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SPR deliveries are back on the menu.

Countries announce joint venture to produce uncrewed systems; Canada to provide drones, air defence interceptors, and millions in loan guarantees

Or at least it seems questionable for business and the US and Venezuelan people

Experts discuss what lies ahead for the USMCA.

The conflict in the Middle East has precipitated a global supply shock—the third in six years following the pandemic in 2020 and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022. The current shock raises the spec...

Donald Trump plans to bring CEOs to Beijing, Marco Rubio meets the pope, and China builds its nuclear arsenal.

This episode explores how sovereign balance sheets and coercive tools like sanctions have become primary instruments of modern statecraft, fundamentally shifting the landscape of global commerce.

All about the War, or was it AI, so many questions about navigating to the new normal

This year’s Spring Meetings of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank provide an important opportunity to engage on current global economic challenges as well as our work with partners a...

The latest World Economic Outlook reports slowing global growth and renewed inflationary pressures. Policies need to be agile, carefully manage the trade-offs involved in ramping up defense spending, ...

In this episode of the Oil Ground Up Podcast, guest Rachel Ziemba joins host Rory Johnston to provide an update on the rapidly shifting landscape of U.S. economic statecraft and its impact on Venezuel...

The traditional “free trade agreement premium” has effectively disappeared.

About to pop onto CNBC to chat about Trump’s speech and the war. There was little new in the speech, which recycled Trump’s recent statements on the war and greatest hits on the resilience of the US...

Initiative set to be introduced from April 1

The IMF has been slow to assess the economic fallout of the Iran crisis and Strait of Hormuz blockade. Here's why it must shift to real-time, scenario-driven surveillance.

And a few things to watch/read on the continuing conflict.

The implications of the Iran War for the Global South.