Podcast Episodes

India Bans Rice Exports?, The UK Gilts Crisis, Home and Huawei

Season 1 Episode 33

Ukraine has lost its grain deal. Russian fertiliser is struggling to get to market. Now India wants to ban exports of non-Basmati rice. The ratchet on food prices is by no means over. Now, the ratche…

Published on 2 years, 4 months ago

Special Edition: De-Dollarisation and the New Monetary Order

Season 1 Episode 32

De-dollarisation. We've been warning about it since the start of the show.

But it won't happen overnight. To arrive at a place where the dollar is just one of many global currencies is the work of ye…

Published on 2 years, 4 months ago

Special Edition. Malcom Kyeyune: The Twilight of the Western Elites

Season 1 Episode 31

Malcom Kyeyune (@Tinkzorg on Twitter) is one of the smartest, most far-seeing commentators out there. Someone the lads have really chimed with.

Earlier in this bonanza week, we paired him with Elbri…

Published on 2 years, 5 months ago

Braving The Elements, Western Pacific Treaty Organisation, Cluster Eff

Season 1 Episode 30

Can you still get your Germanium on AliExpress? After the US restricted Chinese access to high-end chips, China is looking to ban this vital chip ingredient. 

So where do we go from here? Can America …

Published on 2 years, 5 months ago

Twitter Spaces: The Realism Debates: Malcom Kyeyune (Tinkzorg) and Elbridge Colby

Season 1 Episode 29

This week, we hosted a special Twitter Spaces debate, now re-published as a podcast.

The topic was: "Is Realism realistic for America, or will liberal idealists and neocons always control US foreign …

Published on 2 years, 5 months ago

Let Them Eat Lidl, China’s Trade Superweapon, Deutschland für Alternative

Season 1 Episode 28

As France mops up the ashes of the burnt-out banlieues, data shows national food spending is down thirty per cent year on year. It’s not quite Les Miserables, but right across Europe, it seems that h…

Published on 2 years, 5 months ago

Back To The Falklands, Monetarism’s Meltdown, A New Eurozone Crisis

Season 1 Episode 27

The Chinese are backing the Argentinian claims to the Falklands, with hot anti-colonialist rhetoric. With America still neutral, is Britain heading towards a Suez two-point oh moment? And perhaps mor…

Published on 2 years, 5 months ago

Ranking Nanjing, Bundeswehr Backdown, Iran's Nuclear Pinball

Season 1 Episode 26

This week leads on an extraordinary story. A new metric, from the world-leading science journal Nature has put Chinese universities above some of the most famous names in higher ed. MIT, Caltech, Cam…

Published on 2 years, 5 months ago

The Commercial Property Bust, Eurovision War Contest, Bitter-er Lake

Season 1 Episode 25

This week, the lads are down the shopping mall...

Commercial property is looking increasingly un-commercial. As businesses bail out of downtown post-Covid, it’s threatening to create a downward spira…

Published on 2 years, 6 months ago

America’s Capitalist Missionaries, Let a Thousand Towers Bloom, Draining the Ruhr

Season 1 Episode 24

Tim Cook. Elon Musk. Warren Buffet. Jeff Bezos. Jamie Dimon. 

Lately, a who’s who of American business power has been sent over to meet their Chinese counterparts. With embassy-level diplomacy increas…

Published on 2 years, 6 months ago