Economic policy in 2026 is being shaped less by parliaments than by the working papers, staff estimates, and forecasting models produced inside a small cluster of...
The warning was buried in a Reuters legal section headline, clinical in its phrasing: “Analysis shows publicly traded credit funds are unprofitable.” For most readers, a...
The language of climate risk in financial regulation has, for the better part of a decade, been organised around a future tense: risks that will materialise,...
Global borrowing has reached a scale that even veteran fixed-income analysts describe as structurally unprecedented — and the composition of that borrowing has changed in ways...
Japan has never been timid about industrial policy. But the plan unveiled by Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi on June 24, 2026, represents an ambition of a...
For decades, banking analysts have built crisis models around the same variables: non-performing loan ratios, capital adequacy buffers, liquidity coverage ratios, and contagion through interbank lending....
Demographics, Digital Infrastructure, and a Manufacturing Explosion Propel India’s Ascent India has officially overtaken Japan to become the world’s third‑largest economy in nominal GDP terms, the...
World Bank Issues Its Starkest Warning Yet for Developing Economies Half of the world’s low‑income countries are poorer today than they were before the COVID‑19 pandemic,...
The global economy has entered a choppy, multi-speed phase. On June 27, 2026, the International Monetary Fund slashed its world growth forecast to just 2.7%—the slowest...
China’s semiconductor exports surged 87% in May 2026 even as retail sales stagnated and property investment fell 16%. Inside the structural divergence threatening Beijing’s growth model.A...