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War in the Persian Gulf
Could Spill Into the U.S. Economy
Rising energy prices, snarled supply chains and higher government debt could all hurt American consumers
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/business/economy/iran-oi…

How War in the Persian Gulf Could Spill Into the U.S. Economy
Rising energy prices, snarled supply chains and higher government debt could all hurt American consumers.

Tja.
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/apr/05/higher-energy-costs-iran-war-oil-economics-ai-boom

No surprise, US economy is going down....
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/03/06/business/jobs-report-economy?unlocked_article_code=1.RFA.cEPZ.UiOCX4Eq3Gkk&smid=nytcore-android-share

Jobs Report Live Updates: Employers Cut Jobs in Unexpectedly Weak Report
A weaker-than-expected report for February showed a decline of 92,000 jobs, and a rise in the unemployment rate to 4.4 percent.

Sage, whose AI tools scan for distress and alert caregivers in nursing homes, raised a $65M Series C, bringing its total funding to $124M (Reuters)
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/st…

Sage raises $65 million to expand AI-assisted care for ageing Americans
Sage, a senior care technology firm, secured $65 million in new funding. This capital will fuel the expansion of its artificial intelligence platform. The technology aims to assist caregivers in nursing homes and assisted living facilities. Sage's AI scans for distress and alerts staff in real time.

Cross-Examined
The law never stops evolving. Now, Victorian lawyers have a new way to stay informed...
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This is a good introduction to the problem of reducing energy return on investment. How it works and what implications it has.
What Are the Broader Economic Implications of Low EROI? − Question https://energy.sustainability-director

What Are the Broader Economic Implications of Low EROI? → Question
Declining energy surplus mandates higher capital reinvestment, increasing systemic costs, resource competition, and reducing funds for social programs and societal complexity. → Question

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 …

The United States “can certainly do more damage to the Iranian economy,
but they have withstood more pressure than any other economy in history,
and that hasn’t produced the collapse of the regime or more reasonable positions,”
said Suzanne Maloney, an Iran specialist and director of the foreign policy program at the Brookings Institution.
Iran is such an authoritarian state that the kind of political drivers that might push compromise don’t exist, she said,
wit…

Trump Looks for a Silver Bullet to End the Iran War. There May Be None.
The president is trying to ratchet up the economic pressure on Tehran, but Iran’s government is unlikely to make a deal without a big, face-saving compromise.

Three kinds of events have historically pushed the United States into recessions:
financial crises,
oil price shocks
and pandemics.
The U.S. and Israeli attacks on Iran have already brought about the second circumstance on that list and,
if things go badly, potentially the first.
Much will depend on how long the conflict lasts and how severe it remains.
The impact has grown as strikes have expanded beyond Iran,
paralyzing airports and damaging i…

How War in the Persian Gulf Could Spill Into the U.S. Economy
Rising energy prices, snarled supply chains and higher government debt could all hurt American consumers.