (10-06-26).
This week we diagnosed the economy as a giant zit—good numbers on the surface, all of it concentrated in AI investment and stock marke...
Private Credit: Just Because We’re Not Talking About It Doesn’t Mean It’s Not a Problem.
Private credit headlines have calmed down in recent months. It could be because these debt markets are doing just fine...or it could be beca...
Omnibus (10-03-26).
Max and 99 are back for another round of Omnibus. They hit headlines on the Paramount-Warner merger as a preview of what oligarchs do when a...
On The Record (09-29-26).
Despite only having between 95,000 and 120,000 members nationwide, the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) has a hot political hand. To m...
It’s Just Trump Against the World.
An original episode on how Trump will ultimately represent the final chapter of the American experiment. Empires don't collapse. They crumbl...
Omnibus (09-27-26).
Max and 99 are back for another round of Omnibus. They hit headlines on Carney's airport privatization sellout and the Ebola outbreak in the...
The CLARITY Act is Dead (For Now).
The CLARITY Act (Digital Asset Market Clarity Act) failed to pass cloture and won't be taken up on the Senate floor. This is very, very good...
On The Record (09-22-26).
This week we put a proper endcap on the summer's debt discussions—the $40 trillion number is real, but the conversation around it is a...
InDeFLATION: F*cked Sideways Either Way.
The Producer Price Index (PPI) dropped and it was worse than expected. PPI is the measure of inflation building in the system and economists...
Omnibus (09-12-26).
Max and 99 are back for another episode of Omnibus. They cover headlines on Israel killing a family of 12 in Lebanon including six children,...
Scott Bessent Can’t Stop Failing: The Most Arrogant Man in the Land.
Scott Bessent can't do anything right. He just announced a paltry bond buyback that fell flat with the market responding by pushing rates hi...
On The Record (09-08-26).
This week we dissected JD Vance's child care rule change: A Heritage Foundation tradwife policy dressed up as family values, funded by gutti...
Labor Daze: Trump’s Resident Idiot Says the Economy is a Gift.
Trump administration official Kevin Hassett declared the latest jobs report as a "present to the American people" for Labor Day. Really, Kev...