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Multipolarity
Charting The Rise Of A Multipolar World Order Philip Pilkington is an unorthodox macroeconomist. Andrew Collingwood is an equally skeptical journalist. Lately, both have realised that - post-Ukraine, post-Afghanistan withdrawal - the old, unipolar, US-led world order is in its death throes. In its wake, something new is being born. But what shape will that take? That will depend on a combustible combination of economics and geopolitics; trade and military muscle. Each week, our duo take three…
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India Bans Rice Exports?, The UK Gilts Crisis, Home and Huawei
Ukraine has lost its grain deal. Russian fertiliser is struggling to get to market. Now India wants to ban exports of non-Basmati rice. The ratchet on food…
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Special Edition: De-Dollarisation and the New Monetary Order
De-dollarisation. We've been warning about it since the start of the show. But it won't happen overnight. To arrive at a place where the dollar is just one of…
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Special Edition. Malcom Kyeyune: The Twilight of the Western Elites
Malcom Kyeyune (@Tinkzorg on Twitter) is one of the smartest, most far-seeing commentators out there. Someone the lads have really chimed with. Earlier in this…
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Braving The Elements, Western Pacific Treaty Organisation, Cluster Eff
Can you still get your Germanium on AliExpress? After the US restricted Chinese access to high-end chips, China is looking to ban this vital chip ingredient…
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Twitter Spaces: The Realism Debates: Malcom Kyeyune (Tinkzorg) and Elbridge Colby
This week, we hosted a special Twitter Spaces debate, now re-published as a podcast. The topic was: "Is Realism realistic for America, or will liberal…
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Let Them Eat Lidl, China’s Trade Superweapon, Deutschland für Alternative
As France mops up the ashes of the burnt-out banlieues, data shows national food spending is down thirty per cent year on year. It’s not quite Les Miserables…
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Back To The Falklands, Monetarism’s Meltdown, A New Eurozone Crisis
The Chinese are backing the Argentinian claims to the Falklands, with hot anti-colonialist rhetoric. With America still neutral, is Britain heading towards a…
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Ranking Nanjing, Bundeswehr Backdown, Iran's Nuclear Pinball
This week leads on an extraordinary story. A new metric, from the world-leading science journal Nature has put Chinese universities above some of the most…
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The Commercial Property Bust, Eurovision War Contest, Bitter-er Lake
This week, the lads are down the shopping mall... Commercial property is looking increasingly un-commercial. As businesses bail out of downtown post-Covid…
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America’s Capitalist Missionaries, Let a Thousand Towers Bloom, Draining the Ruhr
Tim Cook. Elon Musk. Warren Buffet. Jeff Bezos. Jamie Dimon. Lately, a who’s who of American business power has been sent over to meet their Chinese…
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Twitter Spaces: Britain's Industrial Policy - with Miriam Cates MP, William Clouston, and Michael Taylor
What is Britain's industrial policy? What should it be? In this Anglo-centric Twitter Spaces debate, we're joined by 'rising star of the Tory right', Miriam…
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Turkey Elects; Micron Matters, Twitter Spaces
This episode is brought to you by Twitter Spaces. With an elephantine 2.5 hour running time, we've gone gonzo, and turned one of our regular Twitter Spaces…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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"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…
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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…
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Tanking Banking, French Toast, Bi Bi's Boo Boo
This week, our boys are on the trail of the continuing fallout from SVB. With Credit Suisse the next domino in what is looking increasingly like a chain…
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Special Edition: A Q&A with Collingwood & Pilkington
As part of our tenth episode celebrations, we've taken soundings from the loyal listeners, and come up with a list of questions to ask Andrew Collingwood and…
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Samo Burja: The Three Mega-Trends That Will Define The 21st Century
This week, we're celebrating our recent tenth show with a double-header. Breaking out of the usual format, we have an interview with a thought leader, plus a…
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Silicon Valley Bailout, All Butter No Guns, The Art of Peace
The Multipolarity group chat exploded over the weekend, as news of the Silicon Valley Bank implosion began to break. Andrew Collingwood is angry at what…
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An OPEC for Lithium, World War Three, The Goulash Archipelago
Tech-wise, lithium is in everything from electric vehicles to mobile phones. And for an element so high up the periodic table, it's surprisingly hard to find…
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The Great Divergence, Chips With Everything, Africa's New Rumble In The Jungle
This week, Philip Pilkington is hammering a term he claims will soon be everywhere: "The Great Divergence". What becomes of the global balance of power when…
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All Turkey's Christmases, Materiel World, Chinese Burns
Turkey has the best performing stock market in the world this year. In part, this is to do with how it has under-performed in previous years. But, as our duo…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
Multipolarity1. 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…