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Meet the financial muscle behind Donald Trump’s foreign policy

As Iran’s civilian economy crumbles, its military economy grows stronger

Can a country get too rich?

America’s new era of state-sponsored mining (collaboration]

Denmark braces for Donald Trump

Venezuela’s astoundingly messy debts are about to get even worse

Meet the American investors rushing into the Congo

Why investors still don’t believe in Argentina

A postcard from one of America’s youngest towns

How the Trump administration learned to love foreign aid

Meet Donald Trump’s aid agency

A falling population need not be a catastrophe

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Donald Trump’s grab for Greenland makes no sense (collaboration)

Greenland faces one of history’s great resource rushes—and curses

The IMF’s identity crisis

The Economics of War

Inside Iran’s war economy

Hizbullah looks newly vulnerable

America’s economic might gives it little sway in the Middle East

Can Israel afford to wage war?

Israel’s war economy is working - for the time being

Can Egypt be persuaded to accept Gazan Refugees?

Conflict is remaking the Middle East’s economic order

Israel is going after Gaza’s economy

Demography

The rise of pronatalism in MAGA

Shrinking populations mean a more fractious world

What clergymen can learn from economists

Democracy and the Price of a Vote

International Institutions

The World Bank is turning away from the poorest countries

Argentina needs to default, not dollarise

Egypt doesn’t deserve a bailout. It should get one anyway

Can the IMF solve the poor world’s debt crisis?

Emerging Markets and Debt Restructuring

The race to become the next economic superpower

Argentina is pushing international lending to its breaking point

Why the IMF should bail out a serial deadbeat

Poor countries would miss King Dollar

Ukraine has a month to avoid default

How to pay for the poor world to go green

Can India, Saudi Arabia and Indonesia be the next great economies?

Why Ethiopia and Nigeria must press on with reforms

The growing popularity of a strange form of debt diplomacy

India’s economic policy will not make it rich

Argentina and Brazil propose a bizarre common currency

China has got lucky with Trump. Can the rest of the world?

Erdoganomics is spreading across the world

New forms of debt restructuring reward bad behaviour

The hunt for FTX’s missing riches

Sri Lanka shows how broken debt negotiations have become

Sanctions and Commodities

How vulnerable is Israel to sanctions?

Russia outsmarts Western sanctions - and China is paying attention

The battle to reduce risk has shaped centuries of exploration

The mysterious middlemen helping Russia’s war machine