The Capitalismo Podcast

About The Capitalismo Podcast

Spain in the World looks at Spain alongside Europe, Latin America, and the wider world, covering politics, markets, law, and tech. Each episode starts from a Spanish question and follows it outward, asking how incentives, institutions, and state capacity shape outcomes in Madrid, Brussels, and other capitals. The outlook is cosmopolitan, the method liberal, and the treatment of trade-offs unsentimental. Recorded in Madrid by Rasheed Griffith and Diego Sánchez de la Cruz.

Publisher

RJG

Category

business · government · history

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

17 Mar 2025

Latest episode

1 Nov 2026

Latest episodes

26 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   1 Nov 2026

   Spain in the Separatist Doom Loop

   Send us Fan Mail In the final episode of our series on Spain’s political parties and ideologies, Diego and Rasheed turn to the Catalan, Basque, Galician and Canarian nationalist and separatist parties, the forces that have shaped Spanish governance since 1978 while working, openly or by stages, to leave the state they help govern. The argument running through the conversation is that the constitutional bargain built to accommodate these movements has done the reverse of what its drafters hope...

2. 

   28 Oct 2026

   Storming Heaven - A Century of Spain’s Far Left

   Send us Fan Mail Spanish Political Parties Series, Part 7 of 8 Spain goes to the polls on 29 November with card-carrying communists in its cabinet, something almost unheard of elsewhere in Western Europe, and they did not appear from nowhere. After three episodes on the PSOE, Diego and Rasheed turn to everything to its left and follow a century of splits, mergers and rebrandings, from the founding of the Partido Comunista de España at the Comintern’s insistence to Sumar, Podemos and the prote...

3. 

   13 Oct 2026

   Power is the Only Principle - PSOE (Part 3)

   Send us Fan Mail Pedro Sánchez only got into Congress in 2009 and 2013 because colleagues ahead of him on the PSOE list resigned, and in 2011 he was placed too low on the list to win a seat at all. A year after he came back as a substitute he was secretary general of the party. In October 2016 the party’s federal committee resigned all together to force him out, which had never happened before. Eight months later he had won the leadership back, and by June 2018 he was prime minister. He got t...

Reach and audience

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YouTube views

17,693,752

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Spotify

4.0 / 5

2 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 42 / 100

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Quality

34

Social presence

0

YouTube

93

Engagement

32

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