Between the ICE raids and the Nazi chatter, the US is giving off some seriously un-democratic vibes as of late.

In just two years, India has gone from being the best-loved emerging market to the most sold, and now investors are bracing themselves for yet another quarter of disappointing corporate earnings.

If you want an emblem of a bankrupt energy policy, it’s hard to improve on the sight of Shell Plc stations running out of fuel in the very place that turned the company into an oil giant.

We’re in the throes of a global scramble to create the first real artificial intelligence consumer gadget. Tech giants are betting big that this will end up being computers that sit on our noses. But is that the future we want?

Bank of America Corp. and Morgan Stanley exposed a stock market puzzle on Wednesday. Both reported record third-quarter earnings following roaring results from rivals the day before. The stock market rewarded the two banks and Citigroup Inc. after their results, but not Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and JPMorgan Chase & Co.

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On Tuesday, White House AI “czar” and venture capitalist David Sacks intensified a frustration that has been building for months. “Anthropic is running a sophisticated regulatory capture strategy base...

Huzzah, hosanna and hallelujah: To US President Donald Trump for brokering a ceasefire that could, possibly, mark the beginnings of peace between Israelis and Palestinians. To the hostages and their f...

On Tuesday, White House AI “czar” and venture capitalist David Sacks intensified a frustration that has been building for months. “Anthropic is running a sophisticated regulatory capture strategy based on fear-mongering,” he wrote on X, referring to the company behind leading AI chatbot Claude. “It is principally responsible for the state regulatory frenzy that is damaging the startup ecosystem.”

In 1967, a helicopter from United States Steel Corp. carrying a team of geologists made an accidental discovery after landing in a remote corner of the Amazon rainforest: a giant iron-ore deposit that would become Carajás, one of the world’s richest mineral regions.

It should be obvious by now that President Donald Trump’s deliberately aggressive incursions into blue cities are not about curbing crime, but about exercising raw power. Militarizing Immigration and Customs Enforcement, attempting to federalize National Guard troops and issuing threats to jail opponents — these are not the actions of a leader intent on improving public safety.

Huzzah, hosanna and hallelujah: To US President Donald Trump for brokering a ceasefire that could, possibly, mark the beginnings of peace between Israelis and Palestinians. To the hostages and their families, who are reunited at last. To the Gazans who can finally face their trauma without new bombs dropping on them. And yet, and yet.

Growth and innovation are back in fashion. This year’s Nobel Memorial Prize in economics, awarded to three leading scholars of “creative destruction,” makes it official. No less notably, in the US, the post-neoliberal center-left has lately adopted the neoliberal preference for deregulation in pursuit of progress. Abundance is all the rage.

TikTok, the Chinese-owned viral-video platform that counts about 20% of the world’s population as users, has long raised red flags among US national-security officials. A proposal last month from the White House to secure the app’s future hasn’t done much to ease their concerns.

Sometimes there are economic narratives that don’t quite deserve a debunking — they have more than a kernel of truth to them — but rather demand an appropriate level of skepticism. Three such stories are widespread today.

Donald Trump has a knack for raising big strategic questions. The US president is massing military power in the Caribbean; he’s reportedly on the verge of approving a military strategy that deprioritizes far-off regions. In doing so, Trump is reviving a debate with deep roots in history: Where should America draw its forward line of defense?

It now has a formal name: “The great debasement trade.” It’s a catchy term for all manner of investor hairpulling about runaway deficits and the dollar’s threatened primacy — and an apparent flight for refuge that means shunning sovereign debt and related currencies, and snapping up precious metals, crypto coins and other shiny stuff instead.

Luxury might not exactly be back, but it is certainly moving in the right direction. That’s the message from LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton SE, the world’s biggest seller of top-end goods. Yet just as investors overly punished the sector earlier in the year, they may now be betting on a bling bonanza that could prove elusive.

Creditors to Thames Water sweetened their proposal to stabilize the beleaguered utility’s finances earlier this month, in an effort to keep it from sliding into administration. That’s not altruism. It makes sense for this unusual collection of credit investors and hedge funds to give a bit away now to potentially open the path to a bigger payback in future.

Whether playing from a position of strength or weakness, Beijing’s timing is excellent.

Announcing the $5.4 billion acquisition of Swiss conglomerate ABB Ltd.’s robotics unit last week, SoftBank Group Corp. Chief Executive Officer Masayoshi Son heralded an era of “physical AI” that would propel humanity forward. But I worry more risk-tolerant and better-funded Asian and US tech firms will lead the next robot revolution, while Europe gets left behind.

When an incursion of Russian drones forced Warsaw airport to shut down last month, Poland immediately shot them down. When unidentified drones forced Munich airport to suspend operations this month, German authorities provided snacks for stranded passengers while police helicopters monitored the air space. As strange as it may sound, Germany’s military isn’t allowed to defend German airspace against anything short of a full-scale invasion. It’s just one roadblock of many in the way of making Ger

The rise of artificial intelligence has led to many existential questions about Big Tech’s role in society. How you answer them could help shape the future.

The world has overwhelmingly welcomed the fragile Middle East peace deal brokered by US President Donald Trump. But in Southeast Asia, home to fast-growing economies and a vital pillar of Indo-Pacific security, that relief is tinged with skepticism.