While the US economy is supposedly doing better than ever, it's a very different story in the Global South, which is suffering from lack of investment capital and economic sovereignty. Tim helps explain why, and we speculate about potential sites of leverage for reforming the international economic order.

Tim Sahay is the co-editor of "The Polycrisis" newsletter, published at Phenomenal World, and the co-director of the Net Zero Industrial Policy Lab at Johns Hopkins University.