by Aseem Gupta | Sep 17, 2025 | Economics, Markets & Money
Reading Time: 30 MinutesYou wake up, check your phone, buy breakfast, pay rent, complain about rising prices, and wonder whether your salary will ever catch up with the cost of living. Somewhere, a politician announces that the economy is growing, a company announces...
by Aseem Gupta | Aug 9, 2025 | Economics, Markets & Money
Reading Time: 21 MinutesIn November 2016, JPMorgan Chase agreed to pay more than $264 million to settle allegations involving a hiring programme that had operated across its Asia-Pacific business between 2006 and 2013. The bank had been offering jobs and internships...
by Aseem Gupta | Jun 16, 2025 | Economics, Markets & Money
Reading Time: 28 MinutesOn December 5, 2014, a Korean Air flight preparing to depart New York for Seoul was forced to return to its gate because an executive was furious about how she had been served a packet of macadamia nuts. Cho Hyun-ah, then a vice-president of...
by Aseem Gupta | May 12, 2025 | Economics, Markets & Money
Reading Time: 30 MinutesThe world is becoming increasingly determined to reduce its dependence on the US dollar. Central banks are accumulating gold, China is expanding the international use of the yuan, and countries facing Western sanctions are developing...
by Aseem Gupta | Apr 25, 2025 | Economics, Markets & Money
Reading Time: 32 MinutesIn 2016, Saudi Arabia announced one of the most ambitious economic transformations in modern history. The kingdom, whose extraordinary wealth had been built on petroleum, would use that wealth to create an economy increasingly independent of...
by Aseem Gupta | Apr 19, 2025 | Economics, Markets & Money
Reading Time: 34 MinutesCanada entered its April 2025 federal election facing two economic problems that threatened to reinforce each other. At home, housing had become unaffordable for millions of people, productivity growth was disappointing, and many households...
