Samiran Ghosh
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- Sep 23, 2026
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Trade pacts beyond signatures: What the deals are worth should be judged at the customs counter & by small exporters (opens the original)
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In the first century, Pliny the Elder complained that India, China and Arabia drained Rome of 100 million sesterces a year. He blamed luxury and women. The trade-deficit column, it seems, is older than the newspaper. But the more revealing evidence is not his complaint. It is the paperwork. The second-century Muziris Papyrus has records of financing and cargo calculations for trade between India’s southwestern coast and Roman Egypt, including a 25% customs levy. While Pliny lamented the outflow
Not an embargo: China is using the pen to control rare-earth supply (opens the original)
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In May 2025, Ford stopped building the Explorer at its Chicago assembly plant for a week — not for want of chips, steel or workers, but for want of small rare-earth magnets used throughout the vehicle. They were stuck behind an exports-approval queue on the other side of the world. Nobody had declared an embargo. Beijing had simply asked the world to fill in forms. Deng Xiaoping’s widely cited 1992 remark — “The Middle East has oil. China has rare earths” — is usually read as a boast about geolo
Hormuz to Indus: The new water weapon isn't scarcity. It's uncertainty (opens the original)
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For half a century, strategists staring at the Strait of Hormuz have seen oil. Before the current conflict, crude oil and petroleum liquids moving through the narrow waterway averaged 21.6 million barrels a day in the fourth quarter of 2025. By the second quarter of 2026, the US Energy Information Administration estimated that figure had fallen to 4.9 million barrels a day. But one of the most disturbing moments of the crisis had little to do with oil. On March 30, US President Donald Trump said
We taught machines to generate answers. Now, they need to be checked and verified (opens the original)
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In a work generally dated to around 825 CE, the Baghdad-based scholar Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi explained calculation using Hindu numerals, including zero. Medieval Latin versions of his name helped give us “algorithm”; the title of another work, al-jabr, gave us “algebra.” The etymology carries a warning. An algorithm is not an oracle, but a method for turning inputs into outputs—once through human-written rules and now, increasingly, through patterns learned from data. The recent machine-
Gold, code and the rupee: Inside the quiet war over how the world will pay (opens the original)
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In November 1956, Britain learned what its money was really worth. British and French troops had seized the Suez Canal and were winning on the ground. But the pound was not. Traders dumped sterling — some $450 million of reserves gone in a month — and Washington, opposed to the invasion, blocked the IMF rescue Britain needed. US President Eisenhower never fired a shot; he let the pound bleed until Britain withdrew, humiliated, within weeks. Britain had discovered that whoever controls the system
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