Chartbook Top Links #23: The Scholz campaign, the deathless B52 and the Soviet gold standard

Good stuff for your mid-week.

As the fiscal policy battle brews up in DC and markets wonder about tightening, as the German parties haggle over a successor to Angela Merkel, welcome to Top Links #23, a collection of good things to read, view and ponder for mid-week.

How the SPD held its nerve

Scholz won the German election at the weekend, but a few months ago that looked extremely unl…