Data from a period in which both China and India pursued deliberate industrial policies show that neither country’s development route is accessible to other countries. At best, their experience can alert policymakers to structural limitations and coordination problems that will require their own homegrown solutions.
Friday, December 12, 2025 FDA’s Efforts to Recall Faulty Medical Devices Limited by Insufficient Staffing The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is responsible foroverseeing the safety of medical devices sold in the U.S. and issuingrecalls when they’re found to be unsafe. But recent headlines andhigh-profile lawsuits have drawn attention to the effectiveness of FDA’sefforts. We’ll…
Joe Raedle | Getty Images Elon Musk’s xAI, now owned by SpaceX, sued Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison to challenge a law that would ban so-called nudify apps in the state. In their complaint, filed in a federal court in Minnesota on Monday, attorneys for xAI wrote that the statute “imposes an overbroad, content-based ban…
We uncover a new mechanism that links growth and a decline in the energy intensity of production, observed globally since 1990. Using microdata from India and a causal research design, we demonstrate that the expenditure share of energy declines steeply with firm scale, due both to physical scaling laws and technology investment. Given that average…
There are a host of challenges at work as the ‘long’ 30-year Treasury yield approaches its longest stretch above 5% in 19 years
Is US Secretary of State Marco Rubio an embattled champion of Venezuelan democracy within the Trump administration, or the public face of a strategy aimed at keeping the old regime in power? Six months after Nicolás Maduro’s ouster, his record suggests democratic restoration is no longer an American priority—if it ever was. CAMBRIDGE—On the classic…
30 July 2026 App design to go beyond requirements of European Accessibility Act Accessibility features to address common barriers faced by users with different needs ECB to start usability and accessibility testing as part of digital euro pilot in 2027 The European Central Bank has outlined the accessibility features of the digital euro app, which will allow users…