by Aseem Gupta | Apr 27, 2025 | Book Summaries and Analysis
In The War of the Worlds, H. G. Wells imagines what happens when humanity encounters a civilisation so technologically advanced that the most powerful nation on Earth cannot defend itself. The Martians arrive in southern England, destroy military resistance, and turn...
by Aseem Gupta | Apr 25, 2025 | Economics, Markets & Money
In 2016, Saudi Arabia announced one of the most ambitious economic transformations in modern history. The kingdom, whose extraordinary wealth had been built on petroleum, would use that wealth to create an economy increasingly independent of oil. It would develop new...
by Aseem Gupta | Apr 20, 2025 | Book Summaries and Analysis
A gang of thieves steals five original F. Scott Fitzgerald manuscripts from Princeton University. The FBI catches some of the criminals but cannot recover the manuscripts, leaving an insurance company facing a potential loss of $25 million. Its investigators suspect...
by Aseem Gupta | Apr 19, 2025 | Economics, Markets & Money
Canada entered its April 2025 federal election facing two economic problems that threatened to reinforce each other. At home, housing had become unaffordable for millions of people, productivity growth was disappointing, and many households felt increasingly...
by Aseem Gupta | Apr 13, 2025 | Book Summaries and Analysis
Arthur C. Clarke’s Childhood’s End, first published in 1953, begins with an event that appears to promise humanity everything it has struggled to achieve. Enormous alien spacecraft arrive above Earth’s major cities, and their mysterious occupants gradually...
