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- Muckraking Still Works: David Dayen on News That Changes Things
Four companies process most of America’s beef. A handful control the chips that run your phone, and an even smaller handful are racing to own AI. None of it happened by accident, and almost none of it made the news while it was happening.
David Dayen is executive editor of The American Prospect and author of Monopolized: Life in the Age of Corporate Power. He has spent years covering the part of policy most reporters skip: what happens after a law is announced, a merger is approved, or a regulator promises to look into it. We talk about how markets get cornered, why the press release is rarely the policy, and whether a good story can still change anything.
If you’ve ever wondered why everything costs more and comes from the same three companies, this one’s for you.
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The Long Game is a podcast about how finance, economics, and policy drive equality, or quietly prevent it. Most of the decisions that shape who gets ahead are made somewhere boring: a proxy vote, a…
tax rule, a municipal bond, a lending standard, a pension fund's investment policy. None of it gets taught in school, and almost none of it is explained to the people who will live with the results. This show goes and asks. Hosted by Cass Scolaro, a senior at Beacon High School in New York City, The Long Game started as the final project for a student-led class Cass teaches at the school. Each episode is a long-form conversation with someone doing the work: impact investors and shareholder advocates, economists and historians, policy researchers, organizers, and journalists who cover where the money actually goes. Topics include: - How shareholders, pension funds, and proxy votes pressure corporations - Whether impact investing does what it claims, and who it really serves - Who pays taxes, who doesn't, and how the rules got written - The racial wealth gap and the financial history behind it - Housing finance, private equity, and who owns the places we live - Global debt, development finance, and how countries get stuck - Monopoly power, labor, and the policy fights over both The questions are the ones nobody asks teenagers to think about. Who decides where capital goes? Who pays when a system works, and who pays when it doesn't? What would it take to change the outcome? Guests are pushed on the hard parts, not just invited to explain the good parts. No primers, no pitches, no pretending any of this is simple. Just the long view from the people inside it. New episodes feature guests across investing, advocacy, policy, and reporting, with a companion Substack for notes, sources, and follow-ups.