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The scope and scale of the climate crisis’ impact on the world economy. How miscalculation risks escalation in the Middle East. Russia’s secret foreign 'policy’ plan to undermine US global dominance and re-align the balance of power. Do longer lives inevitably include difficult last years? What’s behind senior execs' new obsession with weights? [...]
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Unlike in the past, technological innovation, our era’s engine of progress, risks provoking cultural and political regress. Will Europe’s economy surprise its naysayers in 2024? How the big tech giants are breaking the rules in their desperate quest for (our) digital data. What is causing cancer in today’s young? Could co-operation rather than competition be the secret to survival?[...]
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The race is on between green technology and political backlash. Protopias outlining a hopeful future. How to build cyber resistance. How to reap the benefits of exercise for our brains. One author's view from the deck of the biggest cruise ship ever to sail.[...]
Monthly Barometer
Industrial policies are everywhere. Three recent warnings about global over-indebtedness. Central banks and regulators worry about climate change. Will there be a US soft landing or not? Immigration in rescue of the US economy. The risk of Europe becoming ungovernable. Geopolitical insights and “selective compassion”. AI euphoria. Four canaries in the mine.[...]
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Why a global trade backlash is brewing against China. The increasing clout of the ‘middle powers’. A Nobel economics laureate rethinks economics. Why our digital tools sometimes create more problems than they solve. Figuring out why we age.[...]
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Geo-economic fragmentation does impact firms’ financial results. Connected and cheap weapons could pose an existential threat to the sophisticated US defence system. How to give away a fortune. Frictionless payments make it too easy to spend too much. MAGA conspiracists - crazy but dangerous and potentially decisive.[...]
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The impact of dramatically falling birthrates - almost everywhere. What could the de-dollarisation of the global economy look like? A new Iran might be coming into view - but what will it look like? How milk has entered the culture wars. Why memory is more about now than then.[...]
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US Stock-Market disconnect. The Middle East power vacuum. ‘Last-chance' tourism. Dishabituate to learn to enjoy again. The benefits of not-so ’small’ talk.[...]
