Food for thought!
Are Americans Too Old? by Joshua Rothman in the New Yorker.
“In “Gerontocracy in America,” the historian Samuel Moyn argues that the central conflict of our era is between the young and the elderly.”
South Africa: Q1 GDP GROWTH BEATS EXPECTATIONS, BUT THE DETAILS DISAPPOINT (Bureau for Economic Research)
“The SA economy registered its sixth consecutive quarter of quarterly growth, booking a better-than-expected 0.5% expansion in Q1. Annually, real GDP growth registered 2.1%. This follows an (unrevised) 0.4% expansion in 2025Q4. However, while the headline GDP outcome was encouraging, the composition of growth was less so.”
Food for thought!
“Eight Predictions for the Future of Higher Education” by Jay Caspian Kang.
“The next decade won’t be Armageddon. But it will bring a lot of change.”
Venezuela has begun one of the most daunting financial tasks in the world. It is trying to restructure a mountain of debt built up over years of crisis. (Times of Rio)
Highly relevant!
“The AI-GPR Index: Measuring Geopolitical Risk using Artificial Intelligence” by Matteo Iacoviello and Jonathan Tong.
“We introduce an improved measure of geopolitical risk that builds on Caldara and Iacoviello (2022) and uses artificial intelligence to evaluate newspaper content. Our approach replaces keyword matching with semantic understanding: instead of searching for specific word combinations, we use one of the flagship ChatGPT models (GPT-4o mini) to read newspaper articles and assess their geopolitical risk intensity.”