A diplomatic incident in Latin America has somehow become the focal point for an ever-expanding range of stories - from the Venezuelan elections, to US energy policy to Ecuadorian banana exports to Russia.
Leading even coolheaded observers to ponder the question: are we approaching the Latin American embassy incident singularity?
Meanwhile, there are always good tariffs and bad tariffs - and in announcing his new shipbuilding policies, this week Joe Biden’s giving us both a plate of cheese and a plate of chalk.
Finally, Arch-Eurocrat Mario Draghi has made a big speech about European competitiveness. Its 20 years of failure - and its hope for the future.
Is this the first sign of a continent about to flex its soon to be enviable muscles? Or is it the first twitchings of an arthritic bodybuilder about to pop a hernia?
Premium Episode: Vivek, Javier, and the Geopolitics of Populism
Chinese Wobbles, BRICS' New World Order, San Fran Down The Pan
UK Poorer Than Mississippi, No Supply Issues In The Housing Market?, Internal Migration In China
ESG - Big Finance's Latest Fad Implodes, Dim Sum Bonds, Russia's GDP Overtaking Germany
Twitter Spaces: What Is Multipolarity?
India Bans Rice Exports?, The UK Gilts Crisis, Home and Huawei
Special Edition: De-Dollarisation and the New Monetary Order
Special Edition. Malcom Kyeyune: The Twilight of the Western Elites
Braving The Elements, Western Pacific Treaty Organisation, Cluster Eff
Twitter Spaces: The Realism Debates: Malcom Kyeyune (Tinkzorg) and Elbridge Colby
Let Them Eat Lidl, China’s Trade Superweapon, Deutschland für Alternative
Back To The Falklands, Monetarism’s Meltdown, A New Eurozone Crisis
Ranking Nanjing, Bundeswehr Backdown, Iran's Nuclear Pinball
The Commercial Property Bust, Eurovision War Contest, Bitter-er Lake
America’s Capitalist Missionaries, Let a Thousand Towers Bloom, Draining the Ruhr
Twitter Spaces: Britain's Industrial Policy - with Miriam Cates MP, William Clouston, and Michael Taylor
Turkey Elects; Micron Matters, Twitter Spaces
Special Edition: Q&A - The Problem With Peter Zeihan...
Piling On The Pounds, California Screaming, Marco Polo A Go Go
Twenty Years of Monetary Failure, The Deindustrial Revolution, Arab Autumn
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