The Ideas Lab: New Ways To Understand Global Markets

The Measure of Progress

The next generation of economic statistics begins to emerge

Sep 1 • 

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July 2025

Hate The Game

How to navigate life's trickiest questions

Jul 1 • 

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June 2025

MEGA: Is Trump Making Europe Great Again?

A year ago BNP’s Koen De Leus and Philippe Gijsels published The New World Economy in Five Trends, a book that examined the shifting drivers of the…

Jun 1 • 

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May 2025

Our Dollar, Your Problem

TINA for now, but not forever

May 4 • 

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April 2025

Monetary Policy As if Democracy Matters

Is it time to end central bank independence?

Apr 1 • 

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March 2025

Chokepoints

Can the economy succeed when all its relationships are negotiating chips?

Mar 2 • 

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February 2025

Democratizing Our Data

We need a new system for understanding the economy

Feb 2 • 

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January 2025

The Soul Of Wealth

Meditations on the purpose of money

Jan 4 • 

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November 2024

Inflation and Democracy

Now, as always, tied at the hip

Nov 21, 2024 • 

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October 2024

Background data for post on Volatility Regimes

Attached is a spreadsheet that contains the data I used to produce the graphs and tables in the post on volatility regimes.

Oct 31, 2024 • 

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Why This Market Looks More "Dotcom" than "GFC"

Some thoughts from a week in the volatility rabbit hole

Oct 30, 2024 • 

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Money In The 21st Century

Digital money is coming...and it won't be Bitcoin

Oct 21, 2024 • 

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