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

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

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

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Chartbook 441 The Two-Faced Present - A conversation about the “short twentieth century” – and the paradoxical twenty-first with Wang Hui (in collaboration with Equator magazine)

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Chartbook 440: Between complacency, escapism and cognitive dissonance. Impressions from the spring week in Washington, April 2026.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Top Links 1080 The largest companies in the world. Indian divergence. RIP Robert Skidelsky & Black Boys on Mopeds.

Top Link 1079 The tanker convoy to the Gulf coast. Explaining the market disconnect. Eastern Libya's money man & the scandal rocking China's chess establish...

Top Links 1078 The stealth manufacturing boom in the US. How will the world pay for the US AI boom? The Xi Jinping school of journalism & the sorrows of Bur...

Top Links 1077 The hyperscaling upper bound. Why the rupee matters to Modi. The air-pollution mega-killers & sunken treasure in the Bay of Algeciras.

Top Links 1076 "Looking through" Iran. Japan's car industry in trouble. Gum arabic and the Sudan conflict. India threatens Bangladeshi migrants with ... crocodi...

Top Links 1075 Global uncertainty. Why global growth in 2025 was so resilient. Guyana's boom & how the Chicago School confronted AIDS.

Chartbook 441 The Two-Faced Present - A conversation about the “short twentieth century” – and the paradoxical twenty-first with Wang Hui (in collaboration with Equator magazine)

Top Links 1074 The last prewar tankers reach their destinations. Our euro, your solution? Who are the Dems? Everday life as "scanty residue".

Chartbook 440: Between complacency, escapism and cognitive dissonance. Impressions from the spring week in Washington, April 2026.

Top Links 1073 Schumpeterian waves in the US economy. Deaths from malnutrition. How Ukraine survived & The path to the nest of spiders.

Top Links 1072 Medium sour - the oil the US imports from the Gulf. Poland's armaments boom. The Wildfire Season in the US & the battle over marmalade.

Top Links 1071 The Australian diesel armada. The health-care labour market slump. The history of cherry tree blossoming & the "assumption of inertia".

Top Links 1070 From coalstate to electrostate. The revenge of the old economy. Killing cities. “The stance upon the ruined abode”