- 13 minutes 25 secondsDon’t Buy the AI Hype Before Listening to This.
The AI bubble is showing signs of a rapid collapse that investors are ignoring. We break down why the market is primed for a crash. Three major developments are signaling that the current AI craze is reaching a breaking point much faster than Wall Street anticipates. From structural risks in China to the accumulation of off-balance-sheet obligations, these warnings are being drowned out by the noise of election cycles and quarterly earnings reports. This analysis examines how major IPOs in the sector are masking underlying instability. By looking past the current hype, we identify the systemic vulnerabilities that suggest an economic correction is already underway for those willing to look at the data.
Resources
SEC: Anthropic S1
Reuters: In China, the AI bubble has already burst
The New York Times: Musk Pledges SpaceX Stock for ‘Every Kid in America’ as Billionaires Push Direct Donations
The Telegraph: China’s AI boom turns to bust: Stocks suffer $480 billion wipeout as ‘now we see the bubble bursting’
Fortune: Alphabet’s Google Cloud revenue doubles to $31 billion as cash flow stays deep red
CNBC: Alphabet sinks 10% as it holds 2026 capex unchanged, expects significant increase in 2027
Bloomberg: Microsoft’s Surging Cloud Sales Show AI Spending Paying Off
The Wall Street Journal: Why Big Tech’s AI Spending Is $3 Trillion Higher Than It Seems
InvestingLive: Big Tech’s AI spending is $3 trillion bigger than balance sheets show
The Noble Update: The credit market just cut off the weakest companies in America
SEC: SpaceX Prospectus
UNFTR Resources
Video: Don’t Buy the AI Hype Before Watching This
Essay: Don’t Buy the AI Hype Before Reading This
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29 October 2026, 9:19 pm - 28 minutes 30 secondsOn The Record (10-27-26).
This week we celebrated 99 years of stubborn optimism with Max’s father-in-law, and took seriously his assessment that it’s 1932, with all the chaos and heartache that implies before something better emerges on the other side. Then we dug into the Anthropic prospectus, which confirms what we’ve been saying: it’s not the railroad or the internet, it’s an accelerant to monopolization, greasing the wheels for the companies that are already winning while the rest of the economy starves. The greatest misallocation of capital in history, right on schedule.
Chapters
Intro: 00:00:45
Quick Takes: 00:01:26
Phone A Friend: 00:07:52
Memberships: 00:11:03
Max Notes: 00:12:41
Killer Left Take of the Week: 00:26:13
Outro: 00:27:54
Resources
The Kiffness: Donald Trump BURP REMIX!
Matthew McConaughey On Instagram
CNN: What a photojournalist learned after being beaten by Jewish settlers
American Redact: Ethan Klein’s Cheating Scandal is Worse Than You Think
NBC News: Ramaswamy ad puts Acton’s estranged mother in spotlight as records reveal family’s troubled past
Reuters: France’s Le Pen launches presidential bid as protests rattle the nation
Mother Jones: Lula’s Surprise Win Blocks Trump’s Push for a Far-Right Brazil
Anand Giridharadas: Man in the Mirror: Hope, Struggle, and Belonging in an American City
Bloomberg: Anthropic Mum on Investment Grade as It Warns of More Debt
The Noble Update: This is going to be the biggest misallocation of capital in history
Bell System Memorial: A Capsule History of the Bell System
Enclyopedia.com: Surviving the Great Depression
Butler Eagle: How did there get to be a ‘Big 3’?
More Perfect Union: We Went To Rural Florida: The Healthcare Crisis Will Shock You
UNFTR Resources
Essay: Anthropic’s IPO Is Very Silly.
Video: Phone A Friend: Anand Giridharadas
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28 October 2026, 2:34 pm - 59 minutes 37 secondsPhone A Friend: Jared Yates Sexton.
Jared Yates Sexton joins Max to analyze the current state of progressive activism and how to effectively challenge the status quo. After years of audience requests, this conversation brings together two critical voices to discuss the mechanics of movement building. We examine how shaping political narratives remains the most vital tool for the Left, particularly when navigating the complexities of the current administration. The conversation moves beyond the typical punditry to address the practical realities of leftist organizing. We break down the necessity of coordinating ground-level efforts to ensure that progressive goals remain front and center in U.S. politics, rather than being sidelined by mainstream distractions.
Resources
Dispatches From A Collapsing State Substack
Jared Yates Sexton: The Man They Wanted Me to Be: Toxic Masculinity and a Crisis of Our Own Making
Jared Yates Sexton: American Rule: How a Nation Conquered the World But Failed Its People
Jared Yates Sexton: The Midnight Kingdom: A History of Power, Paranoia, and the Coming Crisis
Dispatches From A Collapsing State: The Case of Hasan Piker: How to Avoid Having a Debate You Can’t Win
Dispatches From A Collapsing State: Descent Into Madness: The Ritualization of Death and Fascism
UNFTR Resources
Video: Phone A Friend: Jared Yates Sexton: Left Activism in the Age of Trump
Transcript: Phone A Friend: Jared Yates Sexton.
Max on Straight White American Jesus.
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25 October 2026, 11:00 am - 1 hour 5 minutesOmnibus (10-24-26).
Max and 99 are back for another round of Omnibus. They hit headlines on the French banlieues erupting and what the protests reveal about the global assault on social spending, and Elon Musk promising every American kid a SpaceX share while barely denting his holdings. Then they tackle listener emails on how lifelong Democratic voters find their footing in a movement that’s outpaced the party, Trump’s “we’re all going to die anyway” worldview, and whether the only options are capitalism or the DSA. Enjoy!
Chapters
Intro: 00:00:18
Headlines: 00:12:14
Emails: 00:26:50
Beyond the Bullshit: 00:58:37
Memberships: 01:05:02
Outro: 01:05:29
Resources
Anand Giridharadas: Man in the Mirror: Hope, Struggle, and Belonging in an American City
The American Prospect: Is Paris Burning?
World Socialist Web Site: The bond markets, rearmament and the global assault on social spending
UNFTR Resources
Video: Phone A Friend: Jared Yates Sexton: Left Activism in the Age of Trump
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24 October 2026, 4:00 am - 34 minutes 38 seconds(Mis)Anthropic: The Math Ain’t Mathing So Good.
Reuters “leaked” information from the forthcoming Anthropic prospectus and the numbers were pretty brutal. But that isn’t stopping all of Wall Street from lining up to invest in yet another AI company (SpaceX) with no discernible path to profitability. In this episode, Max digs through what we learned from the Reuters release and pairs it with other publicly available information on Anthropic to paint a bleak picture of a five-year old company that loses a ton of money but is somehow asking to be valued at around $2 trillion. Max then leads a philosophical discussion about the future of AI and punching babies. (That last part will make more sense in context.)
Resources
Reuters: Anthropic’s IPO prospectus shows sweeping AI vision, surging costs
Perplexity Finance: AMZN
Perplexity Finance: XOM
Perplexity Finance: C
Reuters: Anthropic IPO valuation hinges on $190-200 billion 2028 revenue forecast, sources say
AI: Reset to Zero: Anthropic Paces the Frontier, and Floors the IPO
Financial Times: Anthropic tells investors it will be profitable for second straight quarter
The New York Times: The Fallout From OpenAI’s Revenue Surprise
Bloomberg: Anthropic’s Annualized Revenue to Top $100 Billion in 2026, NYT Says
TechTarget: Report: Anthropic locks in $518B AI infrastructure commitments
Measured AI: Anthropic’s 15+ GW Data Center Build: Claude’s Compute, Campuses, and Chips
Investing.com: Earnings call transcript: Alphabet beats Q2 2026 estimates, shares fall on capex surge
Flowtivity: US vs China AI Models Compared: GPT-6 Astra, Fable 5.1, GLM 5.3, Kimi K3, DeepSeek V4, Qwen 3.8
BBC News: Amazon finally flows into profit
AEI: Who Should Antitrust Protect? The Case of Diapers.com
CNBC: SpaceX raises $25 billion in debt sale less than two weeks after IPO
Tech Times: Anthropic $15B Credit Line: Banks Commit $1B-Plus Each to Lock In IPO Roles
Yahoo! Finance: Wall Street tests lender appetite with $60 billion Broadcom-Anthropic deal
Dario Amodei: We Must Pace the Frontier
CSI Magazine: FCC says broadband competition is driving faster speeds and wider coverage
UNFTR Resources
Video: Anthropic, AI, and Why We Need to Talk About Punching Babies.
Essay: Mis(Anthropic).
Episode: The SpaceX IPO Fraud.
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23 October 2026, 10:43 pm - 31 minutes 27 secondsOn The Record (10-20-26).
This week we went deep on the structural argument that should underpin everything else—disaster privilege, capitalism as the constant, and why the real battle isn’t between the two parties but between the status quo and something that hasn’t been named loudly enough yet. DSA isn’t the radical fringe; it’s the only thing moving the conversation in the right direction, and the in-between days matter as much as Election Day.
Chapters
Intro: 00:00:45
Housekeeping: 00:01:00
Max Notes: 00:03:13
Resources
F.D Signifier: Fallen Idols: How Black Leaders Fail Us
Cato Unbound: The Education of a Libertarian
Prison Policy Initiative: United States profile
Airmail: The View from Here
Al Jazeera English: Progressives, AIPAC & the future of the Democratic Party: Neera Tanden & Mehdi Hasan
The Majority Report w/ Sam Seder: James Carville Prays Dems Lose Midterms To GOP
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis: Share of Net Worth Held by the Bottom 50% (1st to 50th Wealth Percentiles)
Brad Onishi: American Caesar: How Theocrats and Tech Lords Are Turning America into a Monarchy
UNFTR Resources
Video: On The Record 10/20/26 (Stupid Democrats, Evil Republicans and the Future King of America.)
Video: Phone A Friend: Jared Yates Sexton: Left Activism in the Age of Trump.
Episode: Russell Vought’s 7 Point Plan To Steal the Election.
Episode: The Economics of Racism.
Episode: Don’t Stop Agitating: A Treatise on Leftism.
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23 October 2026, 2:58 pm - 1 hour 2 minutesOmnibus (10-18-26).
Max and 99 are back for another round of Omnibus. They cover headlines on the SSI asset trap keeping 7.5 million Americans in poverty and the 2028 Democratic slate. Then they tackle listener emails on what AI utopia actually looks like for the rest of us, using credit rating agencies to stop data center buildouts, and Russ Vought’s post-midterm constitutional endgame. Enjoy!
Chapters
Intro: 00:00:32
Headlines: 00:12:49
Emails: 00:25:20
Memberships: 00:59:09
Outro: 01:00:28
Resources
Ken Klippenstein: Exclusive: How the Military Will Hack the Election
New Republic: This Is the U.S. Government’s Most Maddening Poverty Trap
Newsweek: Kamala Harris Leads Newsom in 2028 Democrat Front-Runners Poll
UNFTR Resources
Video: Francesca Fiorentini: Dems vs The Future
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19 October 2026, 1:52 am - 51 minutes 47 secondsWhy We’re Still Living in Milton Friedman’s Neoliberal World.
More than 20 years after his death, we’re still living in the neoliberal world Milton Friedman made. The arc of neoliberalism begins in 1947, gathers steam in the 1970s, and reaches its zenith in the 1990s before breaking into a million pieces and forever out of the control of its progenitors. The story of Milton Friedman rises and falls along with it, and it’s a complicated one of ego, ambition and academic notoriety; a confluence of factors and foibles that came to define the modern economic age. This is the story of Milton Friedman, one of the principal architects of the modern world.
Resources
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Current Affairs: We’re Living In the World That Milton Friedman Made
Mises Institute: Friedrich A. Hayek
The New York Times: The Great Liberator
Ancestry: Jeno Saul Friedman
Johan Van Overtveldt: The Chicago School: How the University of Chicago Assembled the Thinkers Who Revolutionized Economics and Business
Britannica Money: Classical Economics
International Adam Smith Society: About Adam Smith
Britannica Money: David Ricardo
Wikipedia: Jeremy Bentham
Wikipedia: Cesare Beccaria
Wikipedia: Laissez-faire
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Karl Marx
Competition and Appropriation: Retrospectives: The Origins of Neoclassical Microeconomics
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: William Stanley Jevons
Econlib: Leon Walras
Econlib: Alfred Marshall
Harvard University: Raising Keynes: A Twenty-First-Century General Theory
Jacobin: Right-Wing Populism Did Not Kill Neoliberalism
C.J. Polychroniou: Economics and the Left: Interviews with Progressive Economists
Quinn Slobodian: Hayek’s Bastards: Race, Gold, Iq, and the Capitalism of the Far Right
The Mont Pelerin Society: About
The Atlantic: The Heritage Foundation
Current Affairs: Why Libertarians Oppose Civil Rights
ProMarket: Aaron Director’s Legacy: The Beginning of Doubt is the Beginning of Wisdom
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Karl Popper
Econlib: Ludwig von Mises
Chicago Booth: George J. Stigler
Free to Choose Network: The Power of Choice - Mont Pelerin Society
Investopedia: Permanent Income Hypothesis: Definition, Function, and Effects
Wikipedia: Natural rate of unemployment
Investopedia: Monetarism Explained: Theory, Formula, and Keynesian Comparison
Harris School of Public Policy: Permanent Income
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis: The Fed and the Dual Mandate
Bureau of Labor Statistics: The Employment Situation – September 2026
Milton Friedman, Anna Jacobson Schwartz: A Monetary History of the United States, 1867-1960
Binyamin Appelbaum: The Economists’ Hour: False Prophets, Free Markets, and the Fracture of Society
Freien Universität Berlin: The Methodology of Positive Economics
Social Science Encyclopedia: Milton Friedman On Economic Methodology
Economic Reform Australia: The F-twist – realism, economic policy analysis and climate change
CATO Institute: Who Said TANSTAAFL First?
Milton Friedman: The Free Lunch Myth
Milton Friedman: Taxation, Inflation, and the Role of Government
Investopedia: Market Definition: Economics, Types, and Key Features
Bernard Harcourt: The Illusion of Free Markets: Punishment and the Myth of Natural Order
Current Affairs: Ralph Nader
History: Auto safety crusader Ralph Nader testifies before Congress
The New York Times: A Friedman doctrine‐- The Social Responsibility of Business Is to Increase Its Profits
Scholarly Commons: Powell Memorandum: Attack On American Free Enterprise System
The American Legislative Exchange Council
Brookings: What we learned from Reagan’s tax cuts
PBS News: Column: How Reaganomics, deregulation and bailouts led to the rise of Trump
Wikipedia: Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996
Free To Choose: The Original 1980 TV Series
EdChoice: Milton Friedman on the Phil Donahue Show in 1979
Investopedia: Stagflation Explained: What We Learned From the 1970s Crisis
Investopedia: Understanding the Phillips Curve: Inflation and Unemployment Dynamics
Investopedia: Demand-Pull Inflation: Understanding Causes and Differences from Cost-Push
U.S. News: Repeal of Glass-Steagall Caused the Financial Crisis
C-SPAN: User Clip: Clinton: ‘Big Government Is Over’
ProMarket: The Complicated Legacy of the “Chicago Boys” in Chile
Center for the History of Political Economy: Slaves or Mercenaries: Milton Friedman and the Institution of the All-Volunteer Military
C-SPAN’S American History TV: Milton Friedman debates government intervention
Amnesty International: Chile: 50 years since the coup d’état, exercising historical memory is vital for the country’s future
The Guardian: Guess what? Self-interest is bad for the economy
The New York Times: What Would Keynes Have Done?
The New Yorker: Covert Operations
The Progressive: The Politics of Racial Resentment
Current Affairs: A Trillion Dollars Isn’t Worth It If You Have to Be Elon Musk
UNFTR Resources
Video: Why We’re Still Living in Milton Friedman’s Neoliberal World.
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17 October 2026, 1:08 am - 49 minutes 17 secondsPhone A Friend: Francesca Fiorentini of The Bitchuation Room.
The Bitchuation Room’s Francesca Fiorentini returns to UNFTR’s Phone A Friend to break down the midterms, what Democrats need to be focusing on next and how the current leadership isn’t up to the challenges ahead. Progressive politics often finds itself at a crossroads during election cycles. In this conversation, we look at how the establishment handles internal pressure and why the narrative surrounding the midterms remains so contentious. Francesca offers her perspective on the shifting dynamics of the left and what it means for the party base moving forward.
Resources
The Bitchuation Room (with Francesca Fiorentini)
UNFTR Resources
Video: Francesca Fiorentini: Dems vs The Future.
Transcript: Phone A Friend: Francesca Fiorentini.
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14 October 2026, 6:11 pm - 33 minutes 45 secondsOn The Record (10-13-26).
This week we connected some dots that should scare everyone—Russell Vought’s think tank’s 7 step playbook for refusing to seat elected members of Congress, a raid on Ilhan Omar’s home, and Trump name-dropping Vought as someone about to make history. Then we looked at France, where the eurozone’s version of our debt problem is playing out without the escape hatch of a sovereign currency (a useful reminder of exactly what we’d be dealing with if the dollar ever loses its privileged position).
Chapters
Intro: 00:00:38
Quick Takes: 00:01:34
Phone A Friend: 00:04:54
Max Notes: 00:07:19
Killer Left Take of the Week: 00:30:53
Chart of the Week: 00:31:51
Outro: 00:33:25
Resources
Today: Pete Hegseth Vows to Livestream Execution of Fort Hood Shooter
ABC10: Why Trump is reopening his effort to remove Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook
PBS NewsHour: Kimberly Guilfoyle’s full speech at the Republican National Convention | 2020 RNC Night 1
NewsNation: Kimberly Guilfoyle accuser speaks out: ’I paid her $300K’
Ziwe: Hasan Piker Is an Iconic Guest
The Bitchuation Room (with Francesca Fiorentini)
Common Dreams: Israel Has Demolished Majority of Villages in Southern Lebanon—Mostly After the Ceasefire
USA Today: Trump hints at ‘big surprises’ to come ahead of midterm election
The Hill: Trump teases diesel announcement, big move from Vought
The Wall Street Journal: What Might Russ Vought’s ‘Tremendous’ Surprise Actually Be?
Bradley Onishi: American Caesar: How Theocrats and Tech Lords Are Turning America into a Monarchy
CRA: Can Congress Seat a Member-Elect Who Vows to Destroy our Constitution?
Politico: DHS agents search Rep. Ilhan Omar’s home
Vote In Or Out: The Project 2025 Progress Report
The Trump Tracker: What’s Been Implemented
The Hill: Bill to claw back public media, foreign aid funds clears key Senate hurdle with Vance breaking tie
Ray Williams: Project 2025: The Architects Are Taking a Victory Lap
The Heritage Foundation: Project 2025 Publishes Comprehensive Policy Guide, ‘Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise’
Aeroswift Legal: The Orchestration
ProPublica: “We Want the Bureaucrats to Be Traumatically Affected”
ProPublica: The Shadow President
CRA: Who We Are
CRA: Policy Brief: Assessing the Marxist-Muslim Alliance Aimed at America’s Heart
Library of Congress: Victor Berger: Topics in Chronicling America
Britannica: Victor Berger
Daniel Greenfield: The Constitutional Case for Keeping DSA Members Out of Office
FindLaw: U.S. Code - Unannotated Title 2. The Congress § 26. Roll of Representatives-elect
GovInfo: Enrolling Members; Administering the Oath
United States House of Representatives: The Honorable Kevin F. McCumber
Newsweek: Jeffrey Toobin on How Trump Could Intervene in Midterms
Wikipedia: Gregory Bovino
MPRnews: 24 hours after Bovino’s departure, ICE activity appears unchanged
The Latin Times: Homan Warns Larger ICE Crackdown During Doral Speech: “Wait Until You See What We Do in 2027”
The Latin Times: ICE Says It’s Deported 356,000 People This Year While 70% of Detainees Have No Conviction
The Latin Times: Homan Says ICE ‘Isn’t Going Anywhere’: What His Threat Means for 5 Immigrant Hubs
CBS News: Rep. Ilhan Omar’s D.C. home searched by Homeland Security investigators
Reuters: US immigration authorities raid home of Democratic Trump critic Ilhan Omar
DailyWire: ICE Investigating Rep. Ilhan Omar, Homan Confirms
CNN: Rep. Ilhan Omar responds after federal officers search her home
Zeteo: How Many Israelis Were Killed BY ISRAEL on October 7th?
Paul Krugman: What’s the Matter With France?
UNFTR Resources
Video: On The Record 10-13-26 (Trump’s Secret October Surprise: What Is He Planning?)
Episode: Project 2025.
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13 October 2026, 5:45 pm - 1 hour 21 minutesOmnibus (10-12-26).
Max and 99 are back for another round of Omnibus. They hit headlines on what comes after hyperpolitics and whether the DSA becomes a career vehicle or a disciplining force, and the botched Tennessee execution. Then they tackle listener emails on the historical case that federal spending was never tied to tax revenue, what you’d call a hybrid of social democracy and democratic socialism, and the real estate collapse accelerating the credit crunch. Enjoy!
Chapters
Intro: 00:00:35
Headlines: 00:05:33
Emails: 00:33:21
Beyond the Bullshit: 01:01:34
Memberships: 01:19:21
Outro: 01:19:40
Resources
The Guardian: Christa Pike is ‘up and walking’ for first time after failed execution, lawyer say
Jacobin: What Comes After Hyperpolitics?
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