The Peter McCormack Show

In this episode, Jeff Booth explains why the natural state of a free market is deflationary and why a debt-based monetary system can't allow it.
We discuss AI as an acceleration event: exponential productivity should make life cheaper, but the system has to create scarcity to keep debt serviceable.
We cover how inflation functions as hidden extraction, why regulation favours monopolies, why politics becomes a fight over who controls broken money and why AI will intensify centralisation, surveillance, and social conflict unless the monetary layer changes.
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TIMESTAMPS:
00:00:00 – Elon's "No Money"
00:02:21 – Deflation is Natural
00:05:50 – Paper-fold Acceleration
00:08:05 – Debt vs Abundance
00:10:17 – Inflation = Extraction
00:15:34 – Politics Polarises
00:21:28 – One Question Only
00:28:01 – Bukele's Example
00:33:33 – Bitcoin as Protocol
00:41:02 – AI + Money Clash
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In this PMQs episode, we discuss the claim that most white-collar work could be automated within 12-18 months, and what that actually means.
We talk through jobs, incentives, education, and AI safety - why companies can't slow down even if they want to, why schools may be preparing kids for a world that's disappearing, and why safety teams are warning about systems they're still accelerating.
If AI can do the productive work, what happens to status, money, and meaning? And if models are already showing deceptive behaviour in testing, who decides what "broadly safe" really means?
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TIMESTAMPS:
00:00:00 – Human-Level Timeline
00:03:16 – Internet Comparison
00:08:28 – Professional AGI Claim
00:11:26 – Incentives Trap
00:16:31 – Corporate Regret
00:20:42 – 17% Of Workforce
00:29:12 – The Horse Question
00:35:15 – Safety Resignation
00:39:43 – AI Moral Status
00:43:33 – Money Without Work
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What happens if we build something smarter than ourselves - and can't turn it off?
In this interview, I chat with Andrea Miotti about the global race toward superintelligent AI: systems designed to outperform humans across every task, operate autonomously, and integrate directly into the economy.
We discuss how today's AI tools quietly cross from assistance into replacement, why "kill switches" don't work, and how a handful of companies are pushing toward a point of no return. 
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TIMESTAMPS:
00:00:00 - AI Extinction is Now?
00:01:22 - Alien Analogy
00:02:24 - Building Superintelligence
00:06:43 - Tools Becoming Agents
00:15:22 - Autonomous Systems Act
00:23:31 - Who Can Build This
00:29:07 - Why Containment Fails
00:38:51 - An Inhuman Economy
00:55:59 - No Kill Switch
01:07:05 - How Many Companies
01:27:35 - Do Humans Survive?
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Is Britain in the midst of a Soviet style collapse?
In this episode, I speak to journalist Isabella Kaminski about why today's Britain is starting to resemble the final years of the Soviet system. She describes what collapse feels like before it's obvious: fake economics, hollowed-out institutions, collapsing trust, and a population slowly realising that the systems meant to protect them no longer function.
We also discuss how inflation, debt, housing policy, bureaucratic expansion, and political incentives work, and why many voters now feel elections don't change direction, only the speed at which things deteriorate.
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TIMESTAMPS:
00:00:00 – Collapse Parallels
00:05:09 – Poland's Divergence
00:13:08 – Parallel Realities
00:20:07 – Middle Class Liquidation
00:25:00 – Fake Economies
00:32:11 – Safetyism Trap
00:39:14 – Power Above Politics
00:53:03 – Inflation Life Squeeze
01:12:34 – Industrial Realignment
01:32:51 – Signs of Collapse
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In this episode, I'm joined by Ben Habib for a conversation about Reform, Nigel Farage and where British politics is heading.
Ben argues that Reform is far more fragile than most people realise. That it lacks a clear political philosophy, is driven by personality rather than principle, and could fail badly if it ever reaches power. His fear isn't just that Reform collapses, it's that its failure would discredit the wider pro-British cause for a generation.
We discuss Farage's leadership, ambition, and record, the danger of movements built around individuals rather than ideas, and why simply breaking the two-party system isn't enough if what replaces it isn't serious, coherent, and capable of governing.
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TIMESTAMPS:
00:00:00 – Reform's Fragility
00:01:02 – No Credible Leaders
00:02:18 – Need New Force
00:05:58 – Reform Becomes Establishment
00:10:00 – Voters Sense Decay
00:11:28 – Farage as Campaigner
00:15:13 – Why Parliament Fails
00:20:00 – Selecting Weak Leaders
00:24:06 – Culture Labeled Extremism
00:32:03 – Economy Can't Recover
00:39:32 – Why Reform Would Fail
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