For your weekend reading pleasure. A brilliant piece of satire that isn't actually at all satirical, sadly. But oh, the atriums...
www.publicbooks.org/the-misuses-...
New Rhodes Center Pod just up. Great conversation with Alex Cooley and Alex Dukalskis about their new book Dictating the Agenda.
AKA - How authoritarians go from playing defense other than offense.
Great book. Read it. But listen here first: player.captivate.fm/episode/5e16...
He does. Mainly solo. And yes. That one was an Ibanez and I still have it!
Applications are open for the Finance Summer School 2026. Last two have been at Brown. This one is at LSE thanks to LSE European Institute and Huth Initiative, plus the Berkeley Program on Finance and Democracy. Stellar Line up. Apps open: forms.gle/WsEVk4Yy52Dn...
Actually, not final for today. New Rhodes center Podcast is out. Seth Rockman interviews Sven Beckett about his new book, Capitalism: A Global History. Enjoy: player.captivate.fm/episode/76bb...
And finally for today a Pod I did with two British friends who used to work police intel and have seen the collapse of state capacity up close and personal: thecollators.com/s2e1
Also, my Berkeley talk on Citizenship and the Politics of Grievance from December is up. Its long. Lots of slides. Trying to think through how to talk about the nation without becoming an ethnic nationalist: www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLWh...
Did the Dip (not the Dig) podcast with Deutsche Welle (in English). If you want to know my thinking about the current moment this is a good place to get it in less than 15 mins: www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTL1...
While Trump thinks that the non-existence of windmills in China shows the obviousness of the big green scam, the UK intel community still thinks climate change is real and a massive security risk: assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/696e0e...
Who would you believe? Really...
Two views of the present. If you can get past the FT paywall, Howard Lutnick on the American present: www.ft.com/content/a675...
And now Cornel Ban on America's actual present and likely future: substack.com/inbox/post/1...
Thanks. I think I get once a year so that was it :-)
You can constantly under or over bill, settle in cash, underreport hours or jobs. There is no way to monitor. Then there's the structures around them. Scottish partnerships, LLC rackets. It's a tax sinkhole.
Something a bit more fun (kinda). What's behind the attack on the Fed, and central banks/technocratic governance, in general? Regime Shift, Power Play, or the Politics of Distraction? Probably all of the above. Me of @onthemedia.bsky.social this weekend: www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm...
Mike Green is at it again. His ability to recast what I think I know into something else entirely is incredible. Here he does it again. This time on what full Ai automation (or even partial) would actually mean. It's not what you think: www.yesigiveafig.com/p/the-thermo...
For your weekend listening pleasure. I did the Top Traders podcast. These folks ask the best questions. Got into loads of interesting stuff. Enjoy: www.toptradersunplugged.com/podcast/when...
For your last minute Christmas gift list. A list of damn good books, including one recommended by me: www.project-syndicate.org/onpoint/ps-c...
See you all in the new year!
For your weekend listening pleasure, it's me and @johncassidysays.bsky.social talking about his belter of a book Capitalism and its Critics: player.captivate.fm/episode/b858...
Do it. And then get the book.
Did this great pod with the public policy crowd at the University of Glasgow. I was interviewed by Nicola McEwan, who went to Graeme Street tech in Dundee with me back in the 80s, and then we both went on to Strathclyde for undergrad. Great fun to reconnect: open.spotify.com/episode/29nh...
Two substacks that have become indispensable reading for me are @cornelban on Geoeconomics: substack.com/@GeoEconomic
and @NikKalyanpur on thepriceofpower.substack.com
Subscribe to both and cut through the BS
The best thing about winning this award is that you can only accept it wearing a Kilt. Many thanks to the Scots in New England for this lovely, and very meaningful, award: scotsnewengland.org/and-the-winn...
I'm old and need reminders. we are having you down to brown though.
You could have given me a heads up :-)
Interview in a Korean Financial Daily, for those of you who can finally get me an invite to South Korea (never been): n.news.naver.com/mnews/articl...
A very nice and long review of Inflation is up in the Nation: www.thenation.com/article/cult...
Had a good chat with the CBC folks about the cost of living and the politics of inflation: www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...
And now..in our regular discussion of how climate change is really geopolitics...I give you @triofrancos.bsky.social and her fabby new book: player.captivate.fm/episode/16cc...
In other words - The new Rhodes Center Podcast is up...
Mike Green is writing some amazing stuff at the moment. It's not in the delta, it's in the level and the cost structure. Read this and you will understand Angrynomics on a new level: www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...
If you want a long form philosophical exploration of the current moment, Sam Moyn provides a good one here, despite my interventions: www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKHE...
Next Weds evening (11/26) Nic and I are doing a talk on Inflation at Kings in London. Details are here. Hope to see some of you there: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/inflation-...
Tremendous piece by Mike Green that manages to combine the cost of living crisis, why the Dems donor class are awful, technofeudalism, and Orwell all in one piece. Quite Brilliant: www.yesigiveafig.com/p/are-you-an...
