Original weekly breakdowns of global markets, policy, and finance
Jun 2, 2026
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3 min read
Japan's 1990s economic collapse kept a generation at home. Thirty years later, their parents are still paying for it... and other economies are building the same conditions.
May 21, 2026
The numbers behind interest rate decisions, government budgets, and investment flows are built on shakier foundations than anyone likes to admit.
May 13, 2026
4 min read
When oil gets expensive, it reshuffles prices across the entire economy. Some of those shifts go in a surprising direction.
May 8, 2026
When one city concentrates all the jobs, the money, and the talent... everyone else pays the price
Apr 30, 2026
Behind every AI prompt is a data centre drinking from the same supply as your tap.
Apr 22, 2026
A geological accident in the Appalachian Mountains and decades of Taiwanese investment created a dependency that no government has figured out how to undo.
Apr 13, 2026
7 min read
Hawaii is one of the most visited places on Earth. For the people who actually live there, that's becoming more of a problem than a solution.
Mar 31, 2026
The 2008 financial crisis shrank global GDP by 1.8%. A water crisis could deliver losses several times that size, and it doesn't have a central bank response.
Mar 24, 2026
6 min read
Governments spend $2.9 trillion on R&D every year, most of it guided by published research. And turns out some of that research was never real.
Mar 17, 2026
Three companies process 80% of all US prescriptions, own their own pharmacies, and set the reimbursement rates that are putting independent pharmacies out of business.
Mar 9, 2026
Prediction markets argue they’re fundamentally different from sportsbooks. But are they?
Mar 2, 2026
Fast food prices have risen twice as fast as general inflation, and that may be reshaping what Americans eat.
Feb 23, 2026
Employment bounced back on paper, but nearly a third of low-wage job losses came from cuts at the bottom of the pay scale.
