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How Stephen Miran—a Harvard-trained former free market champion—became Trump’s top ideologue on tariffs

Last year Miran, 41, was a virtual unknown. Suddenly the "Mar-a Lago accord" author’s ideas are reshaping the economy.

Fortune

Farage’s ‘fantasy’ economics will lead to Liz Truss-style meltdown, Starmer warns as Reform hits new poll high

The prime minister’s intervention came as a stunning new poll saw Reform’s lead over Labour grow to nine points in what a leading pollster describes as ‘an uncontrollable political earthquake’

The Independent UK

Starmer: Farage’s ‘fantasy’ economics will lead to Liz Truss-style meltdown

The Prime Minister is expected to urge the public to reject Reform UK’s calls to use ‘family finances’ as a gambling chip on ‘unfunded’ tax cuts

Evening Standard

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Nobel laureate Brian Schmidt is ‘scared’ about Australia’s research capacity – this is why

On Wednesday, Nobel laureate Brian Schmidt and economics professor Richard Holden gave a joint address to the National Press Club in Canberra. Their key message? Australia isn’t spending enough money on university research.

The Conversation

Expensive electricity and bankruptcies: Does Germany need to go back to nuclear power?

Germany's new minister of economy wants more natural gas power stations and electricity subsidies. But is that enough to boost the economy?

Euronews

You would think after nearly three years of being wrong, the RBA might start to question its economics. But no

Now that inflation is back within the target range, suddenly the RBA has rediscovered that it is supposed to also care about full employment

The Guardian - AU

Capitalism and Its Critics by John Cassidy review – brilliant primer on leftwing economics

From Marx to Piketty, a sprawling but marvellously lucid overview of capitalism’s naysayers

The Guardian - UK

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It’s not a rich list – it’s gone far beyond that. We need to talk about ‘extreme wealth’

We recognise extreme poverty as ruinous, but this turbo-charged affluence is deeply damaging too. Treat it as such, says Dhananjayan Sriskandarajah of the New Economics Foundation

The Guardian - UK

Why studying economics is so important

Letters: David Redshaw and Andrew Webb respond to an article by the bank of England’s Clare Lombardelli

The Guardian - UK

Chinese research isn’t taken as seriously as papers from elsewhere – my new study

My new research suggests there is a stubborn pattern in academic publishing. My co-author and I examined some 8,000 articles published in the world’s most reputable economics journals to study citations, which are where academics cite previously published research in their papers. We found papers whose lead author had a…

The Conversation

Why is hospital parking so expensive? Two economics researchers explain

Imagine having to pay A$39 dollars a day to park your car while visiting your sick child in hospital.

The Conversation

Trump's 'They Can Have 5' Moment is an Attack on Capitalism

Trump’s tariffs aren’t just bad economics—they’re a rejection of abundance, prosperity, and capitalism itself.

Reason

Why Europe needs a common defence fund – outside the EU

It would be open to the UK, Norway and Switzerland, and give governments more bang for their buck as the continent rearms, says economics commentator Simon Nixon

The Guardian - UK

‘It’s pretty bad’: Bank of England top official on the lack of female economics students

Deputy governor Clare Lombardelli calls for more women and people from poorer backgrounds to take key subject

The Guardian - UK

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Hafta 535: World Press Freedom Day, aftermath of Pahalgam attack

In a special episode for Press Freedom Day, Newslaundry’s Abhinandan Sekhri, Raman Kirpal, Manisha Pande and Jayashree Arunachalam are joined by historian and author Ramachandra Guha. The panel begins with a discussion on the history of press freedom in India. Ram reflects on the similarities and differences between 1975’s Emergency…

The Guardian - UK

British vets could face price caps and ban on bonuses linked to pet treatments – as it happened

Live, rolling coverage of business, economics and financial markets as UK’s Competition and Markets Authority scrutinises veterinary industry and companies adjust to Trump tariffs

The Guardian - UK

Bank of England backs scheme to put more economics teachers into state schools

Initial training to be offered in north-west England, as report shows disparities in access to the subject

The Guardian - UK

Shireen Mahdavi Khazeni obituary

Other lives: Iranian academic who studied at London School of Economics and later settled in the US

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A Trump-induced interest rate cut won’t actually lower mortgage rates

“The president putting this pressure on the Fed would not actually achieve his goal, if his goal is lower mortgage rates,” said Chen Zhao, Redfin economics head.

Reason

Over 1,500 Economists Agree: Trump's Tariffs Are Terrible

Reason interviewed five signatories of the Anti-Tariff Declaration to learn why they oppose tariffs and support free trade.

The Conversation

Trump’s obsession with trade deficits has no basis in economics. And it’s a bad reason for tariffs

Those of us who study trade and investment for a living are, I suspect, becoming exasperated with both the White House stance on tariffs and the way that this is reported in much of the media. US president Donald Trump believes that if a country has a trade surplus with…

The Conversation

Perfect brownies baked at high altitude are possible thanks to Colorado’s home economics pioneer Inga Allison

Many bakers working at high altitudes have carefully followed a standard recipe only to reach into the oven to find a sunken cake, flat cookies or dry muffins.

Fortune

Companies are making a costly $100 million mistake

FIS and Oxford Economics quantify the impact of disruptions and inefficiencies across the money lifecycle.

Fortune

The U.S. trade deficit: It’s time to dump do-it-yourself economics and go back to basics

The Trump admin and critics alike seem unaware of a key mechanism that governs the magnitude of a trade balance.

The Guardian - UK

Global economic growth will slow amid Trump tariffs, IMF warns – as it happened

Live, rolling coverage of business, economics and financial markets as ECB reduces main interest rate from 2.5% to 2.25%, the seventh cut in a year

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