/ mathis is a journalist based in Berlin. Most of his work is on economics and how it relates to power. This website is a portfolio of work since 2015. 2025-11-20T20:19:52+01:00 Mathis Richtmann / Jekyll © 2025 Mathis Richtmann /assets/img/favicons/favicon.ico /assets/img/favicons/favicon-96x96.png 2025-11-14T00:00:00+01:00 2025-11-14T00:00:00+01:00 /posts/dominomics/ mathis

I think it is power that excites people about economics. For this series, a team at DW put together visual first, 3 minute TikTok videos; stories of “geoeconomcis”. The term is a catchphrase. I think of it as a refocussing on what Susan Strange did. The journalist brought a practicioner’s perspective to studying International Political Economy. My guiding principle for telling these stories w...

2025-05-18T00:00:00+02:00 2025-05-18T00:00:00+02:00 /posts/explainer-mar-a-lago/ mathis

I’ll hand it to the 41 pages of Stephen Miran’s “User’s Guide to Restructuring the Global Trading System” that they are intriguingly written from an economics point of view. 41 pages stuffed with economic heterodoxy, defying for example the orthodoxy that tariffs are inflationary and cleverly recombining foreign and economic policy–it’s a true document of political economy. In the paper, Miran...

2025-02-27T00:00:00+01:00 2025-02-27T00:00:00+01:00 /posts/solar-hacking/ mathis

For this 25 Minute documentary, I met hackers across Europe who say they were able to tap into solar power generators remotely. The amounts of power they say they had access to is so large, that it could threaten the balance of Europe’s power grid. In a time of hybrid warfare, the political pressure to ramp up security is on… link to the story https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xgIpV_XtvQ

2025-01-13T00:00:00+01:00 2025-01-13T00:00:00+01:00 /posts/Germany-investment-gap/ mathis

This piece would be forshadowing to the massive spending package agreed to by the CDU/SPD/Greens in March 2025. But in early January, in preparation for our election coverage, I tried to visualize how much money would be needed to close Germany’s investment gap. It’s a lot and I struggled to make cardboards that were large enough and still fit into the studio. Making to scale cardboards is f...

2024-12-06T00:00:00+01:00 2024-12-06T00:00:00+01:00 /posts/how-i-write-jekyll/ mathis

Blogging should be easy. But they’ve put a price tag on easy so here’s how I do it. Skip the prose and… jump to espanso handling jekyll yaml jump to espanso handling jekyll paste images jump to sublime text handling jekyll tags jump to iA Writer for nothing I run my blog for mostly for free which comes with some inconveniences but also some nice things. I own all the files that I’ve...