Economics
Japan’s government wants to spend while the Bank of Japan tries to tighten. Rising bond yields, a weak yen and stubborn inflation are now testing whether Tokyo can still borrow freely without forcing its…
Economics
The Iran crisis is beginning to move beyond oil and into the hidden petrochemical systems that underpin modern…
Economics
Martin Wolf sees the return of global imbalances as a problem of surplus countries saving too much and…
Economics
The Bank of England should have raised interest rates. By holding back, it protected the cheap money regime…
Economics
Economics
Economics
Economics
Economics
Diplomacy has begun in Islamabad, but without direct US–Iran talks the economic damage continues to compound. The war is no longer just about oil…
United States
The dollar system is not breaking under geopolitical pressure — it is being exposed. As Washington shifts from Federal Reserve…
Economics
Oil prices are rising not because the Strait of Hormuz has been fully closed, but because it has become unreliable.…
Economics
A war driven shock in energy and fertiliser markets is colliding with the debt burden of food importing states. The danger is not simply higher prices. It is that many governments no longer have…
Economics
The ceasefire may have softened the rhetoric, but it did not restore the Strait of Hormuz as a…
Defence
The ceasefire did not restore normal transit through Hormuz. It produced a rationed, militarised passage regime in which…
Economics
The Iran war did not end dollar power. It exposed the cost of overusing it. The United States…
Economics
The quoted Brent price is no longer the whole story. The real stress is in the physical oil market, where buyers are paying far…
Economics
Economics
Economics
Economics
Economics
Donald Trump’s decision to give Iran 10 more days before threatened strikes on its energy infrastructure is being presented as…
Economics
The Iran war is pushing oil toward $200 a barrel and driving a broader energy shock through the global economy.…
Economics
The disruption in global shipping is no longer a temporary shock. As conflict pressure builds around the Strait of Hormuz, risk, insurance, and route insecurity are reshaping how goods move, shifting power from contracts…
Economics
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Economics
BRICS
Economics
The United States is no longer relying on markets alone to price critical minerals. Through trade law, procurement rules, and allied coordination, Washington is…
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Economics
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
For two decades, companies rented business software because building it was slow, costly, and risky. That assumption has…
Economics
A leading strand of financial commentary argues the world has lost its way and fallen back into mercantilism.…
Economics
Britain does not feel like a country in crisis. That is precisely the danger. Growth limps on, spending…
Economics
India’s ordinary people street vendors, small traders, farmers, and informal entrepreneurs are among the most resilient and hardworking on earth.…
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
London is not heading for mass unemployment. It is heading for class compression. As artificial intelligence reshapes white-collar work, service…