Ep. 38: The Economy, Defending the Strait, and Irony

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

It was a week even the Onion couldn't invent. A customer service representative in Chicago hung up on the Pope, people believed a spoof prank about the "Gays of Hormuz," and the Secretary of State gave the Pope a tiny, crystal football. The economy continues to head in the wrong direction, and the plan to escort shipping from the Gulf of Hormuz using AI sounds like a sci-fi thriller about totally autonomous warfare.

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