After the US government shutdown of 2018-2019 witheld two paychecks from 800,000 federal workers and countless more contractors and businesses, and with US officials encouraging furloughed employees to simply take out loans, we've got debt on the mind again. Citizens of the US and UK are experiencing record high levels of debt concurrent with falling wages, and higher costs of living. But the financial systems that enable these vicious debt spirals play out on the world stage, as private companies and wealthy governments alike employ innovative strategies for ensnaring vulnerable countries, companies, and individuals in inescapable economic webs. Vulture funds play an important role here, but we also want to understand how the opportunities for vulture funds open in the first place. Will we finally solve the global debt crisis, or will the hole get deeper and deeper?
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Ep 107 – Face Off
Ep 106 – Human Nature
Ep 105 – School's Out
Ep 104 – This Land Is My Land
Ep 103 – Minimum Justice
Ep 102 – The Then, The Now, and The Next
Ep 101 – Collapse Chat: We Didn't Start the Fire
Ep 100 – One Hundred Years of Ashes
Ep 99 – Collapse Chat: Border Patrol Catch COVID-19
Ep 98 – Water World (Spoiler: Not So Good)
Ep 97 – Collapse Chat: Borders, Fires, Viruses, and Cannibalism
Ep 96 – Walls That Divide U.S.
Ep 95 – Collapse Chat: Silviculturists, Entrepreneurs and Social Science
Ep 94 – If a Tree Falls
Ep 93 – Collapse Chat: Birds, Vindictive Climate, and Cinnamon Toast Crunch
Ep 92 – Good Heavens
Ep 91 – Collapse Chat: Name and Shame, Community, and Re-Imaginings
Ep 90 – A Grave Situation
Ep 89 – Collapse Chat: Banality, Good, and Evil
Ep 88 – This Land is Our Land
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