John Rapley

John Rapley is an author and academic who divides his time between London, Johannesburg and Ottawa. His books include Why Empires Fall: Rome, America and the Future of the West (with Peter Heather, Penguin, 2023) and Twilight of the Money Gods: Economics as a Religion (Simon & Schuster, 2017).

John Rapley is an author and academic who divides his time between London, Johannesburg and Ottawa. His books include Why Empires Fall: Rome, America and the Future of the West (with Peter Heather, Penguin, 2023) and Twilight of the Money Gods: Economics as a Religion (Simon & Schuster, 2017).

The global economy is teetering

John Rapley

18 Jun 2025

The American century of humiliation

John Rapley

08 May 2025

China is ready for battle

John Rapley

10 Apr 2025

Trump will make China great again

John Rapley

04 Apr 2025

Is Trump engineering a crash?

John Rapley

12 Mar 2025

China is back in business

John Rapley

26 Feb 2025

Broken Britain needs a tax hike

John Rapley

29 Jul 2024

France has scorned globalisation

John Rapley

11 Jul 2024

Why we still believe in gold

John Rapley

21 May 2024

Is Joe Biden gaslighting America?

John Rapley

11 Apr 2024

Does our zombie economy need a recession?

John Rapley

16 Feb 2024

China’s economic plan is bankrupt

John Rapley

08 Dec 2023

Is private equity too big to fail?

John Rapley

26 Oct 2023

The myth of Chinese imperialism

John Rapley

29 Sep 2023

China isn’t as strong as you think

John Rapley

12 Sep 2023

The end of dollar supremacy

John Rapley

26 May 2023