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Elon Musk’s Twitter Takeover: Free Speech or Right-Wing Takeover?
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Chatter #377 – Jamie Bartlett: The People vs Tech – Are We Being Radicalized By The Internet?!
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Chatter #376 – Patricia Pino: Can’t We Just Print Our Own Money? [The Lies About Inflation]
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Chatter #375 – Sooz Kempner: A Sitcom with No Punchlines – US and UK Politics
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Chatter #374 – Esther Krakue: Trump, Starmer & Davos – Are Politicians So Out Of Touch?
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Chatter #373 – Anita Krishna: Fired From CBC For Questioning Covid Narrative
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MMT It’s Time To Face The Music

MMT It’s Time To Face The Music

Josh Hamilton6 years ago5 years ago06 mins

Over the past few decades and increasingly more so in recent years, there has been a new economic school of thought emerging on the left: Modern Monetary Theory, or MMT. The idea has been supported by Stephanie Kelton (a former advisor to Bernie Sanders) and Alexandria Ocasio Cortez in the US and John McDonnell in…

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Chatter #55 – Ryan Hoey on How Coronavirus Vindicates Austerity

Chatter #55 – Ryan Hoey on How Coronavirus Vindicates Austerity

Josh Hamilton6 years ago6 years ago01 mins

Ryan Hoey, a politics student at Queen’s University Belfast. I got in touch with Ryan after he wrote a piece for https://www.challengesni.com/ entitled “Coronavirus Vindicates Austerity”. I was curious to explore the arguments he laid out in his piece, especially given the noise coming from the left about how the spending commitments made by the…

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