How can you access social security in the era of DOGE? The Wall Street Journal's Ken Thomas joins This Morning to explain how you can do this.

Hours in Line, Cut-Off Calls: Accessing Social Security in the Era of DOGE

This episode was originally released for patrons on February 10th, and we are unlocking it today as threats to cut Medicaid and Social Security have only grown louder and more explicit since it was recorded (and as our central comments on the nature of "waste, fraud and abuse" rhetoric remain, unfortunately, enduringly relevant). 

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Beatrice, Artie and Phil discuss how Trump and Musk’s DOGE increasingly seems poised to go after Medicare and Social Security, how the constant refrain that Republicans are looking to cut “waste, fraud and abuse” in social spending is a lie meant to obscure their real agenda, and why the open plot to add work requirements to Medicaid would be a tremendous disaster.

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"Waste, Fraud and Abuse"

Chaunsy Weisensel and John White share myths about retirement savings, spending, and more, examine market volatility and history of the markets, and discuss how you can help your children understand money and finances.

The Retirement Clinic-4-5-25 – Retirement Myths

This week’s episode comes from Steve’s recent appearance on The Tracy Show, where he was invited to talk about MMT with host Tracy Carson, who had some questions.  

Tracy: Okay, I’m going to tell you what I think I understand about Modern Monetary Theory or MMT. I’m just going to go with ‘MMT’. The federal government can pretty much generate money out of thin air. 

 Steve: It does. It’s the only way it works. Yes.  

Tracy: Okay. Okay, so I got that part right. [pause] Basically, that’s pretty much where I’m at in terms of my understanding. 

Actually, it wasn’t the only thing Tracy understood. She knew that states rely on taxes, unlike the federal government. She knew that federal budget deficits are not a crisis. And she knew that those simple facts have huge implications for the government’s ability to provide national health care, for example, while state-based health care is virtually impossible and propels a race to the bottom. In a nation that has spent $8 trillion on war, post 9/11, there is no excuse for poverty. There’s an explanation, but no excuse.

The conversation covers the destruction of essential services through deliberate under-funding, with austerity as a policy choice. They look at the illusion of the “national debt” at home as well as IMF manipulation of the global South. 

Many of us have experienced moments when we clearly recognize the truth yet lack the knowledge or language to explain it. In seeking the tools to fully articulate it, Tracy is actively moving herself beyond those moments. We should all be so motivated. Learning MMT is a process. Others will hear about it from her and begin their own journey.  When it comes to knowledge, there are no resource constraints. #EachOneTeachOne 

Tracy Carson is the host of The Tracy Show and an organizer of the March for Medicare for All in her home state of Indiana.  

Modern Money Awakenings with Tracy Carson

5/1/25:  Hannah Moushabeck of Interlink Publishing: anti-Zionist Sim Kern’s “Genocide Bad.”  MA Municipal Assoc CEO Adam Chapdelaine: Tough budget season shrouded in uncertainty. Atty Maria Frees of National Comm to Preserve Social Security & Medicare on the threats and uncertainty about Soc Sec. John Anz w/ Anais Reno SUNY college senior and world-class jazz singer.

Atty Maria Frees on the threats and uncertainty about Soc Sec

MA Municipal Assoc CEO Adam Chapdelaine: Tough budget season shrouded in uncertainty.

Hannah Moushabeck of Interlink Publishing: anti-Zionist Sim Kern’s “Genocide Bad.”

John Anz w/ Anais Reno SUNY college senior and world-class jazz singer.

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Beatrice speaks with Nathan Tankus to walk through an oral history of the early months of DOGE's ongoing infiltration of the Treasury payments system and Social Security, why the "Trump-Musk Payments Crisis" threatens a bigger fundamental threat of US economic breakdown than even Trump's tariffs, and why Nathan tried (and failed) to crash the stock market.

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Teaser - Nathan Tanks the Economy: An Oral History of 100 Days of DOGE w/ Nathan Tankus (05/05/25)

Welcome to the Identity Theft Resource Center’s (ITRC) Weekly Breach Breakdown for May 9, 2025. I’m Timothy Walden. Thanks to SentiLink for their support of the ITRC and this podcast. 

Each week, we bring you the latest developments in data security and privacy. Today, we’re talking about a phishing campaign that’s both convincing and dangerous—Social Security scam emails. It could end with someone taking complete control of your computer. It starts with a fake email from the ‘U.S. Social Security Administration’ or SSA. 

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Podcasts from all of the local show on WHMP Radio in Northampton, MA. including Talk the Talk with Bill Newman and Buz Eisenberg, The Hustler Files, The Western Mass Business Show, and Panorama.

Wake up with "This Morning: America's First News."  Gordon Deal and news anchor Nicole Murray go beyond the headlines with the day’s first look at news from the U.S. and around the world; bringing a lively blend of intelligent information, humor, and expert analysis to morning radio.

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Macroeconomics has never been so ... delish!  Macro and Cheese explores the progressive movement through the lens of Modern Monetary Theory, with hot and irreverent political takes, spotlights in activism, and the razor sharp musings of Real Progressives Founder and host Steve Grumbine.  The cheese will flow as experts come in for a full, four course deep dive into the hot queso. 

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