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There’s a word that’s gained a lot of popularity in the last year: “ensh*ttification”. It refers to a trajectory many see with digital platforms: they initially offer immense value to users, only to systematically degrade that quality over time in order to extract maximum surplus for shareholders.  We invited the coine

Interview recorded - 20th of November, 2025On this episode of the WTFinance podcast I had the pleasure of welcoming back Alex Krainer. Alex has worked as a market analyst, researcher, trader and hedge fund manager since 1996. He is the founder Krainer Analytics and creator of I-System Trend following. During our conver

Trader, writer, and Spicy Italian Meatball (!!) Vince Lanci returns to the podcast to close the loop on our now three-year financial & geopolitical bromance which began with the help of the equally great, but not nearly as spicy Tom Bodroviks then of Palisades Gold Radio and now Competent Investor, when we first discus

Author and Investigative Journalist Richard Poe returns to the podcast to take us on a history lesson centering on Great Britain's complicity in the Bolshevik Revolution and Russian Civil War.  It may or may not resemble activities we're seeing now or have seen in other periods of history.   Show Notes: Richard on Subs

Washington is abuzz with frantic ideas for health-insurance reform, but nothing much is actually happening. A man with excellent is ideas is Dr. Aaron Kheriaty, interviewed here by Jeffrey Tucker. The entire system needs to be blown up and decentralized, but few have the courage to say that. Dr. Kheriaty was on the for