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In a laboratory in Broomfield, Colorado, 98 atoms are suspended in mid-air, held in place by electric fields…
What Indonesia’s finance chief really brought back from Beijing
When Finance Minister Purbaya Yudhi Sadewa landed in Beijing last week, the official agenda appeared straightforward: secure support…
Indonesia’s debt wall hits an economy running on borrowed time
Indonesia is entering a critical test of its fiscal resilience. Beneath the government’s optimistic narrative of a stable…
Reality behind Trump’s tariffs, AI job losses and Japan’s debt
Welcome to another roundup of interesting news and events from around the econosphere, from my traditional, 100% handcrafted…
Anatomy of an economic suicide: Venezuela under Maduro
This report is not a political manifesto; it is an economic autopsy. It’s about the arithmetic of ruin.…
US debt surge leaves China, Japan holding the bag in 2026
TOKYO — A trillion here, a trillion there and pretty soon you’re talking about real money. This, with…
Washington’s quixotic quest for GDP supremacy over China
While the Trump administration’s recently published National Defense Strategy (NDS) represents a significant realignment of US foreign policy…
China’s $3 trillion stock rally is outrunning its economy
China’s equity markets have staged one of their most powerful rallies in years, adding more than US$3 trillion…
China-Israel relations in subtle but certain drift
The longstanding diplomatic and economic partnership between China and Israel finds itself increasingly strained as escalating tensions between…