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The Weekly Briefing from Capital Economics — 211 episodes

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Jennifer McKeown on where next for the advanced economies

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From boom to bust: the AI equity rally in its final phase

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AI's macro boost, a hawkish Fed and Burnham's balancing act

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Tough economic choices in a fragile peace

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Fed preview: The case for raising rates | Oil's turning point?

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Fed hikes, inflation risks and AI stocks

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A deal at last? What a Hormuz reopening would mean for oil and inflation

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This bond market wobble won't be the last

9

UK Labour party meltdown, gilt yields and why the bond market always wins

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The Trump-Xi meeting and the limits of a reset | Germany’s overdone pessimism

11

A tough macro backdrop gets tougher. Will equities care?

12

What if the energy shock gets worse? And what to expect from a Warsh-led Fed?

13

Global imbalances, all over again | Gulf economies in crisis

14

A fragile ceasefire: What next for economies and markets?

15

AI and economies: from capex boom to productivity payoff

16

Global Economic Outlook: Forecasting in the fog of war

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Policy in a time of conflict: Central banks and the growth-inflation trade-off

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Oil, war and economies – Three scenarios for the Middle East conflict

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Middle East conflict, oil prices and that US jobs drop

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Special Episode: Conflict in the Middle East – The key macro and market questions

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Can China finally fix its economic model?

22

Supreme Court special: What the Trump tariffs ruling means for macro and markets

23

Brown on the US outlook, Gregory on UK politics

24

Tech sell-off, AI winners and losers, and reasons to be optimistic about productivity

25

Inflation nation – Japan’s turning point and a critical election

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Special Episode: What Kevin Warsh would mean for the Fed

27

A new world order? | Why Russia’s economy won’t stop the war

28

Neil Shearing on China’s trillion dollar surplus; Leah Fahy on China's AI race

29

Maduro’s capture | Is the AI productivity boom here?

30

Special: Global CRE outlook – Where to find returns in a uniquely weak recovery

31

Dodgy data, all flavour of rate move and a bubble that will keep inflating (for now)

32

Special episode: The World in 2026 – Key drivers, key risks in global macro

33

Can Europe compete in a fractured world?

34

UK Budget: The Missing Growth Story | China: The Investment Mystery

35

More AI bubble fears, the UK Budget countdown and Saudi Arabia’s global pivot

36

Is AI killing jobs, and when does the growth payoff arrive?

37

The Rachel Reeves tax threat, the Supreme Court tariffs test and the fate of the AI boom

38

Driving in fog, standing on ice: The Fed and the fragile trade truce

39

Trump and Xi, CPI and the Fed, oil and sanctions

40

US–China trade war – What’s driving the latest escalation

41

The AI frenzy, Japan’s market shock and France’s political storm

42

Global Outlook: US leads, Europe lags | China’s equities boom

43

Tariffs, rates… and an Argentina rescue

44

US-China talks, LatAm’s crime surge and central bank shifts

45

US economy pre-Fed health check | Oil prices vs geopolitics

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US jobs hit, France’s budget gridlock and China's world order optics

47

Neil Shearing on The Fractured Age: How the Return of Geopolitics Will Splinter the Global Economy

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A Chinese consumption breakthrough? | The global jobs slowdown

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China's struggles, Bessent's overreach, Wall Street's climb and India's tariffs hit

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BoE division, data confusion, looming US CPI | Taking Trump’s manufacturing pledges to task

51

That big payrolls miss and the US outlook plus AI's energy demands

52

How the global economy is fracturing under Trump

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What if Trump fires Powell? | Global inflation signals and the policy outlook

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'Tariff Man' returns, US-China diverging price risks – and is AI triggering a jobs bloodbath?

55

Tariffs deadline looms, Trump’s inflammatory tax bill and why deglobalisation isn't nigh

56

The global economy's fragile underpinnings plus BYD, DeepSeek and China's productivity problems

57

Special: A fragile peace takes hold – what next for economies and energy markets?

58

Risk vs uncertainty in the Middle East, dollar in focus, and new Asia market coverage

59

Israel-Iran strikes, the Fed’s next steps, US-China trade talks and more

60

Are tariffs starting to bite? Plus, the economics of rising defence spending

61

Tariffs on! Tariffs off! Tariffs on! The latest episode in the trade war saga plus data to track the turmoil

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Trump’s EU tariff threat, jittery bond markets, UK macro update, gold’s next steps and more

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Back from the brink – How the global outlook has brightened (and what can still go wrong)

64

US-China trade talks preview, what to make of that US-UK "deal", and the future of Europe

65

There's a trade war on – why aren't the hard data showing it?

66

Reports of King Dollar’s death – exaggerated or inevitable?

67

The pause is on! What to expect from the global economy during and after Trump's tariffs pause

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It's a US-China trade war, after all

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Special: Trump's reciprocal tariffs, China strikes back and a hellish week for markets

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A "whiff of stagflation", the state of US exceptionalism, and China's weak start to 2025

71

The Mar-a-Lago myth, another crisis in Turkey and Rachel Reeves' under pressure

72

What to make of US recession fears, a Fed preview, our long-term global macro outlook and more

73

Tariffs special: The macro implications of Trump's latest trade actions

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In the fog of policy uncertainty, China’s National People's Congress, India in Trumpland and more

75

Was that the week that changed the world?

76

Why markets rallied on reciprocal tariffs; Germans to vote in the shadow of Trump, Xi and Putin

77

Lessons from a drama-filled week in Trumpland, China upends the EM development model and more

78

Special: Trump tariffs unleashed - does a global trade war follow?

79

Trump vs the Fed, the real Stargate story and why oil prices look even shakier

80

An ‘American Carnage’ sequel? Another big year for US stocks, Keir Starmer's AI dreams and more

81

Jobs blowout deepens bond market gloom, Rachel Reeves' sticky fiscal wicket, Trump and the dollar and more

82

The Fed changes tack, why no second Plaza Accord and why markets punished Brazil

83

Central bank policy pains, China’s pivot, the market bubble in 2025, geopolitics vs macro and more

84

The World in 2025 – The macro themes that will shape next year

85

More tariff threats, China and 'Japanification', payrolls preview, India and Trump and more

86

Special Episode: What to make of Trump's tariff warning

87

Trying to avoid talking Trump and what an end to the Ukraine war could look like

88

The economic fallout from tariffs and deportations and what follows the 'Trump bump'

89

Trump up-ends the macro narrative and the Chinese stimulus that wasn’t

90

Special Episode: The US election aftermath and Trump's second coming

91

What this election means for macro and markets and the aftermath of the UK Budget

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Special Episode: UK Budget – Macro impact, market reaction

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Bond market jitters, UK Budget preview, Trudeau’s immigration U-turn and more

94

What Trump gets wrong on tariffs, a super-sized ECB rate cut, EV sales vs oil demand and more

95

Another China stimulus let-down, the Fed and ECB’s next steps, India’s commodities demand and more

96

Larry Adam and Neil Shearing on the global macro/markets outlook

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Special: Iran's missile strike on Israel and oil market implications

98

China’s stimulus blizzard, the ECB’s quandary, Kamala Harris' housing plan and more

99

As the Fed gets cutting, where will rates settle?

100

Property Special: Retail’s return from the dead and what to expect from its recovery

101

25 or 50? What the Fed will do, how markets could react, and our new recession indicators

102

What that payrolls report means for the Fed, the ECB's balancing act, recession risks and more

103

August payrolls preview, China's confused policy moves, key risks to watch and more

104

What Powell said at Jackson Hole, China-India ties in a fractured world and more

105

After the summer growth scare – The state of the global economy

106

Has the global markets storm blown over?

107

Payrolls fallout – The spectre of US recession haunts the stock market

108

What to watch in a jam-packed week of market events

109

Special episode: Who's going to lead the global CRE recovery?

110

The global IT outage, China’s growth and reform struggles, an update on the inflation battle and more

111

'More good data' for the Fed, more election uncertainty and why the ECB won't rush a follow-up

112

UK Election Special Briefing – What will Labour do to fix the economy?

113

Biden’s debate stumble and the macro/market context, UK election preview, shipping rates resurgent and more

114

Bond markets in election season, the stock market bubble, India economic outlook and more

115

French turmoil, the Fed and BoE in the election cycle, Europe’s EVs tariffs and more

116

Spotlight 2024: US outperformance and the future of global macro and markets leadership

117

ECB Special: A key moment in the post-pandemic monetary cycle

118

Election fever, US/euro-zone inflation previews, AI and productivity and more

119

Biden’s latest China salvo, the stock market bubble revisited, UK CPI preview and more

120

What’s missing from the China overcapacity row, that UK GDP data and an exclusive inflation briefing

121

Payrolls relief, oil and the US election, the RBA’s next move and more

122

That Fed rate hike noise, China trip notes and EM FX challenges

123

Overcooked inflation fears, the end of the excess savings debate and a global markets briefing

124

Janet Yellen's Beijing trip and the Chinese overcapacity threat

125

Emerging markets special: An EM risk early warning system and EMs and the green transition

126

Baltimore bridge collapse, our Global Economic Outlook, Trump vs Canada and Mexico and more

127

What’s gone wrong with the German economy?

128

Fed week! The BoJ’s big moment, TikTok and fracturing, Putin’s war economy and more

129

The coming collapse of Chinese construction and Fed rate cuts vs the stock bubble

130

The coming clash over Chinese oversupply, the UK budget vs the bond market, the carbon price outlook and more

131

Trump trade wars, stock market bubbles, Japan's market comeback and the world in 2050

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How to think about recessions, fiscal shackles, financial instability risks and more

133

Inflation rebound risk, bank real estate exposure, Trump trade wars and dollar and EM outlooks

134

A bumper US jobs report, central banks and labour markets and that wave of US CRE loans

135

Fed week! China's stimulus blizzard, Houthi inflation risk and more

136

Inflation's "last mile", an ECB preview, China data discrepancies, and maximum bullish on US stocks

137

Macro in a more dangerous world, UK CPI preview, bond vigilantes, and the US energy export surge

138

2024’s uncertain start, US CPI preview, Taiwan's flashpoint election and more

139

The Fed gifts the bond market, the EM growth outlook and that COP28 agreement

140

What could go wrong in 2024, the BoE on Table Mountain and the US housing outlook

141

Where to spot fiscal risks and how to think about US-China economic competition

142

2024: Weaker growth, cooler inflation, lower rates

143

Special episode – Argentina's election: Shock result...shock therapy?

144

Flavours of recession, Xi vs Biden vs Trump, Jeremy Hunt’s big dilemma

145

Calls for 2024, deglobalised pandas, Saudi’s shifting allegiances

146

What the global data say, what the central banks said, and Italy’s debt balloon

147

Fed week, the US economic outlook and financial markets at war

148

5% Treasury yields, geopolitics vs the Fed, China’s dollar dilemma, an AI stock bubble and more

149

Special episode: AI and the global economic order

150

Israel-Gaza and heightened geo-economic risk and what to expect in the post-pandemic rates era

151

How much more pain for bond markets?

152

The global economic outlook, or why "higher for longer" won't last

153

Special Episode: Is AI coming for our jobs?

154

AI’s productivity boom, central bank rhetoric vs reality, recession risk and more

155

After rate hikes, US economy anomaly, EU vs Chinese EVs and more

156

Huawei’s chip surprise, the energy price spike, Nvidia in India, UK vs Germany

157

September's rate decisions, China's stepped up stimulus, and the AI race

158

Signs of trouble, equities off the boil, those Nvidia earnings and AI’s promise

159

The bond market disconnect, the fiscal policy outlook and an exclusive China briefing

160

Chinese deflation, US July CPI and commodities markets feel the pinch

161

Disinflation's mystery, China's structural slowdown and Argentina's risky vote

162

How big a threat are Chinese EVs to Japan Inc.?

163

How far will the ECB go to slay its ‘greedy beast’?

164

Is the inflation crisis over?

165

What lies ahead for the global economy and markets?

166

Are greedy firms behind the inflation crisis?

167

Is the UK a stagflation outlier?

168

Property Special – How much more pain to come?

169

What are our clients asking us about?

170

Why is this economic cycle so weird?

171

What's really been behind the US stock market rally?

172

How did a UK recession just get more likely?

173

Whatever happened to the China “growth miracle”?

174

Special: What’s wrong with the UK economy (and what will it take to fix it)?

175

How worried should we be about the debt ceiling?

176

How likely is an economic soft landing?

177

Is China finally willing to budge on debt talks?

178

Just how tight are financial conditions?

179

Special: How much trouble is globalisation in?

180

Where will bank turmoil blowback show up in the data?

181

How will the bank turmoil come back to bite?

182

The Weekly Briefing: Why is everyone worried about commercial real estate?

183

Special: Does the turmoil end with the Credit Suisse deal?

184

The Weekly Briefing: Has enough been done to end the turmoil?

185

Special: The SVB crisis – What are the risks from here?

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SVB's collapse – An isolated case or the next financial crisis?

187

Do labour market mysteries point to higher-for-longer rates?

188

Why will India rise but China stall?

189

One year on – How has the war changed Europe's economies?

190

How have EMs avoided an old-school debt crisis?

191

Special: What's really happening in the US economy – and what does it mean for markets?

192

Are economies through the worst?

193

How are economies faring ahead of the week's big rate decisions?

194

What does the world economy look like after globalisation?

195

Special: How bad could it get for property markets in 2023?

196

How much of a game changer is China's reopening?

197

Could a "petroyuan" dethrone King Dollar?

198

Special: The Bank of Japan makes its move – what happens now?

199

Will 2023 be another rollercoaster year for economies and markets?

200

Is this endgame for the global monetary tightening cycle?

201

What do collapsing shipping costs mean for inflation?

202

Special: China's zero-COVID policy at the limits

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Will the global economy dodge a recession?

204

Is the dollar rally done and dusted?

205

Why can't China just ditch zero-COVID?

206

To pivot or not to pivot?

207

What will the global recession look like?

208

Are central banks winning the war against inflation?

209

Who decides Chinese economic policy in Xi Jinping's third term?

210

How will fracturing reshape the global economy and markets?

211

What have we learned from Kwasi Kwarteng's budget blunder?