About this episode

The episode explores how US media normalizes the threats of capital strikes by the wealthy against populist movements and politicians.

In this episode, we examine how billionaires and corporations threatening capital strikes and capital flight to discipline populist politicians and movements is treated as normal, obvious, and healthy by US media.

People in this episode

Hosts: Nima Shirazi, Adam Johnson

Topics covered

• media analysis
• capital strikes
• democracy
• billionaires
• corporate influence
• populism

Keywords

• capital strikes
• US media
• democracy
• billionaires
• corporations
• populism
• media influence

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: US media

Places: US

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