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Nationcraft

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

Nationcraft·25 min

Qatar lost 42% of state revenue in six months without firing a shot. The Mediator's Mortgage: indispensability collateralized…

Yu-kai Chou

Nationcraft·28 min

Senegal told the truth about 132%-of-GDP debt and is paying for it. The Truth Tax Trap: 18 Nation…

Yu-kai Chou

Nationcraft·25 min

The Discipline Decoy: South Korea's 1961–1979 miracle is development's most copied playbook — imitators copy the strongman and…

Yu-kai Chou

Nationcraft·32 min

Bulgaria votes for a president today with every other lever already in one movement's hands. The Clean-Sweep Trap,…

Yu-kai Chou

Nationcraft·28 min

Finland is buying deterrence on credit drawn against the welfare model it defends. The 18 Nation Variables price…

Yu-kai Chou

Nationcraft·28 min

Pakistan takes the IMF–World Bank gavel in 2027 while still inside an IMF program — the Borrower's Gavel…

Yu-kai Chou

Nationcraft·30 min

Mozambique borrowed against its gas windfall before it arrived. An 18-variable Nationcraft read of the Pre-Spent Windfall Trap…

Yu-kai Chou

Nationcraft·27 min

The Leapfrog Mirage: SP-007 shows how Estonia turned a $2,200 post-Soviet baseline into the most digital state on…

Yu-kai Chou

Nationcraft·3 min

Italy just bought its fifth engineered majority in a century. The Governability Premium explains why bonus seats cannot…

Yu-kai Chou