China’s rise is gradual, not sudden Power shifts depend on capabilities, satisfaction, and institutions Education must adapt with diversification and resilience Across the global economy, one pair of…

Europe’s schools rely on foreign AI infrastructure, creating vulnerability A neutral European stack with local compute and governance can secure continuity This ensures resilient, interoperable educa…

Europe’s schools rely on foreign AI infrastructure, creating vulnerability A neutral European stack with local compute and governance can secure continuity This ensures resilient, interoperable educa…

China is moving from messaging abroad to pulling audiences in Visa easing, platform virality, and museum upgrades turn curiosity into visits and study Schools should swap institutes for short, place-…

Fragmentation cuts GDP and starves education Colonial borders fuel conflict, distrust, and lost learning Keep mobility open and fund cross-border education corridors We face a hidden cost that seldom…

Bequests and risk largely drive why households save and work Factor thinking reduces student signals to cashflow, care, schedules, and family transfers Design aid to smooth risks and protect family r…

AI doesn’t make students “dumber”; low-rigor, answer-only tasks do Redesign assessments for visible thinking—cold starts, source triads, error analysis, brief oral defenses Legalize guided AI use, ke…

China shifts to cooperative leverage with zero tariffs and swap lines It builds influence as U.S. tariffs strain trade Schools should teach tariff-shock literacy and diversify ties Since December 1, …

A shortage of skilled labor hinders U.S. reindustrialization A U.S.–Korea deal should trade investment and tariff relief for targeted, time-limited visas This compact speeds factory rollouts now and …

Put talent—not tariffs—at the center of the India–U.S. deal U.S. factories need skilled workers now; India can supply them through stable visa pathways Tie mobility to wage floors, apprenticeships, a…

Households’ inflation beliefs move more with media framing than ECB verbosity Extra, unscheduled talk can backfire; clarity, timing, and audiovisual formats anchor expectations Make communication a m…

Sunday bans add about 1.4 miles of travel per trip They now mainly push shoppers online Targeted labor and digital-market policies work better One key number shapes our understanding of Sunday tradin…

Reshoring works only when automation slashes unit labor costs Raise robot density and software-driven productivity, not tariffs Tie incentives to verified plant gains and workforce upskilling One key…

U.S. tariffs mix security aims with bargaining, causing confusion. Allies hedge by shifting trade and investment toward China and cheaper energy, blunting U.S. leverage Policy needs clear, separate g…

The UK–India pact swaps targeted tariff cuts for larger services and mobility gains Phased quotas protect adjustment while amplifying each side’s comparative strengths Biggest risk: an EU–India deal;…

Bitcoin’s value stems from settlement utility, not cash flows Institutional demand and fees support this role It is better seen as a monetary asset than a Ponzi In its first year on the market, U.S. …

Same cash backbone, different rules: MMFs pay yield; stablecoins move money fast Receive tuition via regulated stablecoins, then auto-sweep into MMFs/tokenized T-bills This two-rail setup cuts cross-…

Search behaves like reinforcement learning, rewarding confirmation Narrow queries and clicks shrink exposure at scale Break the loop with IV-style ranking and teach students to triangulate queries Th…

Student well-being is falling fast AI chatbots are spreading quickly Without safeguards, risks will escalate In the 2023–24 academic year, only 38% of U.S. college students exhibited "positive mental…

AI’s IMO gold isn’t AGI Deploy it as an instrumented calculator Require refusal metrics and proof logs In July 2025, two advanced AI systems achieved "gold medal–level" results in the International…