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Mar 17, 2026 The Daily Beast PodcastGet 15% off OneSkin with the code beast at https://www.oneskin.co/beast#oneskinpod

Anand Giridharadas joins Joanna Coles to unpack what the Epstein files actually tell us, not just about one disgraced financier, but about the elite network that worked with him. The bestselling author explains why so many of what he calls the Epstein class stayed in his orbit even after Epstein’s crimes were widely known. Coles and Giridharadas dig into the strange rituals of this rarefied class and examine emails involving figures like Larry Summers and former Obama White House counsel Kathy Ruemmler. They also confront the darker question at the center of the scandal: How a network built on access, status, and mutual advantage created a culture where no one ever seemed to break ranks—even when they knew the crimes Jeffrey Epstein committed.

00:00:00 – Jeffrey Epstein’s “Elite Connector” Tactics & The Epstein Class 00:13:08 – Why Billionaires Have 4 Homes: The “Four Pack” & Tax Avoidance 00:28:43 – Kathy Ruemmler’s Emails: Contempt for the “Rest Stop” Class 00:41:09 – Grooming the Powerful: The Promise of “Interesting” and “Fun” 01:00:51 – How Institutions Failed: The Absence of Courage in the Elite 01:12:00 – “Never With Women”: Why Epstein Excluded Women from Conversations 01:28:09 – Jordan Neely & Daniel Penny: A Portrait of an Age of Division #epsteinfiles#podcast#news

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Chay Bowes

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Matteo Salvini the Italian Deputy Prime Minister has again called for a return to Russian gas purchases to prevent an “energy lockdown” “Instead of closing schools and factories, let’s return to purchasing gas from all over the world, including Russia, because we are not at war with Russia.”

Mario Nawfal

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500 million barrels of oil: gone. $50 billion wiped out in just 50 days since the Iran war kicked off. That’s enough fuel to run the entire global shipping industry for 4 months. Largest energy shock in modern history. Never seen anything like this. Source:

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BlackRock predicts the global $10 Trillion per Day Financial Data Flowing Through Submarine cable could damage $150 Trillion annual bank payments, SWIFT messages, securities trades, foreign exchange, credit card authorizations, and other cross-border financial flows.

Iran says, it will cut the global internet, financial cable and undersea Tier-1 cables that could lead major setback to West and world.