Unf*cking The Republic

This week we finally heed the call to Unf*ck the Federal Communications Commission (FCC.) We don’t get all the way there (it’s been around since 1934) but we manage to tackle the fairness doctrine, which was intended to provide balance and equal time in broadcasting and was repealed in 1987. Many credit this Reagan-era move as the beginning of the end of civility, leading to the divide in the nation today. But, of course, the story behind the doctrine is far more nuanced. We review a history of the FCC, its limitations and whether or not the fairness doctrine ever really had a place in America given the natural tension with the First Amendment.

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Chapters

Intro: 00:03:53

Chapter One: What is the FCC and why should we give a shit? 00:04:51

Chapter Two: To be fair, it was never really a doctrine. 00:13:35

Chapter Three: Fairness in the eye of the withholder. 00:24:57

Chapter Four: Bring it home, Max. 00:33:27

Post Show Musings: 00:39:36

Book Love: 00:40:22

Outro: 00:49:35

Resources

FCC Website

Congressional Quarterly: Broadcasting Deregulation

UNFTR Episode Resources

Manufacturing Dissent: How We Let an Aussie Destroy the U.S.

The Economics of Racism: Bootstraps, Black Banks and Redlining.

Book Love

Steven J. Simmons: The Fairness Doctrine and the Media

Brian J. Karem: Free the Press: The Death of American Journalism and How to Revive It

Ken Auletta: Backstory: Inside the Business of News

Bernard Harcourt: The Illusion of Free Markets: Punishment and the Myth of Natural Order

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In today's Show Notes, Max and 99 talk about the future of the enablers “series,” how people like Larry Fink of BlackRock fit into the overall UNFTR ecosystem and how that relates to ESGs + the billionaire class. Plus, there’s some irrelevant movie talk, and reminders to support the Fall Raisers: Friends, Funds and Hell.

Listen to Episode 74: BlackRock: The Devil's Banker. Do as I say, not as I do.

Chapters

Intro: 00:00:20

Housekeeping: 00:02:00

Emails: 00:07:43

Facebook Shout Outs: 00:35:45

Twitter Shout Outs: 00:36:15

Buy Me A Coffee Donations + Memberships: 00:45:32

Outro: 01:02:12

Resources

Unf*cker Artist Submission Form

Summer Lee

Mandela Barnes

Christopher Leonard: Kochland: The Secret History of Koch Industries and Corporate Power in America to Collections

Jane Mayer: Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right to Collections

UNFTR Episodes: Libertarians Are Exhausting (Part 1 and Part 2)

Tom McGovern on TikTok, Youtube, Instagram and Twitter

News Beat Podcast: The Fossil Fuel Industry's Big Lie

UNFTR Episode: The Problem with Conscious Capitalism: ESG, SRI and FMF.

Bloomberg: Patagonia Billionaire Who Gave Up Company Skirts $700 Million Tax Hit

Ben Sheehan on Instagram and Twitter

Ben Sheehan: OMG WTF Does the Constitution Actually Say?: A Non-Boring Guide to How Our Democracy Is Supposed to Work

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Larry Fink is one of the most influential people on the planet. His firm BlackRock mints money. Billions of dollars a year. Their risk management platform handles more than $10 trillion a year. He helped guide the country out of the financial crisis in 2009 and positioned his company to grow unfettered by the very regulatory authorities he advised at the time. He’s by all accounts funny, affable, competitive and compassionate. BlackRock is at the center of a storm in conservative media for pushing companies too hard toward sustainability. That he’s too “woke.” Liberals think he’s behind the housing crisis. Conspiracy theorists believe he’s in the pocket of the Chinese government. The real story of BlackRock is bigger, more mundane and just as terrifying. 

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Chapters

BlackRock Disclaimer: 00:00:05

Intro: 00:02:24

Chapter One: Bank or no bank? You decide. 00:05:31

Chapter Two: Birth of a giant. 00:13:12

Chapter Three: Just how big is BlackRock? 00:24:20

Chapter Four: The ESG Hullabaloo. 00:31:46

Chapter Five: Bring it home, Max. 00:40:11

Post Show Musings: 00:50:48

Outro: 01:09:20

Resources

Vanity Fair: Larry Fink’s $12 Trillion Shadow

BlackRock: 2021 Annual Report

Policy Tensor: Seeing Like BlackRock

Insider: Here are 9 fascinating facts to know about BlackRock, the world’s largest asset manager

Bloomberg: Biden Ties to BlackRock Deepen With Latest Treasury Hire

Wall Street Journal: One Firm Getting What It Wants in Washington: BlackRock

OpenSecrets: BlackRock Inc

Office of Financial Research: Asset Management and Financial Stability, September 2013

Bloomberg: In Fink We Trust: BlackRock Is Now ‘Fourth Branch of Government’

BlackRock: Sustainable investing at BlackRock

Banking On Climate Change: The Worst Banks Since the Paris Agreement

The Bureau of Investigative Journalism: BlackRock Tells Oil Regulator: Ignore Our CEO’s Climate Pledges

Florida State Board of Administration: August 23, 2022 Meeting

Politico: Wall Street opens its checkbook for Ron DeSantis

Sierra Club: Maine becomes the first state to pass law to divest from fossil fuels

Morgan Stanley Institute For Sustainable Investing: Sustainable Reality

BlackRock: BlackRock and housing: Setting the record straight

The Atlantic: BlackRock Is Not Ruining the U.S. Housing Market

Securities and Exchange Commission: Sallie Mae Proxy Statement

Pensions & Investments: Nestle moves pension assets to BlackRock as it reorganizes internal management unit

CNN Business: Nestle SA

Investopedia: The Top 5 British Petroleum (BP) Shareholders

CNN Business: Walmart Inc

Fintel: BlackRock Inc. ownership in MCD / Mcdonald's Corp

Bloomberg Markets and Finance: BlackRock CEO Larry Fink on Inflation, ESG Investing

UNFTR Episode Resources

Student Debt.

The Problem with Conscious Capitalism.

Book Love

David Carey and John E. Morris: King of Capital: The Remarkable Rise, Fall, and Rise Again of Steve Schwarzman and Blackstone

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In today's Show Notes, Max and 99 discuss the conclusion of the three part Healthcare series, share plans to support two progressive candidates in the upcoming election, and get hyped for the Fall Raisers: Friend, Fund, and Hell.

Listen to Episode 73: Hospitals and Healthcare: From Sanatoriums for the Indigent to Citadels of the Elite.

Chapters

Intro: 00:00:20

Housekeeping: 00:07:54

Emails: 00:18:57

Facebook Shout Outs: 00:41:06

Twitter Shout Outs: 00:41:19

Buy Me A Coffee Donations + Memberships: 00:42:14

Reviews: 00:49:25

Outro: 00:49:52

Resources

Summer Lee

Mandela Barnes

Unf*ckers Facebook Group

ContraPoints Youtube

F.D Signifier Youtube

Some More News Youtube

News Beat Podcast: The Fossil Fuel Industry's Big Lie

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The third and final installment of our American Healthcare series examines the evolution of the American hospital system. There are more than 6,000 hospitals in the United States and several distinctions among them. After a quick recap of the first two episodes, we look primarily at the peculiar designation of nonprofit hospitals, their relationship to practitioners and their role in driving costs in the system. We conclude the series with a few hot takes from medical professionals, some basic proposals to improve coverage and care and ask what it would take to move toward Medicare for All.

Chapters

Intro: 00:01:59

Chapter One: What’s a Hospital? 00:13:59

Chapter Two: For-Profit and Nonprofit Hospitals. Two sides of the same damn coin. 00:17:56

Chapter Three: Turning Doctors into Business People. 00:31:07

Chapter Four: Bring it home, Max. 00:36:09

Post Show Musings: 00:50:39

Book Love: 01:10:43

Outro: 01:11:11

Resources

OECD.stat: Health Care Resources: Hospitals

EOS Surfaces: Types of Hospitals in the US

AAPC: What Are Relative Value Units (RVUs)?

American Hospital Association: Fast Facts on U.S. Hospitals, 2022

Becker’s Hospital Review: 82 Physician-Owned Hospitals to Know

AMA Journal of Ethics: Physician-Owned Hospitals and Self-Referral

NPR’s Planet Money: How Non-Profit Hospitals Are Driving Up The Cost Of Health Care

LWW Journals: The Growing Executive-Physician Wage Gap in Major US Nonprofit Hospitals and Burden of Nonclinical Workers on the US Healthcare System

Weatherby Healthcare: Physician salary report 2022: Physician income rising again

The New York Times: Why Are Nonprofit Hospitals So Highly Profitable?

Hub’s List: A data-based biweekly newsletter of medical fun facts

The New England Journal of Medicine: Practicing Medicine in the New Business Climate

The New England Journal of Medicine: Is Quality Improvement Improving Quality? A View from the Doctor's Office

CNN: 2 charts that show just how old this Congress actually is

The Commonwealth Fund: International Health Care System Profiles- France

Germany Visa: Health Insurance in Germany- The German Healthcare System

Congress.gov: H.R.1 For the People Act

NASHP: Can We Please Stop Fixating on Hospital Chargemasters?

KHN: Nixon’s Plan For Health Reform, In His Own Words

CBO: Estimated Budgetary Effects of Title I, Committee on Finance, of H.R. 5376, the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022

The Lever: Where Did The Public Option Go?

UNFTR Episode Resources

U.S. Healthcare.

This Healthcare is Killing Us.

Student Debt.

Book Love

Paul Starr: The Social Transformation of American Medicine: The Rise of a Sovereign Profession and the Making of a Vast Industry

Steven Brill: America's Bitter Pill: Money, Politics, Backroom Deals, and the Fight to Fix Our Broken Healthcare System

Nelson Lichtenstein: State of the Union: A Century of American Labor

Mark Vonnegut: The Heart of Caring: A Life in Pediatrics

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In today's Show Notes, Max and 99 continue to discuss the healthcare industry—this time with insight from some of the international Unf*ckers. Plus, 99 has the sniffles and sounds like Squidward. And, as always, (somehow) there’s singing. Enjoy!

Listen to Episode 72: This Healthcare is Killing Us: The perpetual cycle of money madness.

Chapters

Intro: 00:00:20

Emails: 00:06:35

Twitter Shout Outs: 01:18:01

Instagram Shout Outs: 01:18:01

Buy Me A Coffee Donations + Memberships: 01:50:47

Reviews: 01:23:13

Outro: 01:24:27

Resources

UNFTR Artist Submission

Unf*ckers Facebook Group

Media Roots Podcast: Alex Jones Part 1 and Part 2

IndoctriNation Podcast

Amanda Montell: Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism

UNFTR Episode: Global Order of Money

UNFTR Episode: Global Order of Power

UNFTR Episode: America Inc.

Knudsen in the news

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We're re-releasing our Labor Union episode in honor of Labor Day. For Unf*ckers outside of the United States, this is the day government set aside as a token of appreciation to the labor movement for eight hour days, weekends, anti-child labor laws, protection from discrimination and more. (In reality, it was a consolation prize after Grover Cleveland jailed Eugene Debs and sent federal troops to beat the shit out of Pullman railcar workers on strike.) We celebrate this glorious day by giving members of the PMC a holiday to shop at stores run by the working poor.

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From Pullman and Carnegie to Kellogg's and the PRO Act, this week we unf*ck the labor movement in the United States. No single episode can possibly do labor justice but we give it our best shot. The episode includes a blow-by-blow analysis of a recent interview with the CEO of Kellogg's to translate Wall Street speak for “how to fuck workers and influence inflation.” And we rip off a few Milton references to exercise our #FMF muscle.

Chapters

Intro: 00:00:42

Segment 1: 00:02:11

Segment 2: 00:04:25

Segment 3: 00:12:18

Segment 4: 00:17:46

Segment 5: 00:21:29

Segment 6: 00:28:00

Segment 7: 00:30:20

Segment 8: 00:41:22

Show Notes: 00:52:15

Book Love: 00:57:17

Pod Love: 00:58:02

Emails + Shoutouts: 00:58:45

Outro: 01:10:42

Resources

American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO)

The New York Times: Starbucks workers at a Buffalo store unionize in a big symbolic win for labor

Kellogg Company: Investor Relations

The Nation: Striking Kellogg’s Workers Need the PRO Act

U.S. Bureau Of Labor Statistics: Work Stoppages

OECD: Trade Union Dataset 

U.S. Bureau Of Labor Statistics: Union Members — 2020

Economic History Association: Labor Unions in the United States

History of Recessions in U.S.

Unionization rates by industry in the United States, 1880-2000

More Perfect Union: Kellogg's Factory Working Conditions

Media Matters: Joe Rogan Wrapped: A year of COVID-19 misinformation, right-wing myths, and anti-trans rhetoric

Book Love

Philip Dray: There Is Power in a Union: The Epic Story of Labor in America

Nelson Lichtenstein: State of the Union: A Century of American Labor

Kurt Andersen: Evil Geniuses: The Unmaking of America

Joseph Stiglitz: People, Power and Profits

Robert Shiller: Narrative Economics

Pod Love

Economic Update with Professor Richard Wolff: S11 E47

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The first installment of our healthcare series encapsulated the magnitude of the industry that accounts for 20% of our nation’s GDP and how efforts to pursue universal healthcare were scuttled over the years. Today’s episode examines the role of private insurance in our system and details how Obamacare came to life with little discussion around a public option or the possibility of Medicare for All. 

Chapters

Intro: 00:01:58

Chapter One: Understanding the scope of healthcare. 00:03:12

Chapter Two: The Insurance Class System: 00:16:29

Chapter Three: Making the Sausage: 00:26:32

Post Show Musings: 00:46:27

Outro: 00:51:50

Resources

The New York Times: U.S. Life Expectancy Falls Again in ‘Historic’ Setback

Health System Tracker: How does health spending in the U.S. compare to other countries?

The Atlantic: Did a Conservative Think Tank Really Invent the Individual Mandate?

The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation: The Burden of Medical Debt: Results from the Kaiser Family Foundation/New York Times 

UnitedHealth Group: Annual Report

Humana: 2021 Annual Report

Anthem, Inc: Annual Report

National Association of Insurance Commissioners: U.S. Health Insurance Industry Analysis Report 

Book Love

Paul Starr: The Social Transformation of American Medicine: The Rise of a Sovereign Profession and the Making of a Vast Industry

Steven Brill: America's Bitter Pill: Money, Politics, Backroom Deals, and the Fight to Fix Our Broken Healthcare System

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In today's Show Notes, Max and 99 continue talking about the student debt announcement and its impact, address more feedback from the healthcare episode, plus feedback from the last show notes re: Big Pharma, natural medicine and vaccines.

Listen to Topical Cream 6: Biden’s Big Student Debt Announcement.

Chapters

Intro: 00:00:20

Emails: 00:09:22

Facebook Shout Outs: 01:37:40

Twitter Shout Outs: 01:45:19

Buy Me A Coffee Donations + Memberships: 01:50:47

Outro: 01:51:16

Resources

UNFTR Merch Store

Trust Me Podcast: Virginia Heffernan: Edge, Jeffrey Epstein, & the Intellectual Dark Web

Conspirituality Podcast

Maintenance Phase Podcast

Unf*ckers Facebook Group

UNFTR Episodes: Libertarians Are Exhausting Part One and Part Two.

UNFTR Episodes: Corporate (Ir)Responsibility Part One and Part Two.

UNFTR Episodes: F*ck Milton Friedman.

ProPublica: How a Secretive Billionaire Handed His Fortune to the Architect of the Right-Wing Takeover of the Courts

The Intercept: Joe Biden’s Role In Creating The Student Debt Crisis Stretches Back To The 1970s

SocialMarketing.org: Generations X,Y, Z and the Others

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Lily Geismer wrote an incredible book called Left Behind. Unf*ckers who listened to our three part series on the Clinton years are familiar with it and know how important it was to framing this series. We had some follow up thoughts and questions for this esteemed author and are thrilled she obliged. Max and Lily have a wide ranging conversation about her book and the long tail effect of Clinton’s brand of neoliberalism in the second installment of Phone a Friend.

Resources

UNFTR Episode: The Clinton Years (Parts One, Two, and Three)

Lily Geismer: Left Behind: The Democrats’ Failed Attempt to Solve Inequality

Lily Geismer: Don’t Blame Us: Suburban Liberals and the Transformation of the Democratic Party

Nathan J. Robinson: Superpredator: Bill Clinton’s Use and Abuse of Black America

UNFTR Episode: The Economics of Racism: Bootstraps, Black Banks and Redlining

Michelle Alexander: The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

Mehrsa Baradaran: The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap

Richard Rothstein: The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America

Gary Gerstle: The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order: America and the World in the Free Market Era

Lily on Twitter

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