How power and money shape life.
Here I keep short entries on political economy and geopolitics as they unfold. Over time, they build into a record of how the world is being rearranged in prices and pay slips, in borders and wars, in debt, housing, work, and care.
16 April 2026 — The American project.
The American project is failing. I do not say this with joy and I do not say it with surprise. I say it because it is true and because saying it plain is the only honest thing left.