Is Economic Forecasting Still Possible?
Much of the forecasting profession—and the economic theory that underpins it—still defaults to single baselines that treat the future as a probabilistic replica of the...
Inflation or recession? The tug of war in bond markets – The Economist
The yield on ten-year American Treasury bonds is perhaps the world’s most important number, and for weeks it has been all over the place. Hundredths...
Investors sought to pull $20bn from private credit funds in first quarter – The Financial Times
Wealthy investors attempted to pull more than $20bn from private credit funds in the first quarter, underscoring the growing strain on an asset class that...
GDP per capita in purchasing power: Which were Europe’s richest and poorest countries in 2025? – Euro News
Gross domestic product per capita in purchasing power standards varies significantly across Europe in 2025. One in three people in the EU lives in a...
The demise of software engineering jobs has been greatly exaggerated – CNN
Computer science and engineering students at the University of Washington, spooked about AI, returned from spring break last week to a surprising email from the...
PODCAST: Is the private credit industry a threat to the financial system?
There are jitters among America’s corporate lenders. There have been high profile defaults of big borrowers like Tricolor Holdings and First Brands, which collapsed just...
Will AGI Really Be the “Last Invention”?
Listen to leading voices in Silicon Valley, and you might come to believe that “solving intelligence” is sufficient to “solve everything else.” But as seductive...
What We Do in the Shadows: Will Private Credit Take Down the Economy? – The Bloomberg
What is worth $1.8 trillion dollars, is deeply intertwined with the software business, small banks, and cockroaches, is veiled in mystery, and could take down...
OpenAI thought it could own AI videos. The reality was too expensive – CNN
OpenAI said Tuesday that it would wind down Sora, the TikTok-like text-to-video app that, to OpenAI’s credit, did make some super real-looking stuff. Its release...
The biggest winners and losers of the tariff war as AI-related trade skyrockets – Euro News
A report published this month by the McKinsey Global Institute offers one of the most rigorous accountings of last year’s trade war. Its verdict confounds...