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Why a Typo Could Save Your Career

Generative AI has slashed the cost to look like a promising academic. How should students and reviewers respond?

By Rahul Sundaresan

Is Jensen Huang's scandal staged?

The last monogamist has finally fallen!

By Peter Wan

Selling Air: Can Carbon Credits Pay for Development?

COP31’s president says carbon markets could raise $50 billion a year for poorer countries. The record so far says read the small print.

By Inayatt Gogia

Collusion and Algorithmic Pricing

What happens when competing businesses let algorithms set their prices? How should regulators respond to this newly-prominent kind of collusion?

By Rahul Sundaresan

When Will Gacha Games Use AI?

Glory to Hypergryph for inspiring this research.

By Peter Wan

Why Cheap Energy Becomes Expensive

Oil and gas price spikes send the same signal: leave fossil fuels. But a signal is not a budget. When the next shock arrives, who will have the means to act on it?

By Arzygul Yarjanova

Why We Forgive Uber but Not Ticketmaster

Dynamic pricing is spreading across the globe for concerts and sporting events, yet we shrug at an Uber surge. The difference comes down to fixed supply, limited substitutes, and prices that move mid-checkout.

By Zara Spendiff

Without Touching the Law: How Trade Deals Could Still Undo India's Pharma Patent Defences

India just fended off EU pressure to adopt pharmaceutical data exclusivity in its new free trade deal, keeping the patent law that built its generics industry intact. But data exclusivity can delay generic drugs just as effectively as a patent, meaning the same fight can be won again through trade negotiations without ever touching India's Patents Act. Will future trade deals test India's IP autonomy?

By Catherine

Blue Wave off Washington

The Democrats will control the Congress in 2027. What does this mean for US economic policy?

By Rahul Sundaresan

The Price of an Opinion: The Unequal Cost of Dissent for International Students

Universities prize free expression, yet the students who pay the most have the most to lose by using it.

By Gurmehar Kaur

Gulf Oil Is Back. Can Tar Sands Giants Keep Rising?

It has been an enormous year for Canadian oil stocks: over the past twelve months, the S&P/TSX Capped Energy Index has climbed roughly 71%, which is more than triple the gain of the broader TSX. Gulf oil is now flowing once more at levels seen before the war, and yet Brent remains above US$100. That raises the question: is the surge in Canada's tar sands stocks here to stay, or has the bulk of the profit already been captured? This article examines what is genuinely keeping oil prices elevated, how the loonie affects returns for foreign investors, and which stocks still have room to appreciate.

By Kerem Baskir

A Prize Well Deserved: Discussing Hall and Woodford's Nobel Prize Work

Stanford economist Robert Hall and Columbia economist Michael Woodford have just been awarded the Nobel Prize. What does their research mean?

By Rahul Sundaresan

The Unintended Consequences of Sanctions

Sanctions are often touted as a cure-all for international non-compliance, but how effective really are they?

By Rahul Sundaresan

When Development Goals Collide - Who Decides What Counts as Progress?

The Sustainable Development Goals describe the world we want. Governments should also explain the choices they make to get there.

By Inayatt Gogia

Will SI stocks make you rich in 2026?

Suppose SI changes the world exactly as promised. Your portfolio could still be a disaster.

By Peter Wan

Tulip Mania: Lessons from the 17th century

By Sam Hunt