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Digitisation transforms economies but its success ultimately depends on governing institutions. From India's UPI and Estonia's e-government to Britain's digital ID debate and China's surveillance infrastructure, which institutions are strong enough to keep it in check?
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Ireland's centuries of conquest, famine and partition never actually got resolved, they just got paused by the Good Friday Agreement, and Brexit has now reopened the constitutional question that Burnham says he won't touch but his own Northern Ireland Secretary admits is coming anyway.
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Chile has taken majority control of its lithium and investors have stayed. Peru has kept a market-friendly framework and watched output stall. What capital is pricing is not ideology but whether a government can bind its successors
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Three deaths have paused eight Novartis trials and frozen enrolment at Bristol Myers Squibb - turning autoimmune CAR-T from a clinical question into a valuation problem for everyone who has already bought in.
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Buyout firms have spent $182bn on UK-listed companies this year while the London Stock Exchange struggles to replace them. Behind the takeover wave sits a tax-driven surge in exits, much of it firms selling to themselves.
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Britain's industrial strategy promises to bring factories back, and the investment commitments are real. But a modern plant employs a fraction of the workers an old one did, and the political case for manufacturing still rests on job numbers the technology no longer produces.
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Nigeria's currency, reserves and growth are stronger than they have been in years, but poverty and inflation numbers show the recovery has not yet reached most households.
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China’s leading AI models are approaching US performance despite a vast gap in measured private investment. The divergence suggests that financing structures, computing constraints and diminishing returns matter as much as headline spending.
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Merck and Moderna's personalised melanoma vaccine has cleared Phase 3 and sent Moderna's shares to a record session. The harder question is whether a treatment built one patient at a time can ever be delivered at scale.
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Evergrande founder Hui Ka Yan's life sentence has renewed scrutiny of a property crash that has dragged down growth, confidence and consumer spending across the world's second-largest economy.
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The yen's collapse to ¥164 forced the largest coordinated US-Japan currency intervention since 1998, not out of allyship, but because Japan's $1.2 trillion in US Treasury holdings meant a disorderly slide threatened to spike American borrowing costs.
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An allegory on leverage, from the mind of Leopold Aschenbrenner
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Germany has abandoned the borrowing rules that defined it, and the euro zone is heading for record bond supply just as the ECB stops buying and starts tightening. Yields are climbing accordingly. The question is no longer whether Europe can borrow, but whether what it buys with the money is worth what the money now costs.
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Global private equity made zero new deals in mainland China in the first seven months of 2026, even as it raised record Asia funds for Japan and India. The retreat is structural, not cyclical, and none of the forces driving it are in reverse.
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The race for electric vehicle dominance is entering a new phase. Tesla and BYD's contrasting strategies reveal a deeper question about where value in the automotive industry will come from next.
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A divided Fed, a still-roaring AI rally and an Iran framework that collapsed within a fortnight pulled markets in three directions across August. The whiplash between them is a live lesson in how risk gets priced.
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The prison system is on the brink of collapse; almost at capacity with increasing demands from a crumbling service. How did we get here, and how do we get out?
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Burnham's built his premiership on the argument that previous generations of politicians let big problems drift, but his own record as mayor shows that even correctly diagnosing that failure doesn't guarantee you can fix it once the constraints get bigger.
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The White House and major AI companies meet to finalize the Voluntary AI Framework. With all discussions happening behind closed doors, Americans are left in the dark about the future of artificial intelligence and their government.
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We have never produced so much clean energy, and renewables have never been so cheap or so popular, yet we are no closer to net-zero. This irony boils down to two words, supply and demand – and most of the narrative around renewable energy is centred on the wrong one.
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