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  • 1 week ago | annpettifor.substack.com | Ann Pettifor

    My dear friend Frances Coppola and I were walking home last week and discussing empires - as girls do - when she reminded me of the tale of Balshazzar’s Feast. I had to confess to not having read Chapter 5 of Daniel (he of the Lion’s Den) in the Torah, or what Christians call the Old Testament. So let me recap…Daniel, a captive of the Nebuchadnezzar’s Babylonian empire, had witnessed both the power and the decline of Nebuchadnezzar’s rule.

  • 3 weeks ago | annpettifor.substack.com | Ann Pettifor

    Greetings dear, and loyal readers. Apologies for the radio silence. There are several reasons: I am working closely with the publisher on the intense editing stage of my book and trying to ensure that it acknowledges and incorporates the instability and insecurity wrought by Trump. The hope is to send it to bed before the end of May. This week I’ve struggled over a presentation to the Progressive Economy Conference - UK Economic Policy in the Age of Trump - at University of London’s SOAS campus.

  • 1 month ago | prospectmagazine.co.uk | Philip Collins |Ann Pettifor |Phil Tinline |Sam Freedman

    Kraftwerk, autism, my son and me

  • 1 month ago | indybay.org | Ann Pettifor

    The Trump shock: How should governments respond? By Ann Pettifor [This article posted on April 23, 2025 is translated from the German on the Internet, https://makroskop.eu/14-2025/der-trump-schock-wie-sollten-regierungen-antworten/.] Trump's tariffs are shaking the international economic and financial system. What paths are there to return to a stable system?

  • 1 month ago | annpettifor.substack.com | Ann Pettifor

    Will another failure of the shadow banking system blow up what I call the Global Casino? And what will be the impact on households, firms and governments? The US bond market is tanking as the Bloomberg chart below shows. We need to stop talking trade, and start talking US Treasuries. Trump has aimed a wrecking ball at the global financial system Everyone is talking trade. Trade imbalances, trade tariffs and trade tensions. Trade it turns out, is truly scary. Trade wars lead to real wars.

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