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INVESTIGATION: Trump's "Section 122" Tariffs Face Expiration on July 24
For months, Donald Trump's trade policy has rested on one precise legal instrument: Section 122, which allowed him to impose global 10% tariffs on…
FACT-CHECK: At least 10 people shot dead by immigration agents under Trump II
On July 9, 2026, an investigation published by The Guardian, citing data from The Wall Street Journal, documented that at least ten people were…
REPORT: Germany and Canada lead the spending, Europe finally wakes up
On July 7, 2026, NATO published a report that would have seemed unthinkable a decade ago: average defense spending among the Alliance's European countries…
ANALYSIS: Trump Targets Spain, Threatens to "Cut" Trade Ties
On the sidelines of the NATO summit in Ankara, on July 7 and 8, 2026, Donald Trump declared that "Spain is a lost cause,"…
ANALYSIS: Only 5 of NATO's 32 Members Will Hit 3.5% GDP on Defense
On July 7, 2026, on the eve of the NATO summit in Ankara, the Alliance published data that sums up, better than any speech,…
ANALYSIS: NATO targets 5% of GDP for defense, a decade-long gamble
At the Ankara summit, held on July 7 and 8, 2026, NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte gave an update on the commitment made a…
The world's oldest stock exchange opened in Amsterdam in 1602
Did you know that the claim that the Amsterdam Stock Exchange was the world's oldest securities exchange keeps popping up in economic
DID YOU KNOW that the word "salary" comes from salt, but not how you think
Every month, millions of people receive their salary without ever wondering where this word, so ordinary in today's economic vocabulary, actually comes
In 1637, a Dutch tulip was worth the price of a house in Amsterdam
In the seventeenth century, the Dutch Republic experienced an economic golden age fueled by maritime trade and a thriving, prosperous urban bourgeoisie