Economy
Can Europe Keep Up With China’s Export Surge?
China's export driven economy is on course to record another trade surplus exceeding 1 trillion dollars, underscoring the country's growing influence on global trade...
Is the Pledge to spend 5% on Defense a NATO Suicide Pact?
Economically it is fair to ask how long the Americans, set on their current fiscal path, will be able to support their current defense...
Why Trump Uses the Stock Market as a Measure of Economic Success?
When U.S. President Donald Trump rang the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange this week, it symbolized more than another presidential appearance...
Can Trump ‘Cut Off All Trade’ With Spain?
U. S. President Trump expressed his intention to impose a trade embargo on Spain, instructing Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent to "cut off all trade....
The Capital Dispatch Week of Jul 7, 2026
THIS WEEK'S STORY
The AI trade that carried markets through four months of war is showing its first real cracks, and this week it picked...
Can Europe Afford NATO’s Ambitious Defence Spending Push?
NATO agreed at its 2025 summit in The Hague to dramatically increase defence spending after sustained pressure from United States President Donald Trump for...
The Quiet Militarisation of America’s Civilian Economy
The most revealing detail in America’s new arms race is not a missile, a drone, or a Pentagon briefing. It is a car chip....
Making Tariffs Trendy Again: The New Global Trade Battlefield
Recent months have delivered a geopolitical earthquake to the international rule-based order that has directed global politics since the end of World War II....
Is Wall Street’s Bull Market Entering an Endless US Expansion?
Wall Street's prolonged bull market is increasingly being underpinned by one of the longest periods of uninterrupted U.S. economic expansion in modern history. Excluding...
The Capital Dispatch
THIS WEEK'S STORY
The numbers say boom, but the undercurrents show otherwise. Asia closed its best quarter in years, with the Nikkei up 38% and...