The EU is Israel’s largest trading partner, even as war rages in Gaza. Exports are rising, arms sales are flowing, and Israel is embedded in Europe’s flagship research programs. Meanwhile, citizens take to the streets in protest, demanding a break that institutions refuse to deliver.

In August 2025, U.S. President Donald Trump will meet Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska — a setting unprecedented for U.S.-Russia relations and fraught with implications for Ukraine, Europe, and the Western alliance.

This episode examines the structural tension between capitalism’s claim to fairness and the profound inequality of starting positions it relies on. 

This episode examines how the United States’ use of the atomic bomb in 1945 marked more than the end of a war. It marked the beginning of a system—a geopolitical structure in which the right to possess and deploy ultimate violence became concentrated, controlled, and enforced through silence, spectacle, and selective legitimacy.

In this episode, we examine the deliberate unraveling of the global trade system by the very nation that once built it.

Most people think economics is reserved for Wall Street analysts or government policymakers, but the reality is that you're making economic decisions every single day.