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Boycott: The Economics of Refusal
Sometimes, all it takes is buying nothing.
Digital Money: The New Architecture of Money
Money became digital long before the expression “digital currency” entered the vocabulary of central banks.
Chocolate: Behind Brown Gold
It takes only a few seconds to eat a square of chocolate. It takes years to grow the cocoa tree that made it possible, months to harvest, ferment and dry its beans, an international logistics chain to transport them, considerable industrial infrastructure to process them, and finally the full power of marketing and distribution to make consumers forget the journey altogether.
Greenland: Europe Moves from Aid to Strategy
For years, the relationship between the European Union and Greenland largely reflected its institutional architecture: cooperation with an associated territory, focused primarily on education, fisheries and economic development. On September 7, 2026, in Nuuk, that relationship began to change in nature.
Luxury: The Economics of Scarcity
There are few industries in which selling less can be a sign of strength, raising prices a way of protecting demand, and refusing a customer an instrument of value creation. Luxury belongs to this peculiar category.
Europe in Space: A Private Victory in a System Still Searching for Autonomy
On September 5, 2026, a German rocket lifted off from Norway and reached orbit. The achievement was historic. It does not, however, mean quite what Europe would already like it to mean.
Morocco–Spain: Old Demons Return
There are international relationships that can be broken. The one between Morocco and Spain is probably not among them.
Japan: Defending the Yen Moves to a New Scale
For a long time, Japanese interventions in the foreign-exchange market followed a relatively familiar script. The yen weakened too quickly, the Ministry of Finance issued increasingly explicit warnings, and Tokyo eventually bought its own currency to remind markets that some trajectories were not entirely unconstrained.
Capital: Those Who Finance the World
The global economy is usually described through those who produce. Companies manufacture, workers work, consumers spend, governments tax and invest, entrepreneurs innovate. We look at factories, technologies, markets, infrastructure and states because that is where economic activity becomes visible.
Alphabet: The Empire of Interfaces
Google began with an ambition that now appears almost modest in light of what it became: organizing the information available on the Internet. A quarter of a century later, Alphabet no longer merely organizes that information. The group helps design the processors that compute it, owns the infrastructure that carries it, trains the models that interpret it, controls several of the software environments through which it is accessed, and operates some of the largest systems through which it is monetized.
Germany: When the Firewall Becomes the System
For years, Germany’s political firewall had a relatively simple function: prevent Alternative für Deutschland from entering government without fundamentally changing how the rest of the political system operated.
Central Banks: The End of the Interlude
For nearly fifteen years, advanced economies learned to live in a world where money cost almost nothing. Inflation was low, sometimes too low, interest rates hovered near zero, and central banks worried more about deflation than rising prices.