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Brent's 7.63% fall, October US ISM 55.5 with prices 75.2, weaker Nasdaq, divergent European industry and pending US midterms and Brazil Copom reveal a global battle between energy relief and the cost of finance.
From J.D. Vance, Chris Buskirk and Peter Thiel to US super PAC finance, 1789 Capital, South Korea and disputed political operations in Brazil: an evidence-led investigation of private capital and democratic influence.
A long historical and empirical inquiry into algorithmic power: McNamara and the limits of quantification, recommender systems and attention markets, psychology and short videos, digital political mobilisation in Brazil, French unrest, Ukraine's war imagery, automated work decisions, Peter Thiel and the governance of AI.
October PMIs slow in Korea and Japan while China's official and private surveys diverge; OPEC+ held December production requirements and Japan's 1.25% policy rate frames credit risk.
BIS reports US$877bn of adjusted Q2 cross-border credit growth, led by euros; ICI combined flows returned to +US$12.324bn after an extraordinary institutional week, while real investment conversion remains uneven.
Why accelerating AI capability does not automatically produce broad prosperity: employment, early-career opportunity, capital ownership, basic income, electrical infrastructure, governance and autonomous warfare under 2026 evidence.
A deep historical, political-economic and psychological study of cyber conflict through 2 November 2026: European retail refrigeration, Polish energy sabotage, government and medical breaches, Russia–EU coercion, global competition, AI, law, civilian harm and five falsifiable futures.
Global comparison of mobile and settled foragers, resource rights, reciprocity, stored food and political authority, from Ju/'hoansi networks to the Northwest Coast, Natufian Levant, Jōmon and Poverty Point.
Comparative archaeological investigation of production, energy, cooperation, food risk, material exchange, social organization and power before farming, from earliest lithic technologies to Late Pleistocene foragers.
Korean October semiconductor export receipts surged as Chinese orders weakened; the official September baseline corrects the trade-surplus comparison, while OPEC+ held December production requirements.
China's October factory and export-order surveys fell below 50, Europe's Q3 GDP growth slowed and US yields eased; uneven demand meets persistent energy risks.
US GDP accelerated to 3.4% annualised while September real disposable income fell; Treasury yields declined, technology shares sold off, and Japan changed its future ETF disposal pace.
Theses, risks and indicators from up to three publications, with the date of each assessment.