News · Policy · Japan · 2 Oct 2026
Sanae Takaichi's long post on X lists falling visa approvals and a higher bar for permanent residency. It does not say how many of the rejected applicants were breaking the rules.
News · Policy · Japan, China, India · 23 Sept 2026
China doesn't just mine rare earths. It makes nearly all the world's rare-earth magnets, and in 2025 it used that chokehold to force its way into trade talks with Washington. U.S. President Donald Trump can't afford to ignore the leverage days weeks away from the end of the one-year deal.
Deep Dive · Policy · China, US · 9 Jul 2026
Why a US statutory gold revaluation is a balance-sheet exercise, not a monetary regime change, and what fifty years of monetary history actually teach about the limits of coordinated adjustment.
News · Policy · China, US · 9 Jul 2026
The International Monetary Fund cut its global growth forecast this week, and the reasoning was almost more revealing than the number itself. The fund said Wednesday it was modestly downgrading its outlook for the world…
News · Policy · Global · 23 Jun 2026
In 1849, a merchant named Sam Brannan ran through the streets of San Francisco clutching a vial of gold dust and shouting that fortunes were waiting in the hills to the northeast.
News · Policy · China · 18 Jun 2026
Beijing made a quiet decision to stop fighting its own currency. The bill is coming due for the exporters who weren't paying attention.
News · Policy · US · 15 Jun 2026
A deal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz may stop the bleeding. Recovering from a billion barrels of lost supply is another matter.
News · Policy · US · 5 Jun 2026
When Congress passed the Social Security Act in 1935, it promised a safety net for American workers but it also quietly excluded two of the largest categories of Black employment: domestic workers and agricultural…
News · Policy · US · 28 May 2026
The New York Fed survey finds nearly 1 in 5 low-income households can't afford enough to eat -- while consumer optimism among the food-insecure has collapsed to record lows, even as headline economic data stays broadly…
News · Policy · Global · 23 May 2026
Mythos, the name given by Anthropic to its highly capable, unreleased cybersecurity-focused frontier model because the word represents stepping "beyond the boundaries of the known," has proved exceptionally good at…
News · Policy · Japan, US · 13 May 2026
Treasury Secretary's Tokyo visit puts him at odds with Prime Minister Takaichi's economic program — and exposes how Japan's bond market instability lands directly on American borrowing costs.
News · Policy · US · 21 Jan 2026
The U.S. President's remarks at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland offer limited reassurance to markets after steep selloff; European allies face escalating trade tensions
