Rubric 03
EconPol
Economy and politics: policy, power and the mechanics underneath.
37EconPol
The Diesel, the Waiver and the Dark Winter
In Kyiv this week a mobile blast shelter stood at street level, installed for the minutes between the air raid alert and the impact. In Zaporizhzhia, a policeman took an elderly woman by the arm and walked her out of a...
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38EconPol
The Rescue Loan That Ate the Restaurant
The loan was designed as a bridge across a pandemic, and for a large share of American restaurants it has become the thing they cannot climb out from under. In March 2020, Congress passed the Coronavirus Aid, Relief,...
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39EconPol
Latino Voters Name the Economy First, Then Split on What It Means
Rises to the Top In September 2025, 26 percent of Latino registered voters rated national economic conditions as excellent or good. By the fall of 2026, that share had fallen to 19 percent. Seven points, in one...
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40EconPol
Healey Weighs Smaller Budget Headroom
The UK finance ministry is preparing a budget, and the question on the table is how much headroom the distance between the projected finances and the government's own fiscal limit it should leave itself. The trade off...
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41EconPol
The Playbook and the Missing Announcement
The Guardian's Politics Weekly America asks whether JD Vance is campaigning for the midterm elections or for the presidential race in 2028. The episode offers no verdict. What it offers instead is a motive: the vice...
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42EconPol
The Audience Was Cancelled, Not The Execution
On October 8, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced the plan. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced that the execution of Nidal Malik Hasan would be public. "And we'll make sure that people are able to watch it,...
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43EconPol
Two Chemical Tankers Burn Where the Danube Meets the Sea
Mouth of the Danube The Wine Trader lay at anchor near the mouth of the Sulina Canal, the channel that carries the Danube into the Black Sea. It sailed under the flag of San Marino, it carried chemicals in bulk, and it...
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44EconPol
Britain's Economy Grew 0.1% in August, Weeks Before Healey's Tax and Spending Plan
The Office for National Statistics Britain's official statistics agency reported that the UK economy grew by 0.1% in August. 1] It was also the last set of official growth figures before John Healey, the chancellor,...
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45EconPol
Britain Widens Its Sanctions Net to Catch Enablers
For most of the life of Britain's 2020 global human rights sanctions regime—the set of legal rules under which a country freezes assets and bans dealings with named people and entities—the target was simple: the person...
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46EconPol
Bank of America Pays $1.2bn for the Alerts It Never Filed
A compliance system has one job: notice. Bank of America's did not, according to US regulators. US regulators fined the country's second largest bank $1.21bn on 13 October 2026 for widespread failures to detect...
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47EconPol
After Twenty-Two Objects Come Home
The handover is over and the objects have changed hands. On October 13, 2026, in the Altar Hall of the National Archaeological Museum in Athens, Greece's culture minister, Lina Mendoni, received 22 antiquities from...
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48EconPol
Smart Glasses Must Say When They Are Watching
The European Data Protection Board issued a non binding recommendation on Tuesday that smart glasses should clearly show when they are recording. The board states the principle narrowly: bystanders have the right to...
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