Ep. 36 The New Fed Head, Enshittification: Amazon; Threat of Stagflation Looms

from Plato's Cave: Economic and Media Analysis in a Dark Time · host Professors Bill Waller and Linda Robertson

Bill explains the route to approval by the new Fed Chairman, we discuss how the war in Iran threatens to lead into stagflation; Linda explains how enshittification of Amazon relates to Amazon's entry into the online entertainment industry. Bill introduces us to AI Theology Porn in response to Trump's meme of himself as Jesus, and Linda introduces the term Slopaganda to describe the AI generated videos from Iran that are flooding YouTube.

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