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

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

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

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,

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

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

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

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.

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

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

The Mastermind: How Taylor Swift Rewrote the Rules of the Global Economy

She does not just top the charts; she moves the needle on national GDPs. From the $2bn Eras Tour to

The Hidden Titan: Why the American Rail Network is the Unsung Engine of Global Commerce

While attention often centres on congested highways and crowded airspace, a quieter system underpins the movement of goods across the