The weekend election in Hamburg ran largely to script (see our report Thuringian tremors 7th February 2020). The SPD-Green coalition,…
Posts by James Lister-Cheese
Donald Trump is on a roll. He presides over the longest cyclical upswing on record. On his watch, unemployment is…
Germany has just reported much-improved industrial production numbers for November. In volume terms they jumped 1.1% mom on a seasonally-adjusted basis, better than consensus expectations for a 0.8% rebound. So the downturn is over? Don’t bet on it.
Death of Democracy
By David Roche, James Lister-Cheese and Nick Kennedy
Is democracy in the 21st century dying? Will it become a rare beast in an autocratic world full of old people, robots and AI? There are certainly signs that this will happen.
