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Ones and Tooze
Foreign Policy economics columnist Adam Tooze, a history professor and a popular author, is encyclopedic about basically everything: from the COVID shutdown, to climate change, to pasta sauce. On our new podcast, Tooze and FP deputy editor Cameron Abadi will look at two data points each week that ex...
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The Energy Crisis
The energy crisis generated by the war in Iran has some historical parallels, including the Suez crisis of 1956 and the Middle East war in 1973. Adam...
Interview with Iran Expert Ali Vaez
Hello Ones and Tooze Listeners. Our sister show, Foreign Policy Live, aired an interview recently with Ali Vaez, one of the most interesting Iran anal...
The Economics That Drove the Tiananmen Square Protests
Adam and Cameron look back at the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests in China and discuss what economic factors drove them. This is the first episode in a...
The Enduring Impact of the War in Iran
With the Iran war now entering its second month, Adam and Cameron consider the long-term implications and which countries will be hit hardest.
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Iran and Habermas
The price of oil keeps rising as the U.S.-Israel war on Iran enters its fourth week, threatening economic turmoil around the world.
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China's Five-Year Plan
China has released a new five-year economic plan that projects GDP growth of around 4.5 percent in the coming year. That would be the country’s slowes...
The War on Iran
The war on Iran launched a week ago by Israel and the United States is spiraling into a regional conflict with implications for the global economy. Ad...
What a War With Iran Might Look Like
With Adam and Cameron off this week, we bring you an episode of Foreign Policy Live—FP's flagship podcast, hosted by the magazine's editor in chief, R...
Trump's Economy, One Year On
In the first year of U.S. President Donald Trump's second term, he has made some dramatic economic changes—relating to tariffs, immigration, and the s...
The AI Economy
Big tech companies are directing a huge portion of their capital expenditures to artificial intelligence—at least $650 billion in the coming year. The...
The Super Bowl and Jeffrey Epstein
The Super Bowl is the most watched event on American television—and a microcosm of American culture. In the first segment of the show, Adam and Camero...
Trouble in the Chinese Military
Chinese President Xi Jinping has fired two top generals for alleged corruption as part of a dramatic military purge. With the move, Xi appears to have...
Seventy Minutes at Davos
U.S. President Donald Trump delivered a meandering address at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, this week, demanding that Greenland be h...
Protests in Iran
Adam and Cameron discuss the huge protests across Iran—what is driving them and what they mean for the country's future.
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The Venezuela Conundrum
Why is the United States inserting itself so aggressively into Venezuela’s affairs? Trump says it’s about oil, but that doesn’t quite add up, accordin...
Heterodox Economists: Joseph Stalin
In this final installment of our miniseries on Soviet economists and thinkers, Adam and Cameron discuss the ideas of Joseph Stalin.
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Heterodox Economists: Leon Trotsky
December marks both the birth and the collapse of the Soviet Union. Adam and Cameron are spending the month focusing on Soviet economists and thinkers...
Funding the War in Ukraine
Europe has decided to loan Ukraine more than $100 billion to help fund its war with Russia instead of tapping frozen Russian assets. Adam and Cameron...
Heterodox Economists: Rosa Luxemburg
Adam and Cameron continue their December series on founding Soviet thinkers. This week, they discuss the life and work of Polish German revolutionary...
Heterodox Economists: Rosa Luxemburg
Adam and Cameron discuss China’s $1 trillion trade surplus and the Trump administration’s newly released National Security Strategy.
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Heterodox Economists: Vladimir Lenin
December marks both the birth and the collapse of the Soviet Union. Adam and Cameron are spending the month focusing on Soviet economists and thinkers...
Russia and Ukraine
The economies of Russia and Ukraine are experiencing particular turbulence as the war between the two countries creeps toward its fourth year. Adam an...
The Economics of Podcasts
Adam and Cameron discuss the economics of podcasts, a multibillion-dollar industry.
And on that topic—twice a year, Ones and Tooze conduc...
Venezuela
U.S. President Donald Trump is contemplating military action against Venezuela. Adam and Cameron discuss.
Also on the show: New York City...
China Trade & The Louvre Heist
Adam and Cameron discuss U.S. President Donald Trump’s recent visit with Chinese President Xi Jinping and how it could affect the ongoing trade war be...
Nobel Prize for Economics
Three people shared the Nobel Prize for economics this year—Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion, and Peter Howitt—for their work on how innovation and creativ...
The Frankfurt Book Fair
Adam is attending the Frankfurt Book Fair this week. He and Cameron discuss the history of the fair and the broader economics of the publishing indust...
A Conversation with Michael Sandel
On a special bonus episode, Cameron sits down with American political philosopher Michael Sandel, the recipient of the 2025 Berggruen Prize for Philos...
The U.S. Government Shutdown
Government shutdowns are one of the peculiarities of the U.S. budgetary system. Once again, the two parties have failed to agree on the government’s d...
Introducing The Catch
We're jumping in the feed midweek to share a new season of FP's global fisheries podcast, The Catch.
This season is all about tuna. Clim...
The Trump Plan for Gaza
U.S. President Donald Trump’s Mideast peace plan includes steps for rebuilding Gaza. What would it take to unwind the devastation, and what would the...
Trump and Latin America
President Donald Trump is reshaping U.S. policy toward Latin America. Adam and Cameron discuss the economic impact on Argentina, Venezuela, and Mexico...
Bonus: Adam Tooze on Foreign Policy Live
Adam joined FP's other weekly podcast Foreign Policy Live to discuss his piece “The End of Development” in FP’s latest print issue.
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What AI Means for the Economy and for Politics
Adam and Cameron discuss the broad implications of artificial intelligence on the economy and on politics, in the first installment of an occasional s...
The State of Europe
Adam and Cameron discuss Europe's domestic politics, including the collapse of the French government, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz's "autumn of re...
India and Tennis
The Trump administration’s 50 percent tariffs on India took effect last week. Adam and Cameron dive in.
Also on the episode: the economic...
The Future of the Federal Reserve
U.S. President Donald Trump’s effort to oust a member of the Federal Reserve board raises broader questions about the agency’s future as an independen...
The Scale of China
Adam recently spent a month traveling around China. He and Cameron discuss the vast scale of the country and how its size bears on China’s economic, p...
Introducing Radio Davos
We're jumping into your feed midweek to share an interview with Adam from this past June by our friends at the Radio Davos podcast. We'll be back with...
The Doomsday Seed Vault
For years now, the Norwegian government has partnered with conservation groups to store seeds from around the world on an archipelago not far from the...