by Aseem Gupta | Apr 12, 2025 | Political Theory, Governance & Ideology
At the beginning of 2025, Pierre Poilievre appeared to be approaching an almost inevitable victory. After nearly a decade under Justin Trudeau, Canadians were frustrated by unaffordable housing, strained public services, weak productivity and a prolonged decline in...
by Aseem Gupta | Mar 29, 2025 | Economics, Markets & Money
In April 2025, Donald Trump attempted one of the most dramatic transformations of American trade policy in generations. His administration declared the country’s persistent trade deficit a national emergency and announced a baseline tariff on nearly all imports, with...
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 | Mar 1, 2025 | Economics, Markets & Money
In November 2024, Germany’s three-party coalition collapsed after months of conflict over spending, taxation and how to revive an economy that had barely grown for years. A few months later, the Alternative für Deutschland finished second in Germany’s February 2025...
by Aseem Gupta | Jan 11, 2025 | Economics, Markets & Money
On December 4, 2024, UnitedHealthcare chief executive Brian Thompson was shot and killed outside a hotel in Midtown Manhattan. The killing was indefensible. Yet the public conversation that followed quickly moved beyond the crime itself. Investigators found words...
by Aseem Gupta | Dec 21, 2024 | Political Theory, Governance & Ideology
When the Department of Government Efficiency was announced in November 2024, it arrived with a number large enough to transform the United States government: $2 trillion. Elon Musk argued that a team of outsiders could identify waste, eliminate unnecessary programs,...
by Aseem Gupta | Dec 7, 2024 | Economics, Markets & Money
In December 1989, Japan looked like the country that had solved the future. Its companies dominated automobiles, consumer electronics, cameras, semiconductors, machine tools and precision manufacturing. American executives studied Japanese management methods with a...
by Aseem Gupta | Oct 5, 2024 | Economics, Markets & Money
In the spring of 2022, New York City began receiving an extraordinary number of asylum seekers. The city opened emergency shelters, booked hotel rooms, provided food and medical care, and helped families navigate schools and public services. What began as a...
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...
by Aseem Gupta | Aug 3, 2024 | Economics, Markets & Money
America has rarely looked richer. Its largest companies are worth trillions. Stock markets have repeatedly reached record highs. Homeowners who bought at the right time have watched their properties appreciate dramatically. Total household wealth has climbed to levels...
