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The EU’s Digital Services Act

The EU has recently implemented the Digital Services Act (DSA). It officially aims to create a safer online environment and promotes users rights. However, what are the implications of the regulations included in this act toward firms that operate through the internet?

Expansion of BRICS: The Implications

Six new members are set to join the BRICS alliance next year, increasing the group's economic reach over almost half of the world's population and oil production. Will the US dollar's global influence be challenged?

Is It Time to Abandon Green Growth?

Discussions on sustainability still revolve around green growth, making it easy to assume that it is possible and desirable. However, this assumption is increasingly being challenged by the degrowth movement and even some economists. Is green growth a useful paradigm for the 21st century, or is it time to update our ideas about sustainable development?

The USA’s Debt Default Danger

With the impending possibility of the United States breaching its debt ceiling, the “indisputable” stability of its financial and fiscal institutions is once again questioned.

First Silicon Valley, Now Credit Suisse: A Chain of Bank Collapses

Based on these bank collapses, coupled with all other major economic events, it is easy to say that the financial world is currently staring at an unstable future.

OPEC+ fires its last cartridges

Ultimately, OPEC is firing its last bullets before oil takes its downward spiral. Yet, they will be expensive bullets and not without consequences.

Rice: Climate Change’s Victim & Perpetrator

As another rice shortage creeps up on the world, agricultural and political innovation is needed to mitigate the social and environmental harm rice induces. 

IMF Approves $3 Billion Loan to Sri Lanka

On March 20, Sri Lanka obtained a $3 billion loan from the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The reason behind this loan is that the country is currently grappling with its most severe financial crisis since gaining independence from Britain in 1948.

The Future of the US Dollar

Nations have recently begun the process of turning away from the US dollar, leaning towards utilizing more of their own currency, while others lean towards the creation of a new collaborative one.

The Willow Project: A Ticking ‘Carbon Bomb’

The Biden Administration recently approved an oil-drilling project in Alaska’s National Petroleum Reserve, putting in danger polar bear populations and creating enormous greenhouse gas emissions.

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From Stamps to Sonny Angels: The Psychology Behind Collecting

Regardless of the items, collecting is an action fundamental to the human experience. Why do we collect and what does it say about us? I fell down a deep rabbit hole pondering over this question and I am happy to share my findings with you.