Ireland's Migration Riots, The Global Popularity Contest, America Hits the Bongbong in the Philippines
In the week that Ireland is gripped by widespread anti-migrant protests, resident Celt Phil Pilkington explains why the present wave of populist sentiment might no longer be containable by the politic...
16 Feb 202345min
The Balloon Goes Up, Sanctions Busting, Nigeria's Stablecoin Faceplant
Like so many other social media addicts, our duo were in thrall to the rogue Chinese weather balloon over the weekend. But while the rest of the commentariat were fuming at the security implications, ...
9 Feb 202356min
Housing Crash 2.0, The Rebalancing Act, A North-South Silk Road
Philip Pilkington came of age in the shadow of the great Irish property bust of 2008 - it was one of the key reasons he became a macro-economist. Now, as he warns, history is about to repeat itself. T...
2 Feb 202348min
Special Edition: Brazil and Argentina form a currency union
Latin America's giants have come together. The Brazilian Real and the Argentinian Peso are to be joined together in a prospective currency union - or at least a “regional unit of account". The prospec...
25 Jan 202352min
The WTO Crumbling, Mining's Green Moment, China Goes Gaucho
Andrew Collingwood and Philip Pilkington soldier gamely on in the second episode of Multipolarity - charting the rise of the new multipolar world order. This week: A new report suggests the Chinese mi...
18 Jan 202345min
1. The Golden Whale, 2023 in Crystal Balls, All the Chips in China
Philip Pilkington and Andrew Collingwood christen the pod by hashing over some of the week's biggest geopolitics stories. Just who is the enormous whale biting chunks out of the global gold market?Is ...
10 Jan 202351min
