Special Edition: Q&A - The Problem With Peter Zeihan...
Peter Zeihan is a big noise these days. He put in a stellar appearance on Joe Rogan. He's got a new book out: The End of the World is Just the Beginning: Mapping the Collapse of Globalization. Zeihan ...
25 Maj 20231h 18min
Piling On The Pounds, California Screaming, Marco Polo A Go Go
In the week after the Bank of England once again raised rates, our geopolitics lads are entertaining the theory that this is about more than just crushing inflation. Britain is being forced to shadow ...
18 Maj 202357min
Twenty Years of Monetary Failure, The Deindustrial Revolution, Arab Autumn
Interest rates policy has bedevilled the West ever since Alan Greenspan first put the Fed on the floor in the wake of 9/11. With rates finally returning to realistic levels, we're seeing the impact of...
11 Maj 20231h 3min
Special Edition with Harvard's Neo-Realist Stephen Walt: The Balance of Threat
This week, our lads find themselves in the presence of Professor Stephen Walt. A professor of politics at the Harvard Kennedy School, Walt is the arch neo-realist, often bracketed alongside John Mears...
4 Maj 202348min
Quit All That Yellen, The Chips Fall Where They May, Multipolar Metallurgy
This week, ordinary geopolitics lads Andrew Collingwood and Philip Pilkington are back on the case of Janet Yellen. A week ago, she made incoherent comments about American foreign policy. Now, she's g...
27 Apr 202347min
Avant Lagarde, The IRA Blows Up, Xi Gets A Brazilian
This week, the lads have been heartened and dismayed by public statements from the two most eminent female economists of our time. Christine Lagarde and Janet Yellen. But while Yellen fell back onto t...
20 Apr 202351min
"The Leak", Multipolar Macron, Rare Earth Getting Rarer
This week, the lads are trying not to speculate on the exact nature of the Pentagon 'leak' that came out over the Easter weekend. Is it disinfo or just someone with an axe to grind? It's unclear, whic...
13 Apr 202355min
CPTPP: Trade Deal or No Deal, Macron's Beijing Bargain, Cast No Shadow Banking
After years of carping from the Remain establishment, Britain has finally come to its senses and joined a big trading bloc. But no - not that one. Will life in Asia’s CPTPP allow the UK to export thei...
6 Apr 202353min
