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The president himself may be among them
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The president himself may be among them https://econ.st/4qQ0UOV

Mumbai-based digital payments processor BillDesk agrees to acquire the Indian business of Worldline for an equity value of ~$70M, set to close in H2 2026 (The Economic Times)
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/t

Billdesk to acquire Worldline’s India operations; deal values business at $70 million
Billdesk is set to acquire the India payments business of French payment giant Worldline for an estimated equity value of $70 million. In a press release Worldline said that it will be entering into a long-term technology and software pact with Billdesk, through which Worldline’s software stack will continue to remain operational in India. At an enterprise level the value of the deal was pegged at $43.6 million.

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The Economist’s country of the year for 2025
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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
https://thedailyoverview.…

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 …

Trump Hails an Economic Turnaround Many Voters Don't See (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/trump-hails-an-economic-turnaround-many-voters-dont-see-9bb3d851
http://www.memeorandum.com/260225/p37#a260225p37

American businesses and consumers absorbed nearly 90% of the 2025 tariffs’ economic burden.
The researchers weren’t working from theory: They tracked actual transaction-level import price data
and found that prices paid by U.S. importers rose nearly one-for-one with tariff rates.
These results confirm what research on the 2018-19 tariffs already established and echoes other studies of the last year.
The bottom line is that, faced with tariffs,
foreign exporte…

Who Is Paying for the 2025 U.S. Tariffs? - Liberty Street Economics
Over the course of 2025, the average tariff rate on U.S. imports increased from 2.6 to 13 percent. In this blog post, we ask how much of the tariffs were paid by the U.S., using import data through November 2025. We find that nearly 90 percent of the tariffs’ economic burden fell on U.S. firms and consumers.

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…