Economy

Will AI compensate for unpaid household work?

Economy Diane Coyle - September 8, 2026.

Discussions about how AI might disrupt the economy have a blind spot: they largely fail to account for the valuable activities people do outside of...

Why is the American AI industry avoiding democratic accountability?

Economy Yaqiu Wang - Nicholas Bequelin - September 7, 2026.

In Washington, nearly every serious proposal that could constrain American AI companies runs into the same objection: restrictions would endanger national security and future prosperity...

Make tourism, not war – US tourism groups want to win Canadian visitors back

Economy TA | AP Insight - September 6, 2026.

Appeals from American tourism organizations seemed to be everywhere Josh Loewen looked over the last year. Billboards and banners proclaimed a state or city's love for...

How to prevent natural disasters from becoming financial crises

Economy Yasuto Watanabe - September 6, 2026.

The catastrophic flooding in Nepal has demonstrated, once again, the devastating human and economic toll of climate change. The immediate priority must be to save lives...

The Kingdom waits for no one – competing in the global AI economy

Technology Elise Quevedo - September 6, 2026.

My first experience in the Middle East was in 2012. Fourteen years later, I have watched the region move through several phases of transformation. In...

Can the decline of American shipbuilding be stopped?

Economy Anne O. Krueger - September 5, 2026.

At the end of World War II, the US Navy was by far the world’s largest. As late as 1975, the United States remained a...

Can Latin America's economies bear the cost of organized crime?

Economy Guillermo Ortiz - September 1, 2026.

Latin America almost certainly pays the world’s highest economic price for organized crime. According to the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), crime costs Latin America and the...

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