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Nationcraft

Analyzing a nation and the best way to improve it via Yu-kai Chou's Nationcraft Framework.

Nationcraft·37 min

Bahrain, Botswana and Mauritius each cover a deficit with something they do not control. Three small states read…

Yu-kai Chou

Nationcraft·40 min

Kuwait opened its Future Generations Fund to state borrowing 28 months after suspending the parliament that guarded it.…

Yu-kai Chou

Nationcraft·33 min

The Escrowed Recovery Trap: Ukraine's $524B rebuild is gated on a peace that may dissolve the wartime cohesion…

Yu-kai Chou

Nationcraft·31 min

Morocco votes Sept 23 while stadiums rise at decree speed and hospitals crawl at party speed. The Two-Speed…

Yu-kai Chou

Nationcraft·30 min

Albania closes EU chapters while 250,000 fill Tirana's boulevard. The Departure Dividend explains how both scoreboards stayed green…

Yu-kai Chou

Nationcraft·26 min

The Honeymoon Ledger: Burnham's bounce changed the leader, and none of the UK's 18 variables. The October budget…

Yu-kai Chou

Nationcraft·29 min

A Nationcraft analysis of the Netherlands: the Second Dutch Disease, where administrative competence masks a decaying political layer.

Yu-kai Chou

Nationcraft·30 min

The truce that stopped Yemen's bombing froze the state in two. The Frozen War Trap explains why four…

Yu-kai Chou

Nationcraft·30 min

Mexico's homicide numbers are falling while the state rents its calm from cartels, truces, and US prisons. The…

Yu-kai Chou