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Top Links 1104 Target balance within the Eurozone. Veblen babies. potato blight of the 1840s. US troops in Germany.

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Top Links 1103 Biofuel boom. A plague of deer. Writing in the age of AI. Trajectories of the neo-gothic.

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Chartbook 449: Voldemort on Threadneedle street. The Bank of England and the "haunted house" of English politics.

Imagine the scene:

Top Links 1102 AI circularity. Egypt's land monetization. Young people quitting Beijing & the BJP's triumphant march.

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Top Links 1101 Will "gas" hit $5? Capitalists =/= capitalism. "After Order" & the hidden charms of the "London system".

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Top Links 1100 Big tech's investment spending. Selling India. The first Red Flag. The revolution in tactical medicine.

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Chartbook 448 Price controls, nationalization, financial repression, fiscal-monetary coordination - embracing the Four Horsemen of Heterodoxy

If the current state of the world economy is marked by stark cognitive dissonance, if what is not sustainable cannot be sustained, then what comes next?

Top Links 1099 Lopsided stock boom. Why UAE exited OPEC. Mexico and Brazil cutting the working day. How the Guardian responded to the General Strike.

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Chartbook 447: The US economy in May 2026 - How much cognitive dissonance can you handle?

Open your favorite business paper or news site right now and you will be confronted with a scene of spectacular cognitive dissonance.

Top Links 1098 Shrinking the Federal government. European convergence. Cod and the new Cold War, plus the origins of desert blues.

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Top Links 1097 Tariffs really are bad for your economy. The complacency of the US elite & the lost paintings of an Ethiopian master.

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Chartbook 446 Soft power with Chinese characteristics? Notes on Chinamaxxing.

Chinamaxxing is a bit of a thing in the Anglosphere right now.

Top Links 1096 America's AI import boom. The pushback on Chinese pea protein. Rethinking the industrial revolution & what are "material interests"?

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Top Links 1095 Running out of fertilizer. Why not to worry about space constraints on data centers. Yellow filtering the world.

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Top Links 1094 Scaling tech layoffs. Why to run the economy hot. Money doctors from Japan & Hobsbawm's biography.

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Top Links 1093 The GOP-tax problem. The SF consensus. The genesis of the modern state & literature after Auschwitz.

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Top Links 1092 Big oil is not coming to Trump's rescue. Tanzania's gas play. Metal Weber & "Origin Story".

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Chartbook 445: Is a "China shock" coming for the "big ag" food regime?

China’s integration into the world economy is the most dramatic development of modern economic history.

Top Links 1091 Price shocks. The economics of fathering. Dandyism, intellectualism and Japanese feminism.

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Chartbook 444: Rolling back the "big Fed" - Kevin Warsh, the Hoover Institution & the conservative critique of the administrative state.

Kevin Warsh, the presumptive new chair of the Federal Reserve, is no economist, nor monetary policy wonk.

Top Links 1090 US energy policy impasse. The global hierarchy of defense R&D. Early modern comparative religion & the true face of the Qing.

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Top Links 1089 Is America's long consumer boom faltering? Making up for Hormuz. Fascist Disneyland & an alt-history of the Cold War.

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Top Links 1088 "Currencies aren't just vibes". Big tech cutbacks. UAE pressures Pakistan. Not enough Dante.

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Top Links 1087 Why 2026 is not 2022. That intel stake that keeps on growing. Thai petrol smuggling & Sartre's bizarre lifestyle.

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Top Links 1086 The war and the markets. Iran's defense spending. The battle of Vercors & the first athlete.

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Top Links 1085 Data-center blowback. Nazis in Liechtenstein. Underground war and bringing the dead back to life.

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Chartbook 443 Hard-working hegemon? Why 21st-century America is not like Edwardian Britain.

... or the ironies of neo-Hobsonian analysis.

Top Links 1084 The new normal in America's political economy. Syrian property deals & the Trumps. Burial at sea and the history that made Lee Kuan Yew.

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Top Links 1083 China investing in batteries, India in dockyards. Big cuts in big tech & "Talking with Sartre".

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Chartbook 443 "Obscurity to Notoriety" - Bessent, the UAE and how"swap lines" morph into "slush lines".

The UAE is in discussions with the Trump administration about a swap line.

Top Links 1082 China's oil reserves. Global hunger. America's megadrought & Adorno v. Gehlen.

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Top Links 1081 Time for a cartel of oil-importers? The US as roving bandit. Modern illiteracy. Far-right France.

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Chartbook 442: Global imbalances - A new cocktail in old bottles: World Economy April 2026:

As the World Bank and IMF convened for their “twin meetings” in Washington DC in April 2026, the talk of macroeconomists around the world was of “global imbalances”.