Shadow Business
How private equity has thrived through a struggling economy
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30
Sep
‘Weaponized interdependence’
Feature: Why does Europe run on American tech? Filippo Blancato on a bargain that seemed to make sense at the time.
10 min read
23
Sep
‘Oh, the empire of course’
Feature: Why does nothing in the United Kingdom seem to work? A.G. Hopkins on the decades of self-inflicted wounds that have hollowed out the British state.
13 min read
09
Sep
‘They’re going to need it in spades’
Feature: Is the world moving off the dollar? Nicholas Mulder on where it’s slipping—and why the U.S. financial industry has so much riding on it.
10 min read
29
Jul
Cars before drones
Feature: Can Europe’s booming defense industry save its dying factories? Sander Tordoir on the problem with the story Germany’s manufacturers are telling themselves.
10 min read
24
Jun
‘Shells within shells’
Feature: Has Iran ended America’s dominance in economic warfare? Nicholas Mulder on why the Americans can still squeeze their allies but not their rivals.
9 min read