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Guys, I have like dozens of tabs open on different episodes to recommend for Podcast Friday. But of course writing a paragraph that's relevant and enticing is Work. Anyway. Let's clear this one out. It's not even that old. (I have episodes dating back to 2022...)

The Hatchet is the new-ish podcast hosted by Arshy Mann and Jordyn Cornish, who used to run the last iteration of the Commons Podcast at Canadaland. I like Arshy; he's is a radical but he doesn't get tripped up in too much orthodoxy, though some of the episodes sometimes feel a little light.

So The Hatchet started a new series on what is now known as Brookfield, the gigantic Canadian asset management firm, where Mark Carney just stepped down as Chairman so he could run to become PM of this country. So you know, capital and capitalist parties acting like giving yourself a handshake. Anyway, I knew that Brookfield was huge in the size of their investments (they built a GIANT stalinist apartment building at one of Toronto's most desirable intersections, which is basically MASSIVELY overpriced student housing that only rich foreign students would afford and bother to live in (try $2800 a month for a ROOM in a 4BR "appartment" that doesn't even have its own kitchen because you're expected to buy a meal plan from the cafeteria on the 2nd floor?)) but this episode goes back in the TIME dimension to show us our Brookfield was an important comprador corporation in Brazil in the early 20th century. Turns Canadian capitalists were playing the British game in LatAm too!

Here's the pod.link to your favourite player...
https://pod.link/1782338231/episode/c3Vic3RhY2s6cG9zdDoxNjExMzU1NzM