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What's the role of private equity in the global South? Check out Farwa Sial's (IDEAs) brilliant piece on it!

The final Dispatch from Seville: For COP30 in Belem, Brazil's leadership of the Baku to Belem Roadmap to USD 1.3 trillion renews the ’investible climate’ agenda in Seville with a nod to my favourite development economist, Thandika Mkandawire phenomenalworld.org/analysis/after…

"Mohammed bin Salman’s Saudi Arabia harnesses growth to fixed capital formation and embraces the state as planner and market actor. But it does so through the financialization of housing and debt-financed consumption." NEW: Colin Powers on SV2030. phenomenalworld.org/analysis/sv-20…

Powell nixed plans for a magic honey tree

Aside from the grift and corruption, $550 billion in new foreign investment in the US increases the stock of US foreign liabilities by as much. Increasing US external debt by half a trillion dollars to pay down US debt makes little sense. nytimes.com/2025/07/23/bus…

Monetizing Primacy: Join us next Thursday, July 31, at 12:00pm ET for a conversation with Karthik Sankaran, Brad Setser, and Mona Ali, moderated by JFI's Michael Stynes. Details + Zoom: jainfamilyinstitute.org/monetizing-pri…

If you didn’t hear this story from Anas Baba on NPR today, you should take a listen. He walked 3 hours to find a working internet connection to file the story. npr.org/2025/07/25/nx-…

MUST WATCH: Former US special forces lieutenant-colonel tells the BBC that he has never in his entire career "witnessed the level of brutality and use of indiscriminate and unnecessary force against a civilian population, an unarmed, starving population. I've never witnessed

“Why use airdrops when you can drive hundreds of trucks through the borders?,” UNRWA Juliette Touma tells The New York Times. “It’s much easier, more effective, faster, cheaper.” Airdrops will not reverse the deepening starvation in #Gaza. At UNRWA, we have the equivalent of 6,000 trucks

Horrifying report of the long-term environmental damage done by Israeli genocidaires in Gaza: Nearly all trees destroyed; All coastal waters polluted; Debris with asbestos and other pollutants everywhere; Pollutants leeching into groundwater sources. bloomberg.com/graphics/2025-…

In the meantime, china is the biggest exporter to Israel . exporting more than twice of US export in 2024. Poised to be even more in 2025

Can you stop the aid theatre and just open the borders for goods? Gazans are capable of buying their own food

NEW—"A lot of children have passed the point of no return...The gut lining has started to auto-digest & will no longer [absorb] water or nutrition. Death is imminent for 1000s" An American doctor just back from Gaza on where US-Israeli policy is taking us: huffpost.com/entry/gaza-sta…

Very thrilled to say that I got to chat about my recent Heatmap News piece on the dollar's role in decarbonization with the amazing climate finance experts at CSE Climate Change! This was a great conversation, and I'm so glad to be part of their podcast series:

"Challenging Sanctions Against Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt in U.S. Court" Maryam Jamshidi (msjamshidi.bsky.social) twailr.com/challenging-sa…

I've worked closely with Erika. I know of no economist who is more data-focused & devoted to truth in statistics. She never shied from speaking truth to power when the data were disappointing. Nothing would be worse for US credibility than political meddling in our economic data.

Trump is killing the American auto industry should be headline!! "How carmakers are becoming the biggest losers in Trump’s trade war.... The so-called Big Three of Ford, GM and Stellantis say the new tariff regime will cost them a combined $7bn this year" ft.com/content/654a54…