by Aseem Gupta | Jan 10, 2026 | Economics, Markets & Money
The easiest tax policy to understand is also one of the hardest to execute. Tax the rich. It sounds obvious. Billionaires own more wealth than entire cities, states, and sometimes small countries. Their fortunes rise with asset prices. Their lifestyles are funded by...
by Aseem Gupta | Dec 27, 2025 | Economics, Markets & Money
In early 2023, France appeared to be fighting over two years. President Emmanuel Macron’s government wanted to raise the minimum legal retirement age from 62 to 64. Millions of people marched against the proposal. Trade unions organised repeated strikes. Trains were...
by Aseem Gupta | Dec 13, 2025 | Technology, AI & Complex Systems
The Trillion-Dollar Question OpenAI earned approximately $13 billion in revenue in 2025. Around the same time, Sam Altman was describing plans for 30 gigawatts of artificial intelligence computing capacity requiring roughly $1.4 trillion of investment. Put those...
by Aseem Gupta | Nov 30, 2025 | Geopolitics, States & Global Power
Donald Trump does not simply claim to be a president who prefers peace. He presents himself as a uniquely effective peacemaker: the leader who can enter conflicts that have defeated conventional diplomats, threaten or charm the participants into agreement, and...
by Aseem Gupta | Nov 15, 2025 | Geopolitics, States & Global Power
Inside many electric vehicles is a motor capable of turning electrical energy into immediate, almost silent acceleration. Buried inside that motor may be a small collection of permanent magnets containing rare-earth elements such as neodymium and praseodymium....
by Aseem Gupta | Nov 2, 2025 | Political Theory, Governance & Ideology
In January 2009, Barack Obama entered the White House promising to change how power worked in Washington. One of his targets was the revolving door between government and private industry. Officials, he argued, should not be able to shape public policy, leave...
by Aseem Gupta | Oct 12, 2025 | Environment, Resources & Physical Geography
When the Sea Disappeared From Moynaq The ships are still there. Their hulls rise from the sand outside Moynaq, rusted and hollow, as though an ocean had withdrawn overnight and forgotten to take them. Seashells lie scattered beneath their keels. Beyond them, the...
by Aseem Gupta | Sep 28, 2025 | Economics, Markets & Money
Britain contains two economic realities. One is visible in the glass towers of the City of London, the technology companies around King’s Cross, the luxury developments overlooking the Thames and the law firms, banks, consultancies and media companies that serve...
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 | Sep 7, 2025 | Political Theory, Governance & Ideology
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has spent more than two decades proving that political survival is a form of power. He survived imprisonment, attempts to ban his party, mass protests, corruption allegations, a military coup attempt, repeated economic crises, a devastating...
