Vikram Khanna
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- Sep 16, 2026
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From petrodollar to AI dollar: Can the greenback continue to rule? (opens the original)
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America’s dominance of artificial intelligence could generate a new cycle of global dollar demand, but the AI dollar is unlikely to become a true successor to the petrodollar. Sign up now: Get ST's newsletters delivered to your inbox The dollar could retain its pre-eminence by becoming the main currency in which AI is purchased, financed and traded. The foundations of dollar power are shifting. One of its pillars has been the petrodollar. The oil shocks of the 1970s generated enormous current-ac
Africa is bigger than you think. But does size matter? (opens the original)
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A new world map restores Africa to its true proportions. But geography is not destiny: the continent’s real challenge is to turn its enormous physical scale into economic scale. Sign up now: Get ST's newsletters delivered to your inbox The Equal Earth projection accurately reflects the relative sizes of countries and continents. After years of campaigning, African countries led by Togo and backed by the African Union won an unusual victory at the UN recently: the General Assembly overwhelmingly
The coming food price shock: How war, weather and fuel are colliding (opens the original)
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Asia’s import-dependent economies are on the front line as fertiliser costs and diesel margins rise WE HAVE seen wars in Europe and the Middle East before. We have seen energy price shocks before. We have seen extreme weather events batter harvests before. What we rarely see is all of them arriving at once, each amplifying the others rather than playing out in isolation. That is the situation facing global food markets in the second half of 2026: a war-driven fertiliser shortage, war-driven shor
The coming food price shock: How war, weather and fuel are colliding (opens the original)
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The cost of fertiliser is up 30 per cent, diesel margins have hit record highs, and El Nino hasn’t even peaked. Asia’s import-dependent economies are on the front line. Sign up now: Get ST's newsletters delivered to your inbox An Indonesian padi farmer in Aneuk Galong, Aceh province, cutting crops damaged by drought on Aug 30. The outlook is grim as the El Nino weather phenomenon is set to intensify in the months ahead and persist into early 2027. We have seen wars in Europe and the Middle East
America’s Iran D-Day has many fatal flaws (opens the original)
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Washington is trying to finish economically what it could not achieve militarily in Iran. But China, shadow finance and years of sanctions-proofing make that difficult. Sign up now: Get ST's newsletters delivered to your inbox US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Washington will target the foreign banks, shipping networks, exchange houses, trading companies and governments that keep Iran connected to the global economy.. After almost six months of war, Operation Epic Fury has given way to Op
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