Taking the die out of diet
Henry Leveson-Gower and Dil Green map potential paths to escape the tyranny of Big Food. The modern food system delivers cheap calories at scale, but at the cost of health, …
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How a currency devaluation in Kazakhstan made the country’s poor worse off
It is the job of the government to keep a country’s economy in check. But sometimes policies don’t work out as planned. Governments often take economic decisions that follow specific political …
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Japan’s currency falls to its weakest since 1990 against the dollar as the yen keeps yelping
NEW YORK (AP) — Some of the world’s wildest action in financial markets is roiling around the Japanese yen. The value of Japan’s currency has tumbled so much that for …
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Argentina’s Milei announces 50% currency devaluation and large cuts to public spending
Argentina’s new president, Javier Milei, on Tuesday announced an official devaluation of the peso of 50%, virtually turning on the chainsaw that he famously used at campaign events. The government …
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Nigeria’s currency devaluation is a disaster for startups
In July, when Nigerian agritech startup Winich Farms shared its quarterly financial report with stakeholders, it reported all the figures twice. One version used the old official currency rate of …
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Crypto sector sees an existential moment in the U.S.
Crypto businesses have warned for months that the Biden administration is quietly moving to push them out of the U.S. Now, with the collapse of three crypto-friendly banks, they say …
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An exchange of views
Dirk Ehnts reviews Jeffery E. Garten’s book Three Days at Camp David: How a Secret Meeting in 1971 Transformed the Global Economy. In 1971, Richard Nixon summoned his advisors to …
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