#economics
8 posts tagged economics.
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Saudi Arabia's spending spree hits the wall
The kingdom's Vision 2030 megaprojects are colliding with fiscal reality as oil revenues fall short, revealing how ambition and autocracy make for poor project management.
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Indian capital goes global as home growth disappoints
India's richest families are buying foreign companies at pace, a signal that the domestic growth story is more complicated than the official narrative admits.
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Britain's NEET crisis and the welfare trap
The row over spending more on benefits than employment for young Britons points to a structural failure that compassionate spending has quietly worsened.
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The trade court, the tariffs, and the limits of one-man trade policy
A second judicial defeat for Trump's emergency tariffs is a quiet vindication of the constitutional case for putting trade back where it belongs.
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Britain's gilts, and the bill arrives
UK long-term borrowing costs hit a 28-year high — not a market tantrum but the slow tightening of a fiscal noose Westminster has spent two decades refusing to acknowledge.
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GameStop bids for eBay, and the meme economy grows up
Ryan Cohen's $55.5bn run at eBay is a reminder that the retail-trader insurgency of 2021 has cash, conviction, and a coherent business thesis the legacy financial press still struggles to take seriously.
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The Hormuz hike reaches American pumps
A 30-cent gas price jump and an Iranian lawmaker's warning that the Strait 'will not return' to its pre-war state show the real cost of a war the administration wanted to end on paper.
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Spirit Airlines and the bailout the White House refused
A zombie low-cost carrier finally failed, jet fuel prices did the killing, and the administration's decision to let it go is both harder and more defensible than the reaction suggests.