This week, the lads have been heartened and dismayed by public statements from the two most eminent female economists of our time. Christine Lagarde and Janet Yellen. But while Yellen fell back onto tired old State Department talking points, Lagarde gave a pitch-perfect introduction to the multipolar age. Does the global elite finally get it? And if so, how will they trim their sheets from here on out?
While he was dealing with the Irish Republican Army on his foreign trip last week, Joseph Biden was hanging ever more of his domestic credibility on another IRA -the Inflation Reduction Act. Philip Pilkington sees two big takeaways from this $500 billion barrel of pork. First: the return of real dirigiste industrial policy to America. Secondly: the advent of Big Green as a powerful lobbying force on Capitol Hill.
Meanwhile, Andrew Collingwood has been watching Lula enter through the Beijing door that Macron just exited - bearing a similar amount of fresh deals and good cheer from President Xi. As they watch China build out Brazil's 5G network, will there, he wonders, be a sniff of buyers' regret from the 'Manhattan charity auction set' for having backed a Chomskyite old-Marxist over the more unpalatable, yet much more US-friendly, Jair Bolsonaro?
Madame El Presidente, Buyout Britain, Ankara’s Away
Premium Episode: Britain 2029
When Liberals Kill, G7 Suicide Pact, Dollarmageddon
Special Edition: Two Crystal Balls And The Death Of The Washington World Order
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Special Edition - Q&A
Yuan Way Or Another, Korea Advice, Dollar Save Club
Bananageddon, We’re Gonna Need A Bigger Boat, Enter The Draghi
Special Episode: Big Trouble With Little Rocket Man
Premium Episode: The Atlanticists vs The Autonomists
Sino More, A Bridge Too Far, America's Trussification
Special Edition: The Economic Consequences Of The War
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Premium Edition: The YIMBY Defence League, Nuland Goes, Galloway Comes
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Israeli Economy Contracts 20 Percent, Nagorno-Karabakh To The Future, Bailey Out-y
Deutschland Unter Alles, Chinese Crackers, War Like An Egyptian
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From America With Love, Your Country Needs THEM, Self-Immolate After Reading
Poseidon With The Enemy, WWIII Pt. 2, Weimargentina
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