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FTN 300: I Am the Line Thy God

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Jazz and James hit the big breaking topics out of the gate: urns piling up, millions of closed cell phone accounts, theater closures, reinfections, and rioting, Trump's refusal to release disaster unemployment funds, and 175K Instacart workers poised for a Monday strike. After the break, we pivot to the Fed-Treasury merger (implying) and a nnndeep-nnndive into BlackRock - who they are, what they own, and how they control just about everything. In part 3, we go snorkel depth on the Defense Production Act. If it's Sunday, it's FTN!

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FTN 298: An Inconvenient Coof

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Jazz and James parse fact from fiction pertaining to the rumors of a national shutdown, surveying the latest escalations by state governments, border "closures", extrapolating links between unemployment and crime data, and the bungled attempts by the U.S. government so far to help the people hurting the most. In part 2, it's Senate stonk fraud, dire economic forecasts, what Bill Ackman's freakout really means, billionaire bunkers, and gen pop's refusal to self-isolate. In the bonus hour, we leave freefegs behind for a look at Chinese noooonce, the U.S. government's refusal to let a good crisis go to waste, and the fact that nobody is telling you the truth about anything. If it's Sunday, it's a cold take vaccine from FTN!

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FTN 296: Neoliberal Viral Load

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Jazz and James flex on the official smooth brain testing narrative as the White House moves to classify all top-level health briefings at HHS. Then we pivot to CPAC/AIPAC as ground zero for the coronavirus outbreak in the U.S., Bolsonaro's end game in Brazil, China's Thousand Talents Plan, and ice cold takes from conservative pundits. In the second half, we dig deep on the fragility of the markets in the context of a pandemic and the potential for deleterious downstream impacts on working class Americans, closing with one of most impacted groups - in good times and in bad - America's farmers. If it's a Sunday in self-isolation, it's a 3.5 hour FTN!

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FTN 294: T.N.T. and I'll Rig the Fight

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Jazz and James pack the punch of T.N.T. election rigging, Lizzy Warren needs a wahmen timeout, Bloomie's Chinese Bond Libel, townhall bloviating, and totally just the flu bro in a very full first half, followed by a slightly nnndeeper-than-snorkel-nnndepth nnndive on the origins of the Federalist Society in the second. If it's Sunday, it's another (almost) 3 hour FTN!

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