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Now that anyone can invest, amateur investors are able to influence financial markets. But this shift comes with dangerous pitfalls.

Some countries have a stranglehold on the materials the world needs to build a low-carbon economy.

The EU is shifting toward LNG as a response to decreased Russian imports, but the strategy comes with a new set of challenges.

While the U.S. and the euro area appear to have avoided the worst, much depends on how central banks will react to unanticipated news in the coming months.

Despite Western sanctions and volatile prices, Russian oil exports proved resilient last year. The global oil market may face different challenges in 2023.

Though some believe punishing “profiteering” with higher taxation is morally justified, for the economy, it is a dangerous folly.

Governments interfere with pricing mechanisms to shield consumers and companies from rising energy costs, but such measures only deepen the problems in the long run.

Taxation and overregulation have sapped Western countries’ entrepreneurial energies. But the worst part of the low-growth problem is workforce education.

China’s growing confidence and military strength make an attack on Taiwan likely in the next five years. But American and Taiwanese resolve may still deter Xi Jinping.

The political popularity of the European Chips Act does not necessarily make centrally planned investment in chip manufacturing a great idea.