# Chartbook A newsletter on economics, geopolitics and history from Adam Tooze. More substantial than the twitter feed. More freewheeling than what you might read from me in FT, Foreign Policy, New Statesman. Page: Feed: --- ## [Top Links 1199 Big Losses. Meeting Milton Friedman. Fire-Diver & Operation Epstein Fury.](https://adamtooze.substack.com/p/top-links-1199-big-losses-meeting) _2026-08-20 · Adam Tooze_ Great links, images, and reading from Chartbook Newsletter by Adam Tooze ## [Top Links 1198 The Warsh plot. Boosting Plovdiv. The politics of Marc Bloch & Alcatraz as an idea.](https://adamtooze.substack.com/p/top-links-1198-the-warsh-plot-boosting) _2026-08-19 · Adam Tooze_ Great links, images, and reading from Chartbook Newsletter by Adam Tooze ## [Top Links 1197 Chips-data-centers and debt. Emirates and the mercenaries. Sweet sickness, Yesterday & the comeback of British cheese.](https://adamtooze.substack.com/p/top-links-1197-chips-data-centers) _2026-08-18 · Adam Tooze_ Great links, images, and reading from Chartbook Newsletter by Adam Tooze ## [Top Links 1196 Disapproving of the MAGA economy. The BoJ as the biggest carry trader of all time & the Nazi wrecks on the Danube.](https://adamtooze.substack.com/p/top-links-1196-disapproving-of-the) _2026-08-17 · Adam Tooze_ Great links, images, and reading from Chartbook Newsletter by Adam Tooze ## [Chartbook 467 "Mad dogs and ...": Heatwave economics - summer 2026](https://adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-467-mad-dogs-and-heatwave) _2026-08-16 · Adam Tooze_ The crisis of global heating will take many forms and we may imagine it in different ways. ## [Top Links 1195 Taxing America's dark matter. Israeli emigration. Beijing insists Aristotle exists. Stuart Hall on political correctness.](https://adamtooze.substack.com/p/top-links-1195-taxing-americas-dark) _2026-08-16 · Adam Tooze_ Great links, images, and reading from Chartbook Newsletter by Adam Tooze ## [Top Links 1194 How decoupling is illusory. Youth unemployment in Africa. Crossing Australia and Chile's right-wing backlash.](https://adamtooze.substack.com/p/top-links-1194-how-decoupling-is) _2026-08-15 · Adam Tooze_ Great links, images, and reading from Chartbook Newsletter by Adam Tooze ## [Chartbook 466: The Straits of Kaub and seven centuries of German political economy.](https://adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-466-the-straits-of-kaub) _2026-08-14 · Adam Tooze_ Since the US-Israeli attack on Iran, the whole world has been obsessing over the Straits of Hormuz. ## [Top Links 1193 SpaceX and civilisational ambition. China's precarious labour market. Pakistan's Kashmir troubles, Tahiti & tattoos.](https://adamtooze.substack.com/p/top-links-1193-spacex-and-civilisational) _2026-08-14 · Adam Tooze_ Great links, images, and reading from Chartbook Newsletter by Adam Tooze ## [Top Links 1192 China's Polar Silk Road. Why Trump's USAID cuts may kill fewer people. FAFO and on sleeping faster.](https://adamtooze.substack.com/p/top-links-1192-chinas-polar-silk) _2026-08-13 · Adam Tooze_ Great links, images, and reading from Chartbook Newsletter by Adam Tooze ## [Stream Torrents and IPTV Instantly (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/MbOFLzI2CaKG) _2026-08-13 · **Sponsored**_ Search, index, and play music, movies, books, and live TV in your browser. ## [Top Links 1191 Europe's border mess. Did Africa have too few people? Tough diamonds & Gorbachev hawks Louis Vuitton.](https://adamtooze.substack.com/p/top-links-1191-europes-border-mess) _2026-08-12 · Adam Tooze_ Great links, images, and reading from Chartbook Newsletter by Adam Tooze ## [Top Links 1190 On Treasuries and rates in the US. China's energy plans. Pipeline economics & the meaning of "thing".](https://adamtooze.substack.com/p/top-links-1190-on-treasuries-and) _2026-08-11 · Adam Tooze_ Great links, images, and reading from Chartbook Newsletter by Adam Tooze ## [Top Links 1189 Did Bidenomics work? Fewer Chinese are studying abroad. The political economy of Rwanda & the extraordinary career of Reinhard Gehlen.](https://adamtooze.substack.com/p/top-links-1189-did-bidenomics-work) _2026-08-10 · Adam Tooze_ Great links, images, and reading from Chartbook Newsletter by Adam Tooze ## [Chartbook 465 The Last of the Magicians: Thomas Mann, John Maynard Keynes and the Alchemy of Bourgeois Liberalism](https://adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-465-the-last-of-the-magicians) _2026-08-09 · Adam Tooze_ An essay by Adam Tooze and Stefan Eich ## [Top Links 1188 China's gig workers. Africa's ag exports & the 20 megaprojects that may or may not support them. The history of the RV.](https://adamtooze.substack.com/p/top-links-1188-chinas-gig-workers) _2026-08-09 · Adam Tooze_ Great links, images, and reading from Chartbook Newsletter by Adam Tooze ## [Top Links 1187 The US, selling euros to buy the yen. Korea's surplus surges. Seven tons of film & South London mid-century.](https://adamtooze.substack.com/p/top-links-1187-the-us-selling-euros) _2026-08-08 · Adam Tooze_ Great links, images, and reading from Chartbook Newsletter by Adam Tooze ## [Top Links 1186 The profit dollar. Trump gets the Fed he deserves. Free trade DSA. How unmotivated workers cost trillions.](https://adamtooze.substack.com/p/top-links-1186-the-profit-dollar) _2026-08-07 · Adam Tooze_ Great links, images, and reading from Chartbook Newsletter by Adam Tooze ## [Top Links 1185 Global equities. The Emirates in Africa. Authenticy as a political virtue & the German government wants you to know that cocaine consumption is bad for the jungle.](https://adamtooze.substack.com/p/top-links-1185-global-equities-the) _2026-08-06 · Adam Tooze_ Great links, images, and reading from Chartbook Newsletter by Adam Tooze ## [Top Links 1184 Science for development. Bessent's intervention. Fish in the wrong place & Charlemagne's canal.](https://adamtooze.substack.com/p/top-links-1184-science-for-development) _2026-08-05 · Adam Tooze_ Great links, images, and reading from Chartbook Newsletter by Adam Tooze ## [Chartbook 464 The"China squeeze" - the politics of development counterfactuals.](https://adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-464-thechina-squeeze-the) _2026-08-05 · Adam Tooze_ There are three types of China shock discourse. ## [Point a Domain, Start a Pit (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/WNp3nGnobHRK) _2026-08-05 · **Sponsored**_ Point any domain to a blacked-out, poison-green coming-soon page with an email waitlist. ## [Top Links 1183 The US drops Bud. UK credit crunch. Beerlao, the beer of a nation. War machines & the state.](https://adamtooze.substack.com/p/top-links-1183-the-us-drops-bud-uk) _2026-08-04 · Adam Tooze_ Great links, images, and reading from Chartbook Newsletter by Adam Tooze ## [Top Links 1182 Memory market shifts. India's job market stress. It-narratives & Atmosphères.](https://adamtooze.substack.com/p/top-links-1182-memory-market-shifts) _2026-08-03 · Adam Tooze_ Great links, images, and reading from Chartbook Newsletter by Adam Tooze ## [Chartbook 463: Zauberberg/Magic Mountain - how history ended in Davos ... on, or about September, 1907.](https://adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-463-zauberbergmagic-mountain) _2026-08-02 · Adam Tooze_ We are in a moment of historical transition.