Economy

Who controls satellite links in a crisis?

Technology Tomorrow's Affairs Staff - October 2, 2026.

Finnish companies Nokia, a telecommunications equipment manufacturer, and ICEYE, a satellite manufacturer, announced on 1 October that they will develop communications systems that countries can...

Can America avoid a debt crisis?

Economy Kenneth Rogoff - October 2, 2026.

America’s fiscal position is increasingly looking like a train hurtling along a twisting mountain track. No one seems willing to slow down for fear of falling...

The new race in space is about who can interpret data faster

Technology Tomorrow's Affairs Staff - September 30, 2026.

SpaceX plans to launch the Transporter-18 mission from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on 1 October. Among the 130 satellites and other payloads on the...

Europe will move beyond fossil fuels, but it will not move beyond the need for molecules

Energy Ana Palacio - September 30, 2026.

When European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen was delivering her State of the Union address in Strasbourg, I was in Washington at a meeting...

Distorted intelligence leads to security breaches

Technology Daron Acemoglu - September 29, 2026.

Following repeated security debacles at OpenAI and Anthropic—both of which have developed agents that ended up hacking external systems—AI safety researchers within both firms have...

What the Stasi archives reveal about the value of technological espionage

Economy TA Analysis - September 28, 2026.

On 27 September, Reuters reported on a new paper by three economists who attempted to answer a question that countries can usually only estimate: how...

Why is the IMF returning to Latin America?

Economy Martín Abeles - September 28, 2026.

For much of the 2000s, Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) seemed to have finally distanced itself from the International Monetary Fund. The debt crises of...

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