The World Bank just notched up growth expectations for Mexico, with economic momentum shifting to a still-modest 0.5% in 2025. Marginal improvement since the mid-year outlook is still below the 1.5% growth for the year […]
A spicy commentary published by the Lowy Institute—a prominent Sydney-based think tank—recalibrates the relationship between Australia and Southeast Asia. “Shared prosperity” and “deepening engagement” may mean something quite different in Canberra, than Hanoi or Kuala […]
Brazil is an economic powerhouse. Still, its global influence wanes as economic trends elsewhere mean its total share of the world economy is declining. Brazilian President Lula da Silva seems intent on shifting that sentiment, […]
With no long-range strike capabilities, Australia may be set to purchase a squadron of B-21 Raider stealth aircraft from the United States. No official announcement has been made, in part because the B-21 Raider will […]
Artificial intelligence is not a person. Or so claims America’s top patent court. The argument is important because of the potential impact on intellectual-property protection. If an AI does the heavy lifting for an invention, […]
The Sicilian capital of Palermo came to a standstill in early June, when hackers shut down the municipal computer network in a ransomware attack. Aside from reporting the incident, local officials have offered scant details. […]
One year after the Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack—which shut down fuel supplies on the East Coast for five days—the US Senate has released a damning 50-page report on how the federal government handles ransomware and […]
The international outcry over Putin’s invasion of Ukraine has been so great that the major Hollywood studios had little choice but to abandon the Russian market, at least temporarily. The race to the exit was […]
Experts once expected Africa to suffer catastrophically from Covid-19. Yet infections have been falling across the continent from comparatively muted levels since July 2021. One possible explanation is that government data is wildly inaccurate, portraying […]
Our economic system is taking new form. In many respects, we are heading down a similar road to what we saw in the 1980s: a revolt against then-orthodox Keynesian policies. Only this time it is […]
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