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July 2026

The Great Transfer
Every year, in every Western country, one generation makes a great transfer to pay a debt to the past.
 • Maria Alvarez
The Broken Understanding Machine
A manifesto on AI reveals how hard we find it to make sense of the present. We dig into the debate it has sparked — plus the latest on the bubble.
 • Maria Alvarez
July 4th, 2026: The Party at the End of the American Century
The moment we're living through doesn't resemble the dot-com bubble — it resembles a far more fearsome crisis: the crash that in 1929 ended British…
 • Maria Alvarez
Tartan Army: The Europoors Conquer the American Empire
The World Cup shows us why Europe isn't just keeping up in the global development race — it's the region best positioned to win it.
 • Maria Alvarez

June 2026

The last Merchant (In the age of ice)
Why did the economy stop growing around the year 2000? Here is the simplest answer to the most complex question of our time.
 • Maria Alvarez
SpaceX and the Bubble Factory
The four financial bubbles of the twenty-first century are not separate phenomena. They are aftershocks of the same earthquake — one that is about to…
 • Maria Alvarez
Terror in the Supermarkets: What Is Happening in the AI Bubble and Why Should You Care?
We have a drama unfolding: at the very moment companies are preparing to go public, the AI bubble is starting to look like a zombie.
 • Maria Alvarez
Tokenomics: Why AI Won't Be the Fourth Industrial Revolution
Behind the financial bubble lies another: a political bubble. The AI economy lays bare the main problem of our time.
 • Maria Alvarez

May 2026

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