Best Techdirt Podcasts (2025)

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The Resonant Computing Manifesto 47:43

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Earlier today, we joined in announcing the Resonant Computing Manifesto: a call for restoring a culture of technology that empowers users and enriches their lives. The manifesto was created by a group led by Alex Komoroske, and today Alex joins the podcast for a deeper dive into what "resonant computing" means and what a better future might look li…

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Techdirt: The Resonant Computing Manifesto 47:43

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Earlier today, we joined in announcing the Resonant Computing Manifesto: a call for restoring a culture of technology that empowers users and enriches their lives. The manifesto was created by a group led by Alex Komoroske, and today Alex joins the podcast for a deeper dive into what "resonant computing" means and what a better future might look li…

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NPR News Now: NPR News: 12-07-2025 5AM EST 4:40

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Otherppl with Brad Listi: 1011. Lauren Rothery 1:19:58

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Lauren Rothery is the author of the debut novel Television, available from Ecco Books. Rothery was born in London and raised in San Diego. She spent her twenties writing and directing short films and music videos between New York and Los Angeles. In 2020, she moved to Europe and began writing fiction. Television is her first novel. *** ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠…

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NPR News Now: NPR News: 12-07-2025 4AM EST 4:40

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Odd Lots: How Microsoft Excel Conquered Corporate America 18:19

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Excel. If you work in corporate America, that word either inspires laser-focused productivity or pure dread. Over the last 40 years, the spreadsheet software has become synonymous with the best — and worst — of late-stage capitalism. It’s seeped into popular culture and, along the way, made Microsoft one of the world’s most valuable companies.But i…

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NPR News Now: NPR News: 12-07-2025 3AM EST 4:40

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Neon Liberalism: Politics As Culture 1:08:30

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Has culture stagnated in the 21st century? Do the last twenty-five years feel like a blur? What can politics learn from the inherent dynamics of cultural change? And is Donald Trump the greatest kitsch artist of our time? Join Samantha Hancox-Li and guest W. David Marx, author of the just-released *Blank Space*, as they talk all of this and more. A…

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This Week in Virology: TWiV 1277: Vaccine talk with Jake Scott 1:38:33

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Infectious diseases physician Jake Scott returns to TWiV to discuss the dangerous anti-vaccine policies being established in the US and what RFK Jr. and his associates get wrong. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Rich Condit, and Angela Mingarelli Guest: Jake Scott Subscribe (free): Apple Podcasts, RSS, email Become a patron of TWiV! Links for this episod…

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Letters from an American: December 5, 2025 14:42

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Get full access to Letters from an American at heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/subscribeBy Heather Cox Richardson

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Bannon`s War Room: Episode 4979: Corruption In The Brian Cole Case; Israel's Sovereignty

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Episode 4979: Corruption In The Brian Cole Case; Israel's SovereigntyBy WarRoom.org

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Bannon`s War Room: Episode 4978: Globalists Descend On Qatar; Underwriting Terrorism In America

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Episode 4978: Globalists Descend On Qatar; Underwriting Terrorism In AmericaBy WarRoom.org

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The Gist: Mike Pesca on the Vig, the Fix, and the John Goodman Thumb 33:43

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On this Saturday edition, Mike Pesca joins the cast of Nobody Listens to Paula Poundstone to explain the dopamine minefield of modern sports betting. He walks Paula and Adam Felber through the mechanics of the "vig," the absurdity of Cleveland pitchers throwing balls into the dirt to cover prop bets, and the time NBA legend Chauncey Billups unwitti…

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Macro N Cheese: Ep 357 - Socialism with Chinese Characteristics with Yan Liang 1:11:33

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In today’s world, anyone serious about anti-imperialism, global development, and monetary sovereignty needs to break through the well-funded US propaganda machine and develop a fact-based, nuanced understanding of China. To this end, Steve asked Yan Liang to come back to the podcast to look at China through the MMT lens, analyzing its economic mana…

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The Opinions: Republicans Are Quietly Pushing Back Against Trump 38:08

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President Trump’s popularity appears to be slipping in the Republican Party and with the American people. This week Republicans eked out a victory in a Tennessee special election, but only after national groups spent millions of dollars shoring up their chosen candidate. Meanwhile, G.O.P. lawmakers seem skeptical of the Trump administration’s justi…

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Bankless: Crypto’s Agentic Future: AI, ZK & Money Networks | Lincoln, Shea, Michael, & Luca

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At our Bankless Summit in Buenos Aires, four standout talks captured the frontier of crypto’s next chapter. Lincoln Murr lays out why x402 is emerging as the missing payment layer for the agentic internet. Shay Ketsdever explains how bots already run modern markets, and how programmable auctions and privacy can turn the bot economy into something t…

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The Daily: 'The Interview': Kristen Stewart Wants to Show Us a Different Kind of Sex 48:29

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The actress and director says the world of filmmaking needs a “full system break.” Thoughts? Email us at [email protected] Watch our show on YouTube: youtube.com/@TheInterviewPodcast For transcripts and more, visit: nytimes.com/theinterview Subscribe today at nytimes.com/podcasts or on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. You can also subscribe via y…

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Jacobin Radio: Dig: Three Million Doors w/ Tascha Van Auken 1:45:19

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Featuring Tascha Van Auken on how Zohran’s campaign mobilized an army of 100,000 volunteers to knock three million doors. Van Auken has been an architect of NYC-DSA’s field operation and its general electoral strategy since the beginning. Organizers everywhere have a lot to learn. Guest hosted by Micah Uetricht. Support The Dig at Patreon.com/TheDi…

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The Nation Podcasts: A Certain Mistake: Jackie Ess on Tolstoy’s Resurrection | Reading Writers 48:55

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Charlotte delves into Ecclesiastes through the work of liberation theologist Elsa Támez (When the Horizons Close) before Jo shares some of Pierre Guyotat’s horny, rapturous literary memoir, Idiocy. Icon of many RW conversations past, the thoughtful Jackie Ess then joins to discuss Tolstoy’s crank-inflected final novel, Resurrection. Jackie Ess is t…

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Otherppl with Brad Listi: Excerpt from 'Empire of Orgasm,' by Ellen Huet 22:54

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Vol. 2 of Story Time, a new series on the program featuring an author reading aloud from her work. In this episode, Ellen Huet reads from Empire of Orgasm: Sex, Power, and the Downfall of a Wellness Cult (MCD Books). Huet is an investigative journalist who covers technology and Silicon Valley forBloomberg News. She writes award-winning features for…

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Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts: SCOTUS Greenlights Trump, Gaslights America 1:07:05

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While the Secretary of Defense pursues lawless boat strikes with a laser focus on maximum trolling, the Supreme Court is working to undermine voting rights with a laser focus on maximum support for Republicans. In this week’s episode of Amicus, Dahlia Lithwick and co-host Mark Joseph Stern discuss the news that Trump’s extra-constitutional attempt …

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This Week in Virology: TWiV 1276: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin 55:25

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In his weekly clinical update, Dr. Griffin and Vincent Racaniello discuss the positive side effect of the shingles vaccine on dementia outcomes and how one dose of the HPV vaccine is non-inferior to two doses, but are dismayed about the FDA’s secrecy around the inflammatory statement that the COVID-19 vaccine is linked to the death of 10 children. …

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Bannon`s War Room: Episode 4977: Ending Birthright Citizenship; MAGA Takes The Pentagon

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Episode 4977: Ending Birthright Citizenship; MAGA Takes The PentagonBy WarRoom.org

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The Gist: Funny You Should Mention: Mohanad Elshieky 1:03:08

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Mohanad Elshieky joins Funny You Should Mention with stories that make Benghazi feel less like a political Rorschach test and more like the small town where he learned comedy by roasting his siblings and dodging unlicensed militias. He walks us through the dictatorship-era silence around politics, the sudden rise of ISIS-adjacent checkpoints, and t…

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Bannon`s War Room: WarRoom Battleground EP 905: White House: EU faces “civilisational erasure” within 20 years

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WarRoom Battleground EP 905: White House: EU faces “civilisational erasure” within 20 yearsBy WarRoom.org

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Strict Scrutiny: SCOTUS Greenlights Racial Gerrymandering in Texas 36:20

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In this emergency episode, Leah, Melissa and Kate break down the Supreme Court’s shadow docket order allowing Texas to use racist and Republican-skewed district maps in next year’s midterms. Get tickets for STRICT SCRUTINY LIVE – The Bad Decisions Tour 2025! 3/6/26 – San Francisco 3/7/26 – Los Angeles Learn more: http://crooked.com/events Order you…

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The Reason Roundtable: Ask Us Anything: Libertarians Answer Your Questions 1:31:18

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It's that time of year when we ask you to open your wallets, dear listener, and make a tax-deductible donation to Reason's annual webathon: https://reason.pub/4pzsSOE. In this special episode of The Reason Roundtable, editors Matt Welch, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Robby Soave, and Peter Suderman respond to all of your burning questions. Nothing is off l…

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Changelog: Very important agents 1:38:18

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Nick Nisi joins us to dig into the latest trends from this year and how they’re impacting his day-to-day coding and Vision Pro wearing. Anthropic’s acquisition of Bun, the evolving JavaScript and AI landscape, GitHub’s challenges and the AMP/Sourcegraph split. They dive into AI development practices, context management, voice assistants, Home Assis…

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The Naked Pravda: Andrei Sannikov on Lukashenko’s latest gambit — and why the West keeps taking the bait 24:17

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Belarusian pro-democracy activist Andrei Sannikov recently joined Beet editor Eilish Hart for a conversation recorded on the sidelines of the Halifax International Security Forum. The interview focused on the Trump administration’s growing engagement with Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, including efforts to secure the release of more tha…

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Big Technology Podcast: AI Device Wars Heat Up, RIP Metaverse?, Netflix Acquires Warner Brothers 1:03:26

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Ranjan Roy from Margins is back for our weekly discussion of the latest tech news. We cover: 1) AI Device Wars are here 2) Apple loses its head of user interface design 3) Meta's chances in the AI device wars 4) Apple's Ai device will only be as good as the assistant 5) OpenAI's AI device could work? 6) Amazon's Alexa+ is underrated 7) Google Glass…

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The Bulwark Podcast: Tommy Vietor: The 'Peace' President 1:01:08

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Trump is overseeing extrajudicial killings off the coast of Venezuela but nothing was going to stop him from getting a peace prize—even if it’s a fake one from super highly reputable FIFA. He also helped himself to a federal agency that used to work on peace initiatives, but which Elon DOGE’d. Democrats should embrace the spirit of McCain and focus…

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The Dig: Three Million Doors w/ Tascha Van Auken 1:45:19

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Featuring Tascha Van Auken on how Zohran’s campaign mobilized an army of 100,000 volunteers to knock three million doors. Van Auken has been an architect of NYC-DSA’s field operation and its general electoral strategy since the beginning. Organizers everywhere have a lot to learn. Guest hosted by Micah Uetricht. Support The Dig at Patreon.com/TheDi…

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The Majority Report with Sam Seder: 3539 - Who's Coming for Hegseth and Mike Johnson's Mutiny Woes w/ Jeet Heer, Rep Summer Lee 2:45:56

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It's Casual Friday on the Majority Report On today's program: On CNN, John Berman spars with Senator Tom Cotton over the legality of the boat strikes, and Cotton offers nothing but total deference to his supreme leader, Donald Trump. National Affairs correspondent at The Nation magazine, Jeet Heer joins Sam and Emma to wrap the week's news. The thr…

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The Bitchuation Room: Wicked And The Politics of Revolution 13:02

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Is Glinda a centrist? Is Elphaba a revolutionary leader or did she fail? And how does the story of Elphaba and Glinda working together teach us some lessons for fighting fascism in a very unmagical place: present-day United States. Francesca unpacks the political allegories in Wicked, beyond Oz’s anti-animal fascism, to look at how the allyship bet…

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Letters from an American: December 4, 2025 8:17

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Get full access to Letters from an American at heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/subscribeBy Heather Cox Richardson

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Serious Trouble: Cases Dismissed 23:21

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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.serioustrouble.show The criminal cases against James Comey and Letitia James were both dismissed, without prejudice, on the grounds that former insurance attorney Lindsey Halligan was never properly appointed as an interim US Attorney. Trump’s Justice Department has options, and we t…

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Compact Podcast: Compact Conversations: Lenny Benardo 53:30

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Lenny Benardo of the Open Society Foundations joins Matthew Schmitz to talk about Karl Popper, Bernie Sanders, Angela Merkel, and Donald Tusk. Compact Magazine is reader-supported. Become a member and gain unlimited access. https://compactmag.com/subscribe

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Breaking Points with Krystal and Saagar: 12/5/25:Bannon Praises Ryan, Hegseth Boat Strikes, Pentagon Press Clowns & MORE! 1:02:53

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Ryan, Emily, Griffin and Mac discuss Bannon praising Ryan's reporting, Hegseth orders new boat strikes, Pentagon press core clowned & MORE. Mac's YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/GoodPoliticGuy Griffin: https://x.com/griffinpdavis To become a Breaking Points Premium Member and watch/listen to the show AD FREE, uncut and 1 hour early visit: www.brea…

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Bannon`s War Room: Episode 4976: What London Show Us On Taking On The Deep State; Victory For Health Freedom

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Episode 4976: What London Show Us On Taking On The Deep State; Victory For Health FreedomBy WarRoom.org

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Bannon`s War Room: Episode 4975: SCOTUS Hands Texas A Massive Victory And The Fight For Redistricting

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Episode 4975: SCOTUS Hands Texas A Massive Victory And The Fight For RedistrictingBy WarRoom.org

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Hillsdale College Podcast Network: The Making of the American Mind

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Guest: Matthew Spalding Host Scot Bertram talks with: Matthew Spalding, vice president of Washington Operations and dean of the Van Andel Graduate School of Government at Hillsdale College in Washington, D.C, about his new book, The Making of the American Mind: The Story of our Declaration of Independence, and the intellectual tradition that inspir…

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The Dishcast with Andrew Sullivan: George Packer On Our Post-Liberal World 53:30

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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com George is a journalist and novelist. He was a long-time staff writer at The New Yorker, now a staff writer at The Atlantic. He’s the author of 10 books, including The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America — which won the National Book Award — and Our …

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Bell Curve: Platforms in Crypto: The Next Phase of Crypto Growth | Roundup 1:13:49

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This week, Mippo, Myles, and Xavier sat down to discuss platforms in crypto. They define what a platform is, explore Ethereum and Solana as tech platforms versus monetary assets, and debate the merits of product-led vs. developer-led growth go-to-market strategies. They also dive into the challenges of building and scaling ecosystems, and give thei…

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Behind the News with Doug Henwood: Behind the News, 12/4/25 53:00

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Behind the News, 12/4/25 - guests: David Adler and Matt Kierkegaard on Honduras, Elfadil Ibrahim on Sudan, Eric Blanc on Milwaukee's "sewer socialism" - Doug HenwoodBy Doug Henwood

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Money Stuff: The Podcast: Flying High in Bird Heaven: MSTR, PSUS, ETF 28:55

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Matt and Katie discuss corporate holiday parties, shareholder meetings, the Strategy narrative arc, Strategy's dollar reserve, an ouroboros of newsletters, digital asset treasury companies in indexes, the brief beautiful life of Katie's bird, Bill Ackman's closed-end fund plans, CEFs vs. ETFs, Howard Hughes, buffer ETFs and the ETFization of struct…

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The Nation Podcasts: U.S. Moves Toward Venezuela Attack, Double-Tap Strike in Caribbean, DRC–Rwanda Peace Deal Collapses | American Prestige 50:21

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Subscribe now to skip the ads and get more content. Don’t forget to download our Chinese Prestige miniseries, currently on sale for $5. Annual subscribers get the series free! Despite sitting on a large surplus of Labubus, Danny and Derek work hard to bring you the news. This week: in Russia-Ukraine, new US diplomacy goes nowhere (1:08), Ukraine is…

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The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens: Inflation, Deflation, & Simplification: The 8 Things That Influence Prices | Frankly 115 26:09

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In this week's Frankly, Nate explores how the prices we encounter in our daily lives are influenced by not only how much money is in the system, but also by resource depletion, technology, affordability by 'the masses,' and trust within a complex global system. Prices are deeply intertwined with the biophysical reality that underpins our society, a…