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EconPol

Economy and politics: policy, power and the mechanics underneath.

25EconPol

Coinbase Brings Stablecoins to Over 1000 Community Banks

Coinbase Brings Stablecoins to Over 1000 Community Banks Stablecoins Arrive Without a Blockchain Stablecoins can be held outside the banking system. The next thousand plus adopters of stablecoin payments are banks. Both...

12 Sep 2026

26EconPol

Coral Records Reveal Stronger El Nino Events

Coral Records Reveal Stronger El Nino Events A Thousand Years in the Skeleton There was a Pacific before the satellites, and almost nobody was counting. Until the 1980s, when satellite observation began, the surface...

12 Sep 2026

27EconPol

Dyno Tests Send 36 Illegal Electric Bikes To Crusher

Dyno Tests Send 36 Illegal Electric Bikes To Crusher What a Dyno Machine Made Visible The speed was never printed on the frame. That is how 36 e bikes ended up in police custody on Sydney's northern beaches. One of them...

12 Sep 2026

28EconPol

Sarmada Blast Kills 14 at Syria Weapons Storage Site

Sarmada Blast Kills 14 at Syria Weapons Storage Site Smoke Rises Over Sarmada's Storage Site Smoke was still coming off the ground hours after the first blast. Crews could not get to everyone quickly: the site held...

11 Sep 2026

29EconPol

Working Students Face Cost of Living Crisis

Working Students Face Cost of Living Crisis The Question Behind the Question "Can you really juggle a job and study for a degree?" That is the question a video puts to its audience. Read it fast and it sounds like...

11 Sep 2026

30EconPol

Fourth Plane Never Arrived That Is the Entry That Matters

Fourth Plane Never Arrived That Is the Entry That Matters The Line That Stops Short Children count the objects in front of them and ask about the one that is missing. A child given four planes will want to know where...

11 Sep 2026

31EconPol

CIA Lost Its Enemy Then Found A War

CIA Lost Its Enemy Then Found A War The Silence Before A Different War Forty minutes. That is how long Margaret Henoch waited on the morning of 11 September 2001 before she concluded that no order was coming from the...

11 Sep 2026

32EconPol

Trump Five Thousand Dollar Promise Raises Legal and Fiscal Questions

Trump Five Thousand Dollar Promise Raises Legal and Fiscal Questions The Legal Weight Of A Campaign Promise In American politics, a sum of money offered from a stage before an election has a name, and the name carries...

10 Sep 2026

33EconPol

England Tourism Tax Plan Centers on Fiscal Devolution

England Tourism Tax Plan Centers on Fiscal Devolution The Taxman In England Is Almost Entirely National Most people in England assume that the money they pay for local services is raised and spent locally. The numbers...

10 Sep 2026

34EconPol

Trump 5000 Dollar Dividend Pledge Has No Paymaster

Trump 5000 Dollar Dividend Pledge Has No Paymaster The Arithmetic That Stayed in a Drawer The most revealing part of the Dallas speech was not on the podium. It stayed in a drawer, unopened: a mechanism for moving money...

10 Sep 2026

35EconPol

Cartoon Two Bills and Gas Reservation Divide Coalition

Cartoon Two Bills and Gas Reservation Divide Coalition The Cartoon That Stayed Up for a Month The microphones are set up in the same corridor at the same hour, and someone always has to explain what was said the day...

10 Sep 2026

36EconPol

Safety Researcher Quits Over AI Superintelligence Risks

Safety Researcher Quits Over AI Superintelligence Risks When a Safety Researcher Walks Out Jacob Coxon, a researcher at Anthropic, has resigned in protest. He said he resigned because Anthropic and his previous...

09 Sep 2026