Sitemap - 2025 - Chartbook

Top Links 968 K-shaped economy. China's East-West data and energy economy & mourning a hoplite.

Top Links 967 Baskets of tech CDS. Chip smuggling. Male resentment & the Ernst Jünger of South Tirol.

Chartbook 422: The malign coincidence revisited: The great "melt up" of 2025, hyperfinancialization and liquidity.

Top Links 966 Apollo going risk-off. What's up with Belgium. Southern geometries and François Ier's châteaux.

Top Links 965 Oracle's CapEx shock. The German credit crunch of 2022. Work-related deaths & Žižek "chats" with Kotkin about Stalin.

Top Links 964 Germany's little known-recession. China's connectors. Sudan's scale and slavery today.

Top Links 963 European divergence. Stablecoin flows. Southern Air Transport. Hamas explained.

Top Links 962 The Christian war on Santa. Girls overtaking. The making of America's techno-nationalist elite & The Wages of Fusion.

Top Links 961 Zero-sum economics. Trump's family network. India's coal addiction. Mobiles and stables.

Chartbook 421: The end of American soft-power? From Coca-colonization to Fanta-ization

Top Links 960 The smartphone shock. The Chinese Christmas factory. CFR v. TFR. A fever-dream of Risk.

Top Links 959 Dodgy numbers. Black unemployment. Varoufakis fake. Embracing decline.

Chartbook 420 Is "decline" really Europe's problem. Or is Europe the more agreeable downleg of a K-shaped OECD?

Top Links 958 Burned-out doctors. UK deconvergence. The kola trade & "Good tank farms".

Top Links 957 The AI money machine. Against European self-denigration and a Louvre full of plan-relief.

Chartbook 419 The old new Cold War is dead. Long live the new old Cold War: The political logic of Trumpian strategy.

Top Links 956 Dollar reserves. The politics of hunger in Sudan. Microscopic robots & Ralph Lauren's Christmas.

A bunker of rare earths. No more Lightning. Pandemic security. Jakarta's growth.

Top Links 955 A bunker of rare earths. No more Lightning. Pandemic security. Jakarta's growth.

Top Links 954 Financial nihilism. Italian gold. Confronting defeat & Modi v. the Maoists.

Top Links 953 The fiscal politics of gambling. Sanctions are biting. Ubuntu and the "Table of Drops".

Top Links 952 Tracking google to call the peak. Getting Europeans to love finance & how Sargent fell out of love with portrait-painting.

Top Links 951 Prime age workers scarcity. Italian alternate history. VW Doubling down on China & The Minimal Winning Coalition.

Top Links 950 America's short-lived green boom. China's labour costs. West African coups & the Republican rogue elephant.

Top Links 949 The rubble of Gaza. African Brazil. Drunken Lectures and Pasolini on the flattening of Italy by consumerism.

Top Links 948 Data centers replace offices. AI replaces teachers. Poems on petroleum & the war on Bohemia.

Top Links 947 Safe assets. Robots in China. Powering Africa. Fascism in the body.

Top Links 946 Gas price shock in America. Russia's Congo pipeline. High-voltage & FIFA's peace prize.

Top Links 945 Why the US feels so expensive. The electrotech solution space. The history of degrowth & the most remote village in China.

Top Links 944 America's K-shaped economy. Zero haircuts. The Great Derangement & the language of the body.

Top Links 943 Walmart's business model. The Houthi financial crisis. How the cat came to Europe & military panorama painting.

Top Links 942 The global dollar zone. Italian unemployment. China's pharma surge & a multiplex world.

Top Links 941 Resilient US consumption & Chinese anti-fatigue monitoring systems. How much do Russian missiles really cost? Warhammer as Thatcherite satire.

Chartbook 418: Polygloom - What's wrong with Germany?

Top Links 940 China's export surge. Baby Lenin, involution & Accenture the mega consultancy.

Top Links 939 Global Agg. China's energy storage boom. The collapse in FDI to China. The legacy of Ungern-Sternberg.

Top Links 938 America's great divergence. The birth of "Electrotech" out of the digital revolution. Desertification in Inner Mongolia & "cultural workmen".

Top Links 937 Satoshi's gift to the faithful. The world's lab. Drones in Colombia and in balloons bombard Venice.

Top Links 936 Bitcoin as Trump trade. The scramble for copper. The devil's hair dryer. After surgery.

Top Links 935 What hedge funds are shorting. The electrotech revolution. Monroe Doctrine 2.0 & how Napoleonic mathematicians brought the blackboard to America.

Top Links 934 Trade war snapshot. The price of fossil fuels. Pentagon capitalism. Voting for torture.

Top Links 933 America's feeble bid for dominance. Gaming a Taiwan blockade. Export controls on rhubarb & white-collar terror modules.

Top Links 932 The warning signals from Bitcoin. French statistics. The drone ecosystem & AI for therapy.

Calling for a purge. Is "collective leadership" making a come back? Publicity right. The "death bump" & Flecktarn.

Top Links 931 Calling for a purge. Is "collective leadership" making a come back? Publicity right. The "death bump" & Flecktarn.

Top Links 930 AI financing jitters. Slow loan growth in China. The grimness of Penn Station & Bible apps.

Top Links 929 Trillion dollar buy-backs. Europe conservative R&D. Mountain-biking with Bush in Beijing. Night herons.

Top Links 928 NEET. Greening Poland. Epstein and the Washington Consensus. "The form of life is only the present".

Top Links 927 Concentration risk. The middle technology trap. C5+1 & "synchronous world".

Top Links 926 America's polarized prosperity. Germany's industry in the doldrums. China's military power struggles & Auden on the dialectic.

Top Links 925 China's CO2 emissions plateau. Arizona's emerging chip cluster. Asian water wars and the "camp life" of revolution.

Top Links 924 Asia's historic comeback. OPEC's pain threshold. An anti-Nazi Bavarian and the sex-plan for spacemen.

Chartbook 417 One Belt One Road 2.0. China's new paradigm?

Top Links 923 If Europe can’t spend big, who can? "A long slow bet on laziness". Meatscape & German Venezuela.

Top Links 922 Unhappy American consumers. (Unexpected) inflation tax. Accelerating singlehood & how the Abraham Accords have come to Central Asia.

Top Links 921 Integrating AI. The global distribution of hail. Pre-tomato Italy & "Bad Medicine for Dr Drugs".

Top Links 920 Dangerous positioning. Financial repression in the 21st century. Ornette Coleman and Jacques Derrida in conversation.

Chartbook 416 Ordering not order: Thinking about the future of the world economy in 2025, with historians, journalists, political scientists and ... Nietzsche.

Top Links 919 US banking deconvergence. Halloween tariff nightmares. When internal combustion peaked & Keynes in China.

Top Links 918 Military contractor buybacks. How Chinese consumer confidence collapsed. From Napoleonic fortress to hotel & Kot d'Azur.

Top Links 917 Is the US in the midst of a productivity surge? China's social safety net. Scholars v. academics & Building a ruin.

Chartbook 415 Zohran Mamdani, New York City and the promise to revive social democracy in America.

Top Links 916 Homoploutia. China's urban agglomerations. Backing Millei & mangles in Glasgow.

Top Links 915 The data center-power equation. Putting off the brightest. Mali's capital in danger & "The Poem with No End".

Top Links 914 Trump's North American tariff disaster. Benchmarking CEOs. Learning poverty & the crown jewels.

Top Links 913 Comparing chips. The NYC real wage squeeze. Guest-workers are back. Getty's dodgy artifacts.

Top Links 912 Which energy transition? Mountain Pass, the mother load of rare earths. Palantir ontology. "(P)rofligate like a floodlight in the sun".

Top Links 911 The end of Fed dominance. Rules v. napkins. Old people playing on phones & JFK and Malraux on the transcendent importance of TV.

Top Links 910 When trillion-dollar stocks swing. Can Asean perserves its balance? After the ballot & pools of blood you can see from space.

Chartbook 414: Slouching towards (Red-Green) utopia. Voicing the muted politics of China's renewable energy revolution.

Top Links 909 AI capex. How Pakistan has fallen behind. The world's sniper rifle & Metahistory.

Top Links 908 The soap opera of policy. Data centers & electricity demand. Caged miners and the Franco-Prussian war at sea.

Top Links 907 How Fidelity grew to be a behemoth. The era of Malthusian growth. Foucault's library. Exposing Gladio.

Top Link 906 Treasuries losing their shine. Nigerian births. Tanzanian terror & “the traveler of Islam”

Top Links 905 Why gold and stocks are partying together. Markets for GPUs. Heartwarming stories from along the Belt and Road & gaming the heartbreak of Amsterdam housing.

Top Links 904 How unemployment and social isolation drive deaths of despair. 18th century inflation-linked bonds. The last project state & the memory of signs.

Top Links 903 Who is paying Trump's tariffs? Brazil is doubling down on oil and gas. The society of rackets & the Mexican-American war.

Top Links 902 JP Morgan's domination. Debt consolidations. Sugar rationing would be good for us & making sense of "Wilhelmus".

Top Links 901 The bubble and elite satisfaction in the US. VPN users. How states get recognized & the risk of an Eritrean-Ethiopian war.

Top Links 900 Napoleonic debt levels. Trading steaks. Gazan trade routes and the Soviet love of German trucks.

Top Links 899 Yes tariffs do hurt. Why prices for luxury goods and services are diverging. Trafalgar & 1066 and all that.

Top Links 898 The cogworks of growth. Driving green technology. Thailand and Cambodia's war of maps & cardiac blues.

Top Links 897 AI's trillion-dollar loss-makers. TSMC's very real profits. Cockroaches v. termites. Coca =/= cocaine.

Top Links 896 The risk of a big American stock market crash. Sino-Icelandic cooperation on geothermal. Vaccinating the world's children and what else China is building in Tibet.

Top Links 895 Trump's tariffs are hurting. Porsche in trouble. The battle in Seattle & the poetics of the greenhouse.

Top Links 894 The return of the barbarous relic. Americans are paying for tariffs. Milquetoast & the Viking age.

Top Links 893 Exporting greenbacks. Soybean boosters. Krasznahorkai's disgust & the invention of Tipp-Ex.

Top Links 892 If California and New York tip. “Ni lo intentes”. Italy's unification treatment & "What have I become".

Top Links 891 High-altitude solar. Yamaha's fake engine. The coming antichrist & Cash on communalism.

Top Links 890 The repo man cometh. What is at stake in the US shutdown. Putting the world on its side & rebuilding Coventry.

Top Links 889 Levi’s are back. How business likes crackdowns. New geographies and the last colony in Africa.

Chartbook 413 The future of the world economy beyond globalization - or, thinking with soup.

Top Links 888 The vaccine paradox. The amount of oil in transit. Bonkbusters & painting la République.

Top Links 887 More AI-chipmaker hook ups. Are you feeling the gold fomo? RSS at one hundred & there "Ain't no way".

Top Links 886 The dollar uncoupled. Rheinmetall's rise. The double invasion of 1066 & the Social Life of Small Urban Spaces.

Top Links 885 Questioning dollar weakness. Hollywood's economy. Supermarionation & how Zoroastrians played the Great Game.

Chartbook 412 - Economics in the Face of Genocide, the Yusif A. Sayigh Development Lecture, 22 October 2025

Top Links 884 The AI hardware stack. India's stagnant investment. Punjab floods and the history of French hydropower.

Top Links 883 Has most of the world passed peak social media? A planet healthy diet & will China forever remain an engineering state?

Top Links 882 Tariffs on bonfire night. Weak dollar boosts US multinationals. How Russia's missiles are getting through & why our lives depend on diesel engines.

Top Links 881 American poverty. Electric trucks. The Asahi crisis & India’s Latest Ladakh Crisis.

Chartbook 411 The twilight of Macronisme: Jean Pisani-Ferry's cri de cœur.

Top Links 880 How Mexico overtook the City in IPOs. $10 trn per day in fx & hydro-hegemony.

Top Links 879 Nvidia's chip diplomacy. GM's pivot away from EV & ASEANs super grid.

Top Links 878 American consumption. Alien tracker. Why Argentina has more dollar reserves than the US & the world's most persecuted people.

Top Links 877 When CEOs say what they really think. The rise and fall of worker power and are you a "NPC"?

Top Links 876 Why Milei needs bailing out. Anti-gun charms in Lagos & Linda, Linda, Linda.

How Oracle makes money. The price of tents in Gaza. "Soviet power plus electrification".

Top Links 875 How Oracle makes money. The price of tents in Gaza. "Soviet power plus electrification".

Top Links 874 Trump's China hawks are coming for the IMF. Screw worms are scary & the "lost drone of stopped machines".

Top Links 873 Eggs slump. More terrible news about Britain. Borrower leadership & the Greek colonels.

Top Links 872 Labour markets of the future. China's gig economy. Cross on wheels & the postwar ratlines.

Top Links 871 Big tech boom. "The first law of petropolitics". Writing African independence & forswunk.

Top Links 870 Slashing Federal R&D. Educational premiums. AI as cultural technology & Ekphrasis.

Chartbook 410: Malign coincidence - MAGA & the moment of hyperscaling.

Top Links 869 Summer at Kenwood. Hedging the dollar. A nation of shop-keepers & science as a prediction engine.

Top Links 868 Crazy-rich Americans. Saudi lounge culture. Gypstacks & the 1937 Ohio floods

Top Links 867 Betting on the markets. Low-wage Germany. The US economy in gold & not all excrement is equal.

Top Links 866 The $3 trillion bet on AI. The Napoleonic war and trans-Atlantic shipping. Asia's restless youth & China's wild history.

Chartbook 409 Beyond the "Marshall Plan": China's solar boom as world-changing industrial policy.

Top Links 865 Unaffordable NYC. Bangladesh's missing billions. Hostile climate modification & the Fengshui of power.

Top Links 864 Deflationary Asia. Declining Literacy. China, India and Bandung & humid hell.

Top Links 863 Americans are worse off. Levels of literacy. Cuban blackouts and recommissioning World War II runways in the Pacific.

Top Links 862 Hyper-scaling. Rotterdam. Crossing Africa by car and Napoleon IV.

Top Links 861 German spending. Thanatocene. Eat Art and Big Asia.

Top Links 860 The end of Technicolor. European debts. Astrographic command & René Char's Inventors.

Top Links 859 America's slowing summer. How China came to dominate wind power. Lebanese counter-revolutionaries & why novelists are like spies.

Chartbook 408: After the Last Utopia: China, the US, sustainable development and Hayek's bastards.

Top Links 858 Japan and Australia side-stepping the USA. Russian energy exports. Nadal and the Spanish aristocracy & Out to Lunch.

Top Links 857 US state-level inequality. India's salt industry. Watching a graveyard from space. Chaos—Stopless.

Top Links 856 The military colony of Alaska. African migration. The rise of neo-people & Hayek's bastards.

Top Links 855 The international investment regime. Where Africans migrate. From Berlin to Baghdad. The Cellars of the Soul.

Top Links 854 Hard money loans going bad. Greenium. My Life had stood - a Loaded Gun.

Top Links 853 Paying for athletics in America. BP in Baku. The"Don't go to Spain"-campaign & the world's first astronaut.

Chartbook 407: Polycrisis revisited: Are we beyond Neoliberal Order Breakdown Syndrome?

Top Links 852 Lefties have no kids. Airbus over Boeing. India's political economy & weird things in the sky.

Top Links 851 America's beef deficit. Wind on the ropes. ICE flights & the politics of Stonehenge.

Top Links 850 $1 trillion in buybacks. Lessons in economic statecraft. Methane mapping & Big Data for the Leviathan.

Top Links 849 Global public debt. Nvidia eats the world. On not getting out of bed & the Golden Road.

Top Links 848 How the "Millet Group" got big. The economics of asteroids & Venezuela's Tinkerbell theory of economics.

Top Links 847 Multinational profits. Sahel under pressure. Tracking climate history & Marx v. Weber.

Top Links 846 The fantasy of home-grown American chipmaking. FDI in Europe slumping. Surveying the fabric.

Top Links 845 Trump's North American stagflation shock. SDG investment "in crisis" & gaslighting.

Top Links 844 Fed independence. The great lumber price-spike. Shorting Palantir & Tetsuo The Iron Man.

Top Links 843 Investing in the GSEs. Sharks. Developmental authoritarianism and a "city of terror".

Top Links 842 The "Sell America"-moment that wasn't. Germany's apprenticeship system under pressure & "the stains of blackberries near Marx’s grave"

Chartbook 406 Trump v. the Fed: or how history is forcing the question of a democratic politics of central banking.

Top Links 841 How tariffs pile up. ICEing the economy. What "Bridge" wants & "my asylum".

Top Links 840 Making China's rare earth domination. Bolivia's coca kingdom. The CIA's unbroken code.

Top Links 839 The "fast-casual" slowdown. Bulk producing patriots. High-density apple cultivation & the strange world of bardcore and tavenwave

Top Links 838 Native American sovereign wealth funds. Global coal. Vietnamese bananas & "We didn't mean to go to sea".

Chartbook 405 Bulldozing Gaza: (Thanatocene mini-series #4)

Top Links 837 American globalization & Armington elasticity. The world's ten fastest growing cities & toasting to the success of our hopeless cause.

Top Links 836 Privilège exorbitant. The $6.3 Trillion India-China Stock Gap. After Kant and the "Devil's Disciple".

Top Links 835 Why trade within Latin America and Africa is stalled. Why China is pushing for elections in Myanmar and the business of doodles.

Chartbook 404 Violence and (de)development: From Gaza to "fragile and conflict-affected situations"

Top Links 834 Flying credit cards. American multinationals. Valuable plastic robots & anti-ugly pills.

Top Links 833 How tariffs hit Japanese cars. Why wifi on European trains sucks. Meloni builds a bridge and Saddam's romance novels.

Top Links 832 How Gen Alpha influences US consumption. Lithography the final frontier of manufacturing. Iran's heatwave and living in Arcadia.

Top Links 831 The stained glass moment. Tomato trade wars. The genetics of Heinz 1706 & Nongqongqo

Top Links 830 US mega caps. Semiconductor investment boom. Shock city. Stalin - warrior of the year.

Top Links 829 Underbuilt housing. How China is beating out the USA. Putin & anti-mimesis & pastoralist homes.

Top Links 828 Cocoa smuggling. From radical to neo-Nazi. "Your darkness" & Pop goes the Easel.

Top Links 827 Liquid gold. Anti-vax in America. Baltic bloom & The Fable of the Bees.

Top Links 826 How markets learned to love the trade war. How fiscal policy loses its discretionary scope & the global peanut butter rankings.

Top Links 825 Central bank independence in historical context. Where the robots are. Carbon technocracy & the psychoanalytic view of the good life.

Top Links 824 Ukrainian bonds. Talking about currencies. Rebuilding The Kingdom & The Men of 1924.

Chartbook 403 Trump as a Gulliver ... with no clothes.

Top Links 823 Abusing Powell. Greenhushing. Global Forest Watch, Vegemite in space.

Top Links 822 The US economy: no longer growing nicely. Reinterpreting the GFC and where Haiti's gangs get their guns.

Top Links 821 Flooding the zone. Can a country be too rich? The legacy of oil rigs & Croatia's festival of ultra-nationalist rock.

Chartbook 402 Dual-circulation: travels through China in the summer of 2025.

Top Links 820 YKK the global zipper company. Hit over the head by scale. The global history of the Tortilla.

Top Links 819 Overcapacity in ... diamonds! The Bureau of Lost Statistics. Slim Samsungs & relationship advice from Nietzsche.

Top Links 818 Sun Block: Red State advantage eroding? Why does Israel protect the Druze and Sanssouci in Beijing.

Top Links 817 GM eats Trump's tariffs. Traders rule. Who will buy, Indonesia's "Kangaroo" bond? And, “goods beyond earth”.

Top Links 816 How the "Big Beautiful Bill" will cost lives. Dysprosium from the warlords of Myanmar. Factories in space. Popular archaeology and China's Great Wall.

Top Links 815 Is the US housing market on the brink? How the Houthis import oil. Beating cancer & Chris Clark on the end of modernity.

Chartbook 401: The dollar system in an age of market-based finance - financial globalization beyond banks (The World Economy Now, July 2025)

Top Links 814 How strong is the US labour market? From GENIUS to CLARITY. Palantir's bonkers valuation & who is mounting drone strikes on Indian separatists in Myanmar?

Top Links 813 How AI is eating the internet. Where to buy an affordable American-badged car. The G7 horror show & subjectivity in language.

Top Links 812 Arresting toddlers. How China is changing the global drugs pipeline. Epic narratives of the green revolution & how the destruction of Gaza is even worse than previously estimated.

Chartbook 400: Murder not crisis - Why Israel's starvation of Gaza is exceptional in a global context.

Top Links 811 Dali and the dollar. Making the most of the “longevity dividend”. The fall of the Roman Republic and how a Baywatch star became a Berlin hero.

Top Links 810 The shape of globalization. MAGA's parallel economy. Balochistan and thinking about 危机。

Chartbook 399: Columbia University, the Trump administration and "ad hoc governance": Iterations of the "Unstate".

Top Links 809 About that dam in Tibet. Supermarketisation. The history of political arithmetic & China's "Five Major Homes".

Top Links 808 Dollar reserves. Hundred model war. New risks of nuclear tripolarity.

Top Links 807 Vietnam's manufacturing boom. Chongqing: China's motorcycle capita. The Walls Do Not Fall.

Chartbook 398 Letting our "no ones" live: translating Sloterdijk with DeepSeek

Top Links 806 The most expensive object in the world. The US deficit and the voracity effect. Dreamcore and 2&3W-motorization.

Chartbook 397 Dollar trap or empire by invitation? The global political economy of the dollar system.

Top Links 805 AI's mega-scale. The Diderot effect and China's Southeast Asian mega projects.

Top Links 804 A quadrillion dollar market. The NHS, the UK's national religion, in crisis & development as the "master key".

Top Links 803 Big pharma's patent cliff. Stealthgas and the "dark fleet". The etymology of the "golden triangle".

Top Links 802 Investing in coercion. Liechtenstein hit by zombies. China's slowdown vocabulary.

Chartbook 396 Strangelove in the Middle East - or how the markets learned to stop worrying and love Israel's rampage.

Top Links 801 Is a decade of American exceptionalism coming to an end? The stages of China's real estate grief. Saving Rococo from Trump & the "Age of Hard Trying.

Top Links 800 Chinese investors snapping up mining assets. The coming shift in global labour markets. Sperm-freezing startups.

Top Links 799 Slum Song. The markets reward Israel. Scattered Spiders are coming for your groceries and living in the first century of world wars.

Top Links 798 A poor start for the dollar. Lighting up Africa. Estonian barbed wire. The Chinese in Vietnam.

Top Links 797 Upgrading America's military-industrial complex. The Rise and Fall of China’s ‘Fentanyl King’ & the "hole left by the Christian dark ages" ;)

Top Links 796 The sanctification of small business. How gold is displacing coca. A German drought and the first lawnmower.

Top Links 795 How global bond markets closed for low-income borrowers and then reopened. Selling ICE fossils to Russia. China's AI competition & One Art.

Top Links 794 "Reconstructing" Gaza. Alberta's powerhouse economy. Autonomous mining & the map-maker's colors.

Top Links 793 Stablecoins and MMF compared. China Investment Corp in retreat. Biology & air-conditioning & not knowing yet wanting-to-know.

Top Links 792 Ripping up books. Turkey's economy stumbling. How heritage is outrunning net zero in industrial Germany and cod evolved to avoid the nets.

Top Links 791 How war displaced tariffs from the news agenda. Gold in China. Roman sewerage & hapax legomenon.

Top Links 790 Broker-dealers under pressure. Mayotte's demographic surge & the Antonine plague.

Top LInks 787 Corporate GHG emissions. History's biggest trade surpluses. China's low-altitude economy & global femicide.

Top Links 786 Coal and the climate crisis. European auto dividens. Pitching for Gaza work. Hot Money. Metaphysical authority in Pakistan.

Top Links 785 China in the gold market. Information Spillovers Within Couples. The cost of children & the PRC and Bretton Woods.

Top Links 784 Exorbitant privilege? Productivity differentials. The global land price boom & the fond farewells to Marxism Today.

Chartbook 395 Youth, the middle-class & the NYC mayoral race: an appeal for more analysis.

Top Links 783 Congressional Alpha, the Iberian power failure. Global land grabs and the history of bed bugs.

Chartbook 394 "A City we can afford": capitalism and democracy in New York

Top Links 782 America's largest firms employ fewer workers. Three housing crises not one. Less money for science and conscious walking.

Top Links 781 Tesla's China slide. Part-time Germans. Soviet AI. A Symphony of Sighs.

Top Links 780 First-time home buyers. Stablecoin surge. Thatcher's Volcker shock & the Alpha Course.

Top Links 779 Tariffs, trade and macro balances. Taking stock of shock & Frostbite: How Refrigeration Changed our Food

Top Links 778 America's sectoral balances. Bro Billionaires v. the Base. Russian casualties & Xi's dad.

Top Links 789 The looming frontier market debt maturity wall. ESG reverses. Mao and the mango cult.

Top Links 788 Who has the most stringent climate policy? BYD's Seagull. Nietzsche and risotto. Skiing Bretton Woods.

Top Links 777 Standout productivity. China bottoms out. AIDS deaths & the "Californian Ideology"

Chartbook 393: Whither China? - World Economy Now, June 2025 Edition

Top Links 776 California's carbon market hits the floor. Spying on luxury yacht builders. Kagame's extraordinary career & Goldin's sharp eye.

Top Links 775 America's data disaster is here. Bimodal oil prices. Defending Angela Merkel and what is wrong with Ford engines.

Chartbook 392 Incoming from outer space: The geo-military radicalism of Iran v. Israel 2025.

Top Links 774 One Big Beautiful Giveaway. How Turkish pistols conquered US markets. The Chinese legacy of Fischer-Tropsch. Haiti's escalating crisis & "where the bombs fall".

Top Links 773 How a private equity titan became an insurance-backed quasi-bank. Narrating the AI boom & rethinking the "fall of Rome".

Top Links 772 Private equity polarizes. South Africa's growth chances dim & the Holy Alliance as "steampunk Terminator".

Top Links 771 How Amazon dominates the US clothing market. Driverless Chinese trucks and where lightning strikes.

Top Links 770 Foreign foods. Where CEOs are recruited from. Trillion-dollar alien invaders & Marx's republicanism.

Top Links 769 Apple in China. Solar overtakes nuclear. The great Venezuelan exodus & the life of a radical historian.

Chartbook 391 How to predict a 1 in 1,000 year riot: the insurance expertise gearing up to commodify America's agony.

Top Links 768 Here come the robots. Truck parking & Walt Whitman as "self-fashioning vector of the spirit of the age".

Top Links 767 The surge in global steel production that is not glutting global markets. Fiscal federalism in Nigeria and the MidEast AI play.

Top Links 766 No tariffs on vintage. The turbine crisis. Hayek's bastards and Blue Jerusalem.

Top Links 765 Military R&D in America. Nigeria's investment plans. The "imperial meridian" and Nelson on the mosquito coast.

Chartbook 390 Beyond LA: Logics of escalation from Black Lives Matter (2020) to "No Kings" (June 14 2025)

Top Links 764 The assault on foreign students in the US. The Palantir bubble & the Norman Conquest.

Chartbook 389: Europe's zombie armies. Or how to spend $3.1 trillion and have precious little to show for it.

Top Links 763 Windsor, Ontario. On the trade war frontline. Protecting the naira. Guinea Savannah Zone land-grabbing.

Top Links 762 Historicizing fx reserves. Russia's economy running hot. The fall of a fascist explorer & the "Ruler of My Heart".

Chartbook 388: Trump v. Musk - Alien v. Predator or "death march" into a political vacuum?

Top Links 761 The limits of China's domestic market. Gold digging in Syria. African drone poliferation & the making of Balamory.

Top Links 760 China's emissions reach a turning point. Mondrian goes dancing & Kazakh stunts.

Top Links 759 The privatization of ICE detention. The monsoon comes early. Mogadishu under pressure & an African road.

Top Links 758 Delinquent consumer debt. South Africa's unemployment crisis. Napoleon's sword and the legend of the "Black Star" pistol.

Top Links 757 Flipping correlations. Mapping credit scores. Saudi twitter & the secrets of the RG.

Top Links 756 Tariff-sensitive inflation is on its way. The crisis in the diamond business. The Sound of Music and Caught by the Tides.

Top Links 755 The non-drama of America's energy transition. Muscling Starlink into Gambia. The weirdness of Neom & 1930s aero.

Top Links 754 Exxon's long plateau. Banana economics. Modal magic & the General of Physics.

Top Links 753 Front-running European exports. The American transfer state. Troll farm hierarchy & the economics of motor-racing.

Top Links 752 Phases of economic history/ascendant economic ideologies. China's renewables megabases & how banana bunches are organized.

Top Links 751 Thinking of history from my space. The real wage growth gap & measuring infant mortality right.

Top Links 750 The foreign trade agenda of US states. Namibia's green dreams. ‘Sex, Drugs and Zombies’ & Brood XIV

Top Links 749 Tanning and the tariffs. How small boats are getting bigger. Liverpool and the unmaking of Britain.

Top Links 748 Why US agricultural exports matter. Industrializing Carrara & the giant impact of America's mass incarceration.

Top Links 747 The beef price shock. China's key imports & Abu Dhabi's axis of secessionists.

Chartbook 387: What fires burned at Auschwitz? On the place of the Holocaust in uneven and combined development.

Top Links 746 Why the dollar is depreciating. South-South migration. HEAL jobs. Marseille, Corsica & the French Connection.

Top Links 745 The coming student loan shock. Who wants to invest in Saudi? Stalin's man in Belgrade.

Top Links 744 When will America's economy stall? The Swiss franc under pressure. China's domestic coffee boom & a tragic vision of the civil rights movement.

Chartbook 386: How China's powerslide is driving the global green electricity transition.

Top Links 743 How markets learned to live with Sheinbaum. Lacking education in the US, really, really hurts. Saudi oil policy & the strange beauty of the Liaoning.

Top Links 742 MAGA chart action. African remittances & remembering South Vietnam.

Top Links 741 Russia's slowdown. Geoeconomics and Balochistan. Americans and the world.

Chartbook 385: Red AI. Or, how ChatGPT went from helping me translate the Little Red Book to generating a revolutionary program for the USA today. And how DeepSeek won't go there.

Top Links 740 Fantasy factories. Africa's charcoal economy. Mongolia's energy dependence & Sudan's world war.

Top Links 739 Starbase Texas. How H-1B works. How Rwanda nearly took Congo and the moment of "Konfrontasi".

Chartbook 384: "Working the contradictory, stony ground of the present conjuncture" - a "conversation" with Hall, Massey and Peck.

Top Links 738 Elderly Americans remain attached to cheques. Central Asian disparities. Rome plows & San Marino's coup.

Top Links 737 Tariff pocket money. UK gold shipments to the US & the business of vets.

Top Links 736 Mag7 and the DeepSeek shock. Alberta separtism and fossil power. And donning the "fachaleco".

Top Links 735 How long before the trade-stop hits? The new Dubai boom. Worries about bird flu and reinventing the hookah.

Top Links 734 Globalization plateaus. Fears of a Mexican slump & a tale of fighter jets.

Chartbook 383 World Economy Now. May 2025. Putting Trump's trade tantrum in its place.

Top Links 733 Is China's real estate market turning the corner? Are the wealthy fleeing Britain? And why do wooden water towers stud the NYC skyline?

Chartbook 382 Glowing lava hardened into memory: The ends of Reinhart Koselleck's war.

Top Links 732 The US as a champion of services trade. Canadian oil sands. Stumbling robots & French drains.

Chartbook 381 Trumpite futurism Part 2: Taking Musk's "space junk" seriously.

Top Links 731 The tariff threat to Christmas. LA's credit issues. Catholic eurocentrism and James Angelton's "wilderness of mirrors".

Chartbook 380 Trump's futurism: Elon's rockets and fewer dolls for "baby girl" - Part I.

Top Links 730 Trans-pacific traffic & the beef deficit. Asian currency moves. Where people sit in the West Wing.

Top Links 729 The gender revolution in higher education. China's dominance in global shipbuilding & John Paul II on geopolitics.

Top Links 728 Tomatoes and the tariffs. Gender and race in high school. Pistachio shortages & Cambodian sand.

Chartbook 379 American Victory Day

Top Links 727 Uncertainty spikes. Bessent's not very successful business. Runaway legitimation and machining memory.

Top Links 726 US GDP contracts. Sawtooth growth in Germany. Russia and Ukraine (in Africa).

Top Links 725 Treasury derivatives. The business of welfare & the economics of deterrence.

Top Links 724 Painful correlations. China's new hyrodgen bomb and Bismarck's campaign of "hybrid warfare" against liberal Britain.

Top Links 723 Argentina's sweetheart loan. The pope who lost his country & vasectomies for capybaras.

Top Links 722 Georgieva's chainsaw moment and the craven silence at the spring meetings. Why the pistachio market is stretched and red Vienna.

Chartbook 378: The anxiety of influence: economic geography, Canada and the USA.

Top Links 721 Which Trump official is worst for the markets? Recession risk. The IDF’s AI targeting systems. Ambedkar on agriculture.

Top Links 720 10,000 tariff grandpa. Recession risk building. Israel's expansive security strategy & deproleterianization.

Top Links 719 The coming trade crisis. Ten Americas (life expectancy). Turkey as a European manufacturing hub. China's lag in cloud computing.

Top Links 718 US consumers under pressure. Agroindustrial research & wool in the British empire.

Top Links 717 How the US achieved record oil exports. How Amazon makes its money. Retiring the black zero.

Top Links 716 How takeout is driving productivity growth in American restaurants. Global opinion turns against American brands & Chinese jobseeker as terracotta warriors.

Top Links 715 America's mortgage system. The onco-industrial complex. Menswear guy on economic history & the Painted Lady butterfly.

Top Links 714 Nike's Asian workforce. The credit card squeeze. Starlink's coverage & the siege of Malta.

Top Links 713 Surging housing equity weighing on US households. The triumph of broken promises & artificial dyes in American food.

Chartbook 377 "Not with a bang but a whimper". How Trump's United States denounced the global agenda of sustainable development and no one noticed.

Top Links 712 Economic policy for men. Shein village. The Monkey King, the Sino-Soviet split and the Cultural Revolution.

Chartbook 376 Trump trolling the Fed chair, whilst legal warfare rages over America's administrative state. Is America nearing stage 4?

Top Links 711 The tariff tax hike. Babies and the macroeconomy. Inequality in the Han and the Roman Empire.

Top Links 710 Junk bond market in shock. North American interdependence. The garbage time of history & vintage Ballard.

Top Links 709 Where are tariffs going to hurt most? The quiet crisis in Korean-US relations & missiles on the Philippines.

Top Link 708 How austerity drove inflation in Germany. Nuclear uncertainty. Making pistons in North America. Stuart Hall on Marx.

Chartbook 375 Swords of Iron - Avi Shlaim & Jamie Stern-Weiner on Israel's war on Gaza.

Top Links 707 Fiscal progressivity in the US. China's "china shock". Crypto’s Darkest Corner & Maltese hunters causing havoc.

Chartbook 374: As Trump triggers "sell America", will the result be "stage 4", the politicization of financial markets?

Top Links 706 Where America's cars come from. Dwindling aid. Camel economics. Add oil.

Chartbook 373 "We create our own reality" - Trump's delirious negative-sum populism, or how the Empire comes home.

Top Links 705 American imports. Can China make safe LNG carriers? Dark Enlightenment & the makers of missiles.

Top Links 704 Why Mar-A-Lago is dated. Dedramatizing US globalization & the Emirates in Africa.

Chartboook 372 "Oh ... it's only China". Or how to make the sudden decoupling of the world’s two largest economies seem like a relief.

Chartbook 371: Is a "Treasury market unwind" in progress? Wednesday morning and the overnight fin-fi panic. (Part 2)

Top Links 703 Tourists canceling trips to the US. The extraordinary rise in China's shipbuilding & the love life of Lloyd George.

Chartbook 370 Is it madness or is it "Brexit-by-CBAM"? Locating Trumpian economics in policy space.

Top Links 702 Corporate profits at record highs. The Autumn of the White Patriarch. The African King at Edward VII’s Coronation. Ruy Lopez variations.

Chartbook 369 Are we on the edge of a major financial crisis? Trump's Chart of Death and why bonds not equities are the big story.

Top Links 701 Trump's junk bond shock. Gender and the inheritance of black poverty & Stuart Hall on the diaspora.

Top Links 700 Markets in shock. Pudgy Penguins. Credit product v. rate product, or how screwed are you? A collider splitting the physics community.

Top Links 699 The crumbling support for Trump. Blowback to Europe from US protectionism. Luhmann advising Adorno on matters of the heart.

Top Links 698 Foreign holdings of Treasuries. Europe's champions. MAGA Afrikaners. Polanyi in the US.

Top Links 697 America's stock market winners. Why China is winning the chip war. Strawberry domination & reading James Burnham.

Chartbook 368 “I have only committed the mistake of believing in you, the Americans.” The day after Trump's "Liberation Day" in SE Asia.

Top Links 696 On private equity in the regime shift. Tesla flailing in China & the "Surreal geographies" of the Holocaust.

Chartbook 367 The Tenth Demand - more essential reading from David Pozen

Top Links 695 The dirty fifteen. Rich-world rents. Money flowing back to China. Gù shi - shi gù & Balochistan explained.

Top Links 694 The foundations of dollar power. Spending money on kids. Kiesler's virtual reality spaces & the bad submarine deal.

Top Links 693 Consumer inequality. Chinese fertility. Libya's black market in oil and malicious compliance.

Chartbook 366: "Servants of the Damned" or how Trump has put a bit of stick about with BigLaw.

Top Links 692 The silent credit squeeze in the US. Congo under pressure following US aid cuts. Is Eritrea's regime wobbling & the Mar-a-Lago look.

Top Links 691 Colleges issuing billions in debt. Tariff avoidance back doors. Less macaroni, more machines. Italy and the Marshall Plan.

Chartbook 365 Defend Columbia. But from what? A globalized University caught in the crosshairs of polycrisis.

Top Links 690 The battle of the giants in US retail. India's road-building boom. Malthusian migrations & the boisterous archive of slavery.

Top Links 689 Comparing defense spending. Tesla's brand destruction. Betting on popes & puppies as baby substitutes.

Top Links 688 Partisan economic sentiment diverges. Rheinmetall is more valuable than VW. The bizarre story of the Zizians.

Top Links 687 Making t-shirts great again. How OPEC reduced emissions. The US stock market in 1812. Making saxophones.

Top Links 686 US steel prices surging. Hyperlocal data. The deep sea race. Electric guitars and tariffs.

Top Links 685 The war on government statistics. Unions on planet Musk. Morocco as the Mexico of Europe & China's African railways.

Chartbook 364: Not so much "man without qualities" as American Psycho - revisiting Albert Speer in the age of Mar-a-Lago.

Top Links 684 America's arms exports. Africa’s climate-conflict trap & Barbie nine jobs.

Top Links 683 Ethiopia's road-building surge. Gavi's vaccine spending & the risks of invading Canada.

Chartbook 363 Stockholm syndrome in Mar-a-Lago: The belief that "something must be done" and the sanewashing of economic policy in the age of Trump

Top Links 682 "Too big to fail" isn't what it used to be. Mass sterilization in Peru & falling US support for Israel.

Top Links 681 Nvidia's tight staffing policy. The New Deal and US agriculture. Money in SciFi and the Troubled Land archive.

Top Links 680 US household's have bet big on equities. The UK's peace dividend. Protest in China & the sad decline of Busan.

Chartbook 362 What should be Columbia University's legal answer to the extortionate & unconstitutional demands of the Trump administration.

Top Links 679 Plunging economic confidence in Trump's America. Reconsidering the F35. The Chinese Exclusion Act & how fondu became hip.

Chartbook 361 Flooding the zone: The first 54 days of the second Trump administration and the end of the world as (we thought) we knew it.

Top Links 678 Are tariffs on money next? FDI in China collapses. A suicide in Shanghai & the Soviet origins of scientific history.

Top Links 677 Why spending money on young kids pays for itself. Being left behind in Europe. Slow moving landslides and the birth of the Chinese post office.

Top Links 676 Stagnating productivity in US construction. The UK productivity crisis deepens. How Musk is ruining his market & the battle of the brass bands in 19th-century France.

Chartbook 360: "War economies"? Disentangling the polycrisis from the shadows of the past.

Top Links 675 America's two-day bank run. China's deflation risk. Can Apple make iPhones in India? Living standards and forced labour in colonial Africa.

Top Links 674 The strange history of a statue of Louis XV. Germany's bazooka. The great German Peasants’ War.

Top Links 673 The partisan economy. Who is hoarding Nvidia H100s. West African rum.

Chartbook 359 West Wing for deplorables: America's liberal elites, history and the Trump shock.

Top Links 672 The R&D puzzle. The ‘Sherlock Holmes Mystery’ of the Economy. World War II and invasive species.

Top Links 671 Washing machines and Trump's tariffs. America's productivity slowdown & China's Great Transformation.

Chartbook 358 Debt brake dilemmas for progressive economic policy in Germany

Top Links 670 MEGA. American workers on the labour market. Mexico's invertebrate state & the excesses of sovereignty.

Chartbook 357 Legitimate maneuver or end run around democracy? Why the CDU-SPD plan to lift the German debt brake is not a done deal.

Top Links 669 Why Hawaii doesnt import its oil from the US. Joan Robinson on the Keynesian revolution and tinned fish to die for.

Top Links 668 Scam Inc. Stockpiling gold, power nationalism & the decline of the band.

Top Links 667 Disrupting the North American Silverado. The Troubled Land video collection. The destruction & reconstruction of Marseille.

Top Links 666 German unemployment, Noodle Mountain & the "Iron *****".

Top Links 665 Cashing in on the egg crisis. How American business hemorrhages cash & Zoonotic spillover.

Top Links 664 Exaggerating American globalization. Haiti's existential crisis. Taking mechanisms literally and Sidetracks IX.

Top Links 663 Dollar asset holding. China's ship-building. Paraguay, Brazil and the politics of hydro power.

Top Links 662 Real crude prices. The marginalization of low-income countries in world trade. Horses per square mile & the dark Arctic.

Top Links 661 The price of coffee. Asia's late acceleration. The French resistance & project power.

Top Links 660 Unionization in the US falls to new lows. Euro blues. Lordship and bondage & the struggle for Iran.

Chartbook 356: Deutschland 2025 - A live (and complicated) democracy.

Top Links 659 The fifty most profitable companies in the world. Bovine catch-up. Clearing the wrecks in Guyana and the historical roots of zero-sum thinking.

Chartbook 355 Germany's election: The end of Scholz's coalition.

Top Links 658 Trump moment? What Trump moment! Falling rice prices. Saudi's desert chickens. The meaning of America first.

Top Links 657 Paradoxes of energy dominance. European military Keynesianism. Champagne in trouble.

Chartbook 354: Of trains and tanks. Or does the German political class actually know how bad things are?

Top Links 656 MBAs out in the cold. Stuck in the internet slow lane. The making of Black Harlem. Mandeville the Man-Devil.

Top Links 655 Is the IRA repeal proof? CEO churn. Men taking up nursing & The Road to Freedom.

Top Links 654 Ukraine's trillions in critical minerals. The economics of crime. Chinese science at war.

Top Links 653 How US asset managers are muscling into Europe. Japan restarts its reactors. Who buys guns? Mexico's energy revolution.

Top Links 652 China's manufacturing dominance. The rouble running riot. How PM2.5 kills & the politics of the Rebecca riots.

Chartbook 353 How Munich got Maga-ed, or Vance, bull**** & the European furore.

Top Links 651 Is China Trump-proof? The global growth of the welfare state. Disintegrating Sudan & "Broadcasting the Barricades".

Top Links 650 Why Europe and India are still buying Russian energy. Friedman and Schwartz disaggregated. Cuba in Africa and the decline of the all-nighter.

Lonely Charts Personals ... or Chartbook 352, the Valentine's edition.

Top Links 649 Dollar overvaluation. Ethiopia's precarious economic reforms. Kashmir and panzootic threats.

Top Links 648 Saudi's oil rebalancing. Nigerian inflation. Glitz-flation in handbags & the Sarkozy-Gaddafi files.

Top Links 647 Trump & the American gentry. The Federal government that just doesn't grow. Showing off & the English Polanyi.

Calling the Lonely Charts Club!

Top Links 646 Defense tech. The Trump tower in Belgrade. Time-biased and space-biased media. The global gender crisis & the book DuBois could not finish.

Top Links 645 Trump's assault on the North American division of labour continued. How the eurdollar system works. North Korea's aerial trash bombardment & FDR on the Arsenal of Democracy.

Top Links 644 Buffett's filthy power plants. Inflation dynamics. Indian wars, Zazous & Pet Shop Boys

Top Links 643 Office vacancies. Peak McDonald's. The case of Ireland and the legend of Ferdinand Piëch.

Chartbook 350: Bullying as a mode of power

Top Links 642 Debunking US exceptionalism. The global relationship recession. Game engines & Adorno's precarious happiness.

Top Links 641 The UK's trade deficit with the US. Low-income growth in the USA. How electrification stalled. "M: son of the century" and "The new us".

Top Links 640 Trump's taxes on blue-collar America. Palantir, Silicon Valley Mittelstand. Hershey's cocoa risk & art at war.

Top Links 639 Buybacks over investment in the US military-industrial complex. The Indian economy shifts gear. RAND on burden-sharing & Britain's wars of decolonization.

Top Links 638 The credit card racket. Why Trump wants Greenland. The cislunar economy & the age of the gas mask.

Top Links 637 America's trade deficits. The robots are coming. Israeli defense exports & Khian Sea - the toxic ship.

Top Links 636 Government by executive order. Deepseek & uranium. Avian flu and the supply chain. A natural history of the studio (Kentridge).

Top Links 635 The rebalancing of global industrial production. A hog-cycle in containers. Czech reserves & Korean coups (in 1979)

Top Links 634 Amerikanizm, tariffs and inflation. The UK's productivity stagnation, & the war-risk business.

Top Links 633 Van Gogh and the end of nature. How the UK kicked coal & China's approach to modernization

Chartbook 349 Scholasticides

Top Links 632 Breakthrough analysis of the "Origins and Content of New Work in the USA, 1940–2018". The art of the photocopier & oil as the lubricant.

Top Links 631 US labour market churn in historical perspective. The decline of retail jobs. Writhing Leviathans & the business of deportation.

Top Links 630 Flexible exchange rates, fear of floating, Goldfinger & the reality of the global exchange rate system.

Chartbook 348 Dollar-like: eurodollars, crypto and the future of global money.

Top Links 629 The Credit Suisse Nazi cover-up. Global bond tremors. The Atlas of drowned towns & Eric Dolphy's last date.

Top Links 628 Will IPOs recover? Worrying about France. The chances of a new pandemic & atomic spaghetti.

Top Links 627 Is the dollar overvalued? Larry Summers feeling good. Gold & the price of a Rolex & The Rise and Fall of the Italian economy.

Chartbook 347 The trouble with transitioning: putting energy history back on its feet.

Top Links 626 The coming US labour market shock. Brazil and the bond vigilantes, China and the demand for gold & the triumph of cellular.

Top Links 625 Decomposing economic surprise. When threats work and when they don't. Is quantum the new AI? And the Secret Leviathan.

Top Links 624 Tariff arithmetic. The gearshift in global auto. Will India overtake Japan and Germany's likely lads.

Top Links 623 The billionaire rally. NYC's taxi-insurance Ponzi scheme. Obvious bollocks about sterling assets & monster wolves in Japan.

Top Links 622 Trump's big choices. President-Fed interactions. Lifting the wind siege & how reinsurance trimmed its wildfire exposure.

Chartbook 346: Against overcorrection. Yellen's Treasury defends the legacy of Democratic fiscal policy.

Top Links 621 The eclipse of the primary dealers. Trading real for bitcoin. A nightmare underground & the unconquered.

Top Links 620 Sanewashing & Starmaggedon. Congress really is at an impasse & would Lenin really have approved of the IMF?

Top Links 619 The payments presidency. The coming rupee shock. Musk’s space juggernaut. Saffron in polycrisis.

Chartbook 345 A "house of cards"? Russia's war economy in 2025.

Top Links 618 America's mounting insurance crisis. US record homelessness. Beijing's Himalayan mega dam & who killed Jazz?

Top Links 617 Student debt is baaaack. Modern defense. Bulldozer politics & Naples '44 revisited.

Chartbook 344: Curzio Malaparte's war

Top Links 616 Global corporate debt surge. Chicago's fiscal blues. Depoliticizing the railways of the Raj.

Top Links 615 The great wealth avalanche. Chinese white-collar salary cuts. North Virginia, data centre capital of the world & My Beautiful Laundrette revisited.

Top Links 614 Fining crypto. Peak Starbucks in China. Labour on screen. Looking glass war.

Top Links 613 The surge in big tech capex. The shipbuilding boom. Litigating butter chicken. Are we entering post-literate society?

Top Links 612 How global inflation came and went. The economic fallout from the coup in Korea and the revolution in Bangladesh & big trouble in Sturgis.

Top Links 611 Trump's threat to affordable cars. Why trust small business? The world's most important boy scouts & revisiting the Maginot line.

Chartbook 343 : Polycrisis & the critique of capitalocentrism.

Top Links 610 China's procyclical fiscal. Whole Foods v. Trader Joe's. Pakistan's surprise rally & chess dominance.

Top links 609 Deindustrialization as historic trend. Why CHIPS investments go to places with the right workforce. Falling birth rates and the Trieste model of mental health.

Top Links 608 American exceptionalism. An Orwellian turn in Chinese economic commentary & can we save Hawker Centers and Axolotl from progress?

Top Links 607 Uncertainty in energy markets. Nike dashing for cash & the strange absence of the state.

Top Links 606 Trump wants the canal back. The cost of crime in LatAm. Economists at war & debating La Notta.

Top Links 605 The story of FRED. Africa's looming debts. The world of copper & art in airports.