The Peter McCormack Show

Why does everything feel more expensive even when the economy is supposedly "growing"? The truth is, the financial system isn't broken - it's functioning exactly as it was designed to
In this episode, macroeconomist and author Lyn Alden joins the show to discuss the mechanical reality of the fiat ledger and the global debt trap. 
We explore how the system forces a silent extraction of wealth from the working class to subsidise sovereign debt, why we are re-entering a 1940s-style era of financial repression, and how corporations (like Coca-Cola) use debt to actively "short" the currency you are forced to save in.
We also discuss the hidden math behind the cost-of-living crisis, why the system must "grow or die," and how to protect your wealth.
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TIMESTAMPS:
00:00:00 – Slow Financial Collapse 
00:02:00 – How Money Actually Works
00:07:30 – End of Gold System
00:12:30 – Why Life Feels Harder
00:18:20 – The Debt Trap
00:26:00 – Who Really Wins
00:34:00 – Why System Persists
00:41:00 – Crisis & Bailouts
00:48:30 – System "Resembles Theft"
00:59:20 – Default Explained
01:10:30 – Bitcoin & Alternatives
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Former Apple employee, Mark Suman explains why Apple refused to allow ChatGPT internally and what that reveals about how AI systems are learning how we think.
Most people are now using AI every day - for work, personal decisions, even private conversations. But as Mark explains, the more we share, the more these systems begin to model our behaviour, often understanding our thinking patterns better than we do ourselves.
This raises a deeper question: what happens when intelligence is centralised, and systems can influence not just what we do, but how we think?
We discuss privacy, data, government power, and the trade-offs between convenience and control and why the biggest risks of AI are not in the future, but already happening now.
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TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 Introduction  01:17 What is "thought capture"? 02:57 How AI starts profiling users 06:40 Are we heading to superintelligence? 08:51 Mapping human thinking at scale 11:38 How algorithms influence behaviour
16:53 Why Apple blocked ChatGPT internally 20:00 The risks of sharing data with AI
25:55 Advice for everyday users 30:00 The real risks of AI systems 32:13 AI and mass influence 35:46 How AI could steer opinions
42:01 AI, Bitcoin & sovereignty  47:25 Where we are as a civilisation
50:00 Trust in institutions collapsing 55:47 Is society breaking? 1:12:45 AI and job displacement 1:15:02 Should AI be regulated? 1:23:55 AI exhaustion 1:29:13 The future of human work
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Are we witnessing the managed decay of Western democracy, or a civilisational shift that we can still reverse?
I sit down with academic and author Matt Goodwin and discuss the survival of the West. Matt warns that unprecedented demographic transformation and a radicalised, disconnected elite are fundamentally dismantling our national identity.
We also discuss institutional rot, the effectiveness of Reform UK, the danger of letting old political insiders hijack the populist uprising, and whether taking a "sledgehammer to the state" is the only way out.
In this episode:
The Institutional Rot: Why the legacy political parties have sold the country down the river and deserve to collapse.

The Demographic Shock: The sheer speed and scale of cultural transformation that the public is not prepared for.

The Economic Ultimatum: Why state expansion and wealth extraction are the ultimate threats to our survival.

The Purity Spiral: Does putting political "amateurs" in power save the system, or plunge it into the abyss?

The Disillusioned Voter: Why millions have completely opted out of the democratic process.

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TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 - Introduction
01:32 - The Gorton & Denton By-Election 
07:08 - The Demographic Shock Transforming Britain
17:45 - The Loss of Civic Culture 
31:24 - Why the Tories Deserve to Die
42:57 - The Disillusioned Voter
44:01 - Has Trump Betrayed the MAGA Base?
52:31 - Can Reform UK Actually Change the System?
01:02:41 - The Danger of Political Amateurs
01:06:51 - Restore v Reform
01:21:44 - The Social Contract for Young People
01:39:16 - Economics & Wealth Extraction 
01:44:24 - The Population Trap, Pensions & Falling Birth Rates
01:52:36 - Taking a "Sledgehammer to the State"
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Are we witnessing the organic collapse of the Western world, or is the current global chaos a highly engineered script?
Simon Dixon returns to map out the hidden architecture of global power. He breaks down how the Financial, Military, and Technical Industrial Complexes are actively managing a transition to a multipolar world. From the "transitional theater" of the Middle East to the weaponization of global debt, Simon explains how elites are using chaos to asset-strip the West and consolidate their wealth in a K-shaped economy.
We also discuss the pivot to the real pandemic: the profound psychological trauma and existential dread infecting modern society. We discuss our own mid-life reckonings, the horrifying reality of an AI-driven digital control grid, and the ultimate rebellion against the system.
In this episode, we cover:
The Theater of War: Why current geopolitical conflicts are a scripted reallocation of resources, not unpredictable chaos.
The Power Triad: How the FIC, MIC, and TIC control governments, global capital flows, and the media narrative.
The Epstein Leverage: Why the true rulers of the world aren't in the files, but control who gets exposed by them.
The 10-Year Escape Plan: Why self-custody of hard assets (like Bitcoin and gold) and fully withdrawing from fiat equities is your only defense.
The Spiritual Rebellion: Navigating the moral decay of fiat society, the necessity of analog community, and Simon's personal journey to theology and the Quran.

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TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 - Introduction
02:45 - Consolidation of Power & The Multipolar World
06:28 - Trump, the TIC, FIC, and MIC Explained
15:46 - Venezuela, Gold Deals, and the Illusion of Regime Change
23:06 - The 150 People Run the World?
26:37 - The Epstein Files & Global Money Laundering Networks
34:39 - Why the Middle East is "Transitional Theater"
49:54 - Breaking the Petrodollar & The True Cost of War
56:06 - Summarizing the Engineered Global Masterplan
01:11:53 - The Psychological Pandemic
01:15:37 - The 10-Year Escape Plan
01:22:50 - Exit the System
01:24:30 - The Spiritual Awakening
01:26:20 - The Quran & Divine Guidance
01:39:24 - The Gross Happiness Index
01:55:55 - Rural Living & Surviving the Collapse
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The political system appears broken but is functioning exactly as it was designed to - ensuring the ruling class never loses power.
Author and academic Neema Parvini joins the podcast to discuss the mechanics of elite control. We discuss the "Iron Law of Oligarchy" - the reality that all political parties, no matter how radical they start, eventually conform to the establishment . Neema also explains the structural advantages the elites use to maintain their monopoly on power.
We explore why "anti-establishment" figures like Donald Trump and the leaders of Reform UK have ultimately sold out their base, proving that outsiders don't change the system; the system changes the outsiders . From the uniparty's obsession with foreign wars to the generational theft of the national debt.
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TIMESTAMPS:
00:00:00 - System Failure
00:02:09 - Iron Law Explained
00:06:21 - Voter Delusion
00:09:49 - Anti-Establishment Energy
00:17:38 - System Changes You
00:21:23 - Who Holds Power
00:24:05 - Can It Be Broken
00:30:13 - Fear Politics Trap
00:39:49 - Benevolent Elites
00:53:34 - Reform Critique
01:28:18 - Trump Betrayal
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