Healthy Ageing at the Midpoint: The Hard Part Is Turning Policy Into Care
The UN Decade of Healthy Ageing has reached its midpoint. More countries are acting, but financing and delivery capacity remain the decisive constraints.
Ideas & Society
The Fed Just Changed How Bank Stress Tests Feed Into Capital Requirements
The Federal Reserve finalized two stress-test reforms: annual public input on scenarios and models, and a two-year average for stress capital buffers beginning in 2028.
South Korea’s Bond-Market Signal: Fewer Issuances and Possible Buybacks
South Korea’s top macro policymakers met as government-bond yields climbed. The concrete signal was a willingness to reduce issuance and use emergency buybacks if needed.
South Korea’s Record September Exports Are Also a Semiconductor Concentration Story
South Korea exported a record $120.94 billion in September 2026, with semiconductors alone at $60.3 billion. The boom is broad—but unusually concentrated.
The Artemis Accords Now Have 76 Signatories. What That Actually Means
The Artemis Accords have expanded to 76 signatories. The important question is not the headline number, but how a growing coalition is turning broad space-law principles into operating norms.
Power Posing, 14 Years Later: What Amy Cuddy’s TED Talk Still Gets Right—and What Didn’t Replicate
Amy Cuddy’s 2012 TED talk made power posing famous. Later replication research weakened its hormone claims—but left a narrower, more useful lesson about posture, self-perception, and scientific correction.
Do Schools Kill Creativity? What Ken Robinson Still Gets Right 20 Years Later
Sir Ken Robinson’s 2006 TED talk still asks a useful question: what do schools lose when they reward only a narrow range of human ability? A 20-year reassessment of what still holds up—and what has aged poorly.
Why Exchange Rates Don’t Fix Trade Imbalances the Way Textbooks Suggest
Gita Gopinath’s dominant currency paradigm explains why a bilateral exchange-rate move may do much less to trade prices than the textbook story suggests.
Before You Argue, Ask These Four Questions
Bo Seo’s RISA framework asks whether a disagreement is real, important, specific, and aligned before anyone begins arguing.