The Observer's technology editor on the fascinating and frightening future being built around us – and the people engineering it. Expect the latest on AI, human longevity, fertility tech, the internet, social media and everything in between. View in browser |
Ben Zaranko
on the economy |
Welcome to Ben Zaranko on the economy. Weekly analysis from the Observer’s economics editor, making sense of the economic ideas and debates shaping all of our lives
The first four editions of this newsletter will be free to read, before becoming exclusive to Observer subscribers. If you aren’t subscribed, click here to find out how you can for as little as £1. |
- Crude oil prices increased following President Trump’s latest bout of hard-line rhetoric towards Iran.
- UK consumer spending in bars and clubs in July was more than 7% higher than a year earlier, boosted by the World Cup.
- Nvidia announced a partnership with Wall Street giants to secure $500bn of funding for AI infrastructure.
|
Keir Starmer did not accept £5m from a foreign-based crypto billionaire like Nigel Farage, or hold parties in Downing Street in breach of lockdown rules like Boris Johnson, or crash the economy like Liz Truss. The outgoing prime minister is neither corrupt, compromised nor crazy. The deep public hostility to him is hard to explain – and in many ways unfair – but leadership is like an X-ray of the soul and Starmer’s political fractures were exposed from the start.
|
- Labour may be digging itself into a hole →
- Five London Fashion Week designers to watch →
- The best – and worst – from Berlin →
- John Berryman’s great American songbook →
- Relooted turns the repatriation debate into play →
- Óliver Laxe: ‘The film is alive inside me. It’s intense’ →
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
