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Biofuel boom. A plague of deer. Writing in the age of AI. Trajectories of the neo-gothic.
1+ hour, 7+ min ago (277+ words) Thank you for opening your Chartbook email. SELF PORTRAIT, Lee Cheng Yong, 1939 Hedge funds pivot to biofuels anticipating a bump from the Iran war Vegetable oils such as soyabean oil, canola and rapeseed are now major biodiesel feedstocks, while roughly…...
Shrinking the Federal government. European convergence. Cod and the new Cold War, plus the origins of desert blues.
5+ day, 1+ hour ago (244+ words) Thank you for opening your Chartbook email. Georg Scholz, Kakteen und Semaphore, 1923 The US federal government payroll is now at levels last seen in 1966 when the population was 150 m smaller and the economy was one quarter its current size. Source:…...
Chartbook 446 Soft power with Chinese characteristics? Notes on Chinamaxxing.
1+ week, 54+ min ago (803+ words) Chinamaxxing is a bit of a thing in the Anglosphere right now. I'm far from immune to the enthusiasm. In the salon series that Wang Qing and I host at Accent Society bookstore, I recently had the pleasure of talking…...
Top Links 1092 Big oil is not coming to Trump's rescue. Tanzania's gas play. Metal Weber & "Origin Story".
1+ week, 4+ day ago (104+ words) Adam Tooze | Substack Top Links 1092 Big oil is not coming to Trump's rescue. Tanzania's gas play. Metal Weber & "Origin Story". Great links, images, and reading from Chartbook Newsletter by Adam Tooze 19th C. Rare Mbunda Sachihongo Zambia Africa Mask. The Mbunda Sachihongo…...
Top Links 1065 America's aging homes. Russia's Iran windfall. Frederick's victory at Leuthen. Sci-fi, science and capitalism.
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (76+ words) Adam Tooze | Substack Top Links 1065 America's aging homes. Russia's Iran windfall. Frederick's victory at Leuthen. Sci-fi, science and capitalism. Great links, images, and reading from Chartbook Newsletter by Adam Tooze Richard Hamilton, People, 1968 America's homes are increasingly old and in…...
Oil supply shocks. Hollywood slump. Sick jokes & how the French army's bush hat got cool.
1+ mon, 4+ week ago (253+ words) Thank you for opening your Chartbook email. George Romney, Cimon and Iphigenia, early 1780s it is true that 2026 is seeing the most sudden shock to oil and gas supply. But both 1973 and 1979 had a very significant effect on long-run output as…...
Top Links 1041 Don't blame data centers. A new type of euro crisis. Running out of missiles & the Confucius Institute on how to stop your colleague flirting with your husband.
2+ mon, 1+ day ago (91+ words) Adam Tooze | Substack Top Links 1041 Don't blame data centers. A new type of euro crisis. Running out of missiles & the Confucius Institute on how to stop your colleague flirting with your husband. Great links, images, and reading from Chartbook Newsletter…...
Top Links 1034 The public land divide in the USA. The first cloud data center to become a casualty of war. Poetry form the past and Hamnet.
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (81+ words) adamtooze. substack. com Top Links 1034 The public land divide in the USA. The first cloud data center to become a casualty of war. Poetry form the past and Hamnet. Great links, images, and reading from Chartbook Newsletter by Adam Tooze…...
Top Links 1033 The Midwest stabilizes. Globalization wars. John Nash drowning in books. On violence and Keynes.
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (78+ words) Adam Tooze | Substack Top Links 1033 The Midwest stabilizes. Globalization wars. John Nash drowning in books. On violence and Keynes. Great links, images, and reading from Chartbook Newsletter by Adam Tooze Lampetia complaining to Apollo, 1792-1793 John Flaxman RA (1755 - 1826) After draining to…...
The gas price shock. Vietnamese coffee for the GDR. The completely political Keynes. Paraprosdokian.
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (193+ words) Thank you for opening your Chartbook email. The natural gas spike is bad, but it has a long way to go before it matches 2022. The Making of Contemporary art in Tanzania Source: Elias Jengo in African Arts 2a E. Jengo Global Queen…...