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Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. When Thalia Toha wasn’t sure how to answer her teenage daughter’s question about what just happened in Venezuela, she stumbled on the perfect explainer: a scene from a 2019 episode of “Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan." The clip features John Krasinski as CIA analyst Jack Ryan asking a packed lecture hall: ‘What would you assume is the most major threat on the world stage?’ Audience members answered China, Russia and North Korea until Ryan explained it’s Venezuela, thanks to its oil and mineral-rich land and corrupt strongman leader who tanked the economy. That scene has gone viral and prompted many to ask whether its creators predicted the future six years before American troops captured Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and brought him to the U.S.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. NEW DELHI: Foreign direct investment into Uttar Pradesh rose to ₹5,963 crore ($660 million) during the April-September period of FY26 as India’s third-largest state economy aspires to become a $1 trillion economy with key policy incentives for high-growth sectors, a top official said.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. New Delhi: India’s bet to open spacetech to private companies five years ago has spawned startups that are already earning millions of dollars by sharing agriculture and climate data collected by the satellites they launched. These ventures are pivoting towards a new lucrative business: defence surveillance.

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Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Most years, presidents don’t have much impact on the economy; it is just too big and complicated. This year won’t be like most years.

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Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. IF AMERICA’S stockmarket crashes, it will be one of the most predicted financial implosions in history. Everyone from bank bosses to the IMF has warned about the stratospheric valuations of America’s tech companies.

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Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. The biggest harbinger that things were about to fall apart in Iran didn’t come from the thwarted anger of the country’s opposition or the frustrated hopes of young people hungry for more personal freedom. It came from the collapse of a bank.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. DETROIT—President Trump said the U.S. economy was poised for solid growth this year, pointing to steadying inflation data as he sought to address one of Republicans’ biggest vulnerabilities ahead of this year’s midterm elections.

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Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. When Jerome Powell went public with his defense of the Federal Reserve’s independence, the central bank’s chair found an unlikely army standing behind him: the meme-stock crowd. “He is an American hero," one user, using the handle 4Yk9gop, posted on Reddit.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. As a frequently travelling business lawyer, I often find myself in conversations going beyond legal principles and term sheets. Increasingly, these discussions veer into a shared anxiety about global instability and simultaneously a renewed optimism about India.

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Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. On Monday, President Trump surprised Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren with a phone call after she criticized him during a speech on affordability.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. With food prices falling less, headline inflation has shown a modest uptick in December. Government data released on Monday put India’s consumer price index-based year-on-year rate of inflation at 1.33%, up from just 0.71% in November.

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Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. The US economy seems to be in the throes of one of its biggest bursts of productivity in decades, weighing on business labour costs and hastening disinflation. If artificial intelligence (AI) is partly the reason for the gains, then it’s plausible that we’re in the early days of durable improvements to efficiency.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. India is entering the most consequential phase of its development since independence. Between 2026 and 2047, the year Independent India turns 100, its economy, population and cities will undergo transformations unmatched in scale.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. It has been 34 years plus since the Cold War triumph of ‘capitalism’ over ‘communism’—or rather, of the free-market idea over the Soviet model of a centrally run economy, to put it less crudely. And as India approaches another budget, industry may want the Centre out of the way in some sectors, but is largely looking for it to lend its fiscal heft to the big wheel of output expansion.