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The Left needs to figure out how to weigh its critiques of Antifa against the movement's success.
David Griscom
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David Griscom’s Journalist Portfolio
View as a gridLiving in the Capitalists' Casino
CounterPunch
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The stock market, for all of its seeming mystery, is more of an emotional barometer for the rich than a reflection of material production. Abstracted from the lived experiences of those it exploits, it reflects the jubilation and depression of the wealthy. On Monday, the Dow dropped 1,600 points the largest point decline in one day in history.
Financial Discontents
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Despite the clever sloganeering of Occupy Wall Street, there is much confusion among the general public about the true nature of economic oppression. While it is easy to understand why the economy appears to many as inscrutable, we must not let ourselves willfully fall into the trap of obscurantism.
Luxury Hi-Rises Won't Make Housing More Affordable (TMBS 51)
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David talks about the housing crisis and its causes.
Silicon Valley's Basic Income Ideas Won't Save Us (TMBS 50)
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David Griscom talks about supercommuters, rising housing costs, and why tech-UBI isn't going to save you.
TMBS - 48 - Centrism Isn't Sexy & Are Russian Spies Among Us? ft. Matt Taibbi
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I talk about FANG and how Amazon's centralization provides significant opportunities for labor organizing, begins at 36 minute mark.
TMBS - 44 - Trump's North Korea Premiers & Deprogramming the Musk Cult ft Mike Hanna & Cody Johns...
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50:33 David Griscom breaks down some important factors in the unemployment rates, the lack of productivity in the US, and why robots aren’t taking your job.
TMBS - 42 - The Color Of Money ft. Mehrsa Baradaran & Felix Biederman
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The debut episode of my new economic and financial news segment on The Michael Brooks Show, this week investigating the unfolding African debt crisis. The segment begins around the 59-minute mark.
TMBS - 39 - Bombs, Coups, and Local Elections ft. Glenn Greenwald & Julia Salazar
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TMBS - 32 - 15 Years Of Iraq & Peterson's Ongoing Meltdown ft. Meghan Day & Matt Binder
The Michael Brooks Show
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Discussing my New Statesman piece on The Michael Brooks Show, a left-wing politics and history podcast.
When 'Fake News' is Good For Business
CounterPunch
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When a neologism is repeated with uniformity by corporate media, billionaires, and across party lines, we should worry. Hearing people blather about fake news was once a minor social annoyance, the type of argument that hanged limply in people's mouths when they had nothing insightful to say.
Bombs Bursting in Air: the Media's Love Story in Syria
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Gore Vidal called our country "the United States of Amnesia." Not only is the American media forgetful they fight violently not to remember. Every day is a new day, every war a new war. As the bombs were launched cable TV bombarded us with uniform accounts: the bombings were "surgical," "effective," and "proportional."
GRISCOM: A Socialist Take on the 'US-China Trade War'
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Griscom breaks down the ongoing trade war with China.
The Decade of Not Jailing Bankers (TMBS 58 ft. Matt Taibbi)
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Matt Taibbi (@MattTaibbi) joins us in the studio to talk about what it's like a decade out from the financial crisis. This is free content from the weekly edition of TMBS.