#055 Pump & Dump: Crypto Stories For Children

Friday, 27 June 2025 - 5:30pm to 6:30pm
Pump & Dump: Crypto Stories For Children

Anne and Kev thank our (known and unknown and known unknown) donors for our successful Radiothon 2025. Kev has spent days wrestling with his spreadsheet in preparation for looking at what happened when Australian treasurer Peter Costello paid down the government debt. Anne fries what's left of Kev's brain in the tech-bro fantasies of astronomical crypto wealth, courtesy of a conversation between Professor William Black, and Eric Vaughan.

 

Show Notes

 

Saturday 5th July, 1-4pm
MMT Workshop (free, click for tickets)
Public Money. Public Good.
Torrens University, Flinders St Campus, Room 3.03

 

Friday 15th August, 9:30am-1pm
A New Economic Vision for the Labour Movement (free, public forum)
Unionists for a Job Guarantee (UFJG)
Victorian Trades Hall
54 Victoria St, Carlton VIC 3053

 

What is Anarcho-Capitalism?
Eric Vaughan director of the documentary, THE CON, speaking with Professor William Black 
Episode #04, of a youtube series by Corruption Inc: The American Way
June 4, 2025

 

The CON (free to air, 5-part docuseries)

 

Trump Signs Executive Order to Create Sovereign-Wealth Fund
WSJ News, Feb 4, 2025

 

Trump Wants Big Tech to Own the Dollar
(Op-ed for Project Syndicate by Yanis Varoufakis, 5 June 2025)

 

Lever Time (podcast, more info)
Big Tech’s Monopoly Money,  Jun 5, 2025

 

How to Pay for Destroying Your Country (blogpost, more info)
by Katy Swain

 

Theme Music

Pleading Ignorance, by Ed Kuepper, from the album Starstruck.
 

Additional Audio

Too Many Things, by Ed Kuepper, from the album Starstruck.

 

Pump It Up by Endor

 

Presumptuous by King Gizzard