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The Economist’s country of the year for 2025
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Klarna bringt eigenen dollarbasierte Stablecoin auf den Markt
Der Wettbewerb im Bereich digitale Zahlungen nimmt zu. Klarnas erster eigener Stablecoin auf Dollar-Basis soll Zahlungen schneller und kostengünstiger machen.

Sources: India raises concerns about the misuse of Indian phone numbers on WhatsApp, which banned 9.8M Indian accounts per month on average in 2025 to October (Kiran Rathee/The Economic Times)
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Concern over misuse extent even as WhatsApp bans 1 cr numbers a month
The Indian government is concerned about the widespread misuse of Indian mobile numbers on platforms like WhatsApp, with millions of accounts banned monthly for violations. Officials are discussing with WhatsApp how to curb this, as the platform's refusal to share banned numbers hinders efforts to combat cyber fraud and scams.

0% chance Fat Putin gives Germany their gold back.
If Germany cashes out their American investments in retaliation, get ready for ALL US prices (inflation) to skyrocket.
✅ German economists demand gold back from US vaults as trust cracks
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Society should learn to celebrate and capitalise on its
“massive cohort of healthy, active, older, creative adults”,
a leading population expert has said.
While pundits and pressure groups have raised concerns over falling fertility rates, highlighting the challenges for the economy and healthcare,
others are more upbeat, arguing the rise of the “silver economy” brings new opportunities for growth.
Prof Sarah Harper, director of the Oxford Institute of Populatio…

The economic impact of illegal immigrants in the US
https://thehill.com/opinion/immigration/5703635-undocumented-workers-us-economy/

product_space: Atlas of Economic Complexity export network
Two networks of economic products, where a pair of products are connected if they are exported at similar rates by the same countries. The data are a projection from a bipartite network of nations and the products they export. Edges weights represent a similarity score (called "proximity"). Data based on UN Comtrade worldwide trade patterns. SITC network based on the Standard International Trade Classification and HS …

Germany is facing calls to withdraw its billions of euros’ worth of gold from US vaults,
spurred on by the shift in transatlantic relations and the unpredictability of Donald Trump.
Germany holds the world’s second biggest national gold reserves after the US,
of which approximately €164bn (£122bn) worth
– 1,236 tonnes
– is stored in New York.
Emanuel Mönch,
a leading economist and former head of research at Germany’s federal bank, the Bundesbank,

US will focus on exerting economic pressure on Venezuela: Report | US-Venezuela Tensions News | Al Jazeera
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“I love A.I.”
For Donald Trump, there is no risk, only reward, posed by the dawning and disruptive new age of computing.
Over the past year, the president and his top aides have fully embraced A.I.,
and showered its leading corporate backers with money and regulatory support,
as the administration looks to supercharge one of the primary areas of growth in an otherwise precarious U.S. economy.
That optimism was on display on Tuesday, after the federal government …

Trump Administration Downplays A.I. Risks, Ignoring Economists’ Concerns
The administration has downplayed concerns — from mass job losses, to a potential financial bubble — as President Trump cheers soaring stock prices and faster growth.