by Aseem Gupta | Sep 17, 2025 | Economics, Markets & Money
You wake up, check your phone, buy breakfast, pay rent, complain about prices, think about your salary, avoid your bank balance, wonder why houses cost so much, and hear someone on the news say the economy is “strong” even though everything feels expensive. That is...
by Aseem Gupta | May 28, 2025 | Economics, Markets & Money
The easy answer is oil. Norway is rich because it found oil in the North Sea, sold it to the world, and used the money to build one of the most comfortable societies on earth. That answer is not wrong. It is just incomplete. Many countries have discovered oil. Many...
by Aseem Gupta | May 21, 2025 | Narrative, Media & Storytelling
Disney live-action remakes are easy to mock. They look like the safest possible products: familiar titles, familiar songs, familiar characters, familiar marketing hooks, and a built-in audience of parents who grew up with the originals. From the outside, the strategy...
by Aseem Gupta | Mar 15, 2025 | Political Theory, Governance & Ideology
In October 1995, Canada came within a few decimal points of breaking apart. Quebec held a referendum on sovereignty after years of constitutional failure, nationalist frustration, and arguments over whether the province truly belonged inside Canada. Turnout was...
by Aseem Gupta | Sep 8, 2024 | Urban Planning & the Built Environment
Dubai looks impossible. A city of glass towers, artificial islands, luxury malls, global banks, five-star hotels, packed airports, and supercars where there was once desert, creek, heat, trade, and hardship. It is one of the few places on earth where the skyline...
