This weekend Chartbook celebrates its first birthday. It has been a great year.
When, six years ago, I was first getting into social media (yes, as recently as that), I chose as my facebook banner this image by Paul Klee.
Paul Klee, Vorhaben, 1938. Source: Wikimedia
Klee’s title is Vorhaben, a compound German noun made up of the prefix “Vor” i.e. in front or before, and “haben” i.e. to have. Vorhaben is the thing you “have "in front of you”, the project or undertaking. That’s the spirit of Chartbook: projects, plans, things ahead of us, stuff to figure out, more to come ….
To mark the occasion and take stock, I thought it would be nice to make a compilation of the 52 Chartbook newsletters to date. My friend and trusty assistant Graham Weaver - without whom finishing Shutdown would have been a complete nightmare - put together this index. Thank you, Graham!
Afghanistan
Chartbook 29: Afghanistan's Economy on the Eve of the American Exit
Chartbook 30: Back to Afghanistan – the Horror of the 1980s and the Long Recovery
Chartbook 33: From Afghanistan to Haiti
Chartbook 35: It's Not the Fall that Kills You... Afghanistan's Looming Triple Crisis
Chartbook 36: After Afghanistan – No Post-American World
Africa
Chartbook 10: Nigeria at a Crossroads?
Arts & Culture
Chartbook 21: Reading Grossman's Stalingrad and Life and Fate
Britain
Chartbook 6: Britain on the Brexit Brink
China
Chartbook 8: China
Chartbook 9: Reading China's State Capitalism
Chartbook 23: Biden's China Strategy: A Chronology
Chartbook 26: China's Hyperinflation
Chartbook 28: China in 1983, a Miracle Waiting to Happen?
Chartbook 39: Blackstone and Baby Formula – More Tremors in the Nexus of Big Money and China's State Capitalism
Climate Political Economy
Chartbook 17: Realism & Net-Zero: The EU Case
Chartbook 24: Climate, Carbon, and Class
Chartbook 27: Gilet Jaunes (A Spector Haunting Europe)
Chartbook 31: The Mirage of Carbon Markets
Chartbook 32: Biden's Foreign Policy for the Middle Class, Climate, and OPEC
Chartbook 46: West Virginia – the Historical Roadblock to US Climate Policy
Chartbook 48: The First Climate Kalecki Moment – the Politics of Energy Crisis Talk
Chartbook 50: Andreas Malm and Ecological Leninism
Chartbook 51: Explaining the Energy Dilemma of 2021 – the 2014 Shock and the Global Energy Business
COVID/Vaccines
Chartbook 1: All the Best Charts and Links
Chartbook 2: RECP, the Mounting Pandemic & the Business of Sport
Central Banks
Chartbook 3: Battles over Fiscal Policy, Central Banks and Global Debt Relief
Chartbook 4: Financial Stability Three Ways
Chartbook 12: No Room for Complacency in the Euro Area in 2021
Chartbook 13: Europe Needs to Step on the Gas
Cryptocurrency
Chartbook 15: Talking (and Reading) about Bitcoin
Debt Politics
Chartbook 3: Battles over Fiscal Policy, Central Banks and Global Debt Relief
Chartbook 18: Mario Draghi and Italy's Years of Crisis
Chartbook 41: The Interlocking Crises that Will Shape the Future of Biden Presidency
Chartbook 49: Global Bond Market Turmoil 2021 – An Explainer
Europe
Chartbook 3: Battles over Fiscal Policy, Central Banks and Global Debt Relief
Chartbook 6: Britain on the Brexit Brink
Chartbook 12: No Room for Complacency in the Euro Area in 2021
Chartbook 13: Europe Needs to Step on the Gas
Chartbook 17: Realism & Net-Zero: The EU Case
Chartbook 18: Mario Draghi and Italy's Years of Crisis
Chartbook 27: Gilet Jaunes (A Spector Haunting Europe)
Chartbook 38: German Election
Chartbook 40: Newsflash: German Election Beyond the Headlines
Germany
Chartbook 22: How Do You Count Inflation? Tracking Weimar's Hyperinflation
Chartbook 25: Economic History of World War II and the 18th Brumaire
Chartbook 38: German Election
Chartbook 40: Newsflash: German Election Beyond the Headlines
Global Economy
Chartbook 3: Battles over Fiscal Policy, Central Banks and Global Debt Relief
Chartbook 4: Financial Stability Three Ways
Chartbook 7: Revisiting the Role of Hedge Funds in the March 2020 Treasury Market Turmoil
Chartbook 20: The Caribbean, Central America, and the "Brazilianization" Thesis
Chartbook 37: How to Escape Shock Therapy – Writing the History of China, the Soviet Union, and Eurasia's Great Divergence
Chartbook 43: An IMF-Crisis Made in America
Chartbook 47: Crisis Talk – Global Food Prices
Chartbook 49: Global Bond Market Turmoil 2021 – An Explainer
History
Chartbook 22: How Do You Count Inflation? Tracking Weimar's Hyperinflation
Chartbook 25: Economic History of World War II and the 18th Brumaire
Chartbook 28: China in 1983, a Miracle Waiting to Happen?
Chartbook 30: Back to Afghanistan – the Horror of the 1980s and the Long Recovery
Chartbook 34: How We Paid for the War on Terror
Chartbook 37: How to Escape Shock Therapy – Writing the History of China, the Soviet Union, and Eurasia's Great Divergence
Chartbook 44: The Cross of Gold – Populism, Democratic Iterations and the Politics of Money
Chartbook 45: Of Scarface & the Nobel: The Double Life of Mariel
Inflation
Chartbook 22: How Do You Count Inflation? Tracking Weimar's Hyperinflation
Chartbook 26: China's Hyperinflation
Chartbook 42: The Great Inflation Debate
Chartbook 47: Crisis Talk – Global Food Prices
USA
Chartbook 3: Battles over Fiscal Policy, Central Banks and Global Debt Relief
Chartbook 5: What Happened in the US Treasury Market in March 2020?
Chartbook 14: Are Bond Vigilantes Real? The Strange Case of the 1994 Bond Market Massacre
Chartbook 16: Treasury Markets and the SLR Exemption. When the Financial Plumbing Gets Political
Chartbook 19: American Family Values and Biden's Families Plan
Chartbook 23: Biden's China Strategy: A Chronology
Chartbook 32: Biden's Foreign Policy for the Middle Class, Climate, and OPEC
Chartbook 34: How We Paid for the War on Terror
Chartbook 36: After Afghanistan – No Post-American World
Chartbook 41: The Interlocking Crises that Will Shape the Future of Biden Presidency
Chartbook 42: The Great Inflation Debate
Chartbook 43: An IMF-Crisis Made in America
Chartbook 44: The Cross of Gold – Populism, Democratic Iterations and the Politics of Money
Chartbook 46: West Virginia – the Historical Roadblock to US Climate Policy
US Treasury Market
Chartbook 5: What Happened in the US Treasury Market in March 2020?
Chartbook 7: Revisiting the Role of Hedge Funds in the March 2020 Treasury Market Turmoil
Chartbook 14: Are Bond Vigilantes Real? The Strange Case of the 1994 Bond Market Massacre
Chartbook 16: Treasury Markets and the SLR Exemption. When the Financial Plumbing Gets Political
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