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Exploring the economic promise and environmental costs of mining in Brazil #Brazil…

Exploring the economic promise and environmental costs of mining in Brazil
Mining in Brazil does not deliver the sustained economic benefits often claimed, while informal mining is a major driver of deforestation, especially in the Amazon. A new study offers one of the most comprehensive assessments to date, combining satellite imagery and economic data to analyze the environmental and economic impacts of mining at the municipal scale across Brazil.

Q&A with Lyft CEO David Risher on three consecutive profitable quarters, cofounders leaving the board, Freenow acquisition, the economics of robotaxis, and more (J. Edward Moreno/Sherwood News)
https://sherwood.news/tech/lyfts-ceo-on-the-e…

Lyft’s CEO on the economics of robotaxis, how to end surge pricing, and reviving his company
Lyft wants to shed its “second-place, domestic-only, only a business-to-consumer company” reputation.

NYT began bundling its digital subscription with The Economist in the UK earlier in 2025; the bundled price is less than an annual digital sub to The Economist (Max Tani/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/09/01/2025/new-yo…

New York Times teams up with Economist in play for worldwide readers
The US paper quietly rolled out the bundled subscription with the UK-based finance and business-focused publication earlier this year.

New economic watchdog head aims to bust Ukraine's billion-dollar shadow economy: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/01/new-economic-watchdog-head-aims.html

My article Vent or Win, Choose Wisely has been accepted for publication by The Geopolitical Economist:
https://medium.com/the-geopolitical-economist/vent-or-win-choose-wisely-c618c86f1472

Vent or Win, Choose Wisely - The Geopolitical Economist - Medium
You can blame people you basically agree with, or you can work with the people available to try to work toward better. The first feels good for maybe 5 minutes, then ruins improvement right now; the…

Trump’s 50 percent tariffs landed like a declaration of economic war on India,
undercutting enormous investments made by American companies to hedge their dependency on China.
India’s hard work to present itself to the world as the best alternative to Chinese factories
— what business executives and big money financiers have embraced as part of the China Plus One strategy
— has been left in tatters.
Now, less than a week since the tariffs took full effect, offic…

India Was the Economic Alternative to China. Trump Ended That.
A lurch in policy has shaken the India-U.S. economic alliance against China, leaving India little choice but to consider reversing its own strategy.

Walmart-owned Indian e-commerce company Flipkart acquires a majority stake in digital content platform Pinkvilla; source: the deal values Pinkvilla at ~$15M (The Economic Times)
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/te…

Flipkart acquires majority stake in content platform Pinkvilla to tap Gen Z shoppers
While Flipkart did not disclose details of the deal, a person close to the matter said the online retailer is likely to have picked up more than 75% in Pinkvilla valuing it at around $15 million.

Russia's Ukraine war spurred a new generation of defense tech investors and startups like Helsing, applying a profit-driven model to Europe's military buildup (Patricia Cohen/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/business/economy/defens…

A.I. Fighter Jets and Cockroach Spies: Inside the Changing Business of War
Russia’s war on Ukraine changed the course of a generation of start-ups and investors that have applied a new business model to Europe’s military buildup.