Shutdowns and Shake-Ups

09/10/2025 11 min Episodio 122
Shutdowns and Shake-Ups

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Episode Synopsis

Financial markets have been navigating a US government shutdown that has frozen key data releases and muddied the macro picture. In the meantime, political cross-currents in Europe and Asia have added to the noise. In our charts this week we drill into:

The US labour market
Global productivity trends
Electricity prices
Natural capital versus produced capital
Japan's politics
Vietnam's economy