Energy inflation can turn a medium shock into a wider economic risk Oil and gas shocks spread fast because energy sits inside almost every price Policy must contain the pass-through early before inflation becomes self-reinforcing A

Tariffs can create inflation and weaker growth at the same time Modern supply chains turn border taxes into domestic cost shocks Tariff stagflation makes rate cuts risky and policy credibility essential A tariff rate

Europe should build chip power through indispensability, not full self-sufficiency The real strategy is to control key bottlenecks others cannot replace A stronger chip policy must focus on leverage, coordination, and industrial demand

Cloud compute controls are becoming central to AI power The article argues for narrow, risk-based rules instead of broad bans Compute access must be governed early When a country no longer needs to buy the top-tier AI ch

AI warfare is speeding up conflict Cheap drones can overwhelm costly defenses Governments need safeguards before this becomes normal In 2024, the world had spent

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The Economy Research Editorial1,2 1 The Economy Research, 71 Lower Baggot Street, Dublin 2, Co. Dublin, D02 P593, Ireland 2 Swiss Institute of Artificial Intelligence, Chaltenbodenstrasse 26, 8834 Schindellegi, Schwyz, Switzerland

The Economy Research Editorial1,2 1 The Economy Research, 71 Lower Baggot Street, Dublin 2, Co. Dublin, D02 P593, Ireland 2 Swiss Institute of Artificial Intelligence, Chaltenbodenstrasse 26, 8834 Schindellegi, Schwyz, Switzerland

Currency risk can turn liquidity into panic Credit Suisse exposed that weakness Swiss TBTF reform shifts the burden back to banks Global foreign exchange reached

Taiwan fears the US may hesitate in a crisis That doubt could weaken deterrence before war begins Clearer allied planning is needed to prevent China from misreading silence More than twenty-three million people

AI standards are the only realistic truce in the US-China AI race Rivals may not trust each other, but they can still agree on basic safety rules Without shared standards, AI competition will become more costly, fragmented, and dangerous

AI boosts output, but may weaken jobs Less work means weaker demand Training must come before displacement

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AI can weaken the local tax base. Bond yields reveal that fiscal risk Policy must track local value, not AI adoption Over 40% of all jobs in the world are exposed to AI; in advanced economies, it is about 60%.

AI will reshape work unevenly, not all at once The real risk is losing entry-level career ladders Policy should track labor signals and act before shocks deepen Among the AI Labor Transition, what is meaningful is not a

Monetary policy shocks often begin as interpretation failures, not true surprises Newspaper coverage, market reports and investors can distort the central bank’s original signal LLMs may help expose where human bias enters the policy communication chain

China’s property crisis is really a capital crisis The state can delay panic, but not restore trust by force China must shift from land-led growth to household and productivity-led growth Investment in housing in China has h

China’s ethnic unity law shifts fairness toward shared national rules The U.S.

China’s industrial rise is not built on subsidies alone Its real advantage is the link between factories, finance, schools, labor, and state planning The West can copy parts of China industrial policy, but not the full national system behind it

The Economy Research Editorial1,2 1 The Economy Research, 71 Lower Baggot Street, Dublin 2, Co. Dublin, D02 P593, Ireland 2 Swiss Institute of Artificial Intelligence, Chaltenbodenstrasse 26, 8834 Schindellegi, Schwyz, Switzerland