Plato's Cave: Economic and Media Analysis in a Dark Time
By Professors Bill Waller and Linda Robertson
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Episodes: 30
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Critically examining current political and economic policy, and more importantly, how the media is framing our current policy debates.
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When is a IPO like a Ponzi Scheme? Or Tulip Mania? Can Altman be trusted?
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Jun 15, 2026 |
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Incompotus Names Incompetent Intel Director; Can the US Default on its Debts? Tulipmania and AI; The Murder of "60 Minutes"
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Jun 05, 2026 |
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Ep 39: Bond Yields and the Feds; Musk Loses Lawsuit; Altman's Open AI; Rubio, the Jock?
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May 27, 2026 |
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Ep. 38: The Economy, Defending the Strait, and Irony
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May 15, 2026 |
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Slopaganda, Inflation Metrics, Assassination Cynicism, the King's Speech
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May 06, 2026 |
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Ep. 36 The New Fed Head, Enshittification: Amazon; Threat of Stagflation Looms
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Apr 27, 2026 |
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Ep35. AI Danger to Financial Markets; War in Iran; Oh! Netanyahu, What Did You Do?; Whose God, part 2; Lego Propaganda; Enshittification; Funniest Headline Ever
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Apr 15, 2026 |
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Episode 34: God and War; Traitorous Insider Trading; Economic Troubles; Lift Off!
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Apr 08, 2026 |
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Episode 33: Grim economic and media news BUT Noem is out!
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Mar 11, 2026 |
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Episode 32: Media Mergers, Prices and Inflation, the War in Iraq (before it started), that Picture of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor
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Mar 02, 2026 |
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Episode 31: Pam Bondi’s self-immolation, the nuances of the economy, Bad Bunny’s Halftime
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Feb 19, 2026 |
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Episode 30: Epstein, The Economy, ICE, Ghost Fleet
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Feb 10, 2026 |
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Episode 29. Jan.12 2026. The Economy, Texas A&M Censors Plato, ICE commits murder, Ghost Fleets, Oil, and Venezuela
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Jan 13, 2026 |
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Episode 28: the Economy, CBS takeover, that Vanity Press article
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Dec 28, 2025 |
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December 19, 2025: The meaning of affordability in a sinking economy; billionaires controlling the media; the Press "sanewashing" Trump's comments on the murder of the Reiners
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Dec 18, 2025 |
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Nov. 23 The Economy, Military Code, BBC, Summers, Vlad the Impaler
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Nov 23, 2025 |
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Nov. 16 2025 Democrats Cave, but did they lose? Republicans Dither on Medical Costs and Epstein Files. Suing the BBC as Kabuki
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Nov 16, 2025 |
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The Fed Stymied, Senators find a Spine, Amazon and Google Sell Out
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Nov 03, 2025 |
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Gaza Peace-Really?
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Oct 26, 2025 |
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Economic Update: Who has some data? Magical Thinking in Policy
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Oct 11, 2025 |
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The faltering economy, invading Portland, and frightening comedy of the absurd by Trump and his minions
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Oct 04, 2025 |
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A Tariff Revenues Controversy. Governor Newsom's irony and an audience devoid of humor. More Tibits on Corruption and Predictive Guilt and Sentencing
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Aug 30, 2025 |
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Trumps wants to fire another economist and Scary Predictive Policing
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Aug 22, 2025 |
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Lies, Statistics, and the Palantir's Founders Film plans to make right-wing propaganda films--everything old is new again
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Aug 15, 2025 |
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Lying about and with Statistics and the Attack on the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and independent news
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Aug 08, 2025 |
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Corruption at the FCC and Losing our [best] Minds
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Aug 01, 2025 |
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Harvard v Trump administration: You can't fix stupid.
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Jul 25, 2025 |
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The ACLU injunctions success. And "ICE, ICE, Baby!": The labor market , agriculture, and due process under attack.
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Jul 18, 2025 |
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How the Big Bad Bill actually effect Social Security taxes and tips: Or why in the heck am I paying more, rather than less taxes? July 11, 2025
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Jul 15, 2025 |
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Bond Yields: Is the sky falling? (June Episode)
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Jul 15, 2025 |