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Trump’s latest tariff salvos land at the worst possible moment

Singapore’s average wealth is climbing, but there’s a catch

Singapore ranked sixth in the world for average wealth per adult in 2025, but only 20th for median wealth.

Who should own AI? The case against – and for – nationalisation

Instead of looking at nationalising AI, the state should act as a referee and also set up sandboxes in which new tools can be tested, says the writer.

When the disruptor gets disrupted: How Chinese open-source AI is eating its own industry

Alibaba’s Qwen alone has overtaken Meta’s Llama to become the most downloaded open-source model family in history.

The wealth gap is widening. The answer isn’t more handouts – it’s a stake

More people need to be given access to the capital income pathway, otherwise wealth inequality will only worsen, says the writer.

Now you see it, now you don’t: Why data can’t capture the AI revolution

Nobel prize winner Michael Spence says that when something revolutionary like AI arrives, people tend to overestimate its impact in the short run and underestimate it in the long run.

The new age of economic warfare – and why America is playing with fire

Few people are thinking harder about these questions than Matteo Maggiori, the Moghadam Family Professor of Finance at Stanford University.

Singapore’s AI pivot will require a very different playbook

Singapore has been a world-class destination for established multinationals for six decades. But that game is getting harder.

The end of Dubai? After the war, the UAE faces a hard road back to its shining past

Smoke billows from Jebel Ali port after an Iranian attack, following United States and Israel strikes on Iran, United Arab Emirates, on March 1.

Oil markets and prices will not be the same after UAE’s OPEC exit

The headquarters of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) in Vienna. For OPEC, losing the UAE is not a flesh wound, but an amputation.

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