Mark Blyth

Published May 6th 2025. Everything you ever wanted to know about inflation but were far too busy to ask. Go get it now!

For your listening pleasure - The Rhodes Center Podcast is back with Aditi Sahasrabuddhe on Central Bankers, Trust and what actually holds things together in moments of crisis: player.captivate.fm/episode/ad93...

The Watson School's @watsonschoolbrown.bsky.social Trending Globally pod had me on talking about the 10th anniversary of Brexit, why the UK has PM's like Love Island contestants have partners, and where it's all going. Enjoy: player.captivate.fm/episode/eec8...

Did an interesting interview with Jen Lind on her Blue Blaze foreign policy substack wondering if IR theory is better than useless and maybe there's more to Trump than randomness. Enjoy, if that's your bag: blueblaze.substack.com/p/burning-do...

Did the Indicator pod with @planetmoney.bsky.social on inflation. Short and fun chat: www.npr.org/2026/06/18/n...

For your midweek commute or sojourn? The Next Rhodes Center Podcast is up. Brendan Greeley and I discuss his brilliant book, The Almighty Dollar, and what we get wrong about money in general: player.captivate.fm/episode/03c0... Really worth your time...

I'm at an academic conference in Dublin soon. @alanjdunne who runs the @TopTradersLive podcast asked me to do a launch event with him in the evening of Weds June 17th: www.eventbrite.com/e/investing-... Given how much fun the podcast was how could I say no? See there there...

For your weekend listening pleasure, its the Rhodes Center Podcast with @Cornelia_Woll and I discussing why corporations never ever go to jail: player.captivate.fm/episode/cb33...

And I had a nice we slot on NPR this weekend: www.npr.org/2026/05/16/n...

And I had a nice slot on NPR this weekend: www.npr.org/2026/05/16/n...

Reposting this until everyone buys it.

Ok everyone. @bhgreeley has written the best book on the USD ever. The US fell into it, used it, and is now in danger or losing. And now you can get it at a discount. Seriously. Read the book. Its a bullshit filter for USD discussions, and so much more: bookpal.com/the-almighty...

Last Rhodes center talk of the Spring and my last hosting as Director. With @bhgreeley and his new amazing and so-readable new book on the Almighty Dollar. We may even have some to give away (if they turn up in time): Tomorrow - here: events.brown.edu/rhodes-cente...

Ten years ago @bhgreeley and I kinda kidnapped the FT Alphaville podcast while no one was looking. Got away with it for almost a year. Since then, not many joint podcasts. Today. We're back. Thanks @willapaskin slate.com/transcripts/...

New Rhodes Podcast up with Erik Peinert on his new book Monopoly Politics. Or, how the world shifts from Competition to Monopoly and back again without anyone really noticing. Great Conversation: player.captivate.fm/episode/c79b...

Reposting this. If you are around Providence tomorrow at noon come by. Why do corporates always get off? Why do foreign firms get fined 6X US firm by US authorities? Come find out.

Had a good chat with the Polycrisis folks. Helped frame my recent LSE talk, which is here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=09AY... Podcast is shorter. Your choice: pod.link/1884213852

If anyone is around Providence Friday April the 10th this is going to be a great talk. Cornelia Woll will give the 5th annual Ethics of Capitalism lecture Friday April 10th at noon in the Jukowsky Forum, Watson Institute. I hope to see you there.

Just in case anyone is around London tomorrow and has nothing to do on the second nice day of 2026 weather-wise you can always come see me do this: www.lse.ac.uk/european-ins... Spoiler alert. Despite everything, it does.

For your weekend reading pleasure. A brilliant piece of satire that isn't actually at all satirical, sadly. But oh, the atriums... www.publicbooks.org/the-misuses-...

New Rhodes Center Pod just up. Great conversation with Alex Cooley and Alex Dukalskis about their new book Dictating the Agenda. AKA - How authoritarians go from playing defense other than offense. Great book. Read it. But listen here first: player.captivate.fm/episode/5e16...

Applications are open for the Finance Summer School 2026. Last two have been at Brown. This one is at LSE thanks to LSE European Institute and Huth Initiative, plus the Berkeley Program on Finance and Democracy. Stellar Line up. Apps open: forms.gle/WsEVk4Yy52Dn...

Actually, not final for today. New Rhodes center Podcast is out. Seth Rockman interviews Sven Beckett about his new book, Capitalism: A Global History. Enjoy: player.captivate.fm/episode/76bb...

And finally for today a Pod I did with two British friends who used to work police intel and have seen the collapse of state capacity up close and personal: thecollators.com/s2e1

Also, my Berkeley talk on Citizenship and the Politics of Grievance from December is up. Its long. Lots of slides. Trying to think through how to talk about the nation without becoming an ethnic nationalist: www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLWh...

Did the Dip (not the Dig) podcast with Deutsche Welle (in English). If you want to know my thinking about the current moment this is a good place to get it in less than 15 mins: www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTL1...

While Trump thinks that the non-existence of windmills in China shows the obviousness of the big green scam, the UK intel community still thinks climate change is real and a massive security risk: assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/696e0e... Who would you believe? Really...

Two views of the present. If you can get past the FT paywall, Howard Lutnick on the American present: www.ft.com/content/a675... And now Cornel Ban on America's actual present and likely future: substack.com/inbox/post/1...

Something a bit more fun (kinda). What's behind the attack on the Fed, and central banks/technocratic governance, in general? Regime Shift, Power Play, or the Politics of Distraction? Probably all of the above. Me of @onthemedia.bsky.social this weekend: www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm...

Mike Green is at it again. His ability to recast what I think I know into something else entirely is incredible. Here he does it again. This time on what full Ai automation (or even partial) would actually mean. It's not what you think: www.yesigiveafig.com/p/the-thermo...

For your weekend listening pleasure. I did the Top Traders podcast. These folks ask the best questions. Got into loads of interesting stuff. Enjoy: www.toptradersunplugged.com/podcast/when...

For your last minute Christmas gift list. A list of damn good books, including one recommended by me: www.project-syndicate.org/onpoint/ps-c... See you all in the new year!

For your weekend listening pleasure, it's me and @johncassidysays.bsky.social talking about his belter of a book Capitalism and its Critics: player.captivate.fm/episode/b858... Do it. And then get the book.

Did this great pod with the public policy crowd at the University of Glasgow. I was interviewed by Nicola McEwan, who went to Graeme Street tech in Dundee with me back in the 80s, and then we both went on to Strathclyde for undergrad. Great fun to reconnect: open.spotify.com/episode/29nh...

Two substacks that have become indispensable reading for me are @cornelban on Geoeconomics: substack.com/@GeoEconomic and @NikKalyanpur on thepriceofpower.substack.com Subscribe to both and cut through the BS

The best thing about winning this award is that you can only accept it wearing a Kilt. Many thanks to the Scots in New England for this lovely, and very meaningful, award: scotsnewengland.org/and-the-winn...

Interview in a Korean Financial Daily, for those of you who can finally get me an invite to South Korea (never been): n.news.naver.com/mnews/articl...

A very nice and long review of Inflation is up in the Nation: www.thenation.com/article/cult...

Had a good chat with the CBC folks about the cost of living and the politics of inflation: www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...

And now..in our regular discussion of how climate change is really geopolitics...I give you @triofrancos.bsky.social and her fabby new book: player.captivate.fm/episode/16cc... In other words - The new Rhodes Center Podcast is up...

Mike Green is writing some amazing stuff at the moment. It's not in the delta, it's in the level and the cost structure. Read this and you will understand Angrynomics on a new level: www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...

If you want a long form philosophical exploration of the current moment, Sam Moyn provides a good one here, despite my interventions: www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKHE...

Next Weds evening (11/26) Nic and I are doing a talk on Inflation at Kings in London. Details are here. Hope to see some of you there: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/inflation-...

Tremendous piece by Mike Green that manages to combine the cost of living crisis, why the Dems donor class are awful, technofeudalism, and Orwell all in one piece. Quite Brilliant: www.yesigiveafig.com/p/are-you-an...

A reminder that this is up today. If you are around providence swing by. M

If you are around Providence on Friday come listen to @johncassidysays.bsky.social talk his wonderful book Capitalism and Its Critics. Its the one stop shop for anything worth saying about capitalism that anyone useful ever said...well worth the read

Dan Driscoll and I had some thoughts: www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/g...

If you care about geopolitics, decarbonization, and why Europe seems lost, you can do a lot worse than subscribing to this blog. It's brilliant: substack.com/inbox/post/1...