Out of Order

By Ben Maher and Anthony Buono

Explore the vast world of politics and economics with two leftist, but very open-minded, hosts. Anthony Buono and Ben Maher set out to learn about political philosophy, economic policy, housing, healt... more

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The podcast currently has 108 episodes available.

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September 28, 2023Episode 18: Global Warming Pt. 3
This week's current events:
Biden administration grants Temporary Protected Status to about 470,000 Venezuelans, instantly making it legal for them to work

We continue to plod towards a government shutdown

The Supreme Court once again tells Alabama it needs to properly represent its black voters in its Congressional map

The leaders of the WGA agree to a tentative deal to end the writers' strike

The UAW expands its strike against Stellantis and GM

Biden administration seeks to scrub medical debt from credit scores

FTC v. Amazon begins

Refugee resettlements are on the rise

Biden administration announces a Civilian Climate Corps

A debate rages between renewable companies in New York about whether price hikes should be allowed for some projects
In our deep dive, we look at the transition from fossil fuels for energy generation to renewables like solar and wind. We talk about how the costs for renewables have gone down, why they still are less popular, how we can remove barriers, differences in progress amongst different parts of the world, and more.
#venezuela #immigration #economy #governmentshutdown #politics #liberal #supremecourt #alabama #wga #writersstrike #union #uaw #strike #stellantis #gm #ftc #amazon #creditscore #medicaldebt #refugees #climatechange #newyork #biden #fossilfuels #solarenergy #windenergy #china #america #europe
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2h 36min
September 20, 2023Episode 17: Global Warming Pt. 2
This Week's Current Events:
The U.S. government is edging towards a shutdown because of internal dysfunction within the Republican party

The United Auto Workers union (UAW) has begun to go on strike

The August Inflation Report

A Republican-sponsored Senate bill has been introduced to raise the minimum wage and simultaneously crack down harder on undocumented immigrants

A Pennsylvania special election spells good news for Democrats in 2024

At the U.N. summit, Biden aims to normalize relations between Saudi Arabia and Israel
In our deep dive this week, we discuss the humanitarian effects that climate change may have as it causes migration and greater resource scarcity. It certainly seems that it's going to make it much more dangerous to be a human, and lead countries to hoard their own resources.
#globalwarming #climatechange #government #governmentshutdown #politics #liberal #republican #strike #union #uaw #inflation #minimumwage #immigration #pennsylvania #unitednations #israel #saudiarabia #geopolitics
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1h 49min
September 14, 2023Episode 16: Global Warming Pt. 1
Our Current Events This Week:
Kevin McCarthy is using his powers as Speaker to impeach Joe Biden

The Freedom Caucus wants to shut down the government if it doesn't get its way with the budget

Germany is facing a budget fight of their own

Migrant crises in major American cities

The IRS is going to crack down on millionaires evading taxes because of tools and manpower granted by new funding

The powerful COVID-era safety net policies from the Biden administration are now running dry

A new report on Child Tax Credit spending shows it's mostly productive

Ron DeSantis is losing all his top donors

Javier Milei, a libertarian populist, is leading the presidential polls in Argentina right now

Senator Josh Hawley is introducing legislation to cap credit card interest rates, a policy idea that aligns with some that have come from the far left

An important court case has started with the Department of Justice prosecuting Google for unfair anticompetitive behaviors

In this week's deep dive, we get into the science of climate change. What is the greenhouse effect? How does it work? How do we know climate change is driven by human activity? Where do we already see it happening? What will be its environmental effects? This is part 1 of a series of deep dives that will be at least three parts long, focusing specifically on the science.

#mccarthy #biden #freedomcaucus #politics #liberal #republican #germany #budget #populist #migration #immigration #migrantcrisis #newyork #chicago #washington #tax #irs #covid #childtaxcredit #desantis #argentina #hawley #doj #google #climatechange #science #greenhouse #environment #podcast #deepdive
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2h 8min
September 07, 2023Episode 15: Commercial Real Estate
Our Current Events This Week:
Ron DeSantis's map for the Florida legislature is deemed unconstitutional

The Pro-DeSantis super-PAC is stopping door-knocking operations in Nevada

The federal program WIC, which provides food for needy families, could get cut in this fall's Congressional budget battle

President Biden's administration has issued a report recommending the privatization of water systems

The National Labor Relations Board has changed unionization rules so that unions are automatically formed if a company is charged with union-busting behavior

A quick look at polling in some key Senate races

The July jobs report
In this week's deep dive, we look at the current state of the American commercial real estate industry. Its outlook has become much more precarious with the shift to hybrid and work-from-home policies initiated by the pandemic. What's happening in the industry now? What are owners doing about it? What about the financiers? What kind of buildings are most at risk? Does weakness in our industry threaten the whole economy?
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1h 41min
August 30, 2023Episode 14: Political Media
Our current events for this episode:
The first Republican primary debate

Wildfires in Hawaii

New research out of MIT that could be huge for renewable energy storage

Woman shot and killed over flying the pride flag

A group of six cops performing hate crimes

Minneapolis avoiding the worst of inflation because of its liberal housing policies

A lawsuit against FINRA that could threaten any and all self-regulating government bodies

Joe Biden's SAVE plan for people with student loans

The Trump team floating a 10% tariff on all imports
Our deep dive this week is on political media. Whether you like it or not, all of us are influenced by the media we consume. That's probably more true in politics than anywhere else. We discuss the history of political media, how it has become so partisan, how and why that polarizes us, and whether consuming political media makes us unhappy.

#politics #liberal #currentevents #biden #economy #republican #debate #hawaii #research #mit #trump #inflation #housing #media #partisan
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2h 4min
August 18, 2023Episode 13: Universal Basic Income
This week's current events:
The fourth indictment of Donald Trump

A sad story of a girl who became a mother against her will

A win for climate protections in Montana

Should Germany ban the far-right AFD party?

China's present economic collapse

Danger for the Republican party due to the farm bill

A hitch in the U.S.-Canada relationship after stalled negotiations on how to tax big tech
In this week's deep dive, we cover universal basic income. What is it? Why might it be helpful in our current moment? What are its strengths, according to studies? What are its potential weaknesses?
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1h 56min
August 09, 2023 Episode 12: Healthcare
In this episode's current events, we covered:- Fitch's recent downgrades of U.S. bonds- The Biden administration's campaign to reinstate the Davis-Bacon Act to set a wage floor for construction workers on public projects- The effects of the climate provisions in Biden's recent Infrastructure bill on farmers- The July jobs report- Updates on the situation in Niger after the coup, including the decision by ECOWAS to not invade- Updates to the situation regarding Trump's most recent indictmentIn our deep dive, we breakdown the American healthcare system. What kinds of health outcomes do we have here? What percentage of Americans are insured? Why are prices for services so much higher here than anywhere esle? Why is there a physician shortage? And why don't we have broader government-funded insurance?

#politics #liberal #healthcare #fitch #bonds #biden #construction #climate #infrastructure #jobs #jobsreport #Niger #ecowas #nigeria #trump #insurance #healthinsurance #price #physician #universalhealthcare
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1h 51min
August 03, 2023Episode 11: Neoliberalism
This week's current events:
The latest Trump Indictment, this time relating to the riots at the capitol on January 6, 2021

New polling on the likely Biden-Trump rematch in 2024

A boom in housing construction correlating to slowing rent increases across the country

Progress on the UPS strike for part-time workers

The painful economic effects of extreme heat caused by climate change

An American epiphany that Chinese malware is likely embedded in our infrastructure systems in an attempt to slow down any response to an invasion of Taiwan

A military coup in Niger

In our book club segment, we discuss Supreme Court decisions that have stripped bare the rights for defendants in our criminal justice system.

In our deep dive, we discuss the ideology and history of neoliberalism, an ideology that has dominated the western world for over forty years.

#politics #neoliberalism #liberal #trump #biden #geopolitics #china
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2h 59min
July 26, 2023 Episode 10: The Global Food System
Another week, another episode. This week, our current events largely lie in the realm of politics, where we discuss a recent special election in Wisconsin, the changing outlook of college towns, a complex dynamic in this past weekend's Spanish election, and Republican primary polling in Iowa and other early states. Besides that, we talk about the recent Kerch Strait Bridge bombing by Ukrainian forces and a horrifyingly racist story in Alabama.
In our book club this week, the topic was companies. We discuss court cases that led to caps on punitive damages, restrictions on class action lawsuits, and increased support for private arbitration.
In our deep dive, we talk about the global food system. This enormously complex system is the lifeblood of our already massive (and still growing) human population. We discuss how it works, where its vulnerabilities lie, and how it might be shored up with innovation and policy reform.
#politics #podcast #currentevents #liberal #russia #ukraine #supremecourt #company #lawsuit #food #innovation
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2h 22min
July 19, 2023 Episode 9: Immigration
We kick it off with this week’s current events:
- Tax prep companies breached customers’ privacy by selling their sensitive financial and personal data to advertising companies like Google and Meta
- Microsoft acquired Activision-Blizzard
- Hollywood’s writers (WGA) and actors (SAG-AFTRA) unions have gone on - strike
- The most recent American inflation report was released
- Russia is facing budgetary gaps that it is looking to fill with windfall taxes on its companies
- New data out of China shows a 12.4% YoY drop in exports, as well as some interesting insights about some of its trading partners
- Q2 fundraising data has been released by the FEC with regards to the 2024 presidential election
In this week’s book club, we discuss chapter 6 of Supreme Inequality, titled “Workers.” It’s about infringement upon workers’ rights by the Supreme Court to restrict workers from suing for different types of discrimination and weaken unions.
In our deep dive, we discuss immigration. We cover America’s current immigration policy, whether immigration is helpful or harmful, and how we would look to adjust the policy.
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2h 28min

FAQs about Out of Order:

How many episodes does Out of Order have?

The podcast currently has 108 episodes available.