Plato's Cave: Economic and Media Analysis in a Dark Time
Critically examining current political and economic policy, and more importantly, how the media is framing our current policy debates.
Latest Episode
Economic Update: Who has some data? Magical Thinking in Policy (12.10.2025)
Previous Episodes
- The faltering economy, invading Portland, and frightening comedy of the absurd by Trump and his minions
- A Tariff Revenues Controversy. Governor Newsom's irony and an audience devoid of humor. More Tibits on Corruption and Predictive Guilt and Sentencing
- Trumps wants to fire another economist and Scary Predictive Policing
- Lies, Statistics, and the Palantir's Founders Film plans to make right-wing propaganda films--everything old is new again
- Lying about and with Statistics and the Attack on the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and independent news
- Corruption at the FCC and Losing our [best] Minds
- Harvard v Trump administration: You can't fix stupid.
- The ACLU injunctions success. And "ICE, ICE, Baby!": The labor market , agriculture, and due process under attack.
- 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
- Bond Yields: Is the sky falling? (June Episode)
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