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Top Links 1220 European bond worries. Iran oil squeeze. The toughest prisoner of them all & guitar Baroque.
3+ day, 5+ hour ago (100+ words) adamtooze.substack.com Top Links 1220 European bond worries. Iran oil squeeze. The toughest prisoner of them all & guitar Baroque. Great links, images, and reading from Chartbook Newsletter by Adam Tooze Albert Robida La Sortie de l'opéra en l'an 2000 (c. 1902, digitally…...
Chartbook 473 Germany’s democratic earthquake: the AfD breakthrough in Sachsen-Anhalt and the question of an “alternative to the Alternative”.
5+ day, 21+ hour ago (585+ words) Germany’s democracy has suffered an earthquake. In its regional elections at the weekend, the tiny state of Sachsen-Anhalt - population of just over 2 million souls - gave a stonking 44 percent plurality to the AfD (Alternative für Deutschland). The AfD has pulled off…...
Chartbook 472 Neo-Burgundian technocracy: Ernst Jünger’s reckoning with nihilism.
2+ week, 19+ hour ago (914+ words) This is how Ernst Jünger’s 1939 classic On The Marble Cliffs reaches its turning point. Jünger conjures a world of high-powered cars with powerful lights, which make evening visits to vineyard retreats. This could be a scene in a French movie…...
Top Links 1200 Long rates surges, but will there be a landing? Is it time for MMT in “hard mode”? The War of the Words.
3+ week, 2+ day ago (106+ words) adamtooze.substack.com Top Links 1200 Long rates surges, but will there be a landing? Is it time for MMT in “hard mode”? The War of the Words. Great links, images, and reading from Chartbook Newsletter by Adam Tooze Carl Lohse,…...
Chartbook 467 "Mad dogs and...": Heatwave economics - summer 2026
4+ week, 1+ hour ago (756+ words) The crisis of global heating will take many forms and we may imagine it in different ways. Hitherto, I tended to think in terms of dramatic scenarios. Hurricanes and storms bulked large in my imaginary. This July in Paris, I…...