Terms & Conditions
Why does it feel like the economy runs on rules nobody explained to us?
Terms & Conditions explores the hidden systems behind money, technology, wealth, opportunity, and public life — and the people working to build something better.
Hosted by
Chastity Murphy
Policy Strategist & Former U.S. Treasury Advisor
Host
Chastity Murphy
Conversations already in the works
The first season of Terms & Conditions is already in production. Six conversations with researchers, policymakers, technologists, advocates, and practitioners will examine the systems beneath everyday economic life — from payments and banking to surveillance, public infrastructure, technology, and economic power.
Six conversations are currently in production.
Guest names will be announced as episodes approach release. Subscribe to be notified when the first episode drops.
Subscribe before launchWhat we explore
Money & Payments
How money moves, who controls the rails, and what flows beneath every transaction.
Banking & Public Infrastructure
The institutions that hold money and the public systems that govern access to it.
Technology & AI
Algorithms, automation, and artificial intelligence shaping financial and economic life.
Privacy & Surveillance
Data trails, transaction records, and the systems that watch what we do.
Wealth & Economic Power
How wealth is built, distributed, transferred, and blocked.
Democracy & Public Institutions
Governance, public life, and the institutions that shape economic rules.
Understanding the systems that shape economic life
We interact with financial and technological systems every day, often without knowing who designed them, how they work, or whose interests they serve.
Terms & Conditions makes those systems legible — through conversations with people who study them, govern them, challenge them, and build alternatives.
A north star for the project
Chastity Murphy
Policy Strategist & Former U.S. Treasury Advisor
Chastity Murphy is a policy strategist, researcher, and former U.S. Treasury advisor.
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