Explore every session of The Long Council.
Yes, but the council splits on whether obligations within the current ownership structure can ever be enough.
No member endorses a US sovereign wealth fund as currently proposed. The split is over what to build instead.
The trading system already extracts wealth from poor countries. The council splits on whether taxation and aid reverse that flow or entrench it.
Zoning reform is the necessary first move, but supply alone will not house the lowest-income families.
Capitalism can survive AI, but only if redistribution happens before ownership concentration captures the governments that would impose it.
Tax wealth, not just income, but preserve the corporate rates that generate revenue.
Lebanon needs international partners who can fund state rebuilding while deterring Iranian interference.
China wins from European degrowth while the planet loses.
The EU must impose targeted tariffs to counter China's $57 billion subsidies while building its own industrial capacity.
Trade barriers will slow European innovation more than they protect strategic industries.
Neither alone succeeds; state capacity enables market success, as Kenya's M-Pesa and Rwanda's growth show.
Markets create wealth but cannot justify how it spreads. Government must guarantee floors without destroying the price signals that coordinate production.
Tax capital gains like wages, fund universal basic services, and democratize ownership gradually through sovereign wealth funds.
High taxes can fund innovation or destroy it, depending on what they buy and whether citizens trust the system.
Iran's economic collapse under sanctions strengthens regime control while forcing dangerous adaptations that threaten global stability.
Government must create purchasing power directly when AI displaces workers faster than markets can absorb them.
Reform the polder model with accountability mechanisms and decision deadlines, but preserve stakeholder consultation where it adds value.
Governments print money because the political cost of fiscal adjustment arrives in months while inflation arrives in years.
Libertarian policy delivers growth when institutions have failed, but who bears transition costs determines whether it enhances freedom.
China will likely overtake US GDP by 2030, but internal cohesion and institutional management matter more than raw economic size.
Yes, governments should ban PFAS, but with transition timelines that fund alternatives development.
China's prosperity will generate demands for greater freedoms, but not necessarily Western-style democracy.
The Netherlands should set independent export limits based on Dutch security interests, not American strategic demands.
Yes — wealth-building creates stakeholder citizens and social stability that welfare transfers cannot match.
China's prosperity creates middle classes who want political voice, but the party can satisfy those demands without Western-style democracy.