Here Be Dragons: Islands, Treasures, Ledgers, Pirates and Peace Deals (Part Four)

Dragons are often guarding treasures on islands shrouded in mist. Read here to see why these ancient tales tell us about what is happening right now in…

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Here Be Dragons: Islands, Treasures, Ledgers, Pirates and Peace Deals (Part Three)

Islands are key to modern geopolitics, especially the archipelago protected by the City of London, which is now in conflict with the Trump White House…

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September 2026

Here Be Dragons: Islands, Treasures, Ledgers, Pirates and Peace Deals (Part Two)

Many more islands are in play on the landscape of geopolitics than we realize: Gotland, Greenland, Gogland, Svalbard, Bornholm, Åland, Cuba and the…

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Here Be Dragons: Islands, Treasures, Ledgers, Pirates and Peace Deals (Part One)

We think of global geopolitics as a contest among the superpowers with large populations and landmasses: the US, China, Russia, and Europe. But islands…

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August 2026

Science, the Bond Bloodbath and Electile Disfunction

The bond market bloodbath and electile disfunction in the voting booths are caused by the same thing. It's the friction between two opposing views of…

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July 2026

The Beheading of Books and the Humanitarian Problem

We are witnessing an extraordinary battle between the light and the dark. Books are being beheaded by guillotine so that LLMs can learn faster. Ink is…

Jul 30 • Dr Pippa

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FIFA, Footballs, and Firms: Aligning Humans in an AI-Led World

The world has been obsessed with the FIFA World Cup. It's a doorway into a larger question about how we align ourselves. We used to rely on firms and…

Jul 22 • Dr Pippa

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A Human Centered Economy

(Continued from Intelligent Money: Inflation, Marks & Spencer, and Time). A human-centered economy is now unfolding thanks to technology and AI. But…

Jul 3 • Dr Pippa

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Intelligent Money: Inflation, Marks & Spencer and Time

(Continued from Intelligent Monetary Policy: Greenspan and the End of Forward Guidance. A fateful dinner party in 1931 has immense relevence for us…

Jul 1 • Dr Pippa

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Intelligent Monetary Policy: Greenspan and the End of Forward Guidance (Part One of Three)

The man who invented Forward Guidance is with us no more, Alan Greenspan. But, the world had changed. We are no longer using technology just to make…

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June 2026

Digital Dragnet and Regime Change: Warsh is Replacing the Kleptocrats with Compute Part Two

The point of the digital dragnet Warsh is helping to put in place is to break open the black boxes that plague the nation's balance sheet. So, meet the…

Jun 9 • Dr Pippa

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Digital Dragnet and Regime Change: Warsh is Replacing the Kleptocrats with Compute

Following two recent podcast recordings, one for ZeroHedge with Jim Bianco and Erik Townsend, and another for MacroVoices, it has become glaringly…

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