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The IMF’s Wartime Audit of the UAE: What Gulf Resilience Is Made Of
The Fund’s July health-check names the buffers and instruments that let a diversified Gulf economy absorb a regional war. The harder question, for every neighbouring treasury, is which parts of the kit can be copied. An International Monetary Fund (IMF)
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Singapore: Where the AI Capex Boom Becomes GDP
Singapore’s advance estimate puts second-quarter growth at 5.7 per cent, with manufacturing up 12.2 per cent on what the trade ministry attributes to AI-related demand for chips and chip-making equipment. It is the cleanest primary-source evidence yet that the AI
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The IMF’s Crosscurrents Update: Africa Is on the Wrong Side of Both Shocks, and Still Outgrowing the World
The July World Economic Outlook Update barely moves the Fund’s Africa forecasts, and its baseline has already been overtaken: the Strait of Hormuz was assumed to begin reopening in mid-July, and by 13 July fighting had resumed instead. Beneath the
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AI and the US Workforce: The Beige Book Tells a Productivity Story
The Federal Reserve’s July Beige Book catches AI arriving in the American labour market as investment: firms buying the tools, reallocating the tasks and holding the headcount. Jamie Dimon’s 30 to 40 per cent is the counterweight that reading must
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Heat on Contract: Industrial Storage Turns Cheap Hours into a Bankable Asset
Brick, carbon and molten-salt stores are moving industrial heat from the fuel bill to the balance sheet. The interesting part is not the hardware. It is the contracts now being written on it. In May, the American biofuels producer POET
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JPMorgan Signals Caution: Tightening Private Credit Amid Software Loan Repricing
JPMorgan Chase’s decision to tighten lending to private credit funds marks a notable inflection point for one of the fastest-growing segments of global finance. As the world’s largest bank by assets reins in exposure, particularly to software-linked loans, the move
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The Bioforge Prophecy: How Houston’s Enzyme Engineers are Decarbonising the Periodic Table
While the venture capital world remains captivated by the digital abstractions of generative artificial intelligence, a quieter revolution in carbon and enzymes is unfolding in the heart of Texas. Solugen is not merely building a business; it is challenging the
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Boards and AI: From Oversight to Insight
How AI can improve the effectiveness of boards THE SHORT VERSION AI is now supporting boards to do their work. Used well, it helps directors digest dense board packs, ask sharper questions, benchmark against peers and assess their own performance,
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The Gilded Sanctuary: Inside the Last Bastion of the British Gentleman
From the smoky coffee houses of St James’s to the modern, inclusive hubs of the twenty-first century, the London club has evolved from a symbol of exclusivity into a dynamic institution shaped by tradition, adaptation, and enduring social appeal. To
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The Ghost in the Hiring Machine: Is AI About to Make the Recruiter Extinct?
As artificial intelligence promises to match candidates to roles with unprecedented speed and precision, the traditional recruitment consultant faces a structural shift. Yet in a landscape shaped by automation, bias, and synthetic profiles, human judgment may become more valuable, not
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