Neither widespread poverty, nor high rates of marriage nor relatively young mothers are sustaining fertility

Mainne article likha hain. Indians can now bet on the monsoon economist.com/finance-and-...

A Decade After Brexit, the City of London Is Fine www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

This story also makes an excellent point. These are *post success* IPOs... Investors in Amazon's now enjoy a 260,000% return. These are more like getting out than getting in floatations www.economist.com/finance-and-...

Anyone written anything good on token scarcity

Supply > Demand

“For mathematicians this is terrifying and exhilarating, but I’m not a mathematician and I don’t know what the unit distance problem is; I want to hire a caterer” No one else doing it like Sam Kriss rn samkriss.substack.com/p/if-you-let...

Final tweaks to the India-UK trade deal seem very dumb. India not cutting scotch duties as much because Britain has imposed a steel quota. Importing less of what India produces cheaply to export less of UK’s comparative advantage.

Finally some good news

Excuse me it is 2026 the word is "women"

India's Republic of Uncles www.economist.com/asia/2026/05...

Those wonderful travel bans which have done so much to keep extremism out of British society.

Why do courts have the power to decide how many off licenses there should be?

‘More harmful than helpful’: young people sour on AI ft.trib.al/rV8yMA8

I voted for the bond markets

Needless to say, also vehemently against pre game shows. What in the American bullshit is this?

When the waiter tells you "Are you sure, it is very spicy":

Imagine the Athenaeum club was on Govt land for a peppercorn rent and Starmer gave it two weeks notice to close down so he could give one in the eye to the elite, and reclaim some valuable land. Well that’s happened in India and it’s all kicking off. Well worth a read! www.ft.com/content/361e...

www.bbc.co.uk/weather/arti... There's so many little bits of society that have not caught up with the fact the UK is increasingly a hot country. Looking at the Lullably Trust for example on baby summer safety - keep the room below 20deg with closed curtains and gentle breeze...

as.ft.com/r/d5ce22f8-e... What if remote working, not AI, is to blame for weak junior hiring?

I wrote about immigration policy in Britain this week. Britain has shut the door on the most economically desirable kind of migrant. www.economist.com/britain/2026...

Everything is going right for India's richest man www.economist.com/business/202...

An AI detector identified 11% of the text in the opening 20 paragraph of Pope Francis' anti-AI encyclical as written by AI www.economist.com/europe/2026/...

Everything is going right for India's richest man www.economist.com/business/202...

Exclusive: India alleges Pernod withheld Scotch composition, age in effort to pay lower tariffs reut.rs/4dKwgC7

Sri Lanka jolts markets with outsized 100-bp rate hike to counter Gulf crisis reut.rs/4uz26ZS

Some of these are fixed now. Next, they should start selling Lays Oregano crisps and beer in smaller glasses that have been pre-chilled in the fridge

Wait. You're telling me markets are as much socially embedded institutions as sites of theoretical economic exchange? No fucking way, man.

This is funny because it's not necessarily his actual name. Establishes the unreliable narrator. #BookSky

India’s viral ‘cockroach party’ challenges Narendra Modi giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

Would love to know if any other newspaper columnists are Arsenal fans

Me arriving in a new British city: wow this city looks a lot more like the area around a train station than I expected

Wrote this week’s column on repugnant markets. How should economists treat morality? economist.com/finance-and-...

Great title (not you, Arsenal) www.economist.com/britain/2026...

Wrote this week’s column on repugnant markets. How should economists treat morality? economist.com/finance-and-...

Choose your fighter. www.ft.com/content/1a3d... economist.com/leaders/2026...

So amusing reading the coverage of why Burnham is popular in Greater Manchester and it's always "he tangibly delivered improvements to living standards while also having high profile fights that made people feel represented and respected".

Something I've been mulling over recently. The net migration statistics have only one kind of "exit" for migrants, emigration, but the net change in the stock of the migrant population is going to depend on other kinds of exit. Naturalisations have been increasing recently.

Read a lot of books about the dollar (this year and before) and so far this is far and away my favourite.

The Economist now has a dedicated column on India (similar to our ones on Britain, America, Europe and China). Called Ashoka, the first one is on why the North-South divide isn’t the most important fight over equal votes. economist.com/asia/2026/05...

India buying Russian oil irrespective of US sanctions waivers, Indian official says reut.rs/3PtIkzu

Things I miss about British food: good quality meat and cheese. Oysters. Diversity of beers.

Indian cities got 99 problems but mango scarcity ain’t one.

34. Enjoyed many of them.

Talking of Labour economic thinking, punchy blog here from Reeves's former chief economic adviser John Van Reenen, suggesting her approach is starting to bear fruit in terms of productivity, and lamenting "the media’s obsessive negativity towards the government": blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandp...

Indian rupee slides to record low past 96/USD as oil prices climb reut.rs/4nwOR99

This is very good. American GDP per head has grown faster than European GDP per head at current prices but European GDP per head has remained at around the same proportion of America's. Why? paulkrugman.substack.com/p/modeling-t...

Burnham stan who argues that gilt markets are actually pricing in Andy's pro-growth policies as he brings the Manchester Model to Britain.

Inspired by @charlesjkenny.bsky.social new paper on emigration as a development strategy I visited the Indian state of Kerala, which has certainly escaped poverty by sending expats to the Gulf but doesn’t look like it will get rich with that approach. economist.com/finance-and-...