Ed Conway

🎤 TRADE WORLD TOUR 🎤

Secret factories. Weird commodities. Forgotten technologies. Wild tales about the way the modern world actually works.

I’ve spent the past few years collecting loads of new stories. Excited to share them with you.

Coming to a bookshop or hall near you👇

📉Right now China is comfortably the world's biggest coal consumer. But for how much longer? Fascinating chart from @energy_said superimposing Chinese coal consumption with UK historic coal consumption...

✍️ The nuclear power station that never split an atom. And what it teaches us about the AI crash this past week.
A column for the Sunday Times 👇
thetimes.com/comment/column…

📽️ Why did AI stocks crater this past week? And what does it spell for the tech boom - and the rest of us?
A deep dive into AI, starting with possibly the wildest economic chart I've ever seen 👇
youtu.be/_uvHKjVHoH0?is…

📽️ The @bankofengland just raised interest rates. But why now? And will they do more?
Latest primer, including the best of the charts from the Bank's latest assessment on the UK economy👇