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Interview: The Plutonomy and the Coming Crisis

An interview with Yeva Nersisyan and L. Randall Wray

D&S Admin Sep 28, 2026

Images of wealth and plutonomy from the cover of the Sept/Oct issue: private plane, yacht, portraits of Hyman Minsky and John Kenneth Galbraith.

Chris Sturr, co-editor of Dollars & Sense, interviewed Yeva Nersisyan and L. Randall (aka Randy) Wray, about their cover story for the September/October 2026 issue, The Plutonomy—AI Edition—and the Coming Crisis. The interview was conducted on August 18, and aired on the September 24th episode of Economics for the People on KKFI in Kansas City.

You can listen to the episode here.

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