Ordering the Global Financial Disorder: The Live Show with Jane and Jason from RUSI

Full Listeners question section from the live show for PAID subscribers and meme-tastic Friday

To best Order the Disorder, we love hosting live shows with our partners at the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) and showcasing the great range of talent that they have on staff.

(I know this doesn’t seem like a full room, but this is because people don’t take the chairs in the front, and then when people arrive late they are standing at the back… but yes at the back it was jammed and yes mega orderers should know better and sit up front.. ha)

Jane and Jason were joined for a live recording on May 14 by TOM KEATINGE, DIRECTOR OF THE CENTRE FOR FINANCE AND SECURITY AT RUSI.

(Listen on Apple podcasts here; or on Spotify here)

The trio started off tackling Sanctions: the role and use of Western Sanctions before Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022; how the use of sanctions has changed since Russia’s full-scale invasion, particularly on this side of the Atlantic; what does this mean for the rest of the world; and how this expansive use of sanctions is reordering global finance.

(Listen on Apple podcasts here; or on Spotify here)

And then moved on to the question of Markets…. and how they hold governments to account. Jason genuinely believes that the markets may be our last hope to save American democracy and that they can do what the supreme court and congress are supposed to do but cannot. Finally, we couldn’t discuss finance and security without mentioning the Donald’s favourite word in the English language that word that he seems not to realize comes directly from Arabic, *Tariffs*. We tried to unpack what really are tariffs; how we know they didn’t work with Smoot Hawley; what does Donald Trump think tariffs are.

The main take away of the discussion overall was: The failure of economic tools of coercion such as sanctions and tariffs to achieve their stated aims and the power of 'markets' to reassert order.

(Listen on Apple podcasts here; or on Spotify here)

It was a well attended live show with over 75 guests in RUSI’s beautiful library… pls come join us for the next one in the Autumn. And more importantly right now! Pls pls join our paid for substack AT THE BOTTOM OF THIS MESSAGE to hear all the beautiful listener questions!

Check out the output of the new Disorder YouTube Channel:

We are trying to grow our YouTube channel. Pls check out this rather racy video and subscribe to the channel, Is Gary Lineker an Anti-Semite?

AND HERE ARE SOME OTHER YOUTUBE VIDEOS FROM THE EVENT:

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And for RUSI and Tom’s Work on Sanctions and Russia:

Relevant RUSI sanctions work can be found here: https://www.rusi.org/explore-our-research/projects/sanctions-and-illicit-finance-monitoring-and-analysis-network-sifmanet

A recent article challenging the Russia maritime sanctions status quo can be found here: https://www.rusi.org/explore-our-research/publications/commentary/tapped-out-it-time-revisit-oil-sanctions-russia

A recent article arguing for action on the Russian central bank assets can be found here: https://www.politico.eu/article/russia-central-bank-assets-ukraine/

AND NOW BACK BY POPULAR ACCLAIM SILLY AND NON-SEQUITUR MEMES ON VARIOUS DISORDERLY THEMES

I think the above is extremely accurate as it explains that FusHaa is no one’s mother tongue and hence Arabs suffer vastly from having to be educated in maths and sciences in this non mother tongue of stilted medievalness… (obviously it is slightly wrong as many in latin america don’t have spanish or Portuguese as their mother tongue but if the thing was amended to countries where majority of the population is educated in mother tongue or not, I think it would be largely correct…

And now the real creme de la creme…

pls upgrade to the paid substack for the bonus audio of the listener’s questions from the Live Event… this was really good stuff with like more than ten people asking very impassioned questions… I hope you enjoy it and pls write in with your own questions from some upcoming listener questions eps we will do soon