Oil diplomacy now shapes school budgets, student mobility, and campus operations Japan’s hedging between U.S.–Israel ties and Arab energy suppliers previews the new normal Education leaders should ha…

Eustress—purposeful, controllable challenge—appears to extend healthspan Evidence from royal lifespans and modern biology suggests agency under load, not early exit, supports longevity Replace hard r…

Neural networks rarely beat simple baselines in noisy markets Finance needs transparent models that fail visibly Glass-box practices must be the default In 2025, a new Nature study on stock-market pr…

Europe’s schools rely on foreign AI infrastructure, creating vulnerability A neutral European stack with local compute and governance can secure continuity This ensures resilient, interoperable educa…

Fragmentation cuts GDP and starves education Colonial borders fuel conflict, distrust, and lost learning Keep mobility open and fund cross-border education corridors We face a hidden cost that seldom…

AI doesn’t make students “dumber”; low-rigor, answer-only tasks do Redesign assessments for visible thinking—cold starts, source triads, error analysis, brief oral defenses Legalize guided AI use, ke…

A shortage of skilled labor hinders U.S. reindustrialization A U.S.–Korea deal should trade investment and tariff relief for targeted, time-limited visas This compact speeds factory rollouts now and …

Households’ inflation beliefs move more with media framing than ECB verbosity Extra, unscheduled talk can backfire; clarity, timing, and audiovisual formats anchor expectations Make communication a m…

Reshoring works only when automation slashes unit labor costs Raise robot density and software-driven productivity, not tariffs Tie incentives to verified plant gains and workforce upskilling One key…

The UK–India pact swaps targeted tariff cuts for larger services and mobility gains Phased quotas protect adjustment while amplifying each side’s comparative strengths Biggest risk: an EU–India deal;…

Same cash backbone, different rules: MMFs pay yield; stablecoins move money fast Receive tuition via regulated stablecoins, then auto-sweep into MMFs/tokenized T-bills This two-rail setup cuts cross-…

AI’s IMO gold isn’t AGI Deploy it as an instrumented calculator Require refusal metrics and proof logs In July 2025, two advanced AI systems achieved "gold medal–level" results in the International…

This article is based on ideas originally published by VoxEU – Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) and has been independently rewritten and extended by The Economy editorial team. While inspir…

This article was independently developed by  The Economy  editorial team and draws on original analysis published by East Asia Forum. The content has been substantially rewritten, expanded, and refra…

This article is based on ideas originally published by VoxEU – Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) and has been independently rewritten and extended by The Economy editorial team. While inspir…

This article was independently developed by  The Economy editorial team and draws on original analysis published by East Asia Forum. The content has been substantially rewritten, expanded, and refram…

This article was independently developed by The Economy editorial team and draws on original analysis published by East Asia Forum. The content has been substantially rewritten, expanded, and reframe…

This article is based on ideas originally published by VoxEU – Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) and has been independently rewritten and extended by The Economy editorial team. While inspir…

This article was independently developed by  The Economy  editorial team and draws on original analysis published by East Asia Forum. The content has been substantially rewritten, expanded, and refra…

More value now courses through stablecoins and other crypto rails than most policy conversations acknowledge: the IMF’s 2025 analysis maps roughly $2 trillion in cross-border stablecoin flows in 2024…