Unf*cking The Republic

I know, I know. Didn’t we just do this episode? Kinda, sorta. But not to this extent. In our Peak Oil episode we reviewed the history of oil as a commodity, currency and weapon on the world stage. This episode picks up where we left off to drill deeper (pun intended) into the story of crude and how it shows up as $5 gasoline at the pumps. We debunk several myths surrounding high gasoline prices and unequivocally point the finger at who’s to blame. 

Chapters

Intro: 00:00:16

Part 1: 00:01:14

Part 2: 00:04:24

Part 3: 00:09:07

Part 4: 00:13:50

Part 5: 00:18:48

Post Show Musings: 00:26:11

Outro: 00:40:24

Resources

Investopedia: Understanding the Correlation Between Oil and Currency

Econbrowser: Gasoline price calculator

EnergyWorld.com: How much for gas? Around the world, pain is felt at the pump

EnergyWorld.com: Opinion: White House tries to blame US refiners for its own overheating error

U.S Energy Information Administration: World liquid fuels production and consumption balance

Statista: Daily demand for crude oil worldwide from 2006 to 2020, with a forecast until 2026*

Marathon Petroleum Corporation: Marathon Petroleum Corp. Reports First-Quarter 2022 Results

MacroMicro.me: US Dollar Index vs. Oil Price

CNBC: China oil demand must remain weak or we will have tough summer, IEA’s Birol says

The New York Times: Biden Pushes Congress for Three-Month Gas Tax Holiday

UNFTR Episode Resources

Peak Oil: It's a Crude, Crude World.

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Hey Unf*ckers, it’s Max. Just wanted to weigh in very quickly. This is an episode that we’ve dropped already, it’s called Peak Oil.

We dropped it a few months back to try and explain why oil prices were so high. It is a very deep dive into the history of oil prices, commodities markets, and all of the factors that go into the price of oil and the exchanges that they’re traded on.

So we go through the history of the Mercantile Exchange, adding oil as a commodity on the exchange in the early ’70s, the disruptions due to the Iranian oil embargo and the OPEC embargo in the ’70s, how that influenced the volatility and the pricing markets, all of the different actors and exchanges that grew along the way to begin to manipulate prices through to where we are today, to where there’s only a handful of players that really determine the market price of oil.

Now, the reason that we’re re-dropping this particular one is because tomorrow we’re dropping a half Topical Cream, half full Unf*cking on the price of gasoline today. So what’s different is we discussed the history of oil pricing as a commodity and how it relates to gas prices and prices at the pump in this episode. But the one that we’re dropping tomorrow really drills more deeply into the inputs behind gas prices right now. When we say it’s $5 at the pump, how did it get there? What does that actually mean?

So I feel like this first episode does a really good job explaining the market in general and how oil basically moves from the ground to wind up as something that’s traded on commodity exchanges. But the one that we’re going to drop tomorrow—again, half Topical Cream, half full Unf*cking—is really an explainer behind what drives the prices when you take that pump out of your hands at the gas station and you put it in your car. We’re going to explain why those fucking stickers that you see at the pump of Joe Biden being like “I did this,” couldn’t be further from the fucking truth.

So we’re going to dispel a whole bunch of myths tomorrow. We’re going to pack you with enough information and resources to destroy all of the myths that you hear in the pundit class and in the mainstream media. And I know this is a really obnoxious thing to say, but I promise you everything that you’re hearing in the mainstream media and in that punditry class is wrong. They’re all getting it wrong, and we’ll explain why.

So enjoy this re-release of Peak Oil and look out for the episode tomorrow titled $5 Gasoline.

Chapters

A Note From Max: 00:00:00

Intro: 00:04:24

Prologue: 00:07:28

Chapter 1: 00:10:21

Chapter 2: 00:13:53

Oil Rundown: 00:19:46

Skit: 00:27:32

Chapter 3: 00:31:20

Chapter 4: 00:44:16

Chapter 5: 00:53:51

Show Notes: 01:00:15

Book Love: 01:03:08

Pod Love: 01:08:54

Emails + Shout Outs: 01:24:07

Outro: 01:32:25

Resources

World Population Review: Richest African Countries 2022

Trading Economics: Corruption Rank by Country | Africa

Worldometer: Equatorial Guinea Oil

Democracy Now!: African Dictatorships and Double Standards

U.S. Energy Information Administration: International Energy Outlook 2021

Book Love

Peter Maass: Crude World- Required reading for anyone interested in the dark underbelly of the oil and gas trade. 

Leif Wenar: Blood Oil- Not my favorite. A little overreaching in the historical and socio-political connections it tries to make but contains some solid anecdotal insights to support a broader thesis of corruption. 

Morgan Downey: Oil 101- A fundamental book to understand the product itself and the markets that move it. 

Dan Dicker: Oil’s Endless Bid- Pedestrian but informative account of what it’s like to be a commodities trader and what went wrong with the business. 

Leah McGrath Goodman: The Asylum: The Renegades Who Hijacked the World’s Oil Market- If you’re really into this topic, this is the book for you. I came to it late as it came out in 2011 but it’s an excellent, deep narrative dive into a world that very few people know or understand.

Bernard Harcourt: The Illusion of Free Markets- We’ve talked about Harcourt a lot. The first few sections of the book are very inaccessible but provide an invaluable history of the impact of Enlightenment thinking on the new class of free market promoters. 

Emily Lambert: The Futures- Possibly one of my favorite business books of all time. A great read told in fun and engaging anecdotes that helps anyone access and understand the bizarre world of the markets. 

Pod Love

American Scandal: Enron

UNFTR Episode Resources

F*ck Milton Friedman.

The Climate Industrial Complex.

The Global Order of Money.

A (Mostly) Vegan World.

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In today's Show Notes minisode we review Phone a Friend feedback, welcoming some Prestige Heads into the Unf*cking family, argue about the new Matilda movie and Max loses the ketchup v mustard debate.

Listen to Amazon (Part 2).

Listen to Phone a Friend.

Chapters

Intro: 00:00:20

Emails: 00:03:37

Facebook Shout Outs: 00:30:13

Twitter Shout Outs: 00:34:39

Buy Me A Coffee Donations + Memberships: 00:41:51

Reviews: 00:49:08

Outro: 00:50:40

Resources

The Guardian: 'It was a great run': rebel grocer Pirate Joe's closes after lengthy legal battle

Congressional Dish Podcast

JSexton3: Bourbon Talk

Drilled: This Is Not the First Time Climate Has Been Part of the "Culture War"

The Intercept: Elephant In The Zoom: Meltdowns Have Brought Progressive Advocacy Groups to a Standstill at a Critical Moment in World History

Jake Hanrahan: Megacorp

Christy Harrison: Anti-Diet: Reclaim Your Time, Money, Well-Being, and Happiness Through Intuitive Eating

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Our inaugural edition of Phone a Friend, where we interview luminaries in different fields, features Daniel Bessner and Derek Davison from the American Prestige podcast. The pair answer some easy questions on lighthearted topics like Israel/Palestine, the war in Ukraine, the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership and whether the United States even has a foreign policy anymore.

Chapters

Intro: 00:00:43

Israel/Palestine: 00:07:25

U.S. Relations with China: 00:16:51

Russia/Ukraine: 00:28:07

U.S. Foreign Policy: 00:39:16

Lightning Round: 00:44:37

Outro: 00:48:23

Resources

American Prestige Podcast

Daniel Bessner

Daniel Bessner: Democracy in Exile

Derek Davison

Foreign Exchanges Substack

A History of Modern Palestine w/ Rashid Khalidi

Quincy Institute: Ending Primacy to End U.S. Wars

Margaret MacMillan: The War That Ended Peace: The Road to 1914

Paul Thomas Chamberlin: The Cold War's Killing Fields: Rethinking the Long Peace

Lindsey A. O'Rourke: Covert Regime Change: America's Secret Cold War

The Atlantic: The One Key Word Biden Needs to Invoke on Ukraine

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Here's a sneak peak at the inaugural drop of Phone a Friend, a new Unf*cking series where we interview people smarter than Max. (The possibilities are endless.) This episode features Daniel Bessner and Derek Davison from the incredible foreign policy podcast American Prestige.

Resources

Daniel Bessner

Derek Davison

American Prestige Podcast

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In Part 1 of Amazon, the Unfulfillment Company, we reviewed Amazon’s rise from online bookseller to third largest company on the planet and well on its way to number one. The extreme focus on the customer is the centerpiece of founder Jeff Bezos’s philosophy and while it has increased consumerism and driven down prices on several categories of goods and services, it’s had big ripple effects in the wider economy and the labor market. Today’s episode picks up where we left off to examine the company’s earnings and acquisitions more closely and addresses how the company is one step ahead of efforts to break it up. We finish with some examples of victories and what must happen to contain Amazon’s influence before it becomes sentient and destroys us all. Or something like that. 

Chapters

Part 1 Recap: 00:00:05

Intro: 00:02:17

Chapter Four: Big, Bigger, Biggest: 00:07:26

Chapter Five: It’s a matter of antitrust: 00:18:01

Chapter Six: Tiny Victories: 00:30:53

Epilogue: Bring it home, Max: 00:35:33

Post Show Musings: 00:42:49

Know Your Bills: 00:43:16

Outro: 00:57:57

Resources

Business Insider: Jeff Bezos famously embraces failure. Here are the biggest flops Amazon has overcome under his watch.

The New York Times: Amazon reports slowing sales growth and indicates slowdown may continue.

Marketplace Pulse: Amazon Net Sales 1996-2022

World Population Review: GDP Ranked by Country 2022

Forex Sentiment Board: 10 Largest Companies with Highest Revenue in 2022

Insider Intelligence: Amazon annual revenue breakdown by segment in 2022

The Register: Cloud a three-player market dominated by AWS, Google, Microsoft

CNBC: Amazon has a $31 billion a year advertising business

E Marketer: Amazon has a larger advertising business than YouTube - Insider Intelligence Trends, Forecasts & Statistics

Forbes: Amazon Buys MGM For $8.5 Billion: Deal Could Be Unwound In The Future

Next Big Brand: Here Is The List Of Top 10 Firms Acquired By Amazon

TechCrunch: Amazon to acquire autonomous driving startup Zoox

CB Insights: Visualizing Tech Giants' Billion-Dollar Acquisitions

PYMNTS.com: Amazon's All-Time High US eCommerce Share: 56.7%

Reveal News: Private Report Shows How Amazon Drastically Undercounts Its Carbon Footprint

Congress.gov: 117th Congress (2021-2022): Protecting the Right to Organize Act of 2021

Book Love

Alec MacGillis: Fulfillment: Winning and Losing in One-Click America

Pod Love

Pitchfork Economics

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In today's Show Notes minisode we continue to celebrate #FMF Day by reading Unf*cker’s scathing comments towards ‘ol Milty, continue to shit on Amazon (and even get some Elon digs in) and Manny regales us with some Newark/Atlanta stories.

Listen to BONUS: Happy F*ck Milton Friedman Day.

Listen to Amazon (Part 1).

Chapters

Intro: 00:00:20

Emails: 00:02:32

Facebook Shout Outs: 00:28:03

Twitter Shout Outs: 00:34:37

Instagram Shout Outs: 00:36:25

Substack Shout Outs: 00:41:12

Buy Me A Coffee Donations + Memberships: 00:41:51

Reviews: 00:46:15

Outro: 00:48:43

Resources

Heather McGhee: The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together to Collections

UNFTR: The Economics of Racism.

UNFTR: Student Debt.

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

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

Red Wine & Blue Website

Red Wine & Blue FB Groups

Best of the Left  #1495 No One Supports the Economic Interests of Rural America

News Beat: Why We Riot

Chloe Maxmin + Canyon Woodward: Dirt Road Revival: How to Rebuild Rural Politics and Why Our Future Depends on It

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The first of a two part series on Amazon. In many ways, Amazon is the logical extension of America’s perverted version of neoliberal capitalism. The self-described libertarian founder Jeff Bezos created a company with nearly 100% brand recognition that has permeated our daily lives in obvious ways and some not so obvious ways. In Part 1 we examine Amazon’s relationship with its hometown of Seattle, its obsessive focus on the customer to the exclusion of all else and how it built its power base in Washington D.C.

Chapters

Intro: 00:00:20

Chapter One: Seattle Not-so Super Sonic: 00:07:33

Chapter Two: Customer Centric: 00:17:32

Chapter Three: Gaming the System: 00:25:44

Coffee Break 00:19:22

Post Show Musings: 00:33:23

Pod Love: 00:56:21

Book Love: 00:57:02

Outro: 00:57:19

Resources

Alec MacGillis: The Cynic: The Political Education of Mitch McConnell

Danny Meyer: Setting the Table

The Seattle Times: Seattle ended decade with faster growth than suburbs, reversing a 100-year trend

The New York Times: The Amazon That Customers Don't See

The Intercept: Amazon Gets Tax Breaks While Its Employees Rely On Food Stamps, New Data Shows

The Guardian: Top Amazon boss privately advised US government on web portal worth billions to tech firm

The Hill: Monopoly critics decry ‘Amazon amendment’

Book Love

Alec MacGillis: Fulfillment: Winning and Losing in One-Click America

Pod Love

Pitchfork Economics

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Manny Faces joins Max and 99 in studio for the first time ever. The three celebrate the dastardly legacy of Milton Friedman, reflect on the growth and evolution of the podcast and each reveal something new about themselves. It's a quick and breezy hang. Won't you join in? #FMF

Listen to the original F*ck Milton Friedman episode.

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In today's Show Notes minisode Max rides solo and struggles to understand how emails or social media work.

Okay, it wasn't that bad. Max teases some new features that are coming later this summer, gets pumped up for Fuck Milton Friedman day, and has some fun chats with (to?) the listeners about the last few episodes.

Listen to Congressional Summer School.

Chapters

Intro: 00:00:20

Emails: 00:09:21

Social Shout Outs: 00:45:46

Buy Me A Coffee Donations + Memberships: 00:54:49

Outro: 00:55:25

Resources

Best of the Left: #1492 The Great Replacements (Conspiracy vs Reality)

Chloe Maxmin + Canyon Woodward: Dirt Road Revival: How to Rebuild Rural Politics and Why Our Future Depends on It

Stephen Marche: The Next Civil War: Dispatches from the American Future

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