About this episode

The episode discusses the implications of Citizens United on political influence and the financial landscape, alongside the shifting goals of war and the role of BlackRock in economic crises.

Send us Fan Mail If you want to understand why everything feels like chaos, start with the incentives. We talk about war goals that keep shifting, why nobody defines what “winning” even means, and how panic and turmoil can be used to push massive changes. Then we get into the money side: Citizens United, why money got treated like speech, and how that opened the floodgates for influence. We also break down the BlackRock timeline from 2008, the bailouts, and how power grows when the system ge...

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Host: Zachary Foust

Topics covered

• Citizens United
• BlackRock
• war goals
• money and influence
• political chaos
• bailouts

Keywords

• Citizens United
• BlackRock
• political influence
• war goals
• financial crisis
• bailouts
• money as speech

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Organizations: BlackRock

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