On Macrodose this week: @meadwaj.bsky.social talks the looming food crisis, the US bailout of Japan's yen, and how heat is making nuclear power unreliable.

"As a migrant working here… it's not easy, and it has never been easy." In today's episode of our podcast "Unsung: Cleaners", we hear from Kwasi from Ghana who cleaned the London offices of one of the world’s largest investment banks for 20 years. Listen now @macrodosepod.bsky.social.

“The biggest problem is that they choose the lowest bid. That ends up being paid by the worker.” In this episode of our podcast “Unsung: Cleaners”, we follow the money. We expose how “public procurement” has created a race to the bottom for cleaners. Listen now @macrodosepod.bsky.social.

On Macrodose this week: @meadwaj.bluesky.social talks Andy Burnham and the death of neoliberalism, the global wave of wildfires, and the collapse of the monkey supply chain.

Every workplace depends on cleaners. Every cleaner deserves dignity, respect and a voice. Listen to 'Unsung: Cleaners' by UNI Europa 👇

MACRODOSE@macrodosepod.bsky.social · 4w ago

Behind every clean space is a story, but too often these stories go untold. Cleaners underpin our workplaces, hospitals, schools and public spaces—and yet their labour is often made invisible.

"We are the invisibles. We clean when no one is around." Most people work during the day. But for nearly half of Europe's cleaners, the shift begins when everyone else goes home. Listen now to the second episode of our documentary podcast "Unsung: Cleaners" on @macrodosepod.bsky.social.

Ready to be inspired? These are powerful, must-hear stories from workers about what they need to improve their jobs, their lives and our communities.

MACRODOSE@macrodosepod.bsky.social · 4w ago

Behind every clean space is a story, but too often these stories go untold. Cleaners underpin our workplaces, hospitals, schools and public spaces—and yet their labour is often made invisible.

Check out this podcast on the lives of cleaning staff! @mdbergfeld.bsky.social

MACRODOSE@macrodosepod.bsky.social · 4w ago

Behind every clean space is a story, but too often these stories go untold. Cleaners underpin our workplaces, hospitals, schools and public spaces—and yet their labour is often made invisible.

Behind every clean space is a story, but too often these stories go untold. Cleaners underpin our workplaces, hospitals, schools and public spaces—and yet their labour is often made invisible.

On this week's Macrodose, @meadwaj: - Looks at how heatwaves are breaking data centres - Examines nuclear power plants closing due to extreme heat - And answers a listener question on why the UK borrows rather than prints New episodes every Wednesday

On this week's Macrodose: @meadwaj.bsky.social considers the costs of extreme heat, reflects on the Andy Burnham speech that laid out more of his economic vision, and looks at the still incoming effects of The Strait of Hormuz's closure open.spotify.com/episode/3hDj...

High Cost Heatwaves

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The US-Israeli war on Iran exposed the Strait of Hormuz as a choke point not only for oil but for fertilizers, helium, and seafarers trapped in opaque supply chains. Our podcast of the week analyzes the logistics of warfare. W/ @lalehkhalili.bsky.social on @macrodosepod.bsky.social buff.ly/eAI8NVi

On this week's Macrodose @meadwaj.bsky.social is joined by Jonas Marvin to talk about the economics affecting the food in a changing global climate open.spotify.com/episode/4C2r...

Food As A Site Of Struggle w/ Jonas Marvin (Norwich Transformed)

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On this week's Macrodose, @meadwaj.bsky.social asks if the big tech market crash is finally here, examines the first signs of El Niño's approach, and explains how public investments works in a high interest world open.spotify.com/episode/5Jqa...

Godzilla El Nino Incoming

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On this week's Macrodose, @meadwaj.bsky.social looks at how tech firms are cutting back AI spending, how progressives are taking on the UK political culture of bond market fear, and how a recent change in China’s welfare system will have global consequences open.spotify.com/episode/6rhN...

Houku Overhaul

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On this week's episode @meadwaj.bsky.social looks at adaptation -thinking about how the UK's current heatwave has brought the conversation into public thought and how market-led solutions will only further entrench inequality open.spotify.com/episode/4Rr8...

Adaptation Economics

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Absolute banger, highly recommended. James’ audible rage at our usual government suggestions for the economy - austerity, means-tested benefits, slow industrial development - is impressive. We need price controls and wealth taxes linked to government spending, things that will actually help people.

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The old frameworks are breaking down. So where next for Political Economy in a world of disorder? Join Macrodose x @alameda.institute on May 12th for a live recording of After Order. w/ Juliano Fiori, @chakrabortty.bsky.social, Clara Mattei & @meadwaj.bsky.social Tickets👇 bit.ly/4mkobb9

I had the pleasure of guest featuring on the @macrodosepod.bsky.social newsletter this week, discussing the need to look at the polycrisis from the margins and to reframe our claims to sovereignty to deal with the major crises of our time. You can check it out here:

How to fight Godzilla

This year’s El Niño is worsening the global affordability crisis. An immediate break with the radical centre is the only rational response

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This is something well explored by @macrodosepod.bsky.social "we are no longer living between stable political and economic systems, but through an era defined by overlapping and ongoing crises." www.patreon.com/posts/live-p...

LIVE: Political Economy in a Time of Monsters w/ Aditya Chakrabortty, Clara Mattei  & Juliano Fiori | MACRODOSE

LIVE: Political Economy in a Time of Monsters w/ Aditya Chakrabortty, Clara Mattei  & Juliano Fiori by MACRODOSE on Patreon. Join MACRODOSE's community for exclusive content and updates.

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On this week's episode @meadwaj tackles: Andy Burnham and the bond markets, the upcoming 'Godzilla El Niño' and how it will affect global food systems, and the UK government's position on capping the price of essential foods open.spotify.com/episode/7xeD...

In London, which is supposedly the city of bankers, there are far more care workers than bankers. How often do you hear people talking about care workers? - Aditya Chakrabortty Watch now 📺 Link in bio 🔗

Latest episode of @macrodosepod.bsky.social is guest-hosted by Kojo Koram, author of the upcoming book "The Next Fix: The Winners & Losers In The Future Of Drugs". @kojokoram.bsky.social explores changing world of psychedelics and the wave of corporate interests sweeping in to monopolise new market

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News Commentary Podcast · Updated Weekly · Your weekly fix of everything economics. Hosted by James Meadway.

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In the fifth episode of After Order, the Alameda’s podcast series with Macrodose, James Meadway speaks to Gabriel Tupinambá about popular sovereignty under conditions of growing instability. // @macrodosepod.bsky.social @meadwaj.bsky.social @gabrieltupinamba.bsky.social

Is social democracy dead? Was the post-war settlement just a historical exception? On this week’s AFTER ORDER, @gabrieltupinamba.bsky.social joins @meadwaj.bsky.social to explore the slow cancellation of the past - and what it means for politics today. Watch now 📺️ @alameda.institute Link in bio 🔗

Breaking Big Tech’s grip won’t be easy - we’re all entangled. But it’s the only way to reclaim political power. @paologerbaudo.bsky.social @ceciliarikap.bsky.social and @meadwaj.bsky.social on last week’s AFTER ORDER. Watch now 📺 Link in bio 🔗

We’re pleased to invite you to a live recording of After Order on 12 May — an evening to think through a world characterised by ongoing crises, from economic turbulence to geopolitical fragmentation.

Chaired by Juliano Fiori, the panel brings together Aditya Chakrabortty, Clara Mattei and James Meadway. // @macrodosepod.bsky.social @planetbproductions.bsky.social @meadwaj.bsky.social

Governments must extricate themselves from the web of Big Tech enclosures. @meadwaj.bsky.social @ceciliarikap.bsky.social and @paologerbaudo.bsky.social on breaking Silicon Valley’s grip - and building a digital stack for people, not profit. Watch now 📺️ Link in bio 🔗 @alameda.institute

“This is privatisation on a level we’ve never seen before” Varsha Gandikota-Nellutla and @meadwaj.bsky.social unpack the private capture of diplomacy, and how a profit-loss logic is now seeping into every aspect of the state machine. Link in bio 🔗 @alameda.institute

In the second episode of After Order, Alameda’s podcast series with Macrodose, James Meadway speaks to Thea Riofrancos, author of Extraction: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism, about the new frontiers of extraction // @macrodosepod.bsky.social @triofrancos.bsky.social