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Here's what the smartest people in foreign policy, business, and economics are saying about Trump's raid on Venezuela
President Donald Trump on Saturday announced that the US had conducted a raid on Venezuela, resulting in the capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, and big names in business and foreign policy have been reacting as the…
Asian Angle | How uneven borders fuel Myanmar's vast and resilient scam economy
Southeast Asia has become “ground zero” for the global online scamming industry, according to the UN, costing victims billions of US dollars each year. Scam operations are run by Chinese crime syndicates from fortified compounds in…
SAFE Chips Act avoids a false choice on the economy and national security
The Trump administration announced last month that it will allow Nvidia to export powerful AI chips, including the H200, to China. The announcement occurred amid worries about a potential AI-related market correction, and as some in the business…
News Wrap: Iran vows crackdown on 'rioters' amid protests over economy
In our news wrap Saturday, Iran's supreme leader vowed to crack down on demonstrators following days of protests, and Trump told reporters Putin is “killing too many people” as European national security advisers convened in Kyiv to…
Premier League's warped economics make £65m fee for Semenyo a snip | Jonathan Wilson
Antoine Semenyo, it seems likely, will soon join Manchester City from Bournemouth for a fee of £65m. Given how well Rayan Cherki and Phil Foden have played from the right this season, it is not immediately obvious why City need him, but the…
Bernie, Billionaires, and What's Really Broken in the Economy
The debate over artificial intelligence (AI) is being framed as a false choice. On one side, Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) warns that AI will crush workers unless government intervenes aggressively. On the other, Silicon Valley voices insist that…
Anatomy of an economic suicide: Venezuela under Maduro
This report is not a political manifesto; it is an economic autopsy. It's about the arithmetic of ruin. Between 2013 and 2025, the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela experienced the single largest economic contraction in modern history for a country…
How Italy's PM Meloni sparked an economic turnaround
When Italy's Giorgia Meloni took the job of prime minister in 2022, the country wasn't in good shape. But since then, the economy has bounced back in ways that few outsiders would have expected. Now the country looks healthier than either Germany…
How Global Economic Power Has Shifted Over The Past 45 Years
Over the past four decades, the global economic hierarchy has undergone profound change. Some economies have grown steadily, others have surged, and a few have slipped down the rankings as new players emerged. In the following visualization, Visual…
Last Week at Economy Class and Beyond (3rd January) - Economy Class & Beyond
As we reach into the New Year, it seems that it's going to be another rocky year. Let's look back at some past posts to try to lighten the mood. It's time for Last Week at Economy Class and Beyond. At Economy Class and Beyond, your editor and…
When platform economics demanded physical stores
This article was published in 2026 and references a historical event from 2017, included here for context and accuracy. Tension: Digital platforms discovered that consumers never accepted channel separation, forcing retailers to abandon their…
America's New 'Value Menu' Economy Should Worry You
The hottest restaurant items of 2025 aren't gourmet burgers – they're value meals. When eating out turns into a budgeting exercise, it reveals something deeper about inflation, the rising cost of living and the quiet erosion of our quality…
Supreme Court tariffs case, Fed chair pick loom as twin tests for Trump's economic agenda in 2026
Two key economic policy decisions are on the horizon in Washington: a Supreme Court ruling on tariffs and the White House's expected announcement of the next Federal Reserve chair. Both developments carry significant implications for trade, markets…
Trump seeks to revive Venezuela's oil-based economy and says it's 'America first' while affordability crisis lingers in the U.S.
President Donald Trump has committed the U.S. to rebuilding Venezuela's oil industry, the key driver in the country's faltering economy, after the capture and arrest of dictator Nicolas Maduro by American forces. During a press briefing on…
Can President Trump Successfully Fix the Economy and Create Millions of Jobs, While Reducing Inflation in 2026?
Like Like Love Haha Wow Sad Angry (ThyBlackMan.com) Here is what we know, the United States economy, as it is presently called, a “K shaped economy,” is unsustainable. It is just impossible to maintain this economy, without a…
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