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Nationcraft

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

Nationcraft·47 min

The Strongman Reform Trap: V1=8 + V14=8 give Prabowo the LKY-style reformer surface, but V13=4 + V16=3 +…

Yu-kai Chou

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Why India's reform window narrows as Modi's electoral confidence rebuilds — The Mandate Trap, a Nationcraft 18-variable diagnosis.

Yu-kai Chou

Nationcraft·41 min

After 16 years of EU oversight, Greece exits the macroeconomic-imbalance list. The V-vector says the discipline window now…

Yu-kai Chou

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Colombia heads to a June 21 runoff. The Nationcraft Framework reads the Polarization Pendulum Trap before the next…

Yu-kai Chou

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Kosovo's third snap election in 18 months reproduced the same coalition arithmetic. Nationcraft diagnoses the V10-V12-V13 Coalition Stalemate…

Yu-kai Chou

Nationcraft·47 min

Sri Lanka passed every IMF review on schedule, and that is exactly why the next external shock could…

Yu-kai Chou

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Ethiopia's 18-variable Nationcraft profile after the June 1 election: why the 2019 Nobel labelled Abiy with a reformer…

Yu-kai Chou

Nationcraft·46 min

A Nationcraft analysis of Iran's 2026 crisis: 18 nation variables, the Coercion Spiral, and which reform playbooks fit…

Yu-kai Chou

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Cuba holds the strongest reform lever in the Caribbean and a doctrine that forbids pulling it. A Nationcraft…

Yu-kai Chou