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?
Special Edition with Harvard's Neo-Realist Stephen Walt: The Balance of Threat
Quit All That Yellen, The Chips Fall Where They May, Multipolar Metallurgy
Avant Lagarde, The IRA Blows Up, Xi Gets A Brazilian
"The Leak", Multipolar Macron, Rare Earth Getting Rarer
CPTPP: Trade Deal or No Deal, Macron's Beijing Bargain, Cast No Shadow Banking
Tanking Banking, French Toast, Bi Bi's Boo Boo
Special Edition: A Q&A with Collingwood & Pilkington
Samo Burja: The Three Mega-Trends That Will Define The 21st Century
Silicon Valley Bailout, All Butter No Guns, The Art of Peace
An OPEC for Lithium, World War Three, The Goulash Archipelago
The Great Divergence, Chips With Everything, Africa's New Rumble In The Jungle
All Turkey's Christmases, Materiel World, Chinese Burns
Ireland's Migration Riots, The Global Popularity Contest, America Hits the Bongbong in the Philippines
The Balloon Goes Up, Sanctions Busting, Nigeria's Stablecoin Faceplant
Housing Crash 2.0, The Rebalancing Act, A North-South Silk Road
Special Edition: Brazil and Argentina form a currency union
The WTO Crumbling, Mining's Green Moment, China Goes Gaucho
1. The Golden Whale, 2023 in Crystal Balls, All the Chips in China
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