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Adam is a great writer of history. The closer he gets to the present, the worse his ability to see his own bias in everything.

Sounds really doom and gloomy in the podcast. Living in Berlin I can assure you, the sun still shines, people are still living their lives

Some misguided analysis here. You can safely pass this.

Sauerland is relevant. You shouldn't judge people by their ancestors. But Friedrich Merz's grandfather was one of the few politicians from the Catholic Centre Party to remain in office in 1933. Just a few kilometres further west, in the Rhineland, that would have remained a stigma after 1945. It may be kitchen psychology, but this attitude of the man, who always seems to be slightly offended, who opposes long-standing assumptions, would not be completely unfamiliar to us. In any case, I can't shake the suspicion that, for example, Friedrich Trump also still walks among us as a ghost. And so does Josef Paul Sauvigny, the mayor of Brilon.

lmao the fact that this guy confidentially speaks about “quantum” - a smoke and mirrors field altogether - as a German win should tell you all you need to know about how little he knows about anything

No

Sorry but no peace possible with Palestinians after October 10. How can Israel ever trust them again? So sad...

As an engineer, I seriously doubt the German Automakers were oblivious to the superior performance of the electric vehicle. They were just reluctant to admit it. Powerful electric motors and variable frequency converters have been around for decades. Elon Musk was not a tech visionary, he was more of a pioneer industrializer.

Any economic model that relies on a single factor is doomed to stagnation, in the case of Germany it is exports at the expense of domestic consumption. With the added bonus of an aversion to using public debt to keep investment levels so that there is enough growth potential. The thing is, Germans have a particular ideology in regards to money and debt that puts an exaggerated focus on inflation and one that views debtors as sinners. This has justified the remarkable disaster of setting a debt limit in the constitution and avoiding making the necessary investments in infrastructure and maintenance. Most of the current problems that Germany is facing are self-inflicted.

Niall Ferguson has somehow managed to blame Merkel, rather than David Cameron, for Brexit.

There was a different bunch of people to vote for???

Just like every other segment on making a case for Trump's policies - all feelings and ideas with no facts.

Ukrainian bonds? They have to bump. Guaranteed by the full faith and credit if the United States, along with Ukrainian pensions and Zellenskyy’s Swiss bank account. Are you willing to stake your capital gains protected income on DOGE?

If you’re reading this and you voted for him: Read about what the shamed senators of Rome did to protect their family name after being found guilty of lying, stealing et al.

Businesses aren't going to make billion dollar investments based on a policy that will last 4 years tops

Does Tooze wear such excellent coats all the time or just here

Trump is going to bust the economy harder than he did during his first term.

US oligarchs want to create an impoverished class of even cheaper factory workers, so they can reap the profits of production instead of losing them to china.

So there is no case.

15. Keir Starmer has made it clear that EU membership will not be achievable in his LIFETIME. He has said that publicly.

14. There is no option to partake in either the Customs Union or the Single Market without EU membership. And that is simply, not going to happen.

13. The UK does not think we are "an island unto ourselves". What we do not think is that we are a *vassal* of a *federalising mostrosity.*

12. The UK does not do "runner up, second bite of the cherry" referenda.

Pretty useless segment just saying there are opinions without basis in any facts.

11. Gina Miller (not her real name) is a Soros puppet. She is useless, hopeless and not a good source of "facts". She consistently OPPOSED brexit while claiming she was all for it. Her deeds do not match her rhetoric. And she had launched a totally failed party claiming to have a monopoly on "truth". I don't think so. Bluntly.

Only a subjective opinion, he didn't actually say what was promised and what didn't happen. Just said "many people believe that didn't happen, what was promised." More gaslighting without actual evidence and numbers.

10. "Should the UK "rejoin" the EU"? It can't. So forget it.

9. You should name your channel "NO point".

8. The UK has a debt of 103% GDP and that is rising. The EU Copenhagen criteria set the bar at 60% of GDP. It would take DECADES of sustained economic growth to get anywhere near the Copenhagen criteria. I am talking about FIVE DECADES just to have a chance. So stop peddling this utter TWADDLE.

7. "More people would vote to rejoin the EU than stay out". OK. Where to begin? There is *no such thing" as "rejoin the EU". There is ONLY article 49. THE accession process. And that means Euro, schengen, EU foreign policy, CAP, CFP, SU, CU, ECJ, ECB and all the rest of the alphabet soup. And nobody will vote to "stay out" because we already ARE out.

6. An e-petition in the UK to "fully join the EU" is lagging WAY BEHIND one asking for fireworks to be sold only to license holders. And in a different hyperspace from one calling for another general election. So you can forget "polls" because they are utterly pointless. Only people with an axe to grind respond to them.

5. "Polls" are a load of TWADDLE. The "Polls" had remain WINNING the EU referendum, the day before it was run. "Polls" quoted by REMOANERS are giving "65%" "85%". It is UTTER RUBBISH. They are self selected and unvetted. And frankly, the highest vote share ANY EU election ever got in the UK was 38.6% and that was in 2004. So get your facts right for a change.

4. "White working class voters"? What is THAT supposed to mean?

3. The question on the ballot was SHOULD the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland REMAIN a member of the European Union LEAVE the European Union It is typical remoaner "logic" to try to turn that into a vote about ANYTHING ELSE.

1. It only shocked people who presumed we would stay in the EU. Basically, the naïve. It did not shock me, for example. 2. The margin was not "narrow". The remain vote would have had to increase its vote share by 7.86% merely to match the leave vote.

the interviewer is smarter than the 'expert' who is obsessing about semantics. yes it is important to make stuff but if the stuff made is more expensive than what people can afford on their current remuneration rates, then the cost of the goods manufactured for a domestic market will have to have a government subsidy, no?

All right buddy I'm going to give you these 8 minutes and see if you're able to convince me

you wreak of ignorance and TDS

Trump has had this obsession with tariffs for 40 years and he still doesn’t know what they are or do.

Who is this tool! Biden 😂😂😂😂😂

Trump's policies had been viewed by many experts as more positive for the financials sector, spurring this massive rally. It's enticing to consider purchasing some stocks, I'm contemplating investing more than $300k. Thoughts?

I can tell this so-called "expert" is an idiot stick his head in the sand and does not get out his office much, by two things he said about China: "China's economy is doing so badly", which is a fake story created by US media from under some kind of blinding rock. Any business executives who have been to China the last a few years (e.g Tim Cook, Musk, etc.) saw China is a $17 trillion economy still growing at 5% per year (it grew 10%+ when its size was < $5 trillion); "China internal demand is zippo" another wishful thinking fake story created by the $7-billion CIA-paid propaganda troops; In reality Chinese domestic spending broke historical records during all national holidays in 2024. The most important thing that will happen during the Trump 2nd term, a bold prediction, is that Chinese economy is going to blow pass that of the US under Trump's watch. US economy is not strong enough and Trump's cabinet is not smart enough to stop that from happening.

Incorrect, he cares more about his own country than anothers. Lets fix America before you start fixing China 😅

Because they're desperate and exhausted and nobody is listening. First they try Obama. Not much help there. Then they try Bernie. He gets pushed out because he's talking about taking on the entrenched financial interests that have been driving inequality for 45 years. Now it's Trump. Democrats had their chance to embrace the healthy kind of populism and rebrand the old "working class" trope into the "wage and salary earner" trope that affects nearly all of us. So now we have the unhealthy kind of populism. Biden and Yellen tried with some programs but it was too little too late. What if the US had had their own Benito M or Adolf H instead of FDR to speak populism to them? We may be about to find out.

Because the other party is also the party for the rich

To the title... They are not. They are voting for the party of the super rich. The Democrats are the party of the merely rich.

Interesting. The case is essentially that tariffs are actually a kind of Pigouvian tax that are pricing in externalities (similar to a carbon tax), which are a result of standard economic theory failing to factor in geopolitical realities. Even though worrying about who does the manufacturing in economic theory is suboptimal, we obviously have to do so in the real world, so tariffs are corrective in that sense.

This guy forgot to make the case. He just talked about why you shouldn’t call it a sales tax. This was extremely light on information

This woman is just selling a book! She knows nothing 😔

Because they have a unique blend of racism,misogyny and catastrophic levels of stupidity.