In a rare moment of candour, the then Federal Reserve chairman, Alan Greenspan, gave us an insight into what he feels are the optimum conditions for workers. The so-called healthy economy that he presided over, owed its success to what he called growing worker insecurity. Workers with precarious existences are not going to make demands. It’s this compromised position, coupled with diminishing wages, that is the cornerstone to the global gig economy. But with workers pushed to breaking point, is it now time to call time on predatory business models that give rise to this form of exploitative relationship? Host Ross Ashcroft met up with Writer and Filmmaker, Shannon Walsh, to discuss. Read all about it here: https://renegadeinc.com/the-real-cost-of-the-gig-economy/ Read and download transcript here: https://renegadeinc.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/The-Real-Cost-Of-The-Gig-Economy.pdf All full episodes also on https://renegadeinc.com/shows/renegade-inc/ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Renegade Inc. provides its members with the content and connections that help navigate the ‘new normal’. Finding the people who are thinking differently about the world means we offer an alternative perspective on business, leadership, economics, education and the arts. Support us by subscribing here http://bit.ly/1db4xVQ - Become a Renegade Inc. member at our website here: http://www.RenegadeInc.com - Follow us on Twitter at https://www.twitter.com/RenegadeEcon - Find us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/RenEconomist ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWl8IqKhLWc

Over millennia, and certainly since Field of Dreams, the idea that build it and they will come has prevailed. After Kevin Costner’s massive success, it seems that politicians have taken his gung ho approach to construction literally. Olympic stadiums, often bankrupt host nations and the skyscraper index, tells us that the world’s tallest buildings are completed on the eve of a significant economic downturn. So why haven’t we ever made the link between senseless construction and politics? Host Ross Ashcroft went to Kakanomics, the leading economics festival in Norway, to talk with the anthropologist David Graeber about Batsh*t Construction, a trend that has gripped the world. Read all about it here: https://renegadeinc.com/batsht-construction/ Read and download transcript here: https://renegadeinc.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Batsh-t-Construction.pdf All full episodes also on https://renegadeinc.com/shows/renegade-inc/ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Renegade Inc. provides its members with the content and connections that help navigate the ‘new normal’. Finding the people who are thinking differently about the world means we offer an alternative perspective on business, leadership, economics, education and the arts. Support us by subscribing here http://bit.ly/1db4xVQ - Become a Renegade Inc. member at our website here: http://www.RenegadeInc.com - Follow us on Twitter at https://www.twitter.com/RenegadeEcon - Find us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/RenEconomist ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOFBrCqx2r4

Watch this Monday 26th of February for our latest show 'The Great British Train Robbery' - with Cat Hobbs and Nicole Badstuber. - on RTUK Freeview 116 | Freesat 206 | Sky 512 Watch the full episode here. https://www.rt.com/shows/renegade-inc/419819-margaret-thatcher-british-railways/ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Renegade Inc. provides its members with the content and connections that help navigate the ‘new normal’. Finding the people who are thinking differently about the world means we offer an alternative perspective on business, leadership, economics, education and the arts. Support us by subscribing here http://bit.ly/1db4xVQ - Become a Renegade Inc. member at our website here: http://www.RenegadeInc.com - Follow us on Twitter at https://www.twitter.com/RenegadeEcon - Find us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/RenEconomist ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YT1kfsVtpuc

If you think the War on Terror is an expensive exercise, everything about it pales into insignificance when we talk about the bigger war on our doorstep – the War on Drugs. More than a century of conflict, confiscation, court cases and incarceration later… and still there’s no end in sight. Isn’t it now time to readdress this challenge by using different language, laws and leadership? Or is the War on Drugs so entrenched that vested interests and authorities are blind to reframing it? Ross Ashcroft joins the writer and author of ‘Chasing The Scream’, Johann Hari, and the former undercover police officer turned drug campaigner and writer of the book ‘Good Cop, Bad War’, Neil Woods. - Broadcast 3 July 2017 - Read all about it here: https://renegadeinc.com/war-on-drugs/ All full episodes also on https://renegadeinc.com/shows/renegade-inc/ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Renegade Inc. is an independent media platform established in 2006. We find people who are thinking differently and offer an alternative perspective on business, leadership, economics, education and the arts. Support us by subscribing here http://bit.ly/1db4xVQ Watch our documentary Four Horsemen here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fbvquHSPJU - Donate to us here https://renegadeinc.com/about/support/ - Follow us on Twitter at https://www.twitter.com/RenegadeEcon - Find us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/RenEconomist ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZ8RUlrOCVc