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Downstream: Elon Musk Wants to Be Napoleon w/ Will Davies
February 10, 2025

Its official were in the middle of an unprecedented vibe shift. Donald Trumps second term in the White House tips the political balance across the world. So, what happens next? And what defines t

Downstream: Why Are So Many People Lonely? w/ Shon Faye
February 03, 2025

Love is supposed to be the most universal human experience after death and taxes. So why do so many people feel like theyre failing in it? Ash Sarkar is joined by Shon Faye, author of the bestselling

ACFM Microdose: Making Sense of Sovereign Debt w/ Heidi Chow
February 02, 2025

After last weeks ACFM on the meaning and morality of personal debt, Keir and Nadia zoom out to the macroeconomics of debt. Joining them to make sense of concepts like sovereign debt, structural adjus

Novara FM: Time for a New Left Party? w/ Oliver Eagleton, Rachel Godfrey Wood and Joe Todd
January 30, 2025

Its been five long years since the decisive defeat of Corbynism at the ballot box. How, if at all, should the left reconstitute itself? Should everyone join the Greens? Or do we just need Mick Lynch

Downstream: Everything They Tell You About the Economy Is Wrong w/ Gary Stevenson
January 27, 2025

Fourteen years ago Gary Stevenson was one of Citibanks best performing traders. The bet that brought him success was one few foresaw: that despite record low interest rates, Britains economy would s

ACFM Trip 49: Debt
January 26, 2025

The concept of debt is as slippery as it is powerful. In this Trip episode, Keir, Nadia and Jem explain why debt is more like a belief than a calculation, and wonder how to imagine a society without i

Novara FM: What Will ‘Technoking’ Elon Musk Do in the White House? w/ Quinn Slobodian
January 23, 2025

Elon Musk is the most symptomatic capitalist of our era: obsessed with publicity, by many accounts a fanatical workaholic, and increasingly in bed with the far right. But how did he go from Obama-era

Downstream: Who’s Behind the Institute of Economic Affairs? w/ Kristian Niemietz
January 21, 2025

The Institute of Economic Affairs is one of the most powerful and secretive think tanks in the UK, known for promoting free-market Thatcherism as a solution to all of our economic woes. Whos behind i

Downstream: Woke Capitalism Just Collapsed. Here’s Why w/ Brett Christophers
January 16, 2025

Donald Trump is the next president. Meta, Walmart and McDonalds have forsaken their diversity policies. Elon Musk is demanding that Keir Starmer be removed as PM. Why is this all happening at the sam

ACFM Microdose: The Communist Manifesto
January 03, 2025

The ACFM gang gather for a midwinter reading of one of the most influential political tracts ever written. Download a version online and follow along as Nadia, Keir and Jem reassess The Communist Mani