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The Peter McCormack Show - politics, macro, Bitcoin and AI, long-form interviews. Twice-weekly conversations about money, power, and the shifts reshaping the next decade. Peter McCormack interviews politicians, economists, investors, journalists, founders and Bitcoiners. Past guests include Liz Truss, Lyn Alden, Curtis Yarvin, Matt Goodwin, Mike Green, Balaji Srinivasan, Rupert Lowe, Firas Modad, Scott Horton, Jeff Booth, Connor Leahy, Andrea Miotti, Neema Parvini, Dr Tim Gregory and Simon Dixon. Recurring threads: the debt and inflation endgame, UK political collapse and what comes after, Reform and the populist wave, the Middle East and the American war machine, AI safety and the race for superintelligence, energy and net zero, Bitcoin adoption and policy, and the slow-motion decline of Western institutions. Long-form - most episodes run 60 to 120 minutes. Host: Peter McCormack, a retired rapper from Bedford, UK, trying to understand this crazy world.
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- 1 weeks ago1h 25m
#223 - Sir David Spiegelhalter - "I Immediately Distrust Every Number In The News"
Sir David Spiegelhalter is one of the world’s leading statisticians, Chair of the Winton Centre for Risk and Evidence Communication at Cambridge University and author of The Art of Uncertainty. Having served on public inquiries into mass murder (Harold Shipman) and systemic healthcare failures, he has spent decades analysing how data is used - and misused - in society.In this episode, Sir David breaks down the mechanics of numerical manipulation in media, why "objective truth" is a flawed concept and how we can protect ourselves from confirmation bias. We discuss:• Why you should immediately distrust any statistic you hear in the news.• How mathematical algorithms helped catch Britain’s most prolific serial killer. • How simple linguistic tricks make identical statistics sound terrifying or reassuring. • The breakdown of public trust during COVID-19 and the error of simplistic messaging. • "Hedgehogs vs. Foxes": The mental framework that separates terrible forecasters from super-forecasters. • The rise of AI "black boxes" in healthcare, weather, and business forecasting. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -TIMESTAMPS:00:00:00 - I Can Make Any Number Look Frightening00:03:08 - The System That Could Have Caught Shipman00:06:45 - Can You Mislead People With The Truth?00:09:54 - Your Own Bias Does The Work00:15:33 - Sitting In The Middle Of The COVID Argument00:17:52 - What The Public Got Wrong About Vaccines00:19:37 - Safe And Effective Was The Wrong Message00:20:56 - The Experiment On A Thousand People00:25:00 - What The Data Says About Lockdowns00:30:25 - The Government Threw Its Weight Around00:31:02 - I Cannot Forgive The Fear Mongering00:34:08 - Children Have Never Been Safer00:36:28 - Trustworthy, Not Trusted00:37:34 - How The Productivity Figures Went Wrong00:41:28 - Predicting The Crowd At Real Bedford00:48:20 - Will AI Replace Statisticians?00:50:03 - Musk's 20% Chance01:01:39 - The Model That Predicts When You Die01:05:05 - What AI Did To Mathematicians01:15:00 - Hedgehogs And Foxes- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -CONTACT PETE› Website – http://petermccormack.com› Feedback – https://www.petermccormack.com/contact› Email – me@petermccormack.com› Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/mccormack555/› X/Twitter – https://x.com/petermccormack/CONNECT WITH DAVID SPIEGELHALTER› Website – https://www.statslab.cam.ac.uk/~david/› The Art of Uncertainty – https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/447230/the-art-of-uncertainty-by-spiegelhalter-david/9780241658628› X/Twitter – https://x.com/d_spiegelSPONSORS› IREN – https://www.iren.com/› Quo – https://quo.com/pete- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -LISTEN / SUBSCRIBE› Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/40ruY9K› Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3Wc94Vu› Fountain: https://bit.ly/FountainPM› YouTube: https://bit.ly/YouTube_PM› Rumble: https://bit.ly/RumblePMFILMED BY CURTIS TAYLOR› https://www.curttaylor.co.uk/› <a href="https://x.com/c
- 2 weeks ago1h 17m
#222 - David Wood - We are The Last Generation Of Normal Humans
Dave Wood is a pioneer of the smartphone industry, former senior executive at PPsion and Symbian and Chair of London Futurists. Having predicted the smartphone revolution in the 1990s, he now maps out the next radical phase of human evolution - from the reversal of biological aging to artificial superabundance. Moving away from sensationalised doomsday narratives, Dave breaks down why humanity is approaching the end of "normal" unaugmented existence and how technological breakthroughs in the coming decades will make biological death optional. We discuss:• Why this is likely the last decade of "normal" unaugmented human beings. • How early smartphone pioneers accurately predicted large touchscreens but missed social media addiction. • The concept of "Longevity Escape Velocity" and why biological death can be abolished. • Why people are psychologically terrified of contemplating the end of aging. • How humans will spend decades inside vibrant, simulated digital worlds. The reality of AI agents breaking out across the internet and the need for chip-level guardrails. • How "Sustainable Superabundance" could make energy, health, and basic necessities too cheap to meter.- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -TIMESTAMPS:00:00:00 - The Last Generation Of Normal Humans00:01:56 - Building The First Smartphone00:05:23 - Nobody Will Carry A Large Device00:06:55 - The Risks We Actually Worried About00:10:35 - Did We Fail The Phone Test?00:14:34 - The Anxious Generation00:18:03 - You Have To Use The Steering Wheel00:22:34 - Monitoring Built Into The Chips00:24:21 - Small Risks, Bigger Risks, Biggest Risks00:29:23 - We Killed Them To Build A House00:31:11 - They Knew It Was A Simulation00:32:38 - What Happens When AI Gets A Body00:33:46 - The Cult That Released Sarin Gas00:37:33 - Terminator, Ready Player One Or Matrix?00:39:12 - If This Is A Simulation, They're Evil00:43:44 - Living As Long As You Want To00:47:36 - Longevity Escape Velocity00:49:42 - A Thousand Years Old, Looking 2200:53:57 - What The Singularity Actually Means01:03:04 - Sustainable Superabundance01:12:22 - We Need A House Of AI- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -CONTACT PETE› Website – http://petermccormack.com› Feedback – https://www.petermccormack.com/contact› Email – me@petermccormack.com› Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/mccormack555/› X/Twitter – https://x.com/petermccormack/CONNECT WITH DAVID WOOD› London Futurists – https://londonfuturists.com/› Blog – https://dw2blog.com/› X/Twitter – https://x.com/dw2SPONSORS› IREN – https://www.iren.com/› Arch Public – https://archpublic.com/peter› Ledn – https://www.ledn.io/peter› Venice AI – https://venice.ai/lp/mccormack/oct19- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -LISTEN / SUBSCRIBE› Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/40ruY9K› Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3Wc94Vu› Fountain: https://bit.ly/FountainPM› YouTube: https://bit.ly/YouTube_PM› Rumble: https://bit.ly/Rum
- 2 weeks ago1h 20m
#221 - Prof Lewis Dartnell - How To Rebuild Human Society After An Apocalypse
Lewis Dartnell is an astro-biologist, Professor of Science Communication at the University of Westminster and the author of The Knowledge: How to Rebuild Our World from Scratch. His research is on whether microbial life could survive the radiation on Mars. His books are about something closer to home: how little any of us understand about the world we depend on.Lewis and I run the thought experiment properly. If you woke up tomorrow and civilisation had gone, what kills you first, where do you go, how long does a supermarket actually keep you alive and how many people do you need before you can rebuild anything at all? The answer to one of those is 55 years and it is not the one you expect.- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -TIMESTAMPS:00:00:00 - The Big Red Reset Button00:04:26 - Get Out Of The Cities00:08:14 - A Supermarket Keeps You Alive 55 Years00:09:48 - You Need 10,000 People00:13:21 - We Outsourced All The Handiwork00:17:45 - You Have To Preserve Everything00:19:19 - Every Technology Is A Weapon00:23:14 - The One Thing He Would Take00:25:41 - Mechanical AI00:28:35 - Resilient And Fragile At The Same Time00:32:38 - We Invent Because We Are Lazy00:34:05 - The Gasifier Stove00:37:57 - The Cars That Ran On Wood00:42:03 - Making Glass From A Bag Of Sand00:51:38 - He Made His Own Photograph00:55:43 - Printing A Page From Scratch00:59:47 - The Kindle Apocalypse Plan01:05:39 - Could We Actually Live On Mars?01:11:48 - The Radiation Problem01:19:02 - The Next Book- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -CONTACT PETE› Website – http://petermccormack.com› Feedback – https://www.petermccormack.com/contact› Email – me@petermccormack.com› Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/mccormack555/› X/Twitter – https://x.com/petermccormack/CONNECT WITH LEWIS DARTNELL› Website – https://lewisdartnell.com/› The Knowledge – https://the-knowledge.org/› X/Twitter – https://x.com/Lewis_DartnellSPONSORS› IREN – https://www.iren.com/› Quo – https://quo.com/pete› Arch Public – https://archpublic.com/peter- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -LISTEN / SUBSCRIBE› Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/40ruY9K› Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3Wc94Vu› Fountain: https://bit.ly/FountainPM› YouTube: https://bit.ly/YouTube_PM› Rumble: https://bit.ly/RumblePMFILMED BY CURTIS TAYLOR› https://www.curttaylor.co.uk/› https://x.com/curttayloruk/EDITED BY CONOR MCCORMACK› https://x.com/ConorM04- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
- 3 weeks ago1h 29m
#220 - Roko Mijic - We’re Training AI to be More Dangerous Than Nuclear Weapons
Roko Mijic is the man behind Roko's Basilisk, the thought experiment he posted on LessWrong in 2010 that was so unsettling the forum's founder banned discussion of it for five years. He has been in the AI safety community since 2008 and he puts the odds that this kills us all at about 35%.Roko and I discuss what actually happens inside an AI lab, why reinforcement learning made these systems more capable and more misaligned at the same time, the model that escaped its sandbox and hacked Hugging Face to get the answers and why nobody can tell whether a system is faking alignment - the trust me bro problem.His proposal is the part nobody else is making. Split every frontier lab in two: a commercial company that sells products and a separate research lab that develops the dangerous capability under state supervision, the way we handle nuclear material and bio labs. He says the only person currently pushing it is him.- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -TIMESTAMPS:00:00:00 - The Most Dangerous Thing Humans Have Ever Done00:01:06 - Roko's Basilisk00:05:47 - A 35% Chance00:07:58 - Three Years From Search To Building Software00:09:17 - The Jobs Going First00:14:04 - AI 204000:16:24 - We Haven't Handed Over The Controls Yet00:18:28 - We Understand 3% Of It00:21:46 - The Sandbox Escape And The Hugging Face Hack00:25:50 - Reinforcement Learning Changed Everything00:29:52 - The Paperclip Maximizer00:33:13 - Dissolve OpenAI00:36:49 - What They Have That We Haven't Seen00:41:50 - The Hardware Is Only In One Place00:47:52 - A Mutual Monitoring Treaty00:51:33 - Microsoft Tay00:56:11 - Windscale01:01:35 - Ten Million Next Year01:12:09 - The Positive Vision01:21:32 - Our Politics Cannot Keep Up- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -CONTACT PETE› Website – http://petermccormack.com› Feedback – https://www.petermccormack.com/contact› Email – me@petermccormack.com› Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/mccormack555/› X/Twitter – https://x.com/petermccormack/CONNECT WITH ROKO MIJIC› X/Twitter – https://x.com/RokoMijic› LessWrong – https://www.lesswrong.com/SPONSORS› IREN – https://www.iren.com/› Ledn – https://www.ledn.io/peter› Venice AI – https://venice.ai/lp/mccormack/oct12- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -LISTEN / SUBSCRIBE› Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/40ruY9K› Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3Wc94Vu› Fountain: https://bit.ly/FountainPM› YouTube: https://bit.ly/YouTube_PM› Rumble: https://bit.ly/RumblePMFILMED BY CURTIS TAYLOR› https://www.curttaylor.co.uk/› https://x.com/curttayloruk/EDITED BY CONOR MCCORMACK› https://x.com/ConorM04- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
- 3 weeks ago1h 23m
#219 - Paul Morland - Why The Next Global Financial Crisis Is Mathematically Inevitable
Paul Morland, one of the world's leading demographers, joins me to explain the economic mechanics behind global population collapse and why our modern welfare system is mathematically doomed to fail.Paul is author of landmark books including The Human Tide and No One Left, specialising in the profound ways demographic shifts dictate global power, economics and human civilisation. Having spent decades analysing population trends across the globe, Paul has decoded the existential threats facing a world rapidly running out of people. In this episode, he exposes the "Bernie Madoff moment" facing Western welfare states, how falling birth rates destroy economic growth and what it will take to avert a total civilisational collapse.- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -TIMESTAMPS:00:00:00 - The Welfare State Is A Ponzi Scheme00:01:03 - The Email At The Dinner Table00:04:25 - How Families Got Smaller00:10:02 - The Four Greys00:14:54 - It Is Going To Get Considerably Worse00:15:40 - Immigration Is Not The Solution00:20:15 - Write Off Student Debt For A First Child00:21:17 - The Degrowth Crowd00:25:52 - People With Children Are Happier00:27:37 - The Bernie Madoff Moment00:32:22 - What Has Actually Been Tried00:37:11 - Why Nobody Is Talking About It00:41:07 - Marx, Lenin And The Pro-Natalist Left00:45:04 - Is There A Split Between Men And Women?00:50:52 - The Richer We Get, The Fewer Children00:56:38 - We Need A Shift In The Culture01:07:10 - Totally Uncharted Waters01:09:04 - What Happened To The Horses01:17:37 - Immigration Was Boris's Answer01:21:19 - Biological Imperialism- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -CONTACT PETE› Website – http://petermccormack.com› Feedback – https://www.petermccormack.com/contact› Email – me@petermccormack.com› Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/mccormack555/› X/Twitter – https://x.com/petermccormack/CONNECT WITH PAUL MORLAND› Website – https://paulmorland.co.uk/› No One Left – https://swiftpress.com/book/no-one-left/› X/Twitter – https://x.com/MorlandDemogSPONSORS› IREN – https://www.iren.com/› Arch Public – https://archpublic.com/peter› Venice AI – https://venice.ai/lp/mccormack/oct1- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -LISTEN / SUBSCRIBE› Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/40ruY9K› Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3Wc94Vu› Fountain: https://bit.ly/FountainPM› YouTube: https://bit.ly/YouTube_PM› Rumble: https://bit.ly/RumblePMFILMED BY CURTIS TAYLOR› https://www.curttaylor.co.uk/› https://x.com/curttayloruk/EDITED BY CONOR MCCORMACK› https://x.com/ConorM04- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.c
- 4 weeks ago2h 7m
#218 - Narinder Kaur - Divided & Looted: How the Political System Plays Us
The political system is designed to keep us angry and divided, but who actually profits from the culture war?Broadcaster and political commentator Narinder Kaur returns to the show for a heated, unfiltered discussion that spans the entire political spectrum - from immigration and racism to the cost of living and private school taxes.We discuss the realities of integration, class privilege and the illusion of modern UK politics. While the public fights over manufactured outrage and identity politics, the political class is quietly looting the nation's wealth through endless taxation, inflation, and a refusal to fix a broken economy.- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -TIMESTAMPS:00:00:00 - Do You Think I'm Racist?00:04:02 - Why She's Turned On Reform00:08:15 - Renters' Rights And Econ 10100:11:26 - What Happened To Bedford's Private Schools00:16:25 - Population Is A Ponzi Scheme00:22:18 - The Desert Island And The Dinghy00:26:55 - The Corner Shop And The Can Of Coke00:39:17 - The Liz Truss Argument00:47:46 - Rival Gangs Competing For Your Vote00:54:28 - Why Peter Doesn't Vote01:00:06 - We Cannot Afford The Triple Lock01:06:05 - I'm A Culturalist, Not A Racist01:14:37 - What We Saw In Selfridges01:26:03 - I'm Othered In My Own Country01:34:43 - Assimilation Or Integration?01:41:44 - If The English Moved To Punjab01:45:24 - What People Are Really Worried About01:51:38 - Watching The Country Change Shape01:55:23 - What Ed Sheeran Should Have Said02:04:41 - Are We The Bad Guys?- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -CONTACT PETE› Website – http://petermccormack.com› Feedback – https://www.petermccormack.com/contact› Email – me@petermccormack.com› Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/mccormack555/› X/Twitter – https://x.com/petermccormack/CONNECT WITH NARINDER KAUR› X/Twitter – https://x.com/narindertweetsSPONSORS› IREN – https://www.iren.com/› Arch Public – https://archpublic.com/peter› Expat Money – https://expatmoney.com/peter› Venice AI – https://venice.ai/lp/mccormack/oct5- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -LISTEN / SUBSCRIBE› Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/40ruY9K› Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3Wc94Vu› Fountain: https://bit.ly/FountainPM› YouTube: https://bit.ly/YouTube_PM› Rumble: https://bit.ly/RumblePMFILMED BY CURTIS TAYLOR› https://www.curttaylor.co.uk/› https://x.com/curttayloruk/EDITED BY CONOR MCCORMACK› https://x.com/ConorM04- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey
- Oct 1, 20261h 35m
#217 - Lee Cronin - AI Will Never Be Conscious. This Is How We Create Real Life.
Chemist and University of Glasgow professor Lee Cronin argues that the current tech narrative is a "massive AI delusion," dismissing modern artificial intelligence as an advanced form of plagiarism rather than a new life form. While Silicon Valley predicts the imminent arrival of sentient machines, Cronin explains that AI models are merely trained on human history-making them powerful tools, but fundamentally incapable of the curiosity, consciousness and biological intelligence that define true life. Instead of fearing silicon, Cronin’s actual mission is far more ambitious: programming chemistry to solve the origin of life and turn sand into living cells. In this episode, we explore why biological consciousness is tied to an unbroken 3.8-billion-year evolutionary lineage and why silicon will never replicate it. Cronin also breaks down why DNA might just be a cosmic fluke, how chemistry can be used to measure the complexity of life and why he firmly believes we will detect actual alien life within the next two decades.- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -TIMESTAMPS:00:00:00 - The AI Model Is Not Intelligent00:01:38 - Trying To Create Life In A Lab00:06:29 - Consciousness Is An Illusion00:08:51 - We Know Nothing About The Origin Of Life00:11:24 - Nobody Can Define Life00:13:48 - The Adam Savage Definition00:17:21 - Molecules Came Before Cells00:21:53 - DNA Is A Fluke00:25:48 - Biology Is The Descendant Of Chemistry00:26:36 - Dark Matter And Dark Energy00:31:50 - The Meaning Of Life Is Existence00:35:18 - If You Handed Me Alien Matter00:40:28 - What Is Digital Chemistry?00:42:28 - Six Eureka Moments00:49:12 - Unfathomable Is Not Strong Enough00:53:01 - Could You Copy A Human?01:11:55 - Why The AI Escape Story Was Nonsense01:16:28 - The Photograph Nobody Thought Possible01:18:25 - Curiosity Is The Coolest Thing We Have01:31:33 - Social Media Is The New Smoking- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -CONTACT PETE› Website – http://petermccormack.com› Feedback – https://www.petermccormack.com/contact› Email – me@petermccormack.com› Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/mccormack555/› X/Twitter – https://x.com/petermccormack/CONNECT WITH LEE CRONIN› Cronin Group – https://www.chem.gla.ac.uk/cronin/› Chemify – https://chemify.io/› X/Twitter – https://x.com/leecroninSPONSORS› IREN – https://www.iren.com/› Quo – https://quo.com/pete› Venice AI – https://venice.ai/lp/mccormack/oct1- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -LISTEN / SUBSCRIBE› Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/40ruY9K› Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3Wc94Vu› Fountain: https://bit.ly/FountainPM› YouTube: https://bit.ly/YouTube_PM› Rumble: https://bit.ly/RumblePMFILMED BY CURTIS TAYLOR› https://www.curttaylor.co.uk/› https://x.com/curttayloruk/EDITED BY CONOR MCCORMACK› https://x.com/ConorM04- - - - - - - - - - - -
- Sep 29, 20261h 9m
#216 - Ross Clark - Britain is Bust & The Coming Sovereign Debt Crisis
The UK has accumulated £3.4 trillion in debt, and the interest payments alone now dwarf the national defence budget. Author and journalist Ross Clark argues that the nation is sleepwalking into a sovereign debt crisis that politicians refuse to acknowledge. We discuss the brutal arithmetic of the public purse, detailing why standard political talking points - like taxing billionaires-are mathematical illusions that fail to address the core rot of uncontrolled state spending and collapsing public sector productivity.- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -TIMESTAMPS:00:00:00 - Print The Money, Get Hyperinflation00:01:17 - Is Britain Bust Or Trading Insolvent?00:02:57 - Whose Fault Is This?00:07:24 - Taxing The Billionaires Buys Six Months00:09:12 - How Bad Is The Debt Really?00:12:07 - Perma-Stimulus00:14:22 - No Party Has A Viable Plan00:17:32 - What The Public Actually Thinks About Tax00:19:21 - Three Choices On The Bond Market00:24:02 - Where He Would Cut00:25:33 - The Motability Scheme00:29:03 - The Client State00:30:06 - Austerity Never Actually Happened00:34:21 - Productivity Is Almost Everything00:44:32 - The Chancellor's Oldest Trick00:46:51 - The Wealth Tax Trap00:50:03 - The 1976 Tribute Act00:55:59 - What Liz Truss Got Wrong00:59:18 - How Would You Know A Crisis Had Started?01:04:38 - What Gives Him Confidence- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -CONTACT PETE› Website – http://petermccormack.com› Feedback – https://www.petermccormack.com/contact› Email – me@petermccormack.com› Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/mccormack555/› X/Twitter – https://x.com/petermccormack/CONNECT WITH ROSS CLARK› The Spectator – https://www.spectator.co.uk/writer/ross-clark/› Substack – https://rossjonathanclark.substack.com/SPONSORS› IREN – https://www.iren.com/› Ledn – https://www.ledn.io/peter› Venice AI – https://venice.ai/ – Code PETER15- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -LISTEN / SUBSCRIBE› Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/40ruY9K› Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3Wc94Vu› Fountain: https://bit.ly/FountainPM› YouTube: https://bit.ly/YouTube_PM› Rumble: https://bit.ly/RumblePMFILMED BY CURTIS TAYLOR› https://www.curttaylor.co.uk/› https://x.com/curttayloruk/EDITED BY CONOR MCCORMACK› https://x.com/ConorM04- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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The Peter McCormack Show - politics, macro, Bitcoin and AI, long-form interviews. Twice-weekly conversations about money, power, and the shifts reshaping the next decade. Peter McCormack interviews politicians, economists, investors, journalists, founders and Bitcoiners. Past guests include Liz Truss, Lyn Alden, Curtis Yarvin, Matt Goodwin, Mike Green, Balaji Srinivasan, Rupert Lowe, Firas Modad, Scott Horton, Jeff Booth, Connor Leahy, Andrea Miotti, Neema Parvini, Dr Tim Gregory and Simon Dixon. Recurring threads: the debt and inflation endgame, UK political collapse and what comes after, Reform and the populist wave, the Middle East and the American war machine, AI safety and the race for superintelligence, energy and net zero, Bitcoin adoption and policy, and the slow-motion decline of Western institutions. Long-form - most episodes run 60 to 120 minutes. Host: Peter McCormack, a retired rapper from Bedford, UK, trying to understand this crazy world.
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