Money on the Left

About Money on the Left

Welcome to the podcast feed of the Money on the Left Editorial Collective. We are an interdisciplinary platform that reclaims money’s public powers for intersectional politics, drawing on Modern Monetary Theory and constitutional approaches to money to forge new paths for left critique and practice. This feed serves as the single audio home for all Collective programming, bringing you regular interviews, political economy analysis, and special series on culture and aesthetics—including Money on the Left, In the Loop, and Superstructure. Presented in partnership with Monthly Review. Check out our website: https://moneyontheleft.org Follow us on Bluesky @moneyontheleft.bsky.social & Facebook at @moneyontheleft.

Publisher

Money on the Left

Category

news · society & culture · tv & film

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

27 May 2018

Latest episode

16 Sept 2026

Latest episodes

3 of 231 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   16 Sept 2026

   Crafting the California Public Banking Act with Sylvia Chi (In the Loop, Ep. 4)

   Host, [Host Name], interviews lawyer and organizer Sylvia Chi about the California Public Banking Act and its potential to revolutionize public finance.

2. 

   1 Sept 2026

   A Rhetorical History of Modern Money Theory with John T. Harvey

   We speak with John T. Harvey about a new article he co-wrote with Billy Saas titled, “A Rhetorical History of Modern Money Theory,” out this month in the September 2026 issue of the Journal of Economic Issues. Harvey is Hal Wright Professor of Economics at Texas Christian University. We discuss his recent publication in the context of his broader career in heterodox economics. Modern Money Theory (MMT) (otherwise known as Modern Monetary Theory) is a heterodox macroeconomic school of th...

3. 

   1 Aug 2026

   Democracy Needs Public Media with Victor Pickard

   Victor Pickard returns to Money on the Left six years after his first appearance on the show to discuss the state of the U.S. media system under Trump 2.0. Pickard is C. Edwin Baker Professor of Media Policy and Political Economy at the University of Pennsylvania's Annenberg School for Communication and Co-Director at the Media, Inequality & Change Center. Placing current developments in broad historical context, Pickard situates today’s media crisis within a century-long struggle to esta...

Inside a recent episode

Green Politics and Public Money with Sheridan Kates

Published 2 May 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] They need to be much better. We need massive programs of Both like building but also buying back homes to turn them into social homes because, you know, we used to have some of the best social housing in the world here in the UK. And, you know, now the government spends like the vast amounts of money that it used to spend building council homes. on funneling money directly to private landlords via housing benefit. And that is just absolutely shocking. And so, you know, there's a lot of money that needs to be found and the numbers don't add up if you're just going to be looking at wealth taxes. […]

Who has been a guest on Money on the Left

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Sylvia Chi
• Rob Hawkes
• Jamee K Moudud
• Scott Ferguson
• Lauren Arrington

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

Apple Podcasts (US)

3.7 / 5

69 ratings

Spotify

4.6 / 5

36 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 44 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

50

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

92

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