A Podcast About How Big Business *Really* Works

On Organized Money, anti-monopolist writers Matt Stoller and Dave Dayen give you a tour of today's economy with real business stories about power and politics. Welcome to the anti-CNBC.

"We know now that Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob." - Franklin Delano Roosevelt

I love and hate business broadcasting. I love it because it’s fascinating, and about all the money and power in the world. But there’s something deeply wrong with it as well. A few months ago, during litigation over the biggest supermarket merger of all time, it came out that the CEO of Albertsons is email buddies with CNBC’s Jim Cramer. Too many business broadcasters and podcasters are access driven, prone to just repeating what powerful business leaders or economists tell them.

The result is the wonderful stories about how business actually works don’t get told. We don’t learn about power and coercion in business, as well as what it’s like to innovate in the face of monopoly power. We don’t hear about how lobbying strategies fit into corporate strategy, or how pricing actually works.

Until now.

The American Prospect’s Dave Dayen and BIG Newsletter’s Matt Stoller are launching a podcast titled Organized Money. It’s a business show about monopolies and competition, a kind of anti-CNBC. On Organized Money, we talk to business people, journalists, policymakers, and advocates, all about the actual challenges and opportunities of commerce in modern America. The idea is to be real about business, and to situate power and politics as a central theme in how we organize markets, as opposed to holding up fables about heroic entrepreneurs or supply and demand curves.

You can get it anywhere you access podcasts, or you can sign up here for the Organized Money Substack. If you sign up on Substack, you’ll get an email every time a new episode is out.

Here’s the logo, which I absolutely love.

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