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Readout: COBR(M) - Iran economic and domestic impacts: 23 March 2026
The Prime Minister chaired a COBR(M) meeting today, focussing on the domestic economic impact of the ongoing situation in the Middle East. The Chancellor, the Governor of the Bank of England, the Energy Secretary and others updated on the situation…
The Missing Mechanisms of the Agentic Economy
For the past two years, I've been working with economist Ilan Strauss at the AI Disclosures Project. We started out by asking what regulators would need to know to ensure the safety of AI products that touch hundreds of millions of people. We are…
Business Insider welcomes Ryan Kailath as senior editor on the economy team
Ryan Kailath joins Business Insider as a Senior Editor on our Economy team and will oversee a team of reporters covering the job market, student loans, and the intersection of culture and the economy. Ryan has more than a decade of experience…
Trump's aapproval rating on economy is worst this century-polling analyst
President Donald Trump's approval rating on the economy has fallen to the lowest level among 21st‑century presidents, according to CNN's chief data analyst Harry Enten. Enten described the numbers as historically bad during a recent…
New Zealand struggles to regain economic mojo without housing recovery
For decades, New Zealand has relied on inflating the housing market to engineer a recovery during downturns, but the playbook has failed this time, putting policymakers in a quandary just as the Middle East war adds a new layer of…
How Trump's Iran War Could Torch the Global Economy
Simon Flowers has spent more than four decades working in the energy industry and analyzing it. After studying geology at Edinburgh University at the beginning of the nineteen-eighties, he worked for two years on exploration wells in the eastern…
How big business 'club' is causing Australia's economic problem
Australia is a resource-oriented economy with a monopolistic industrial structure. It will cost us dearly if governments do not recognise the need for greater openness. Oligopolies are present in all the main industrial groups in Australia:…
Global economy faces 'major, major threat' from Iran war, IEA head says
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — The head of the International Energy Agency said Monday that the global economy faces a 'major, major threat' because of the Iran war. 'No country will be immune to the effects of this crisis if it continues to…
How to judge whether an economy 'works': GDP and living standards in Cuba
Undeterred by the global catastrophe unleashed by its attacks on Iran, the U.S. government announced yet further economic actions against Cuba last week. Since its military intervention in Venezuela, the U.S. has illegally blocked oil shipments…
Catastrophic domino effect set to hit Australia's fragile economy
War in Iran sending fuel prices soaring Domino effect will impact all Australians READ MORE: What Australians need to know today Shutting down the Strait of Hormuz would create a domino effect on the Australian economy by increasing inflation…
Stock markets rocked by Trump's Iran ultimatum, as UK economy faces growth hit - business live
Donald Trump's threat to ‘obliterate' Iran's power plants unless the strait of Hormuz reopens is hitting global stock markets today. A wave of selling is sweeping through Asia-Pacific markets at the start of the week. Japan's Nikkei has…
You'll Snort-Laugh When You Learn How Much AI Actually Added to the US Economy Last Year
Can't-miss innovations from the bleeding edge of science and tech Scanning the headlines, it can be easy to get the impression that every investor, banker, and financial analyst is enamored with AI. Yet this simplified view obscures a more…
UK's Starmer calls emergency meeting on economy as Iran war risks mount
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer is set to chair an emergency meeting on the economic fallout from the war in Iran on Monday, with Finance Minister Rachel Reeves and Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey, the government…
India's Economy Strong Enough to Face External Shocks, RBI Says
India's foreign exchange reserves and strong economic fundamentals will help cushion against external shocks and increased volatility in the global markets, the Reserve Bank of India said Monday. The Middle East conflict and US investigation on its…
Grim future: on the economy, discomfiting data
The economy has recently been yielding some discomfiting data, even before the war in West Asia began. The most recent of these was the February 2026 data on the Index of Eight Core Industries. This release showed that growth in the overall Index…
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