Discover the invisible shifting trade world

Ed Conway, Economic Editor at Sky News, award-winning and Sunday Times bestselling author of Material World, whose latest book Trade World, focuses from ancient civilizations, empire and globalisation through to the most influential geopolitical issues of our times. This is the story of humanity. From the copper in Mesopotamian ploughs to the silicon atoms within the chip inside your smartphone, intricate global trading networks have evolved over millennia to fulfil the distinctly human desire to buy and sell. Trump’s traffics hasn’t reined in global commerce, In fact, it is growing every further and stronger. This surge is doubly surprising, given … Continue reading Discover the invisible shifting trade world

Global economic reset

Dennis Peacocke’s On The Destiny of Nations is designed to provoke a global reaction and a movement especially among leaders, which will help prepare and position people for once-in-a-century opportunity to advance God’s Kingdom amidst a major political-economic crisis lasting perhaps a decade. This is no mere recession, but the beginning stages of a global economic reset that will bring major disruptions and changes over the coming decade. The secular marginalisation of Judeo-Christian values from the public dialogue has helped drive this collapse by creating a values-vacuum prompting massive corruption throughout the financial management systems. Neither capitalism no any other economic … Continue reading Global economic reset

Scramble to control precious metals

The Elements of Power is a tale of rapacious colonialism, war for the global supply of battery metals- essential for the decarbonization of our economies- and the terrible, bloody human cost of this badly misunderstood industry and Cold War spy games, dazzling technical innovation, big business rivalry, big power geopolitics. Niarchos produced an unfinching, landmark work on the nature of extractive capitalism. Congo is rich amid swaths of the war-ton African country lack basic infrastructure and after many decades of colonial occupation, its people are officially among the poorest in the world. But hidden beneath the soild are vast quantities … Continue reading Scramble to control precious metals

Trump lands in Beijing two trillion dollar leverage

American President Donald Trump is not politician but a businessman, landed in Beijing. When a president makes travels to a diplomatic summit a state visit, he brings diplomats, advisers and officials. Trump brought Tim Cook (Apple), Elon Musk (Tesla & SpaceXKelly), Larry Fink (Black Rock),Jamie Dimon (JP Morgan), Nvidia (Jensen Huang),  Mark Zuckerberg (Meta), Laurence Culp Jr. ( GE Aerospace), Ryan McInerney (Mastercard), Kelly Ortberg (Boeing), Stephen Schwarzman(Blackstone), Brian Sikes (Cargill) David Solomon(Goldman Sachs), Jacob Thaysen (Illumina Conciliatory measures), Cristiano Amon (Qualcomm) including 17 American CEOs. You don’t bring the most powerful private sector CEOs on earth to a foreign capital … Continue reading Trump lands in Beijing two trillion dollar leverage

Economic downturns testing

Tyler Beck Goodspeed, a top economist, analyses economic contradictions over the last four centuries, explains why recessions start, how long they last, and how to avoid them in the first place. Do recessions end on their own, or do they require external intervention? Does a recession in one country mean the rest of the world will follow?  Are we in recession now? Contrary to popular perception, recessions are not the inevitable bust that follows an unsustainable boom, and they do not operate like wildfires that clear out economic deadwood. Recessions are caused by adverse shocks like war and energy price … Continue reading Economic downturns testing

Global purchasing power

2, 500 years of international currencies the future of the U.S. dollar as well as crypto and central bank digital currencies are revealed. Recently the US dollar has fallen more than 10 per cent against other major currencies since the beginning of 2025, and this especially has questioned the its future, that how long can it remain the world’s premier currency and should it fall what will replace it? Doubts about the international dominance of the dollar are only growing amid worries about tariffs, political dysfunction and fraying international alliances. In Money Beyond Borders, Barry Eichengreen, a leading authority on … Continue reading Global purchasing power

Insider’s guide to boom-and-bust

Lloyd Blankfein, head of an institution legendary for its culture of success writes a candid memoir of global leadership in an age of extreme turbulence. Blankfein is quiet scary smart about people, markets, and life generally, as his 10, 000 Small Businesses idea proved to be a huge winner. During the 2008-2009 financial crisis, Lloyd acted decisively and he tells the story of what happened with unique insights. When Blankfein was attacked as a Wall Street fat cat, he had to smile, thinking of his precarious childhood in the notorious public housing projects of East New York, Brooklyn, and attending … Continue reading Insider’s guide to boom-and-bust

Changing  western-dominated international order

Former UK minister in the coalition government under David Cameron and chief economist at Shell, brings all his knowledge, common sense and experience in Eclipsing the West, defining political and economic issue of our era, relations between the west and the rising Asian countries like China and India. As the International order begins to crumble in the Western-dominated world we have known for the past three hundred years is coming to an end, as America withdraws from its role as enforcer of the international order, other countries are moving in to fill the void.  Accounting for more than a third … Continue reading Changing  western-dominated international order

How to restore the UK economy, drive prosperity to elevate living standards

Prosperity Through Growth by the US economist Dr Arthur B Laffer, inventor of Laffer Curve (his eponymous curve); policy campaigner  Matthew Elliott, businessman and former chief executive of Vote Leave campaign, Michael Hintze a high profile asset manager, and founder of the Centre for Economics and Business Research, Douglas McWilliams, although is a would-be Conservative idea for growth, who has no answer to the populist right, but the philosophy is a collection of old ideas, similar to what Keith Joseph suggested for Margaret Thatcher in the 1970s. Their policy begins by setting out principles of ideal economic policy- the “North Star” … Continue reading How to restore the UK economy, drive prosperity to elevate living standards

Engineering towards mega projects

Chinese-Canadian, Technology analyst, Dan Wang, from Stanford University, has been living through China’s astonishing messy progress. China’s towering bridges, gleaming railways, and sprawling factories have improved economic outcomes in record time. Rapid changes also meant pain throughout the Chinese society, controlled by political repression ending in astonishing growth, a feature of China’s engineering mindset. In Breakneck, Wang, reveals a provocative new framework for understanding China – one that helps us see America more clearly. While China is an engineering state, relentlessly pursuing megaprojects, the United States has stalled. America has transformed into a lawyerly society, reflexively blocking everything good and … Continue reading Engineering towards mega projects