#Economic

From satellite imagery to clandestine price reports, a new study draws on North Korea to explore economic activity in opaque regimes and information-scarce regions. North Korea is the blackest of economic black holes.…

President Trump promised an economic golden age when he returned to office last year. Instead, voters are in their crankiest mood in years about their financial outlook — and the pessimism is spreading even to Republicans.…

The weaponisation of trade, finance and energy flows by the US, with its allies playing second fiddle, has deeply hurt Indian economic interests, impacting India’s economic rise, and as a consequence, its national security and global standing

Only about 30% of Japanese companies have taken substantive measures to ensure economic security, such as diversifying procurement sources and strengthening cybersecurity.

Pawel Janas looks to the Great Depression to learn more about the relationship between job markets and secondary school attendance

The EAEU is shifting toward the Global South and growing as a multipolar economic hub, Russian deputy FM Aleksandr Pankin told RT

US President Donald Trump has endorsed Armenia’s Nikol Pashinyan for reelection after the countries sealed the TRIPP deal, as Russia warns Yerevan it could lose access to preferential gas prices

Donald Trump is set to tighten the US economic blockade of Cuba as part of a phased plan to bring about regime change, according to Axios

CUNY professor Danny Shaw has spoken with Rick Sanchez about his recent trip to Cuba and the growing signs of food insecurity there caused by the US blockade

African migrants are not responsible for unemployment inequality or failing public services, EFF leader Julius Malema has said

Putin’s visit to Astana showed how energy, infrastructure, nuclear technology, and trade are turning bilateral ties into a wider Eurasian project

The OpenAI Foundation committed $250 million to research AI's labor effects, support displaced workers, and design systems for sharing gains.…

McKinsey research shows small business succession could create major opportunity, but gaps in financing, infrastructure, and postclose support persist.

Global risks are too great for markets alone to curb. Political considerations must come before economic ones. Global risks are too great for markets alone to curb. Political considerations must come before economic ones.

Edward Fishman's Chokepoints explains how the US came to rely on its economic arsenal, but stops short of a complete assessment of the unreliable tactic and its often devastating consequences.

The war in Iran has dashed hopes for economic growth. Germany's pension and healthcare systems are also feeling the strain.

Did decades of low inflation make the public far more unforgiving when it finally did surge?

The history of ideas about economic democracy goes back at least to the 19th century (see e.g. Cumbers 2020, chap. I). During the industrial revolution, work in large companies, which made use of economies of scale, became the norm, with workers…