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Amazing vanessa ogle piece drops nybooks.com/online/2025/02…

Vanessa Ogle (vanessa ogle) on the shadow economies of gold smuggling. go.nybooks.com/3CmkkrP

You wouldn't know from FoxNews gold coin ads and other rightwing goldbuggery, but there's actually a material economy behind gold&the gold trade. It's often shady&dirty, and, you guessed it, tied to tax havens, today and in the past. Wrote about it here: nybooks.com/online/2025/02…

'The Age of Choice tells the long history of the invention of choice as the defining feature of modern freedom.' press.princeton.edu/books/hardcove…

Tariffs and uncertainty are sending gold prices to record highs just today, after steep increases during 2024 already. Read about why it's happening, and what it means for the trade in dirty gold reuters.com/markets/commod…

What an impressive infographic on Africa's deposits of critical minerals in Le Monde!

As I write about here in much more detail: nybooks.com/online/2025/02…

“Nicknamed the ‘City of Gold,’ Dubai is the global hotspot for laundering gold mined in Africa,” writes Vanessa Ogle. “The conditions for smuggling, overinvoicing, and other practices tied to laundering are ideal.” go.nybooks.com/42IPYu1

theguardian.com/business/2025/…

Dream panel to discuss my work at the Remarque Institute at 12:30 on Feb 21: Suzy Hansen vanessa ogle and Christy Thornton mailchi.mp/nyu/hidden-glo…

Next Friday, 2/21, join Atossa Araxia Abrahamian on her new book The Hidden Globe: How Wealth Hacks the World. She will be in conversation with Suzy Hansen Christy Thornton and vanessa ogle. RSVP here: nyu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_bC… Or join us via Zoom: nyu.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

Not on here ATM really but re-upping this in light of today's news (which are better than nothing but not what many had called for): washingtonpost.com/climate-soluti… nybooks.com/online/2024/04…

Out from behind the paywall, my essay on tax havens and secrecy, and noblesse without oblige, as Brooke Harrington calls it in her new book

🚨From the June 2nd to 6th, the Paul Bairoch Institute will host the inaugural doctoral summer school "Conflict in the History of Capitalism: Themes, Approaches, Methods as part of the European Laboratory Project "History of Capitalism" (CAP-HIST lab)🚨🧵👇

Excited about this one coming up, not least because I'll be bringing my gravel bike for a trip up Mt Saleve ;)

The UK millionaire population grew 10 times faster than the rate of millionaires leaving the UK since 2017. 41,400 millionaires supposedly left since 2017, but there are 435,000 more millionaires in the UK today. The news is reporting a millionaire "exodus" today that never was

US science funding in 2025 is down by 50 percent.

The Senate version of Trump's Big Bad Bill is designed to murder US solar, wind, & nuclear power industries while enshrining fossil fuels forever. It not only repeals all subsidies/tax credits, but adds a massive new TAX on solar, wind, nuclear, batteries, and geothermal. 1/

Incredible how much anxiety there is over the size of deficits and the debt in advanced economies, and also zero willingness to even entertain higher taxes.