For every dollar of aid poor countries receive, they lose 10 dollars to multinational tax havens. They pay around $200 billion per year in debt service to banks in rich countries.

Writer and anthropologist, Jason Hickel whose book, ‘The Divide’, debunks the myths around inequality and poverty, joined co-founder and presenter Ross Ashcroft on this week’s episode of Renegade Inc. to discuss why aid programs are deliberately keeping 60% of the world’s population in poverty.

Read & Watch: https://renegadeinc.com/the-divide/

One of the most divisive terms in the English language today is the phrase ‘conspiracy theory’. Its stigma has a chilling effect on people and the label subtly has the power to shut down enquiring minds and with them any inconvenient conversations.

But where did the term come from and how does this catch-all phrase affect independent thinkers, international debate and the media today?

In 2004, Professor of Media Studies at New York University, Mark Crispin Miller was labelled as a conspiracy theorist for claiming that the right stole the election from John Kerry, to elevate George W Bush to power. Today, the author of ‘Loser Take All’ and ‘Fooled Again’ says the term ‘fake news’ is being used as a US propaganda exercise to expedite war with Russia.

Read & Watch: https://renegadeinc.com/conspiracy-theories/

Why are so many people – globally – so disengaged with their job? We’re all working harder and longer yet many people are doing work they feel is meaningless. So we ask what’s wrong with employment?

Host Ross Ashcroft is joined by writer and commentator Elaine Glaser and author of Bullsh*t Jobs and anthropologist David Graeber.

Read & Watch: https://renegadeinc.com/brave-new-workplace/

Economics and the schools that teach it have been wrong for such a long time that its students have collectively embraced a mythical model that does not account for the role of money, banks, debt or land.

Renegade economist and friend of the show, Professor Steve Keen recently took the stage at the Sunday Papers event in London to discuss what you’re not being told about the global economy.

Read & watch: https://renegadeinc.com/sunday-papers-mainstream-economists-live-in-a-parallel-universe/

Most people who work in developed nations know that there’s something badly wrong in their economy even if they can’t fully articulate it. Many people feel they have to work harder and longer just to stand still. There always seems to be an economic headwind that denies fair return on the hours we put in.

So what is this formless force that pushes against us? And why is it such a different story for people who work in the financial industries who after such collective failure in 2008 are once again squeezing Main Street for every penny?

Host, Ross Ashcroft, met up with Author, Rana Foroohar, to discuss.

Read & Watch: https://renegadeinc.com/makers-v-takers/

The creative industries are worth about 10 million pounds an hour to the UK economy. Globally now, all governments recognize the importance of this enigmatic sector to drive their growth.

But are creativity and commercial forces compatible? If they are, why is all the advertising we see today internationally, so incredibly bland? Why has Hollywood lost its originality, and has big data and ad tech removed risk-taking from the creative process?

Host, Ross Ashcroft, met up with author and ad agency copywriter, Dave Trott, to discuss.

Watch & read: https://renegadeinc.com/whats-killing-creativity/

Queen Elizabeth visited the London School of Economics and asked why no economist saw the financial crisis coming. The professors were unable to answer her simple question but did admit that at every stage, someone was relying on someone else and everyone thought that they were doing the right thing.

Since that exchange, the realisation has dawned on many that it is the discipline of economics itself that is the problem. Until economics is fixed, mainstream economists will continue to fly blind. And we will continue to foot the bill.

In the latest episode of Renegade Inc, economist and author Kate Raworth discusses her book, ‘Doughnut Economics’, and calls for an ‘economic reformation’.

Read & Watch: https://renegadeinc.com/doughnut-economics/

Since the 2008 financial crisis, the UK authorities have been absolutely toothless when it comes to prosecuting bankers who’ve broken the law.

But is this just incompetence? Or is our regulatory system designed in a way that means that victims fall through the gaps, while banks are permitted to operate above the law?

Joining us on the episode this week is former Met Detective who fell victim to the Royal Bank of Scotland’s long-running scheme to defraud its small-business customers, Andy Keats, and researcher & campaigner, Joel Benjamin.

Watch & read: https://renegadeinc.com/white-collar-crime-mind-the-gap/

The ongoing super feud between America and Russia has caused colossal collateral damage internationally, and everyone will feel the effects of the fallout. But what if there is a project that Russia and the US can collaborate on that would bring peace, progress, and prosperity?

Ross Ashcroft is joined by filmmaker Rick Minnich and InterContinental Railway Chief Advisor Scott Spencer to discuss how the InterContinental railway project would connect former foes to trade with one another, generating commerce, not conflict, for everyone.

Whatever the outcome in Ukraine, one thing is for sure: The economic reverberations will be felt by everyone for years to come, as the world divides between the West and a rapidly re-shaping Eurasia.

Ross Ashcroft is joined by economist Michael Hudson to discuss trade, sanctions, dollar hegemony, and the emergence of a multipolar world.