Tag: economics

• TikTok Makes a Deal (Not That One)

  August 18, 2020

  Today, we start with a scoop about TikTok, the video-sharing app that’s caught in the middle of the U.S.-China tech war. (Want this delivered to your inbox each day? Sign… more ›

• Listen to Brian Armstrong – The Future of Crypto – [Invest Like the Best, EP.186] now.

  August 16, 2020

  “The topic of ourconversation is the future of cryptocurrency and decentralized finance. We discuss the major events of the past decade and what might happen in the 2020s. Perhaps most… more ›

• The Gig Economy Is Failing. Say Hello to the Hustle Economy.

  August 1, 2020

  The Covid-19 pandemic crushed vast swaths of the economy, slashing consumer demand, closing businesses, and vaporizing millions of jobs. But it’s been good to the nascent sliver of the digital… more ›

• Neofeudalism: The End of Capitalism?

  May 24, 2020

  IN CAPITAL IS DEAD, McKenzie Wark asks: What if we’re not in capitalism anymore but something worse? The question is provocative, sacrilegious, unsettling as it forces anti-capitalists to confront an… more ›

• Is France breaking with its colonial past in Africa?

  May 24, 2020

  It is the end of an era in West Africa as France moves to scrap the currency used by its former colonies. Eight West African countries will soon be using… more ›

• The rise of robots, automation and e-commerce in the post-pandemic world

  May 23, 2020

  In this episode of Business Line the team examine how the economic crisis prompted by the coronavirus pandemic is likely to see companies accelerate plans to adopt innovative Artificial Intelligence… more ›

• How the Passion Economy will disrupt media, education, and countless other industries

  May 18, 2020

  [Clayton Christensen’s writing has been hugely influential on my thinking. So when Cliff Maxwell, Christensen’s former Chief of Staff and student at HBS, reached out to discuss my work on… more ›

• Nigeria’s immediate future looks bleak without oil revenue—it doesn’t have to be that way

  May 17, 2020

  Globalization, automation, and inequality. That prediction, made by the World Bank in 2017, and based on decades of Nigeria’s dependence on oil, has proven astute. Amid a crippling coronavirus pandemic,… more ›

• The 90% economy that lockdowns will leave behind

  May 3, 2020

  Editor’s note: The Economist is making some of its most important coverage of the covid-19 pandemic freely available to readers of The Economist Today, our daily newsletter. To receive it,… more ›

• How Are Rich People Getting Richer During the Coronavirus Pandemic?

  April 30, 2020

  For many Americans, the fallout of the novel coronavirus pandemic gets bleaker by the day. More than twice as many people are unemployed in the U.S. right now than there… more ›