This week we dug into the Maduro kidnapping as the entry point for something much bigger—the Cold War racism and corporate vengeance that has driven U.S. Policy toward Venezuela for decades, why there has never actually been a socialist government anywhere on earth, and why the American left needs to get its definitions straight before the right keeps winning that argument by default. Then we checked back in on AI concentration risk, where the hyperscalers are now issuing long-dated debt at spreads approaching junk bond territory, which tells you what the market actually thinks about pinning the entire economy on a technology nobody has fully defined yet.

Chapters

Intro: 00:00:38

Quick Takes: 00:01:49

Max Notes: 00:09:36

Killer Left Take of the Week: 00:28:31

Chart of the Week: 00:31:25

Headlines: 00:33:28

Resources

The Economist: An interview with Elon Musk

The Economist: Elon Musk on AI: humans will no longer be in control in ten years

LastWeekTonight: Trump & Crypto

Molly White

Diario AS: Trump’s Top 10 Jokes at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner

CNBC Television: ‘Big Short’ investor Steve Eisman: Market will have ‘a big correction’ if AI doesn’t succeed

Amnesty International: Facts and figures: Regularization and protection of Venezuelan nationals in Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Chile

Migration Policy Institute: Venezuelan Immigrants in the United States

USA Today: Harris’ border work was on ‘root causes’ of migration; she wasn’t in charge | Fact check

GDN Online: Venezuela to sell up to 10% of shares in some state companies - Maduro

Reuters: Exxon awarded $908 million in Venezuela dispute

The New York Times: How Marco Rubio Is Running Venezuela From Afar

The Real News Network: US provides $300 million in earthquake recovery money to Venezuela while sitting on $8 billion in stolen oil wealth

The New York Times: With $8 Billion in Venezuelan Oil Money, U.S. Gives $300 Million in Quake Aid

Euro News: Venezuela calls for release of frozen assets to help earthquake recovery efforts

Current Affairs: Socialists Humiliate Clueless NewsNation Host

Bloomberg: Big Tech Debt Flood Is Taking Over Risk In Market: Credit Weekly

Jacobin: The Cockroach Protests Are Reviving India’s Ailing Democracy

The Progressive: Heat Waves Show Climate Change Is Here

Truthdig: The Monty Python Election: Binface vs. Mr. Brexit

Book Love

Anderson M Bean: Venezuela in Crisis: Socialist Perspectives

UNFTR Resources

Video: On The Record 7-28-26 (Crushing Venezuela | Trump Bombs | Elon Blows | Socialism.)

Essay: Socialism.

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The New York Fed released a troubling report detailing the risk of Collateralized Loan Obligation (CLO) exposure in the insurance industry. Over the past several years, private equity has taken larger and larger stakes in insurers who are historically risk averse. But now they’re acting more like hedge funds in their investment strategies and have more than $2 trillion in corporate debt exposure and nearly $300 billion of it is in mezzanine financing packaged much in the way mortgage backed securities (MBS) were in the run up to the Global Financial Crisis (GFC). Against the backdrop of persistent inflation, a renewed round of tariffs, elevated oil prices, the war in Iran and historic consumer debt, the economy is like a tinderbox. The jelly bean theory holds that you can only reach into the jar so many times before you eventually pick the black jelly bean. Apologies in advance to all those who like black licorice flavored jelly beans.

Resources

Bloomberg: Oil Takes Out $100 to Hit Two-Month High as Iran War Expands

Reuters: Trump to impose ‘forced labor’ duties on Friday as temporary 10% US tariffs expire

The New York Times: What to Know About Trump’s Tariffs on Canada, and What’s Next

Brookings: Macroeconomic implications of immigration flows in 2025 and 2026: January 2026 update

Bloomberg: The US Is Flirting With Its First-Ever Population Decline

The New York Times: Alphabet Quadruples Profit to $112 Billion, Fueled by A.I. Investments

CNBC: See how much prices have increased since 2020 — in one chart

Bloomberg: Long Bonds Are Ringing a 2008 Alarm Bell

New York Fed: Insurance Companies and the Growth of Corporate Loans’ Securitization

Investopedia: Nationally Recognized Statistical Ratings Organization (NRSRO) Definition

The DESK: Rules & Ratings: Ratings agencies spar in private ratings legitimacy debacle

UNFTR Resources

Video: Trump is Running Us Off a Cliff | CLOs Echo the Global Financial Crisis.

Episode: Is Private Credit the Pin That Pops the Bubble?

Essay: Trump and the Black Jelly Bean Theory.

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Max and 99 are back for another round of Omnibus. They hit headlines on the Trump administration restricting visas for foreign journalists, tribes suing to block the gutting of the Endangered Species Act, SpaceX’s massive share unlock, and a defense of reading books in an era of mass literary abandonment. Then they tackle listener emails on coordinating progressive media against AIPAC, whether MMT is 1920s Germany, and some episode clarifications.

Chapters

Intro: 00:00:18

Headlines: 00:15:14

Emails: 00:44:38

Beyond the Bullshit: 00:59:42

Memberships: 01:16:15

Outro: 01:17:08

Resources

The New York Times: The Maduro Case May Be About to Take a Hairpin Turn

Politico: Taylor Farms still tied to cyclospora outbreak despite ‘false positive,’ FDA says

Mother Jones: Tribes and Environmental Groups Sue to Block Trump’s Gutting of the Endangered Species Act

Reporters without Borders: US imposes sweeping visa restrictions on foreign journalists, hindering global coverage of American affairs

TIME: In Defense of Reading Books

Bloomberg: SpaceX’s Great Unlocking Begins With $116 Billion Share Release

Book Love

David Peter Stroh: Systems Thinking For Social Change: A Practical Guide to Solving Complex Problems, Avoiding Unintended Consequences, and Achieving Lasting Results

Marie Arana: Bolivar: American Liberator

UNFTR Resources

Video: Trump Is a Useful Idiot for the People Behind the Scenes

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Everything is getting worse, but the country hasn’t collapsed. This is all by design. Donald Trump is a useful idiot for the people behind the scenes and Project 2025, most notably Russell Vought. The Trump administration is using the nation’s finances like a personal piggy bank for themselves and large corporations while gutting agencies that provide critical services. The misconception is that Trump is driving things into the ground. He’s not. He’s just making things so shitty that the corporate state looks good in comparison.

Resources

ProPublica: “Their Entire Apparatus Is Exposed to Our Strategy”

ProPublica: “We Want the Bureaucrats to Be Traumatically Affected”

Yahoo: This Trump Official Promised To Traumatize Federal Workers — Watch His Words Come Back To Haunt Him

The New York Times: Two Dead and Scores Rescued as Flooding Engulfs Central Texas

IMF: World Economic Outlook Update, July 2026: Global Economy in Crosscurrents of War and Technology

ProPublica: “Put Them in Trauma”: Inside a Key MAGA Leader’s Plans for a New Trump Agenda

The New York Times: Why Silicon Valley’s Most Powerful People Are So Obsessed With Hobbits

U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics: Consumer Price Index Summary - 2026 M06 Results

U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics: Producer Price Index News Release summary - 2026 M06 Results

U.S. News: Trump Administration’s Changes to the CFPB Cost Americans $19B, a New Report Says

KFF: In Preliminary Rate Filings, ACA Marketplace Insurers Largely Propose Double-Digit Premium Increase For 2027, Following a Steep Climb This Year

National Association of Realtors: NAR Pending Home Sales Report Shows 5.4% Decrease in June

The New York Times: Cyclospora Cases Rise Rapidly, With No Source Yet Confirmed

The New Yorker: The Human Cost of DOGE’s War on U.S.A.I.D.

The Washington Post: The gaps in CDC’s public health data are creating dangerous blind spots

Axios: Measurement tweaks will make inflation data look better

UNFTR Resources

Episode: “Russputin” and the Tsar.

Episode: Project 2025.

Video: U.S. Financials in Free Fall | Graham, McConnell, and the Strait of Hormuz

Video: Trump Is a Useful Idiot for the People Behind the Scenes.

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This week we went to see The Odyssey and came out thinking about Bronze Age collapse, because Nolan’s Odysseus is haunted by the wreckage of a civilization that mistook conquest for strength—and the parallels basically write themselves. Then we checked in on the Leading Economic Index, which has been declining for years while the coincident index keeps climbing, and the gap between those two lines is the gap between Wall Street and everyone else: the market’s fine, the C-suite’s fine, but the person trying to build or buy a house is living in a completely different economy.

Chapters

Intro: 00:00:38

Quick Takes: 00:01:37

Max Notes: 00:07:53

Killer Left Take of the Week: 00:14:26

Chart of the Week: 00:17:16

Headlines: 00:19:48

Outro: 00:20:53

Resources

Guardian News: Britain’s new prime minister Andy Burnham makes address

NBC News: Trump imposes 50% tariffs on dairy, alcohol, and cars from Canada

Reuters: Doctors question evidence behind Pentagon plan for testosterone screening

Fox Business: Bessent delivers remarks on far-left political terrorism

Netflix: Bill Maher Mark Twain Prize

Middle East Eye: US influencer Clavicular’s ‘Israelmaxxing’ propaganda trip ends in national scandal

Forbes: Here’s The Odyssey’s Budget And Break-Even Point At The Box Office

Africa Is a Country: Odyssey to Africa’s last colony

Drop Site News: Jeremy Scahill and Ro Khanna CLASH Over Palestinian Armed Resistance and Iron Dome

The Conference Board: Leading Economic Index® (LEI) for the US Declined in June and Partially Reversed Gains from Prior Two Months

ACLU: Defending Our Vote: The ACLU’s election safeguarding program

Grist: New York governor orders first statewide data center moratorium

The Lever: Repeat Food Contaminator Gave $2.2 Million to GOP. Now Thousands Are Sick

UNFTR Resources

Video: On The Record 7-21-26 (The Odyssey | Pete Hegseth Loves Buff Dudes | Clavicular in Israel.)

Essay: Quite the Odyssey.

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This week we read the federal budget the way it’s meant to be read: as a moral document. What it shows is individuals paying more, corporations getting refunds, classrooms getting gutted, and the pentagon getting fed, all while the deficit stays exactly where it always was. The “fiscally responsible” costume is just that. Then we looked at the strategic petroleum reserve, which is sitting at 1983 levels after nearly 100 million barrels drawn down since the Iran war began—and with China about to reenter the market and the strait still choked off, the traders who’ve been keeping oil prices contained are running out of room.

Chapters

Intro: 00:00:38

Quick Takes: 00:01:25

Max Notes: 00:05:57

Killer Left Take of the Week: 00:18:04

Chart of the Week: 00:19:28

Headlines: 00:21:35

Outro: 00:22:36

Resources

ABC News: Senator Lindsey Graham’s sister will complete the remainder of his term

Fox News: Trump REVEALS what Lindsey Graham told him before his death

CNBC: Elon Musk and Sam Altman spar on X after Apple files OpenAI lawsuit

The New York Times: How Marco Rubio Is Running Venezuela From Afar

PBS News: Who is Darline Graham Nordone, the late Sen. Lindsey Graham’s sister?

Peter G. Peterson Foundation: Chart Pack: Defense Spending

CNN: Iran war heats up while US weapon stocks remain depleted, risking military’s ability to fight future wars

Dropsite News: Inside Israel’s Plan to Ethnically Cleanse Palestine’s Jordan Valley

eia: Weekly U.S. Ending Stocks of Crude Oil in SPR

Reuters: Crude stocks in US strategic reserve fall 3 million barrels to lowest level since 1983

In These Times: AI’s Rise is Being Fueled by the Sprawling U.S. Military State

Jacobin: Everybody Should Welcome Nationalizing AI

Truthout: McConnell’s Been on Sick Leave for a Month. US Workers Aren’t Guaranteed a Day.

UNFTR Resources

Video: On The Record 7-14-26 (U.S. Financials in Free Fall | Graham, McConnell, and the Strait of Hormuz.)

Essay: Trump’s Big Beautiful Bullshit Budget.

Video: These ‘New Democrats’ Are Literally Aligned with Trump’s Plan

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Max and 99 are back for another round of Omnibus. They hit headlines on the left’s role in silencing Platner’s accusers, the ICE shooting of a Houston father, a parasite outbreak causing explosive diarrhea, and Meta using your Instagram photos to train AI. Then they tackle listener emails on the difference between socialism and social democracy, and creative vision versus collective collaboration. Enjoy!

Note: The Meta AI decision was reversed after the time of recording. Details linked below.

Chapters

Intro: 00:00:10

Headlines: 00:10:31

Emails: 00:39:18

Beyond the Bullshit: 00:59:52

Memberships: 01:09:13

Outro: 01:10:32

Resources

Support our friends at Straight White American Jesus

PBS: A Mexican father was shot and killed by an ICE officer. His son is demanding an independent probe

Chron: Did Houston ICE agents record fatal shooting? Body camera questions remain

Rebecca Watson (Skepchick): The Leftists who Mocked Graham Platner’s Victims

Wired: Meta Now Lets Anyone Use Your Instagram Photos in AI Images—Unless You Opt Out

BBC: Meta pulls new AI image feature after days of backlash

Yusuf/Cat Stevens: Father and Son

UNFTR Resources

Video: These ‘New Democrats’ Are Literally Aligned with Trump’s Plan.

Video: Objectivism in The Bear: Elon Musk vs Zohran Mamdani

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Ten sitting house democrats and five candidates just signed the “Promise to America” pledge ensuring the public they are not socialists. It has six banal points with no specifics, no plan, and no agenda that might actually help anyone. Of the six, five are limp, empty platitudes. The sixth is a Trojan horse to cut Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security. So either these “Democrats” are wholly and secretly aligned with the folks who wrote Project 2025, or they’re stupid. You decide.

In this episode, Max rips apart the pledge, puts this so-called movement in historical context, grades the legislators who are signatories to it, and explains why they are so out of step with what their constituents truly desire.

Resources

Politicon: James Carville: What Just Happened In The NYC Primaries

Fox News Clips: ‘WE’RE FOR CAPITALISM’: Moderate Democrat responds to socialist wins

NBC News: ‘Mamdani is a threat to my constituents,’ says New York House Democrat

Fox News Clips: Democrat TORCHES Mamdani: ‘Job-killing socialist’

Promise to America

Newsweek: Democrats Launch Centrist Group as Trump Attacks Socialists, Communists

Daily Kos: Promise to America: 15 Dems pledge surrender to the GOP

Blue Dog PAC

Wikipedia: New Democrat Coalition

Problem Solvers Caucus Members

The Peter G. Peterson Foundation: Chart Packs

UNFTR Resources

Video: These ‘New Democrats’ Are Literally Aligned With Trump’s Plan.

Essay: The New Republicrats: Snakes of the Democratic Party.

Series: The Clinton Years.

Episode: Project 2025.

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This week we asked whether 2026 is 2008 or something worse, and the answer is: different disease, same symptoms. The hiring freeze, the housing collapse, the credit stress all rhyme with the last crisis, but this time the economy is drowning in money that just isn’t moving, pooling at the top while the bottom quietly bleeds out. Then we pulled on the thread of where all that leverage actually lives, and found that the “safe” parts of the financial system—banks, money markets, insurers—are the ones funding the riskiest trades, all stacked on the same narrow AI bet. When it unwinds, the dampeners become the accelerants.

Chapters

Intro: 00:00:38

Quick Takes: 00:01:30

Max Notes: 00:08:43

Killer Left Take of the Week: 00:21:05

Chart of the Week: 00:23:01

Headlines: 00:27:41

Outro: 00:28:47

Resources

Bloomberg Television: OpenAI Proposes Giving the US Government a 5% Stake, FT Says

CNBC Television: Palantir CEO Alex Karp says ‘something has gone completely wrong’ with how AI is sold

CBS News: Trump admits he called FIFA chief about Folarin Balogun’s red card: “That wasn’t a foul”

Forbes Breaking News: Graham Platner Issues Video Statement After Allegation Of Sexual Assault Emerges

The New York Times: Nearly a Million Investors Lost a Total of $3.8 Billion on Trump Crypto Coin

MacroMicro: US - M1 & M2 Money Supply

Current Affairs: Of Course The Founding Fathers Would Have Hated Trump

Bloomberg: Leveraged ETFs Are Just the Tip of the Iceberg

Truthdig: Was USAID Really Neocolonial?

The Intercept: RFK Jr. Claims He’s Investigating Terrorism Now, Too

MotherJones: “Morally reprehensible”: Prediction Markets Offer Bets on Wildfires

UNFTR Resources

Video: On The Record 07-07-26 (2008 Parallels | McConnell Still Missing & Platner Should Be)

Essay: Is It 2008 All Over Again?

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The hit series The Bear has finally concluded. The final episode is so uplifting that most reviewers appear to believe the arc of the show’s main character follows suit with a redemptive arc. But the connection to Ayn Rand’s famous book The Fountainhead might reveal the opposite meaning. The show’s main character Carmen Berzatto, portrayed beautifully by Jeremy Allen White, shows us a prototypical Randian archetype who understands everything and learns nothing. The deeper subtext of the show is the tension between the upper and working class, the pursuit of both greatness and a paycheck, and whether individual accomplishments supersede collective success. It’s a uniquely modern American theme being played out in real time between two of the most famous men in America. Elon Musk is the avatar of Rand’s objectivist theory, while Zohran Mamdani leverages his fame and status for the collective.

Resources

The Bear

Ayn Rand: The Fountainhead

The Bear, “Napkins”

The Bear, “Replicants”

Ayn Rand Institute: The Mike Wallace Interview with Ayn Rand

Wednesday Journal: The Bear visits Oak Park’s Frank Lloyd Wright Home & Studio

New Ideal: Howard Roark and Frank Lloyd Wright

UNFTR Resources

Video: Class War in The Bear: Individual Genius vs Collective Good

Episode: Ayn Rand Was a Dick.

Essay: The Bear and the American Male Archetype.

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This week we mapped out how Wall Street has talked itself into a story it can’t stress-test—Accenture getting punished whether AI succeeds or fails, Saylor quietly selling the Bitcoin he swore he’d never sell, and the hyperscalers borrowing billions to fund a buildout that may be obsolete before it’s finished. Then we looked at the inflation numbers, which are stuck well above target, and the quiet methodology change coming this fall that’ll let everyone claim victory without prices actually moving an inch.

Chapters

Intro: 00:00:37

Quick Takes: 00:01:25

Max Notes: 00:07:06

Killer Left Take of the Week: 00:18:55

Chart of the Week: 00:21:06

Headlines: 00:26:00

Outro: 00:27:08

Resources

PBS NewsHour: Stephen Miller says ‘America’s doors are closed fully to asylum seekers’ after SCOTUS ruling

TMZ Clips: Dr. Oz Says Great American State Fair Crowd Is Huge, But Camera Pan Shows Otherwise

CBS New York: Trump says NYC rent freeze will turn buildings “into ghettos and slums”

ScotusBlog.com

Motley Fool: Accenture Shares Plunged 50% This Year. Here’s What Investors Need to Know.

Yahoo! Finance: Strategy Says It May Sell Up to $1.25 Billion of Bitcoin

Yahoo! Finance: Meta, Alphabet, Amazon, and Microsoft are getting hooked on debt to fuel AI boom

Reuters:  Cheaper AI is better: Soaring bills are reshaping how businesses choose models

TechTarget: Will data centers become obsolete?

Breaking Points: “I’M DONE!” Carville, Dem Elites CRASH OUT, Demand Dem Divorce

Macro Micro: US - Personal Consumption Expenditure Price Index [PCE]

U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis: Personal Consumption Expenditures Price Index

Farm Service Agency: Supplemental Disaster Relief Program (SDRP)

U.S. News: Methodology Changes Could Lower US May Core PCE Inflation, Economists Say

Daily Kos: Thanks, GOP: Student borrowers face massive bills this week  

The Intercept: Abdul El-Sayed Becomes First Senate Candidate Backed by Pro-Palestine Jewish Group

ProPublica: Native American Tribes Came Together to Secure Their Rights to Colorado River Water. Four States Are Stalling the Deal.

UNFTR Resources

Video: On The Record 6-30-26 (Wall Street Insanity | White House Depravity | Zohran Crushing)

Essay: Wall Street Is Cooked.

Video: SpaceX IPO: What They’re Not Telling Retail Investors

UNFTR Trivia

UNFTR Newsletter

5 Non-Negotiables of the Left

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