Jun
18
Goy Meets World
Not all Jews are created equal, at least not in the eyes of bigots or anyone using them to justify
9 min read
Nicholas Birman Trickett
Eurasian studies at EUSP, international political economy at LSE. Russia/Eurasia, energy, political economy, and foreign policy. The work's never finished, just abandoned.
May
15
Stats Off (to Roy Harper)
Last week, as I was perusing the typical dross one finds on Twitter, a story from the Wall Street Journal
8 min read
May
05
Спасибо, Дед Morose!
Weeks are now an eternity in American politics, shaped by rapid-fire newscycles reacting to the latest stupid story. We are
10 min read
Apr
26
Домsday Books
As skeptics and supporters of the current sanctions regime on the Russian economy continue to speak at cross-purposes, selectively choosing
10 min read
Apr
18
Oi, Corona
A combination of the Easter weekend, a busy week, and now coming down with COVID has delayed this post far
8 min read
Jan
02
Конец Совета
It's getting harder and harder to divine what exactly to make of each successive announcement coming out about the economy
11 min read
Dec
13
Political Aspects of Malemployment
As the Russian economy ambles into a permanent state of 'partial' mobilization, the political consequences for the underpinnings of the
12 min read
Oct
21
Наука Могилизовать
As reports emerge of an increasingly likely withdrawal from Kherson – the costs of an escalating Russian campaign to wreck Ukraine's energy and heating infrastructure as winter comes mount – the correlation of economic and political forces within Russia are worsening.
7 min read
Oct
06
Cartel Blanche
The last few days have led to some major whiplash among commodity market watchers, armchair geopolitical strategists, politics fiends, and
7 min read
Oct
05
Annex to Remember
The problem with the current emerging attempt at neoliberal totalitarianism in conditions that preclude the effective recycling of a large trade surplus is that eventually you run out of someone else's money.
10 min read