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Facing diminished economic prospects, many young people see not flawed institutions in need of gradual reform, but predatory systems robbing them of their future. Across South Asia, this sense has animated powerful protest movements, some of which could shape their countries’ political trajectories for decades to come. NEW DELHI—In the last five years, six youth-led, anti-establishment uprisings have fundamentally reshaped South Asia’s political landscape. The movements had much in common: they all reflected young people’s aspirations, digital savvy, economic frustrations, and disillusionment with governing elites. But the political systems in which they unfolded process grievances in vastly different ways, leading…

As recently as two years ago, most Chinese economists paid only lip service to Marxism and assigned Western textbooks to their students. The advent of AI has changed that, because the technology—open source and available to the smallest manufacturer for a pittance—promises to avoid the “rent trap” common to capitalist economies. ATHENS—As China embraced capitalism, its leading universities adopted mainstream Western textbooks to mold their students’ thinking about the economy. “Most of my colleagues pay only lip service to Marxism,” an economics professor in one of China’s top economics departments confessed to me. “Only a tiny minority take Marx seriously.”

While the AI boom has disrupted funding patterns across the startup sphere, biotech has remained a rare steady sector for investment. For the past few years, global funding to biotech startups has hovered between $36 billion and $40 billion. Per Crunchbase data, 2026 is on track to stay close to that range. The numbers don’t paint an especially bullish picture, even though overall venture investment rose to a record level in the first half of this year. Still, given that much of that largesse went to a couple of generative AI behemoths, biotechs scooped up a respectable share of what…

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Even excluding lives lost, communities displaced, and families ravaged, the economic costs of organized crime in the region produce a bleak picture, shaving 0.5–2 percentage points off annual GDP growth in the most affected countries. That, too, represents a hefty human toll. MEXICO CITY—Latin America almost certainly pays the world’s highest economic price for organized crime. According to the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), crime costs Latin America and the Caribbean an average of 3.44% of GDP annually, equivalent to 78% of all public education spending across the region. But there are significant discrepancies across LAC. Brazil, Colombia, and Mexico stand…

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The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and a bipartisan group of 22 states has filed a lawsuit alleging Amazon secretly overcharged more than a million advertising customers by manipulating online auctions it uses to set ad prices.The FTC and states say in their lawsuit filed Monday that the alleged scheme has likely netted the company $20bn from advertising customers since 2019.”Amazon overrides and replaces the actual auction results with higher prices set by Amazon to increase its profits,” says a complaint filed in the company’s home state of Washington.In a statement to the BBC, Amazon “strongly disagrees” with the premise…

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XAU/USD Current Price: $4,434The US Dollar resumed its advance amid escalating Middle East tensions. Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh opened the door for a September rate hike. XAU/USD is bearish in the near term; the next downside hurdle is at $4,400.Spot Gold trades in the $4,430 price zone on Monday, extending its slide at the start of the week as the US Dollar (USD) surges amid renewed tensions in the Middle East. Over the weekend, Iran and the United States (US) crossed fire around the Strait of Hormuz following a few weeks of tense calm. Speculation that the conflict will…

The Aussie Dollar keeps the trade in the upper end of its recent range following last week’s piercing of the key 0.7200 hurdle against the US Dollar. Indeed, AUD/USD has been gaining momentum since early July, mostly underpinned by the RBA’s hawkish bias, while still sticky domestic inflation continues to bring some cushion against occasional bouts of weakness.The Australian Dollar (AUD) starts the week in a positive footing, prompting AUD/USD to bounce off the mid-0.7100s and partially recoup Friday’s marked losses. The attention, thus, has now shifted back to the 0.7200 yardstick and beyond. The improved sentiment around the pair follows…