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John speaks with economist Philip Pilkington to explore the unraveling of global liberalism, tracing its roots from British imperialism to America's post-World War II dominance. Pilkington argues that economic liberalisation failed to universalise liberal values, as nations like China and India embrace markets while rejecting cultural liberalism. A multipolar world emerges, where non-liberal powers redefine global influence. Family breakdown and demographic decline threaten Western prosperity, with collapsing birth rates and rising welfare costs signalling societal decay. Radical green ideologies, rooted in neo-paganism, prioritise nature over human welfare, risking a return to impoverishment. Pilkington envisions a post-liberal West reviving Christian values to restore stable families and economic vitality.Philip Pilkington is a macroeconomist and investment professional. He is the author of The Reformation in Economics and the soon to be released The Collapse Of Global Liberalism. He also co-hosts the popular geopolitics podcast Multipolarity.

For almost six centuries Europe has been at the centre of world affairs. While the days of Empire are long gone, over the last several decades the importance and comparative wealth of Europe has declined at an extraordinary pace. Indeed for many countries, from Britain to Germany and Greece, living standards have stagnated or even […]

Macroeconomists and market watchers John Rapley and Philip Pilkington join UnHerd's Freddie Sayers to investigate the apparent market slump set off by Chinese AI app DeepSeek. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week, it's a double header of audio essays on Europe's elite power-plays. One From Andrew Collingwood - on the Atlanticists and the Autonomists taking their battle for supremacy into the new EU administration. And another from Philip Pilkington setting out how a new kind of Trussification may be coming for the states within the ECB… Is Le Pen mightier than La Banque? ***It's premium week, so if you're not already a subscriber, head over to Patreon where for five pounds, Euros or dollars a month, you can get access to this, and all our previous premium episodes. Cancel any time.

This week, a special edition. Two relatively short term scenarios, with very long term implications. Presented in audio essay form, by our two hosts. In Part One, Philip Pilkington outlines his take on what could happen after the US election. An extended sketch on the possibilty of violent Trussification. He thinks that bond market bullying of the incoming Trump administration could in turn set off a chain of events, that demand a new wave of de-dollarisation. In Part Two, Andrew Collingwood flips the perspective from West to East, and from currency wars, to trade wars. He'll be looking at the world from China's point of view, in the light of this week's US trade tariffs on Chinese goods - including a one hundred percent tariff on Chinese electric vehicles. The Chinese have studied how nations rise, and they've come up with a plan to leapfrog US in the technological pecking order. As the low tariff liberal Washington order slips away, what becomes of a world where China is no longer content with low and medium-value manufacturing, but is instead actively targetting the crowning heights that America has long claimed as its unique domain? *** For more on the Chinese plan, be sure to subscribe to Multipolarity's new Substack, where Andrew will be putting down some extended thoughts. This week, we also have an introductory essay - called What Is Multipolarity? And from next week, every Thursday we'll have the Multipolarity Briefing - a series of links and brief thoughts to keep you up to date on the latest multipolar developments. Simply search for Multipolarity on Substack.com*** Be excellent to each other, and -Get us on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/multipolarpodOn Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/multipolarity Or on our Substack: https://substack.com/@multipolaritypod

How much does the US benefit from printing the global reserve currency? An economist calculated that US average daily income would fall by 27-57% if the dollar lost its "exorbitant privilege". Ben Norton explains how wealthy investors not only in North America but around the world hold much of their wealth in the dollar. VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=jYkiMcR1Rj8 Link to Philip Pilkington's report and Twitter account: https://twitter.com/philippilk/status/1782409654519128497 Topics 0:00 US dollar dominance 2:00 Economics of exorbitant privilege 5:23 Current account 9:29 Balance of payments 12:31 Effects of dollar hegemony 14:45 Neoliberalism & financialization 17:41 Foreign capital funds US deficits 19:28 Global 1% invests in US assets 20:35 Super Imperialism 22:25 Fed inflates asset bubbles 25:22 De-industrialization in West 28:06 Industrialization in BRICS 28:57 Investment & FDI 33:08 Wages & manufacturing 35:00 Re-industrialization? 38:16 Outro

In this episode special guest Philip Pilkington talks about the foreseeable impacts of the ongoing global events on the world economya. Philip offers nsights into the upshot of monetary sanctions imposed on countries and presents a perspective on how a war economy functions. He assesses both the Russian and German economics landscape, discussing the implications of the Red Sea blockade, the possibilities of de-dollarization, and the impact of frozen Russian reserves. 

We are in a drastically different world from the one most of us grew up in. This has been proven by the rapid escalation in the events in the Middle East over the last six weeks. No longer are we in a world where, essentially, the US run the show. And this has huge global […]

Connor interviews Philip Pilkington & Dr Paul Morland, authors of ARC's report, ‘Migration, Stagnation, or Procreation: Quantifying the Demographic Trilemma', about Britain's dire destiny to be majority first-generation immigrants unless birthrate decline is reversed.

This week, the lads have latched onto a report in the Financial Times which claims to show that outside of London, Britain is often poorer than the poorest US state - and equally, that it has fallen way behind its European peers like Germany. Our duo argue the toss: is this just bad accounting? Or is there something more fundamental here, to do with how a different kind of bad accounting has allowed the UK to obscure its long-term decline for far too long? On a related point, Philip Pilkington has been dodging brickbats all week, after he told UnHerd readers that the problem of housing expense may not be all a question of bad planning laws limiting supply. Why, he asks, is this also the case in territories with such different planning and demographics situations as New Zealand, Hungary and Japan? Patiently, he re-explains his argument to Andrew Collingwood. Finally, one Chinese province has repealed its Houkoo Laws. These are the communist diktats that forbid citizens from moving beyond their home province. If this internal Berlin Wall crumbles, as Andrew Collingwood points out, it may well lead to a huge economic boon in the East.

This week, the lads are looking at ESG - Environment, Social & Governance. For years now, companies have been pushing the idea that an 'ESG Score' could be a profitable guide to investing. Yet this latest mind virus for the finance community has produced scrappy results. Now, with Blacrock and Standard & Poor dropping it in the face of tightening markets, Philip Pilkington looks back on the evolution of a fad. In Hong Kong, a little-known investment vehicle allows foreign companies to raise funds in Chinese Currency. Recently we learned that the quantity of 'Dim Sum Bonds' has gone up fourfold in five years. Is this the gateway drug to foreigners finally being allowed to invest in China's capital markets? Then, a consistent theme comes around. Measured by PPP, Germany's economy is on some metrics now smaller than Russia's. Andrew Collingwood analyses why and how the West walked into the strategic blunder of sanctions - one that seems to increasingly have world-historical consequences.

Hinweis: Am Ende dieser Episode finden Sie das englische Originalinterview mit Philip Pilkington. Es beginnt nach exakt einer Stunde. Dauer: 50 Minuten. Ohne diesen Teil ist diese Ausgabe 60 Minuten lang.In der 202. Folge von „bto – beyond the obvious – der Ökonomie-Podcast mit Dr. Daniel Stelter“ starten wir mit dem Earth Overshoot Day und werfen in diesem Zusammenhang einen Blick auf die Thesen des ehemaligen Präsidenten des ifo Instituts, Hans Werner Sinn, zur Sinnhaftigkeit der deutschen Klimapolitik. Hauptthema dieser Episode ist aber die zukünftige Rolle des US-Dollars im Weltfinanzsystem. Bleibt alles wie es ist oder droht dem US-Dollar ein relativer Bedeutungsverlust? Über die Folgen eines solchen Szenarios spricht Dr. Daniel Stelter mit dem irischen Ökonomen und Podcaster Philip Pilkington. Pilkington ist Spezialist für Investitionsfinanzierung.Das vollständige Gespräch (englisch) befindet sich am Ende dieses Podcasts.Täglich neue Analysen, Kommentare und Einschätzungen zur Wirtschafts- und Finanzlage finden Sie unter www.think-bto.com.Sie erreichen die Redaktion unter podcast@think-bto.com. Wir freuen uns über Ihre Meinungen, Anregungen und Kritik.ShownotesHandelsblattStatt 4 Wochen können Sie jetzt 6 Wochen das digitale Handelsblatt für 1 € lesen. Zusätzlich verlosen wir unter allen Teilnehmenden zehn Amazon Gutscheine im Wert von je 500 €.Sichern Sie sich jetzt unser Sommerangebot – unter www.handelsblatt.com/sommer-special Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In dieser Ausgabe des "Zaren. Daten. Fakten." Podcasts sprechen wir erneut mit dem irischen Analysten Philip Pilkington. Als Experte der Makroökonomie gibt er uns Einblicke in die aktuelle Dollar-Debatte. Er beleuchtet die Herausforderungen und Chancen einer zunehmenden Entdollarisierung der Handelsbeziehungen und zeigt auf, welche Auswirkungen dies auf die geopolitische und wirtschaftliche Landschaft haben könnte. Philip Pilkington ist bekannt durch seine Publikationen in Medien wie The Daily Telegraph, The Spectator und Newsweek. Zudem ist er Co-Moderator des populären Podcasts "Multipolarity". Diese Episode ist in englischer Sprache.

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 famous names in higher ed. MIT, Caltech, Cambridge and Imperial are all ranking lower than the likes of Nanjing and Tsinghua. Andrew Collingwood is interested in how far behind the times our cultural imagination is with regards to China. While Philip Pilkington senses that the gains to being world-best will soon start to turn exponential. Both are mildly baffled as to how we've come up with a ranking system that doesn't prioritise innovative research. With China already producing more STEM PhDs than the US, is the Western university still fit for purpose? In Germany, years of pacifism won't be shucked off as easily as Russian shelling of Kiev. The country's incoming coalition government had threatened to raise the national budget. Instead, its defence minister has had to content himself with 'not having the budget cut'. So is Germany's long-held pacifism turning pathological? Or will they wake up to a multipolar world before it's too late? Meanwhile, it's Iran Nuclear Deal season again. After Trump tore up the Obama era plan, and Biden then won re-election promising to put it back, the going has not been slow. For now, the Iranians are continuing to enrich their party packs of uranium. And in a multipolar world, there is no longer so much that the Americans can offer them to stop. The decisive turn, as Philip Pilkington notes, may come from Israel. As alliances swirl, will they continue their targeted assassinations of top scientists? Or is there even a world in which they come down on the side of the mullahs?

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 the Fed, as 'carry' becomes ever-more important in an unsettled global forex market. Andrew Collingwood sees Zungzwang in Britain's future: the unpleasant consequences of stagnation and debt overhang are all coming home to roost. In the UK today, when it rains it pours. Meanwhile, California's budget deficit has hit ten percent, and Philip Pilkington sees this as emblematic of a bigger problem in the US: the collapse of the Friends and Seinfeld era. As the city becomes less and less palatable, and as blue state city mismanagement seemingly becomes the norm, how will our economies terraform to a more suburban 21st century? Finally, the lads are giving Giorgia Meloni a bit of rate or slate action. Italy is pulling out of Belt & Road. What does this seismic event tell us about her, and the country's future? Is it possible to be both a populist and an Atlanticist?

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 what you might call a two decade bubble: banks being squeezed to breaking point. Philip Pilkington is angry at what he sees as central banks using their rates policy as a thermostat 'to turn consumer demand up or down'. Meanwhile, Germany has just recorded a ten per cent dip in industrial output - the largest fall on record. After WWII, Roosevelt's Secretary of State Hans Morgenthau once wanted to return the Ruhr industrial lands to pasture, and make Germany eternally toothless. Will the country's energy policy succeed where he failed? More broadly, is this the moment at which Europe joins Britain in the club of so-called 'service economies': its industrial base outsourced and rotted away? Finally, Andrew Collingwood returns to a long-forgotten conflict: the Syrian Civil War. Unremarked upon, the war is at an effective end, and the country is to be readmitted to the Arab League, more than a decade since it was expelled. Bashar al-Assad will return to a changed Middle East. New alliances. New faces. What does his victory against the odds - and with Russian help - tell us about the failures of Western foreign policy, and what can still be redeemed?

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 giving a big speech about China, and the results are only marginally better. Is Yellen being given contradictory objectives by her boss? Or is it simply the case that, with US hegemony haemorrhaging away, all the options are now bad? As China retaliates over the US chip ban, the global microprocessor chess game has become its own form of geopolitics chess. With both the US and its rivals seeking to build self-contained chip processing infrastructure, smaller countries are being asked to pick winners. At the same time, with Ukraine also bisecting the developing world, being a minnow nation has never been trickier. Does America have enough diplomatic gas in the tank to both support Ukraine and sew up the high-end chip market? Philip Pilkington is skeptical. Finally, with Chile nationalising its lithium, Indonesia imposing an export ban on nickel, and the 'OPEC for lithium' idea still floating around, Andrew Collingwood updates us on the race to define how the market for key 21st century metals will operate. After all, if green technology simply results in different cartels and political misadventures in different parts of the world to oil - is it really a win at all?

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 tired old State Department talking points, Lagarde gave a pitch-perfect introduction to the multipolar age. Does the global elite finally get it? And if so, how will they trim their sheets from here on out? While he was dealing with the Irish Republican Army on his foreign trip last week, Joseph Biden was hanging ever more of his domestic credibility on another IRA -the Inflation Reduction Act. Philip Pilkington sees two big takeaways from this $500 billion barrel of pork. First: the return of real dirigiste industrial policy to America. Secondly: the advent of Big Green as a powerful lobbying force on Capitol Hill. Meanwhile, Andrew Collingwood has been watching Lula enter through the Beijing door that Macron just exited - bearing a similar amount of fresh deals and good cheer from President Xi. As they watch China build out Brazil's 5G network, will there, he wonders, be a sniff of buyers' regret from the 'Manhattan charity auction set' for having backed a Chomskyite old-Marxist over the more unpalatable, yet much more US-friendly, Jair Bolsonaro?

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, which is why we're casting out to what may happen beyond the summer - what if catastrophic collapse does indeed come to Ukraine's teetering defences? Who wins what, and how do we keep the fragile world order together? Before he'd touched down in Paris from his China trip, Emmanuel Macron was back on manoeuvres. He gave an airborne interview to Politico in which he laid out a much more Sino-centric view of the coming order. One that had little time for the US line on Taiwan. What is he playing at? Philip Pilkington reckons this one may end up being 'the story of the year'. And then there's the rare earths. They're in everything now. And 85 per cent of them come from China. With a Chip Ban retaliation on rare earth metals in the offing, Andrew Collingwood recalls what happened when China gave Japan a brief taste of what life is like without these strange magnetic substances. Key finding: not good.

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 their famous services economy? And what will Brits do with all the cheap leggings they get in return?As China leans ever-further into an eventual Ukrainian peace, France is looking to broker the brokering. At least, that seems to be the key motive of President Macron's trip to Beijing. The boys wonder whether he isn't channeling the wily spirit of Charles de Gaulle, in trying to make the country a great power amongst the middle-powers. Meanwhile, in the past year, your local shadow bank has leant out $1.4 Trillion. With private equity loaning their way around the banking system, are we all sitting on a powder keg of off-balance sheet ordnance? Or are we just scared of our own shadow dollars? Philip Pilkington has been doing some digging, and his uncomfortable answer is: we'll only know if and when it blows...

In this episode, we talk to Irish macroeconomist Philip Pilkington about the economic multipolar world of the future - or is it already a reality? The global economy is evolving at breakneck speed and the centres of power seem to be shifting. What does the future look like, and what are the implications for the global economy? Can economic multipolarity still be prevented? Together with Philip Pilkington, we will examine these questions and discuss possible scenarios for future developments.

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, Philip Pilkington has been doing some digging on system liquidity, and his findings are hair-raising. This, it would seem, is already the biggest run since 1980. And with a new suite of consumer-facing digital banking products that make removing your money a few clicks, are we about to face runs of a speed and scale previous eras couldn't match? In France, Jupiter Himself is heading to Hades. Macron's dictatorial pension reforms are being forged through a haze of teargas. But are these national riots a uniquely French event? Or are they just the harbinger of what's to come for Europe, as the cost of living crisis becomes maddening? Finally, in Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu's knack for political survival is being tested to the limits by huge protests over his judicial reforms. With the State Department seemingly coming down on the side of the protesters - Andrew Collingwood wonders whether the US's increasingly 'ethical' foreign policy in danger of alienating its greatest Middle East ally.

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 Philip Pilkington. The boys cover all the ground in the world. The Mexican cartel wars. The potential for Polish supremacy in Eastern Europe. What to do about foreign aid. Declining Western living standards. And the prospects for Multipolarity's Souvenir Shipping Choke Point Tea Towels. Hosted by Comedy Gavin, the show's producer, this is Multipolarity after hours: with its hair ruffled, its suit crumpled, a glass of gin in one hand, and a well-thumbed paperback of MacKinder in its back pocket.

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 special listener Q&A with Ladsie & Boysie themselves, Andrew Collingwood and Philip Pilkington, featuring another very unusual guest. Today is part one of that double-header. We're delighted to welcome Samo Burja to the pod. Samo is a sociologist who has risen to prominence on the analyst scene in the past few years, mainly via his popular and influential Substack. A fellow at the The Long Now Foundation, and senior research fellow at Foresight Institute, his Bismarck Analysis consultancy deals in the geopolitics, technology, demographic and cultural trends that will define the 21st century. He analyses at the scale of 'mega-trends', and has contributed a range of useful coinages to the lexicon, from "Intellectual Dark Matter", to "Live And Dead Players". Naturally, the lads have plenty to dig into - from China's deliberately backwards agricultural policy, to the diplomatic fulcrum that might be breaking Europe away from the US.

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 amounts to a subsidy for rich depositors. Philip Pilkington reminds us that simple deposit insurance could have solved this - and warns that this rule change is now effectively permanent. What does the world of banking look like, now that the rule: 'all deposits are covered at all sizes' has been instantiated into US orthodoxy? Back in Britain, a Defence Select Committee has heard that it will take ten years for the country to replenish the arms it has already sent to Ukraine. If our enemies won't wait, then surely now is the moment to do something no government has done in half a century - protect and develop British manufacturing? Finally, is Xi Jinping in line for the Nobel Peace Prize? As miraculous bolts from the blue go, the Iran-Saudi deal might be more than Nelson Mandela ever managed. If the Middle East's two duelling regional powers are actually making peace, then how will those left out of step by this reorientation fare? Can Israel still trust America? Or will it too have to carve a new, multipolar path.

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. So, much like oil in the 1970s, are we on the brink of the major lithium miners forming their own cartel? Who's holding the cards here? Which nation might be about to become the next Saudi Arabia? And how will this changing strategic resource picture affect the decade to come? Recent war games, simulating a great power conflict with China, resulted in US simulators being blown out of the bathtub. As Andrew Collingwood explains, America has spent twenty years gearing up to fight insurgencies. Now that the spectre of great power warfare has returned, it's not clear they have the right tanks and the right guns to take on a China that is going hammer-and-tongs for more materiel. Finally, Hungarians have kept warm this winter by engaging in strategic ambiguities over Ukraine. They've invited the ire of the EU, but is their foreign policy just a reflection of the sort of strategic pivots that will required more and more of small states as the multipolar world becomes a reality? Philip Pilkington seems to think so.

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, as seems likely in 2023, there is simultaneously a recession in the West, and a boom in the East? It's never happened before. So how will we learn to live on a two speed planet? Meanwhile, the chip ban has failed. Touted only months ago as a major new plank in Biden foreign policy, the figures are now in: the only real impact has been to allow China to dominate the Russian semiconductor market. Trade, like life, finds a way. But didn't we already know this? As the duo point out, it holds lessons for economists, who seem ever-more off their brief since the pandemic. Finally, suave technocrat Tony Blair has decided that the West needs to combat rival poles like Russia and China, as they gobble up influence in Africa. The democratic powers seem to be on the back foot, but as Andrew Collingwood points out, given Africa's long-standing instability, the route to influence is anything but straightforward. On this continent at least, coups will continue to dominate the great game...

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 point out, it's also to do with a country taking advantage of the present multipolar fracture. The classic trade and politics hinge-nation, Erdogan's Turkey is finally in a position to exploit its rich advantages. What makes an army powerful? Where's the Big Mac Index on military strength? Philip Pilkington has been digging deep into the data on who has what materiel, and what it's actually worth, and his findings will make for uncomfortable reading in the Pentagon. Is the West hooked on expensive high-tech gadgetry that might have been impressive in a Desert Storm-style campaign, but, as Ukraine shows, doesn't deliver on a brutal WWI-style battlefield? Finally, the Chinese have been on a charm offensive of both charm and offence - their top diplomat has been wooing Europe, and making special entreaties towards Britain - even as the Chinese foreign ministry has been publishing Mao-style denunciations of the Great American Satan on its website. Is there method in the madness? Or is this just diplomacy by confusion? Andrew Collingwood tries to piece together the inscrutability.

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, Philip Pilkington and Andrew Collingwood are far more mystified at all the performative screeching. As Collingwood points out: "A balloon is a hundred year old technology..." In Nigeria, an attempt to vault over its range of monetary problems by using a so-called 'stable coin' digital currency has quickly descended into farce: riots and bank runs. With the Fed and the Bank of England both on the stable coin bandwagon, the Multipolarity team are curious as to why central bankers the world over are trying to foist these imperfect solutions onto us. Meanwhile, one year on from the invasion of Ukraine, can we finally conclude that the much-heralded sanctions on Russia have not only failed, but given the West itself a bloody nose? And is the political establishment finally softening up the public to confront this unpleasant truth? Code: tYv3C8aT0EdQKS1b3sYm

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. The market indicators are flashing red on both sides of the Atlantic. As we hurtle down the real estate rollercoaster for a long-overdue correction, can the West deal with this reversal? Or are we now too over-leveraged to have any financial. weapons left in our arsenal? Meanwhile, in China, as the rest of the world founders, the challenge to growth is growing more acute. We dive deep into recent Chinese economic history, to locate a golden zone in the 1990s, to which the country may be about to return, and explain why the gamified approach of AliExpress may be finally reversing decades of sluggish domestic consumption. Finally, Andrew Collingwood picks up news of a major new investment pact between Russia and Iran that aims to outflank traditional trade routes by building a series of roads, rails and ports connecting Russia to India, via Iran and Azerbajain. As Philip Pilkington points out, longer-term, the economic implications may be dwarfed by the cultural ones.

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 prospect of one of the world's most consistent debt defaulters coming together with the often chaotic Brazilian economy has been greeted by some European economists as 'a terrible idea'. But as Philip Pilkington argues, the upsides of controlling inflation make this a very different prospect to the growth-crushing Euro. Meanwhile, Andrew Collingwood is just as interested in what this means for US hegemony over the region. Is the so-called Monroe Doctrine dead? Or will America retaliate, if this tiny seedling eventually sprouts? Whichever way this goes, it seems that getting off the US Dollar is becoming more feasible for emerging economies. We've ripped up the week's agenda to focus on currency unions: considered dead ten years ago, are they making an unlikely comeback?

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 might be about to bankroll a naval base in Argentina. As the green revolution takes hold, can the West even build the supply lines for the huge quantities of metals and minerals we'll need for all those EV batteries? And: is the World Trade Organisation crumbling? The Wall Street Journal seems to think so...

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 China about to find a way to leapfrog the US advantage in high-end silicon chips? And then: most pundit predictions for 2023 seem to involve a minor recession - but are those analyses even over the target?

In this episode, Philip Pilkington joins the podcast to talk about his article “The Dead End of the New Left” from the December issue. They discuss how the New Left and its lack of foresight in besieging American order.

In this episode, Philip Pilkington joins the podcast to talk about his article “The Dead End of the New Left” from the December issue. They discuss how the New Left and its lack of foresight in besieging American order.

Bienvenidos a la entrega 466 de “En Primera Plana” de la NTD. El macroeconomista Philip Pilkington, advierte que el "sabotaje del Nord Stream podría ser el punto que los futuros historiadores señalen como el fin del dominio occidental". Los Investigadores de la Universidad de Boston han desarrollado una cepa de COVID-19 que mató al 80 por ciento de los ratones infectados. El estudio ha provocado tanta preocupación como rechazo. Un analista político afirma que La votación que celebró el comité del 6 de enero de la Cámara, para citar al expresidente Donald Trump, es una estratagema política. Los agentes del FBI que investigaron el dossier anti-Trump deberían haber hecho un mejor trabajo en cuanto a la veracidad y los antecedentes de Danchenko, la fuente principal, según denuncia el abogado especial John Durham. Esto y más a continuación.

Krystal and Saagar discuss the December jobs report numbers, liberal cringe on January 6th, Ted Cruz's heated appearance on Tucker Carlson, SCOTUS misinformation during vaccine mandate hearings, POLITICO's major reporting screwup, CDC lies on covid & kids, the frauds on the anti-vax right, intergenerational warfare between millennials & boomers, and more!To become a Breaking Points Premium Member and watch/listen to the show uncut and 1 hour early visit: https://breakingpoints.supercast.com/To listen to Breaking Points as a podcast, check them out on Apple and SpotifyApple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/breaking-points-with-krystal-and-saagar/id1570045623 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4Kbsy61zJSzPxNZZ3PKbXl Merch: https://breaking-points.myshopify.com/Philip Pilkington's Substack: https://macrocosm.substack.com/ Philip Pilkington's Article: https://www.firstthings.com/article/2021/12/generation-against-generation  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Krystal and Saagar discuss the December jobs report numbers, liberal cringe on January 6th, Ted Cruz's heated appearance on Tucker Carlson, SCOTUS misinformation during vaccine mandate hearings, POLITICO's major reporting screwup, CDC lies on covid & kids, the frauds on the anti-vax right, intergenerational warfare between millennials & boomers, and more! To become a Breaking Points Premium Member and watch/listen to the show uncut and 1 hour early visit: https://breakingpoints.supercast.com/ To listen to Breaking Points as a podcast, check them out on Apple and Spotify Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/breaking-points-with-krystal-and-saagar/id1570045623  Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4Kbsy61zJSzPxNZZ3PKbXl  Merch: https://breaking-points.myshopify.com/ Philip Pilkington's Substack: https://macrocosm.substack.com/  Philip Pilkington's Article: https://www.firstthings.com/article/2021/12/generation-against-generation  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Philip Pilkington joins editor R. R. Reno to discuss demographic decline and the looming generational strife that will emerge if politicians fail to advance natalist policies.

Philip Pilkington joins editor R. R. Reno to discuss demographic decline and the looming generational strife that will emerge if politicians fail to advance natalist policies.

In this episode, of Lisson ON AIR Art & Language (Michael Baldwin and Mel Ramsden) talk with Lisson Gallery’s Hana Noorali and Ossian Ward about its 40-year collaboration with the Red Krayola, a proto-punk band founded in Houston by Mayo Thompson. They discuss the largely improvised performances, the themes that went into these recordings – covering everything from conceptual art and activism to politics and philosophical thought – as well as how the first songs were written in residency at Robert Rauschenberg’s studio on Captiva Island, Florida, but only after Michael was detained by the CIA for carrying sensitive communist propaganda. Combining text from these tracts, as well as from their Index 01, exhibited at Documenta 5 in Kassel in 1972, Art & Language provided the lyrics that were sung or chanted by, among others, Michael Baldwin, Ian Burn, Kathryn Bigelow, Charles Harrison, Pauline Harrison, Sandra Harrison, Christine Kozlov, Lynn Lemaster, Philip Pilkington, Mel Ramsden and Mayo Thompson. Having released many albums with Red Krayola since 1976, Art & Language continue to develop this extension of their practice in advance of a performance in New York this September. Track List: The Red Krayola with Art & Language, Gross and Conspicuous Error #8, 1976 Art & Language, Mayo Thompson, Jesse Chamberlain Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSJ7XwawZOc The Red Crayola with Art & Language, Keep All Your Friends from Kangaroo?, 1981 Art & Language, Allen Ravenstine, Ben Annesley, Gina Birch, Lora Logic, Mayo Thompson, Epic Soundtracks Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_Ga7COGUn0 The Red Crayola with Art & Language, Portrait of V.I Lenin in the Style of Jackson Pollock, pt.1&2 from Kangaroo?, 1981 Art & Language, Allen Ravenstine, Ben Annesley, Gina Birch, Lora Logic, Mayo Thompson, Epic Soundtracks Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzlW3q1g9gY The Red Crayola with Art & Language, Sighs Trapped by Liars, from Sighs Trapped by Liars, 2007 Art & Language, Elisa Randazzo, Sandy Yang-singers, Tom Watson, Mayo Thompson, Jim O'Rourke, Noel Kupersmith, John McEntire-drums Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JrbXylij9k The Red Krayola with Art & Language from Gross & Conspicuous Errors, 1976 Art & Language, Kathryn Bigelow, Mayo Thompson, Jesse Chamberlain Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6cnevh5bPc The Red Krayola with Art & Language from Gross & Conspicuous Errors, 1976 Art & Language, Kathryn Bigelow, Mayo Thompson, Jesse Chamberlain Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwT892J7STs Art & Language, Postscript To SDS' Infiltration, Music-Language: Corrected Slogans, 176 Art & Language, Jesse Chamberlain, Mayo Thompson, Colin Bateman, Thomas Duffy, Wieslaw Woszczyk, Sandra Harrison, Pauline Harrison, and Lynn Lemaster. Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dH0_WE_kkp0 The Red Krayola with Art & Language from Gross & Conspicuous Errors, 1976 Art & Language, Mayo Thompson, Jesse Chamberlain Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwT892J7STs Lisson...ON AIR is written and presented by Hana Noorali

Philip Pilkington works in investment and has contributed to numerous online and print media outlets as a freelance economic journalist. Philip ran a popular economics blog called www.fixingtheeconomists.wordpress.com and will be releasing his book The Reformation in Economics soon. Philip earned his B.A. in Journalism from the Independent Colleges, as well as his M.A. in Economics from Kingston University. All views expressed by Philip are his own and are not representative of the firm in which he works. Visit www.economicrockstar.com/philippilkington to access the links, resources and books mentioned in this episode.

This week we welcome back Philip Pilkington to the show to talk about his latest writings on the life and times of Friedrich Hayek, the ideologue behind the Neoliberal project. Philip came over to my house this week and we sat about and waxed lyrical on such highfalutin topics as Classical Liberalism, Neoliberalism and Ordoliberalism. We also got around to political propoganda and the Mont Perelin society, the similarities between the far right and Leninism, and how, after Hayek's nefarious influence, our politics has never been the same again... You can find Philip’s writing on the Naked Capitalist blog, the third most popular economics blog on the web. www.nakedcapitalism.com Enjoy!

This weeks guest is Philip Pilkington, a prolific economic contributor to the excellent ‘Naked Capitalism’ blog. 'Naked Capitalism' is one of the most visited economics blog on the web, featuring some of the top Political Economy bloggers on the planet. The show is loosely based around a series Philip wrote for the blog on Monetarism - the economic theories of Milton Friedman. We cover such rocky territory as the intellectual battles between the Keynesians and Monetarists, the Austrian School of Economics and Political Propaganda, Maggie Thatcher and class war, Union Busting and Military Coups, Finance vs Industry, and the return of the Gold Standard. That's all folks!?!#@**&^!! You can find Philips writing here and here: http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/ https://fixingtheeconomists.wordpress.com/