come to the acid capitalist summer camp in st barts 2nd to 6th august.
https://hughhendry.com/acid-capital-retreat/
broadcasting from the caribbean as the acid capitalist, i try to make the uk’s sovereign problem legible without the institutional fog. no jargon. no costume. just the one signal that still cuts through the spin: price. i start with a ghost story of imperial infrastructure repurposed into luxury hospitality, then land the argument with brutal ratios that sound like trivia until you see them for what they are: a balance sheet warning.
from there, we invert the whole thing. modern war needs drones and factories more than it needs mass conscription. modern work needs software more than it needs layers of professional glue between capital and labour. when ai makes parts of the middle class optional, it’s not just jobs that move. it’s the uk tax base. the thing that funds pensions, healthcare, and the welfare state. then nato appears for what it increasingly is: a financial arrangement. europe’s long reduced-responsibility model stops looking like morality and starts looking like an expiring discount as the defence invoice rises.
the autopsy moves through gilts, cheap borrowing, and the decades-long loop of surplus capital recycled into british government debt and assets. low gilt yields made big promises look affordable. too much of the money chased property and financial engineering instead of productivity. when global capital gets redirected and the subsidy fades, welfare arithmetic, political constraint, and bond market discipline collide fast. i finish with a tradable lens on scarcity, real estate, city-state jurisdictions, and the prices to watch next: real 10-year gilt yields, the gilt-bund spread, and sterling against the places where capital actually wants to live.
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