Charting the Largest Tariff Hike in Modern History
April 12, 2025, 5:26 p.m.
Bond Vigilantes
April 12, 2025, 11:02 a.m.
After the Fallout: Yields Spiral
April 11, 2025, 3:15 p.m.
Highlights from Amazon CEO Andy Jassy’s annual letter to shareholders (and some charts)
April 11, 2025, 1:31 p.m.
Trade, Tariffs, and Tech
April 7, 2025, 8:41 p.m.
Top Links 710 Junk bond market in shock. North American interdependence. The garbage time of history & vintage Ballard.
April 16, 2025, 10:59 a.m.
Top Links 709 Where are tariffs going to hurt most? The quiet crisis in Korean-US relations & missiles on the Philippines.
April 15, 2025, 10:59 a.m.
Top Link 708 How austerity drove inflation in Germany. Nuclear uncertainty. Making pistons in North America. Stuart Hall on Marx.
April 14, 2025, 11:03 a.m.
Chartbook 375 Swords of Iron - Avi Shlaim & Jamie Stern-Weiner on Israel's war on Gaza.
April 13, 2025, 12:25 p.m.
Top Links 707 Fiscal progressivity in the US. China's "china shock". Crypto’s Darkest Corner & Maltese hunters causing havoc.
April 13, 2025, 12:23 p.m.
Chartbook 374: As Trump triggers "sell America", will the result be "stage 4", the politicization of financial markets?
April 12, 2025, 1:32 p.m.
Top Links 706 Where America's cars come from. Dwindling aid. Camel economics. Add oil.
April 12, 2025, 10:59 a.m.
Chartbook 373 "We create our own reality" - Trump's delirious negative-sum populism, or how the Empire comes home.
April 11, 2025, 12:23 p.m.
Top Links 705 American imports. Can China make safe LNG carriers? Dark Enlightenment & the makers of missiles.
April 11, 2025, 11:01 a.m.
Top Links 704 Why Mar-A-Lago is dated. Dedramatizing US globalization & the Emirates in Africa.
April 10, 2025, 10:59 a.m.
Chartboook 371 "Oh ... it's only China". Or how to make the sudden decoupling of the world’s two largest economies seem like a relief.
April 10, 2025, 10:48 a.m.
Chartbook 370: Is a "Treasury market unwind" in progress? Wednesday morning and the overnight fin-fi panic. (Part 2)
April 9, 2025, 11:29 a.m.
Top Links 703 Tourists canceling trips to the US. The extraordinary rise in China's shipbuilding & the love life of Lloyd George.
April 9, 2025, 10:59 a.m.
Chartbook 369 Is it madness or is it "Brexit-by-CBAM"? Locating Trumpian economics in policy space.
April 8, 2025, 11:31 a.m.
Top Links 702 Corporate profits at record highs. The Autumn of the White Patriarch. The African King at Edward VII’s Coronation. Ruy Lopez variations.
April 8, 2025, 11:03 a.m.
Chartbook 369 Are we on the edge of a major financial crisis? Trump's Chart of Death and why bonds not equities are the big story.
April 7, 2025, 2:31 p.m.
Top Links 701 Trump's junk bond shock. Gender and the inheritance of black poverty & Stuart Hall on the diaspora.
April 7, 2025, 10:59 a.m.
Top Links 700 Markets in shock. Pudgy Penguins. Credit product v. rate product, or how screwed are you? A collider splitting the physics community.
April 6, 2025, 10:59 a.m.
Top Links 699 The crumbling support for Trump. Blowback to Europe from US protectionism. Luhmann advising Adorno on matters of the heart.
April 5, 2025, 11:02 a.m.
Top Links 698 Foreign holdings of Treasuries. Europe's champions. MAGA Afrikaners. Polanyi in the US.
April 4, 2025, 10:59 a.m.
Top Links 697 America's stock market winners. Why China is winning the chip war. Strawberry domination & reading James Burnham.
April 3, 2025, 10:59 a.m.
Chartbook 368 “I have only committed the mistake of believing in you, the Americans.” The day after Trump's "Liberation Day" in SE Asia.
April 3, 2025, 10:27 a.m.
Top Links 696 On private equity in the regime shift. Tesla flailing in China & the "Surreal geographies" of the Holocaust.
April 2, 2025, 11:03 a.m.
Chartbook 367 The Tenth Demand - more essential reading from David Pozen
April 1, 2025, 4:59 p.m.
Top Links 695 The dirty fifteen. Rich-world rents. Money flowing back to China. Gù shi - shi gù & Balochistan explained.
April 1, 2025, 11:03 a.m.