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...
by Aseem Gupta | Jun 1, 2024 | Economics, Markets & Money
Australia appears to offer almost everything a prosperous society should. It has high incomes, stable institutions, desirable cities, strong public services, spectacular coastlines and an enormous landmass. For generations, homeownership formed part of the national...
by Aseem Gupta | Apr 6, 2024 | Economics, Markets & Money
Canada used to sell a simple promise. Work hard. Find a decent job. Buy a home. Raise a family. Live in a safe neighborhood. Save a little. Retire with dignity. It was not a fantasy. For much of the postwar era, this was the basic middle-class bargain in Canada. The...
by Aseem Gupta | Mar 27, 2024 | Economics, Markets & Money
Switzerland looks like a country designed to lose. It is small. It is landlocked. Much of it is mountainous. It has no ocean ports, no vast oil fields, no great mineral empire, and no single language holding the country together. It sits in the middle of Europe,...
by Aseem Gupta | Mar 21, 2024 | Business, Innovation & Industry
For decades, ESPN was one of the best businesses in television. It did not merely show sports. It sat at the center of the cable bundle. If you were a serious sports fan, you needed ESPN. If you were not a serious sports fan, you often paid for it anyway because ESPN...
by Aseem Gupta | Feb 20, 2024 | Geopolitics, States & Global Power
On June 23, 2016, Britain voted to leave the European Union. The promise was simple, emotional, and politically explosive: take back control. Control of borders.Control of laws.Control of money.Control of trade. For many Leave voters, Brexit was never just an economic...
by Aseem Gupta | Feb 5, 2024 | Business, Innovation & Industry
For a long time, Disney did not feel like a company. It felt like a childhood memory machine. A Disney film was not just another movie on the release calendar. It was an event. A Disney character was not just a piece of intellectual property. It was a companion. A...
by Aseem Gupta | Jun 24, 2023 | Narrative, Media & Storytelling
Marvel fatigue did not happen because audiences suddenly stopped liking superheroes. That explanation is too easy. If people were simply tired of capes, masks, powers, and comic-book worlds, then Spider-Man: No Way Home, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, and Deadpool...
