How should you play The Traitors? I had a stab at the Game Theory behind the game here: www.economist.com/finance-and-...

I’m on this week’s Money Talks podcast with a package on the economics of deforestation in the Amazon open.spotify.com/episode/3KeP...

Across South Asia governments are being toppled by gen Z protestors and negotiating bailouts with the IMF. But not India. What gives? economist.com/finance-and-...

Their victory is a welcome boost for women’s sport—and for Indian women in general www.economist.com/asia/2025/11...

Also think that whenever people say tax billionaires that you should mentally replace billionaires with Mike Ashley, Tim Martin and Denise Coates. Jim Ratcliffe doesn’t live here. James Dyson doesn’t live here. Michael Platt doesn’t live here.

The important thing is to make sure the road pricing is indexed to inflation from the very start.

Across South Asia governments are being toppled by gen Z protestors and negotiating bailouts with the IMF. But not India. What gives? economist.com/finance-and-...

Tax policy on the British left is pure "anti-bedtime left". Bizarre idea that you can have a big social democratic welfare state without everyone contributing properly www.economist.com/britain/2025...

Germany backs Brazil's idea for forest fund, say sources reut.rs/3LrQ4Qg

Investors are telling Britain to cheer up a bit economist.com/finance-and-... from The Economist

Here's something I've been mulling: all wealth is ultimately a claim on future income, apart from maybe cryptocurrency and gold. So if you raise income taxes you are essentially taxing wealth.

Turkey’s president is moving to eviscerate democracy economist.com/europe/2025/...

For the first time, climate models show the 1.5°C goal is dead economist.com/graphic-deta...

Headlines coming for NY

Charismatic leftist mayor of the largest city just has such competitive authoritarianism vibes.

I will support any New York mayoral candidate who admits bodegas are just convenience stores and everywhere in the world has them

One of my predictions for the next few decades is that China’s focus on green tech will provide the world with cheap means to stop global warming but the country itself will get deflation and low growth in exchange. Meanwhile America will continue to focus on targeted ads and profit by comparison.

The world’s renewable energy superpower economist.com/special-repo...

If a man is not a socialist by the time he is 20 he has no heart. If he is not an idiosyncratic mix of borrowed principles mostly based on disagreeing with whoever has annoyed him recently by the time he is 35 he has no head.

England, England by Julian Barnes

OECD reports sharp fall in work-related migration to rich countries on.ft.com/4on36NC

The city of Mumbai is quite literally built on top of past stock market booms economist.com/finance-and-...

As new jobs in finance dry up, New York City’s fiscal model is wilting economist.com/briefing/202...

‘Tis the season for Britons to complain about Halloween practices imported from America. There were no trick-or-treating when I were a lad, etc. But Americans think trick-or-treating is a British / Irish import: www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/t...

Tear gas and Halloween costumes in America’s third-largest city economist.com/united-state...

The end of the rip-off economy economist.com/finance-and-...

Wonder if people will actually call him Andrew Windsor

Maybe a lesson for British Labour not to be so dour all the time? The Dutch choose optimism over anti-immigrant populism economist.com/europe/2025/...

A Welsh startup wants to make semiconductors in space economist.com/britain/2025...

The new globalisation paradox: if you want national sovereignty pursue trade integration economist.com/finance-and-...

India’s IPO boom is good news for its economy economist.com/finance-and-...

About 12% of Americans will spend at least one year of their life in the top 1% by income. 56% will spend at least 1 year in the top 10%.

APNewsAlert: CAIRO (AP) — WHO chief says over 460 people were reportedly killed at a hospital in Darfur city taken by Sudanese paramilitary forces.

Net migration to the UK is falling rapidly. But how far will it fall? A new, detailed estimate by @jamesbowes01.bsky.social projects net migration in 2026 will be 70K to 170K. This will have significant consequences, both economic and political. ukandeu.ac.uk/the-coming-c...

Think that in the same way as both Biden and Sunak were unpopular for the same reason; Starmer and Trump are unpopular for fundamentally the same reason.

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Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon is not only an environmental disaster it is an economic one too.

The growth of wind and solar power is happening rapidly in all kinds of countries. Except one. Which tells its own story www.ft.com/content/c406...

In Macbeth they use dollars. That now / Sweno, the Norways' king, craves composition. / Nor would we deign him burial of his men / Till he disbursed at Saint Colme’s Inch / Ten thousand dollars to our general use. A deliberate anachronism by Shakespeare to play up the Scottishness.

This is what I think of as the most important chart in British politics. It shows the amount people spend on retail sales and the amount they get. Compared to Feb 2022 people are spending about 16% more but consuming 4% less.

US corn in India's cars won't be an easy sell www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

It happened to me: I read a blogger who said the problem with British productivity was that property was absorbing too much productive capital.

Think this is true and the explanations make sense – rejection is painful, effort is hard, phones are comfortable and easy – but there is still something unsatisfying about this explanation.

If you were looking for one of the lowest cost ways of preventing climate change, you might head for the “deforestation frontier” in the Amazon rainforest. economist.com/the-americas...

If you were looking for one of the lowest cost ways of preventing climate change, you might head for the “deforestation frontier” in the Amazon rainforest. economist.com/the-americas...

Countries with literally zero actual old buildings should not cry too volubly over this kind of vulgarity, is my vulgar opinion of the day on.ft.com/43vamyj

Last month I took a trip to the Amazon rainforest to better understand the economics behind deforestation and how to preserve the world’s largest forest. economist.com/the-americas...

FPTP is a bad electoral system but the way in which voters are able to simultaneously coordinate around an anti-Reform option and vote against Labour is remarkable.