Darren and Hal discuss the FTC's pending challenge of Meta's acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp with John Newman, former deputy director the FTC's Bureau of Competition.

Professor Mehrsa Baradaran, UC Irvine School of Law, discusses her book "The Quiet Coup: Neoliberalism and the Looting of America" (Liveright/Norton Press 2024) with Hal Singer and Darren Bush.

The Slingshot crew chats with Katie Wells about her new study on the uberization of nursing, as well as her new book “Disrupting DC: The Rise of Uber and the Fall of the City.”

Darren and Hal interview John Farrell, director of

Hal and Darren interview Isabella Weber, economics professor at University Massachusetts Amherst, to discuss the impact of inflation on voter sentiment and economic tools outside of monetary policy to address future supply shocks.