Economy

The new era of wildfire control

Technology Elise Quevedo - June 7, 2026.

With wildfire season coming up, the European Union shares its most ambitious wildfire preparedness effort to date. The announcement follows the worst wildfire season in...

Tariffs cannot restore Europe's export competitiveness

Economy Daniel Gros - June 6, 2026.

China looms large in trade-policy discussions everywhere, but the precise concerns vary. Whereas the United States has long regarded China as a destroyer of American industry...

Oil prices: navigating the geopolitical minefield

Economy Emre Alkin - June 6, 2026.

I spent the last two days of the Eid al-Adha holiday reading the latest analyses on oil prices. Frankly, I found very few articles that...

Washington plans extra tariffs for most trading partners after forced labor probe

Economy TA | AP Insight - June 3, 2026.

The Trump administration is proposing double-digit tariffs on products from dozens of major U.S. trading partners after an investigation into imports of goods allegedly made...

AI threatens to widen the gap between technological winners and losers

Economy Kenneth Rogoff - June 2, 2026.

The San Francisco Bay Area is in the midst of an AI frenzy that makes the California Gold Rush of the mid-19th century look like...

Canada slips into recession as interventionism and net zero drag on growth

Economy Daniel Lacalle - June 1, 2026.

Canada has slipped into a technical recession even as it enjoys record revenues from high commodity prices. The key reason is that Ottawa has combined...

US military leaders urge caution on battlefield AI

Technology TA | AP Insight - May 31, 2026.

The Trump administration is pushing to unleash the power of artificial intelligence for the U.S. military while facing calls to put up guardrails around the...

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