Economy

Europe's pension collapse is a direct consequence of statism

Economy Daniel Lacalle - October 19, 2026.

Europe's pay-as-you-go pension systems rest on promises worth several times GDP, financed by taxes and debt that future workers have never agreed to. The only...

Japan sets the world's first mission to get samples from a Martian moon

Technology TA | AP Insight - October 18, 2026.

Japan is set to launch a spacecraft on the world's first mission to bring back samples from Phobos, one of the two small, potato-shaped moons...

The physical footprint of the AI race – Scotland’s data-centre dilemma

Technology Elise Quevedo - October 18, 2026.

As hyperscale data centres appear on planning maps beside villages, farmland and residential areas, who decides what technological progress looks like, and who pays the...

Japan should raise interest rates more aggressively

Economy Koichi Hamada - October 17, 2026.

On a recent visit to Sapporo, the city on Japan’s northern island where my parents came from, my wife and I found gentle people, mild...

Does the euro have a chance to become genuinely global?

Finances Piroska Nagy Mohácsi - October 16, 2026.

As the global monetary order becomes increasingly fragmented, the European Union has a rare opportunity to shape the emerging system and bolster the euro’s international...

Who decides what constitutes dangerous artificial intelligence: the state or Nvidia?

Technology TA Analysis - October 16, 2026.

Jensen Huang, the founder and chief executive of Nvidia, the world’s leading artificial-intelligence chipmaker, said in an interview with Bloomberg Television on 14 October that...

Who inherits the private conversations users have had with chatbots?

Technology TA Analysis - October 15, 2026.

Forty US attorneys general joined the bankruptcy proceedings of Character.AI, a company that stores conversations between millions of people and virtual interlocutors. According to their filing,...

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