Sam and Emma host Alexandra Scaggs, reporter for the Financial Times, to discuss the recent turmoil surrounding the Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank. First, Sam and Emma run through updates on inflation, the FDIC’s upcoming bank auctions, EPA water regulations, SCOTUS taking on a massive Shadow Docket case on trans rights, and South Carolina lawmakers proposing a […]

Sam and Emma host Ryan Grim, DC Bureau Chief at The Intercept, to discuss his new bombshell report “The Bigger Short” on how the Wall St housing crisis of 2008 could happen again, this time in commercial real estate. Grim shares foreboding research that shows up to a third of all commercial real estate loans […]

Noted economist and author James K. Galbraith on rise of inequality in America,  the financialization of our system, its inherent instability