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Season 2023

  • SPECIAL 0x1 Introduction

    • December 27, 2022

    Dan sets out the scope of this new series and gives an overview of the economic challenges ahead of us.

  • S2023E01 Inflation: The Great Lie

    • January 3, 2023

    Dan discusses the phenomenon of inflation, exploring how it serves as a form of taxation to systematically redistribute wealth from wage earners to the government and banks.

  • S2023E02 Interest Rates: The Lever Is Broken

    • January 10, 2023

    Dan discusses interest rates, the main tool of Central Bankers, and how their utility is now broken.

  • S2023E03 Debt & Deficits: No Good Options from Here

    • January 17, 2023

    Dan discusses the UK government's enormous debt and budget deficit, and why they no longer have any good options left.

  • S2023E04 Gold

    • January 24, 2023

    Dan examines the applications of gold, including its use by governments as money and by individuals as a means of preserving wealth.

  • SPECIAL 0x2 Round Up

    • January 31, 2023

    Carl joins Dan to discuss the first five episodes of Brokenomics and answer some questions from the viewers.

  • S2023E05 Bitcoin

    • February 7, 2023

    Dan explains Bitcoin, the futuristic digital currency changing the way we do business in the world.

  • S2023E06 Central Bank Digital Currencies

    • February 14, 2023

    Dan discusses Central Bank Digital Currencies and their potential to enslave us.

  • S2023E07 WWID: What Would I Do?

    • February 21, 2023

    It's easy to criticize the system, but what would I do if I could?

  • S2023E08 Digital IDs with Nick Corbishley

    • February 28, 2023

    The elites are fully aware that the Ponzi Scheme of late-stage capitalism, built upon the foundations of unpayable levels of public and private debt, will soon crash. Before that happens, they are trying to usher in a neofeudal society, in which they can continue to hold most of the power and wealth.

  • S2023E09 Face Masks with Hector Drummond

    • March 7, 2023

    Dan & Hector dismantle the evidence used to force face masks on a nation.

  • SPECIAL 0x3 Q&A II: US Capitalism Is Breaking Down

    • March 14, 2023

    A special live Brokenomics chat covering your questions and the current banking collapse that began with SVB over the weekend.

  • S2023E10 Introduction to Investing

    • March 21, 2023

    This week Dan goes over an introductory look into investing.

  • S2023E11 Business Cycle

    • March 28, 2023

    How does the economy function over short, medium and long time spans, in this episode Dan breaks down the business cycle from the single transaction to the full 80-100 years of the long-term debt cycle.

  • S2023E12 BlackRock Inc.

    • April 4, 2023

    They own everything - but what is the real story here?

  • S2023E13 The Economics of Lockdown with Simon Elmer

    • April 11, 2023

    Dan & Simon discuss the events of the Covid lockdowns and what they can tell us about the future direction of the UK.

  • S2023E14 Big Ideas

    • April 18, 2023

    The world is about to experience a combination of new technologies that could radically alter our economic trajectory and change the way we live and work forever - Dan looks at these technologies and what they might mean

  • S2023E15 Thomas Sowell

    • April 25, 2023

    Connor joins Dan to discuss one of the LotusEaters favourite Economic thinkers - the Legendary Thomas Sowell.

  • S2023E16 The Economics of Margin Call

    • May 2, 2023

    Dan takes a look at the 2008 Great Financial Crisis through the medium of the fictional - but nevertheless informative, example of the film Margin Call which highlights many of the key concepts that lead to downturn becoming a crisis.

  • S2023E17 Universal Basic Income

    • May 9, 2023

    Dan takes a look at Universal Basic Income - UBI as a possible solution to the coming revolution in AI and robotics - or perhaps as an alternative to the existing welfare system.

  • S2023E18 Investing: Part II with Peter Lawery

    • May 16, 2023

    Dan is joined by former Jupiter Fund Manager Peter Lawery to discuss Investing in the second part of the Investment mini-series.

  • S2023E19 The Price of Tomorrow with Jeff Booth

    • May 23, 2023

    Dan interviews Jeff Booth, technology entrepreneur and author of the Price of Tomorrow.

  • S2023E20 Debt Ceiling

    • May 30, 2023

    Dan discusses the US debt ceiling which has occupied the news in recent weeks.

  • S2023E21 WTF Happened in 1971

    • June 6, 2023

    Dan takes a look at the brilliant website wtfhappenedin1971.com and discusses the effect of the 1971 Nixon Shock when the US dollar stopped being backed by gold and became a debt backed currency.

  • S2023E22 Rent Controls

    • June 13, 2023

    Dan takes a look at rent controls after Sadiq Khan and other politicians propose this as a solution of London's high cost of housing.

  • S2023E23 Investing: Part III with Peter Lawery

    • June 20, 2023

    Dan is again joined by former Jupiter Fund Manager Peter Lawery to discuss Investing in the third part of the Investment mini-series.

  • S2023E24 Peter St. Onge

    • June 27, 2023

    Dan interviews Austrian Economist Peter St Onge.

  • S2023E25 Aliens

    • July 4, 2023

    Dan looks at the increased attempts to slow roll an alien invasion narrative into the public mind, the feasibility of aliens & visitation and the possible motives..

  • S2023E26 4th Turning

    • July 11, 2023

    Dan looks at the 4th Turning, an influential book that seeks to understand generational cycles and how they shape history.

  • SPECIAL 0x4 Where Are We At?

    • July 18, 2023

    Dan sits down with the audience to give his view of where we are and where we are going.

  • S2023E27 Economics of the USSR

    • July 25, 2023

    Dan & Josh look at the incentives or lack of in the USSR economic model and draw comparisons with the modern world.

  • S2023E28 Free Your Mind

    • August 1, 2023

    Dan speaks to authors Laura Dodsworth & Patrick Fagan about their new book - Free your Mind, a look a how psyops are now routinely employed against western populations.

  • S2023E29 Lawrence Lepard

    • August 8, 2023

    Dan talks with Lawrence Lepard founder of Equity Management Associates, LLC (EMA) - a Boston money management firm. Larry is a former pilot and Harvard business school graduate.

  • S2023E30 Decivilisation

    • August 15, 2023

    Dan and Carl discuss the rot within the culture and their differing optimism for our prospects.

  • S2023E31 James Lavish

    • August 22, 2023

    Dan talks to 'reformed hedge-fund manager' James Lavish, who spent thirty years on Wall Street, working for some of the world’s largest investment banks.

  • S2023E32 Elon Musk

    • August 29, 2023

    Dan does a deep dive on the life and works of Elon Musk.

  • S2023E33 Economics of Empire with Neema Parvini

    • September 5, 2023

    The Academic agent - Neema Parvini discusses the economics of Empires with Dan

  • S2023E34 The Threat of China

    • September 12, 2023

    Dan speaks to the team at China Uncensored about the growing economic and military rival to the West.

  • S2023E35 Rob Hersov on South Africa

    • September 19, 2023

    Dan speaks to billionaire investor Rob Hersov about the current state of South Africa.

  • S2023E36 House Prices

    • September 26, 2023

    Dan talks with the guys from Lawsh, a small UK housing developer to understand why house prices are so high and so little building takes place.

  • S2023E37 Canadian Truckers

    • October 3, 2023

    Dan talks to Ben J Dichter about the great Canadian Truckers Protest and what it achieved and what we learnt from it.

  • S2023E38 Scott Adams

    • October 10, 2023

    Dan discusses the glass ceiling for white males in corporate America, election integrity, and the fear of COVID with Scott Adams.

  • SPECIAL 0x5 What Are They Up To?

    • October 17, 2023

    Dan performs an off-the-cuff brain dump on what the central bankers and western governments are playing at, and what's in store for the next year.

  • S2023E39 Gaza

    • October 24, 2023

    Dan and Beau look at the background to the conflict in Gaza.

  • S2023E40 Argentina

    • October 31, 2023

    Dan talks to Ariel Aguilar about the history of Argentina currencies and their various falls.

  • S2023E41 NHS

    • November 7, 2023

    Dan sits down with Cancelled Covid Sceptic Dr Ahmed Malik to discuss the state of the NHS, and the madness of Covid.

  • S2023E42 What Can You Ever Own?

    • November 14, 2023

    Dan looks at how money is created, and why that means you will necessarily be impoverished without staying on the right side of the debasement/innovation divide.

  • S2023E43 Confessions of an Economic Hitman

    • November 21, 2023

    Dan and Beau discuss the influential book, confessions of an economic hitman - a hard hitting account of the underhand tools used by the agents of the Global American Empire.

  • S2023E44 Japan

    • November 28, 2023

    Dan considers Japan - a nightmare for policy makers, but is it actually that bad for the Japanese people?

  • S2023E45 What Is An Economy Even For?

    • December 5, 2023

    Dan assembles the team to pose a philosophical question. What’s an economy even for?

  • S2023E46 The Economics of Dating and Marriage

    • December 12, 2023

    Dan and Connor consider the most expensive decision a young man will ever make: his partner. Are the economics of dating and marriage improving or deteriorating?

  • S2023E47 Why Christmas Is Economically Inefficient

    • December 19, 2023

    Dan attempts to ruin everyone's Christmas with his curmudgeonly dislike of the economic efficiency of Christmas in particular the awful economic efficiency of gift giving and other Christmas traditions, why you should eat a KFC at xmas and why Ebenezer Scrooge was the good guy.

  • SPECIAL 0x6 2023 in Review and the Year Ahead

    • December 26, 2023

    Dan rambles without a script about how he thinks the future will unfold. He will be wrong about most of it, but might get one or two things broadly correct.

Season 2024

  • S2024E01 The Economy of Rome

    • January 2, 2024

    Dan and Beau look at the economic decline and fall of the Roman Empire.

  • S2024E02 Sovereign Individual

    • January 9, 2024

    Dan discusses the hugely influential ‘The Sovereign Individual’. A book written in 1997 which made a number of predictions well ahead of their time, such as the mobile phone, social media, bitcoin, that governments would one day fake a pandemic and that the nation state was doomed to fail.

  • S2024E03 Behavioural Economics

    • January 16, 2024

    Josh explains to Dan what Behavioural Economics is and why it has become the default mode of modern government.

  • S2024E04 Islam - with Robert Spencer

    • January 23, 2024

    Dan talks to Robert Spencer of Jihad Watch about the prospects of successfully integrating Islam into the global world.

  • S2024E05 Empire of Dollars

    • January 30, 2024

    Dan talks to Justin about the Empire of Dollars and the advantages and disadvantages that conferes to the world and the American people.

  • S2024E06 The Gig Economy

    • February 6, 2024

    Dan talks about the emerging gig economy with George Bagby, and what starts as a discussion of the dissolving norms of traditional work becomes a discussion of the dissolving norms of tradition and values as a whole.

  • S2024E07 The Putin Interview

    • February 13, 2024

    Dan breaks down the historic interview between Tucker Carlson and Vladimir Putin covering history, the nature of geopolitics and the decline of the dollar.

  • S2024E08 Used Cars

    • February 20, 2024

    Dan talks to Geoff from ‘Geoff Buys Cars’ and Mark Adams on the subject of the used car market.

  • S2024E09 The Total State with Auron Macintyre

    • February 27, 2024

    Dan talks to Auron Macintyre about the Total State and the nature of US political power.

  • S2024E10 Life After a Dollar Collapse: The Mandibles

    • March 5, 2024

    Dan talks to Proper Horrorshow about the book: The Mandibles, a worrying economically accurate depiction of life after the collapse of the dollar as we follow a family going through society after the event.

  • S2024E11 Bitcoin is Back

    • March 12, 2024

    Dan gives his thoughts on the early stages of the bitcoin bull market and what might happen next.

  • S2024E12 One Up On Wall Street

    • March 19, 2024

    Dan goes 80s investing with the classic book ‘One up on Wall Street’ by Peter Lynch.

  • S2024E13 IQ

    • March 26, 2024

    Dan speaks to Professor Ed Dutton on the subject of Intelligence and how our society reacts to it.

  • S2024E14 Children

    • April 2, 2024

    Dan speaks to Po the Person about children, motherhood and the choice between going GirlBoss or TradWife.