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God on their side, the bill on ours: Counting the real cost of the war in West Asia for India

With guns in their hands and God on their side – Bob Dylan John Mearsheimer writes in The Tragedy of Great Power Politics: “States rarely go to war unless they think that rapid success is likely.”It has been more than a month since Benjamin Netanyahu and Donald Trump started the…

Newslaundry

Why are energy, petrol and mortgage prices so high right now?

An economics professor explains why certain essential bills are spiking and if there’s anything we can do to combat them.

The Independent UK

Trump’s war with Iran could see fuel rationing and global recession within months, experts warn

Prolonged disruption would slow world GDP growth to 1.4 percent in 2026, Oxford Economics warns

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This is what a fossil-fuel shock looks like. The UK must adapt its energy system – and quickly

The Iran war will hit food prices, fuel costs and interest rates. But we could could turn this crisis to our advantage, says Chaitanya Kumar of the New Economics Foundation

The Guardian - UK

The $300 Billion Reckoning: Aldo Vidinha on Pharma's Steepest Patent Cliff

Between 2025 and 2030, the pharmaceutical industry faces its most dramatic patent cliff in history, with up to $300 billion in branded drug revenues exposed to generic competition. The upheaval will reshape healthcare economics, force strategic pivots at the world's largest drugmakers, and—if managed correctly—dramatically expand patient access to life-saving…

Medical Daily

Bond yields are falling even as oil tops $102, showing that Wall Street fears recession more than inflation

“The risks to economic growth begin to take precedence over the risks to inflation,” Oxford Economics said in a note on Monday.

Fortune

The economics of war extend far beyond energy prices and stock markets

In the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis, student groups pushed for curriculum change in economics. They wanted to learn about real-world economics beyond the stylized models that embroil students in mathematics.

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One AI bubble has already burst. The next one—a 'rare' kind—is still growing, economist warns

Capital Economics’ John Higgins noted the price-earnings ratio has already collapsed from its peak—but there’s another metric that hasn’t.

Fortune

Schools in England must be compelled to offer pupils healthy food, not junk

School dinners have suffered at the hands of politics and economics for almost 50 years

The Guardian - UK

'A sophisticated threat that is quietly reshaping the economics of digital fraud': How hackers are employing virtual cloud phones to power major scams

Cloud phones are the latest tool to be used against banking app users and the security community should take notice.

TechRadar

China’s 134-kilometre canal: The bold project that could rewrite global trade routes

China is currently undertaking a massive infrastructural project, which involves the construction of an 83-mile (approximately 134-kilometre) canal that will enable the direct connection of the interior of the country to the sea. This massive infrastructural project, which has been likened to the Pinglu Canal, is part of the long-term…

The Times of India

AI's Growing Cost Problem: How Infrastructure Economics Will Shape the Market's Next Phase

The next phase of AI will be defined less by model breakthroughs and more by the economics of compute infrastructure.

International Business Times UK

The U.S. has the world's most advanced military, but the unforgiving economics of wars in Iran and Ukraine show quantity has a quality all its own

"The future of warfare is Ukraine producing 7 million drones per year right now," former CIA director and retired Gen. David Patraeus said.

Fortune

We can tell you who will really get rich from this oil crisis – and how we can stop them

Soaring oil costs signal the great transfer of wealth away from households, but also a new opportunity to redistribute it, say economists Isabella Weber and Gregor Semieniuk

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Polanski calls for UK to replace ‘failing’ budget rules with ‘fiscal referees’

The Green leader gave his biggest policy speech since he took the party’s reins.

The Guardian - UK

The Guardian view on Adam Smith: he deserves rescuing from the free-market myth

Editorial: On the 250th anniversary of The Wealth of Nations, the Scottish philospher is still invoked by the right. Yet he worried about inequality, monopoly and the power of wealth

The Independent UK

War with Iran delivers another shock to the global economy

The war with Iran is doing collateral damage to the world economy

Fortune

‘The ideal number of human employees inside of any company is zero’: Why AI gives company owners what they think they want

“The major transition here is they don’t want to be paying those humans,” Daniel Miessler said. “They actually never did.”

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'If only she stayed in the safety of India': Racist trolling over Indian origin of Texas victim Savitha Shan

21-year-old Savitha Shan was a superstar student of the University of Texas, set to graduate in May 2026. She was doing two majors, one in Economics and the other in management information systems. But as she was gunned down by a shooter on West Sixth Street in Austin, her ethnicity…

Reason

100 Years of Murray Rothbard

Remembering America's most radical and definitive modern libertarian intellectual.

Times Life

Meet the first woman who commanded a NASA spacecraft - her journey will inspire you

Eileen Marie Collins is becoming an inspiration to not just women, but also everyone who dares to dream. She has made history by becoming the first woman to pilot and command a NASA spacecraft, wow! Eileen Marie Collins was born on November 19, 1956, in Elmira, New York. Even from…

Fortune

Trump's universal 401(k) architect on why lower-income people distrust retirement accounts: 'they want to know what the catch is'

Teresa Ghilarducci, a professor of economics at The New School, has studied retirement security for 42 years.

Evening Standard

The economist trying to save the planet with his own crystal ball

No one can predict the future... yet. Will Rogers-Coltman speaks to Professor Doyne Farmer about his lofty aims to build the world’s first super-simulator

The Conversation

Former Harvard president Summers’ soft landing after Epstein revelations is case study of economics’ trouble with misbehaving men

Economist Larry Summers will resign from his tenured job as a professor at Harvard University, the school announced on Feb. 25, 2026, following heightened scrutiny of his ties with the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Summers will leave at the end of the 2025-26 academic year, with a new…

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UK must recognise militant Hindutva as a form of extremism: Report on 2022 Leicester violence

The 2022 clashes between Hindus and Muslims in the city of Leicester, England, were heavily fueled by “disinformation and misinformation”, an independent inquiry into the violence has found. The inquiry was carried out by researchers from the School of Oriental and African Studies and the London School of Economics.

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