Macrodose

On this week’s Macrodose, James Meadway breaks down: the news that the UK narrowly avoided dipping into recession at the end of last year (1:42), a deeper dive into what that actually means for you in real terms (5:10) and how all this is hurting your local pub (11:35).

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MACRODOSE EXTRA takes you behind the scenes to go in-depth with some of the leading voices from the world of economics. Subscribe today to hear our recent interviews with Greek politician Yanis Varoufakis, labour journalist Sarah Jaffe, and former finance trader Gary Stevenson.

You’ll also gain access to our upcoming interviews with author Rosie Collington, FT reporter Yuan Yang, and public economist Richard Wolff.

Our guest today is Kate Aronoff. Kate is a staff writer at the New Republic, and author of the wonderful book Overheated: How capitalism broke the planet and how we fight back.

In the book, Kate traces a damning account of the financial forces that have hijacked and commodified the crisis of climate breakdown over recent decades, and shares a bold vision of what it will take, politically and economically, to face this existential threat head-on. This interview is about those intertwined histories of financialisation and climate denialism. How has the economic logic around the climate crisis shifted in recent years?

On this week’s Macrodose, James Meadway breaks down: new figures that signal positive news for the US economy (0:48), how good news for the US might be bad news for the rest of the globe (6:09) and the recent record-breaking profits made by fossil fuel producers (10:55).

You can register here (https://bit.ly/3YAtp5J) for a free ticket for the launch of The Cost of Living Crisis (and how to get out of it), a vital book James has co-authored with Doug Nicholls and Professor Costas Lapavitsas.

On this week’s Macrodose, James Meadway breaks down the economics behind the UK’s recording-breaking wave of strikes (0:42), how these compare to other strike movements around the world (4:43), and a new report from the BBC that finds issues with the “impartiality” of its economics reporting (12:32). 

FULL EPISODE available at: patreon.com/Macrodose

MACRODOSE EXTRA takes you behind the scenes to go in-depth with some of the leading voices from the world of economics. Subscribe today to hear our recent interviews with Greek politician Yanis Varoufakis, labour journalist Sarah Jaffe, and former finance trader Gary Stevenson.

You’ll also gain access to our upcoming interviews with climate activist and author Kate Aronoff, FT reporter Yuan Yang, and public economist Richard Wolff.

Our guest today is Kojo Koram. Kojo is a Senior Lecturer at Birkbeck School of Law, University of London. He is the author of Uncommon Wealth: Britain and the Aftermath of Empire, a tour de force on the legacies of Empire and how they shape modern Britain, which was nominated for the Orwell Prize for Political Writing in 2022.

Kojo is also the co-author of Empire’s Endgame: Racism and the British State, which was published in 2021, and star of the recent short-film for openDemocracy, Boomerang: how the legacies of empire are breaking Britain’s economy - which you can find on Youtube.

In this week’s Macrodose, James Meadway breaks down the shift away from the dominance of the dollar (0:41), what this means for US economic power (3:13), and a call from noble-prize winning economist Joseph Stiglitz to tackle wealth inequality (11.26).

On this week’s episode of Macrodose, James Meadway breaks down talk of a “polycrisis” at the World Economic Forum in Davos, the threat of default as the US breaches it’s debt ceiling, and a new report from the think tank Autonomy exploring the future of work in the era of climate breakdown.

FULL EPISODE available at: patreon.com/Macrodose

MACRODOSE EXTRA takes you behind the scenes to go in-depth with some of the leading voices from the world of economics. Subscribe today to hear our recent interviews with Greek politician Yanis Varoufakis and labour journalist Sarah Jaffe, as well as upcoming interviews with author Kojo Koram, FT reporter Yuan Yang, and public economist Richard Wolff.

Our guest today is Gary Stevenson. Gary is a former city trader turned campaigner who made millions of pounds working at Citibank, betting that inequality would keep getting worse. He is now the host of the popular Youtube channel, Gary’s economics - where his short videos provide insight into how the economy is broken, how the rich are getting richer and what we can do to fix it.

In this week’s Macrodose, James Meadway breaks down: the European Central Bank’s report of a wage bounce in Europe (0.37), the odious debt regimes crippling the economies of the Global South (7.09), and a new survey from the Resolution Foundation that reveals the extent of the cost-of-living crisis in Britain (13.46).

In the latest episode of MACRODOSE, James Meadway breaks down a new IMF forecast that predicts China’s economic downturn, a set of predictions for our economic future from multinational asset manager Blackrock, and asks what’s happening to the wealth of the tech billionaires?