Ed Conway
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New book ‘Trade World’ coming September 2026. PRE-ORDER TO AVOID DISAPPOINTMENT (link in bio)!
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📽️ From Donald Trump to Britain's wind power trade body, there's a growing coalition calling for more drilling in the North Sea. Raising the question: if we DID encourage more exploration, how much oil & gas could we actually get? Our MEGA primer on the North Sea👇 Ps it's longer than usual, but it turns out this topic has SO MANY misconceptions. Time to put some of them right. Let me know what you think
Ed Conway925,116 views • 4 months ago
📽️THE TANKER There's an extraordinary race underway on the high seas, as nations vie to secure increasingly scarce shipments of fuel. In our latest on the economics of this conflict we track one such ship & ask: why is Britain so exposed? The answer is not v reassuring. Watch👇
Ed Conway625,741 views • 4 months ago
🎥WHO PLACED THE BET? Someone just made a killing with an extraordinarily well-timed bet on financial markets, minutes before Donald Trump's announcement of war talks yesterday. Was it luck, or inside information? Either way... someone just got rich. Four min primer👇
Ed Conway599,772 views • 4 months ago
📽️ THE MARADONA EFFECT What the greatest goal of the 20th century teaches you about the economy, about interest rates, and about why the new Federal Reserve chairman has just gotten himself into a little bit of trouble... Yes I know it sounds random but, well, you'll see👇
Ed Conway21,718 views • 5 days ago
📽️ There have been many scary, unnerving days in this latest Gulf war. But the past 24 hours was particularly bad. Why? Because both sides are now causing lasting damage to the world economy's life support system. Our latest primer on the econ consequences of this war👇
Ed Conway457,746 views • 4 months ago
Most of the obituaries and tributes to David Hockney will, I imagine, focus primarily on his extraordinary craft and brilliance as an artist. Perhaps they might also mention his brilliance as a communicator (he was such a fine writer and speaker). But there was something else rather unique about him too. He was also strikingly honest about the tricks/techniques artists use and used to paint. His book Secret Knowledge is a rather wonderful detective work into how renaissance and Dutch golden age painters used glass and mirrors to help them master perspective. It's a pretty compelling case (see this video clip from a BBC doc he made alongside the book👇) though I'm sure some art historians will raise their eyebrows. Many will be aghast at the notion that greats like Vermeer might have been using lenses and camera obscuras to help them draw and paint. As if it were in some way "cheating". But Hockney was so self-evidently brilliant he was one of the few people who could document this without anyone gainsaying his own talent. There are very few artists, living or dead, who have this degree of self-confidence. Not just to know their craft, but to be bracingly honest about how it works. One other who comes to mind is Paul Simon: not just an extraordinary musician but is also an extraordinary communicator about the tricks and techniques of how to write and perform music. For many great artists, the temptation is to cloak their crafts in mystery, like a member of the magic circle. Hockney wasn't having any of it. So yes, he was a legend in all the obvious ways. But also in a few other less obvious ways as well. RIP.
Ed Conway143,774 views • 1 month ago
📽️The scale of economic challenges facing Andy Burnham in the coming years is titanic. Here's a primer on a few of them, with new data from the @OBR and Bank of England 👇 Some staggering charts, inc one showing Britain is currently in the weakest era for econ growth since 1776.
Ed Conway75,165 views • 28 days ago
A big moment in Britain's industrial story happened today. The coke ovens at the Port Talbot steelworks were closed. This was where they baked the coal used to make millions of tonnes of steel. What you're looking at here is the last coke ever made in the UK. Pix: Tata Steel UK
Ed Conway2,103,011 views • 2 years ago
📽️Here's my primer on the first big economic speech from the next UK PM. Is the UK REALLY as centralised as Andy Burnham suggests? Are more council houses really the answer? And how did many parts of the UK become poorer than Poland? Everything you need to know in 9 mins👇
Ed Conway72,064 views • 1 month ago
There's been a lot of nonsense spouted about Labour's £28bn green investment plans. And doubtless there'll be lots more nonsense spouted in the coming months. With that in mind, here's my primer on the plan - and its affordability. No nonsense. But maybe one or two charts...
Ed Conway1,283,093 views • 2 years ago
📽️ It is arguably the single biggest issue facing humanity. A precipitous fall in the birth rate, across the world. But why's it happening and how worried should we be about it? V privileged to have the legendary John Burn-Murdoch join me at the big screen to help explain👇
Ed Conway50,389 views • 29 days ago
🎥IRAN WAR PRIMER Six days on from the start of this war, what have we learnt about the economic consequences? Here's our latest primer, covering: 1. Why gas prices are up so much more than oil 2. The ticking timebomb facing Gulf oil producers 3. It's not just oil/gas - we need to talk about helium & sulphuric acid! 4. What does this mean for the 21st century economic model for Gulf states? All that and much more in 10 mins. Longer than usual. But a lot to cover in this one 👇
Ed Conway221,284 views • 5 months ago
