by Aseem Gupta | May 17, 2025 | Economics, Markets & Money
In 2016, Saudi Arabia presented the world with an extraordinary picture of its future. A kingdom built on oil would become a center of technology, tourism, finance, culture, entertainment, and global business. New industries would employ a younger and more productive...
by Aseem Gupta | May 12, 2025 | Economics, Markets & Money
Governments are accumulating gold, settling more trade in local currencies and building payment systems designed to reduce their exposure to the United States. Russia conducts much of its trade with China in yuan. BRICS leaders regularly complain that the...
by Aseem Gupta | May 11, 2025 | Book Summaries and Analysis
Published in 1950, Ray Bradbury’s The Martian Chronicles imagines humanity’s first expeditions to Mars, the destruction of an ancient Martian civilization, the growth of human settlements, and the eventual collapse of the society that Earth has...
by Aseem Gupta | May 4, 2025 | Book Summaries and Analysis
In The Rooster Bar, John Grisham follows three law students who discover that the professional future they have borrowed heavily to secure may never materialize. Mark Frazier, Todd Lucero, and Zola Maal attend Foggy Bottom Law School in Washington, D.C., a struggling...
