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Economy

Sep 29, 2026

Chartbook 476 Walled-in wealth #2: US-China oligarchic divergence.

This article explores the growing economic divide between the US and China, highlighting the rise of oligarchic wealth and its implications for global power dynamics.

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Economy

Sep 25, 2026

Chartbook 475: After the dollar as reserve currency, the (profit) dollar as a “portfolio currency”.

This article explores the transition from the dollar as the primary reserve currency to its role as a profit-driven portfolio currency, analyzing implications for global finance and investment strategies.

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Sep 21, 2026

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Top Links 1238 Equity flows. Wages in gold. Path of the Kamikaze & Trotsky on the revolution of dollar hegemony.

Top Links 1237 Rates, rates rates. The yen-carry-trade unwind. The cartel war in Sinaloa & “socialism or barbarism” (1915).

Top Links 1236 The usual inflation suspects. Twin deficits of 6 percent? A massive ungovernable influx of energy & a sense of vertigo.

Top Links 1235 Late-stage American capitalism. The Asian semi-conductor pullback. Saving Florida’s orange industry & the end of Empire in Aden.

Chartbook 476 Walled-in wealth #2: US-China oligarchic divergence.

Top Links 1234 Short-term and long-term debt in America. Pricey lubricants & the end of the American age.

Top Links 1233 Big tech guarantees. Gold and Hong Kong’s first Five Year Plan. P4M & death and money in Switzerland.

Top Links 1232 Fiscal costs of migration. White terror in Bulgaria & the father of Australian landscape painting.

Top Links 1231 The big AI web. Pax Britannica on Wednesday 24 November 1937. Productivity in the very long-run & the Habsburg Jaw.

Chartbook 475: After the dollar as reserve currency, the (profit) dollar as a “portfolio currency”.

Top Links 1230 AI liability. Menschen mit Migrationshintergrund. The battel of the princes in Liechtenstein & the two Blooms.

Top Links 1229 Wood in the US economy. China investing in people. Deciphering Rivera & From Clive to Keynes.