For a long time, the formula for a financially secure life started with getting a good education, finding a stable job, saving money, buying a house, and eventually retiring comfortably. It was never easy for everyone, but there was a general belief that working hard and making sensible choices would pay off in the long run. Illustration by The Geostrata For Gen Z, that promise feels a lot less certain. Young people are entering adulthood in an economy where housing is expen

Barricade your windows and lock up your doors, because doomsday is coming. Dario and Altman, two individuals with a rivalry the likes of Bird and Magic, have found rare agreement on quite an alarming subject: that at the current pace of AI development, the upheaval will be disastrous. So, they’re calling for a slowdown in model development. Investors remain bullish on AI, but what now when the wraith in their risk models actually comes to life, and the AI race actually does s

The traditional view of NVIDIA that prevailed was that the firm was the world’s most dominant supplier of AI chips. While that still holds true, over the past eighteen months, the firm has simultaneously pursued the path of a venture investor, a loan guarantor, and a customer-financing arm for the very companies that buy its hardware. The role NVIDIA now plays as a chip vendor and a chip financer is what is driving the already expanding AI bubble. By making credit access easi

India undoubtedly has one of the fastest-growing startup ecosystems in the world. However, one must stop and start asking the question of why almost 9 out of 10 startups fail in India. The answer would provide you with a typical checklist of bad unit economics, copied business models, and businesses that scaled and invested capital before finding adequate product-market fit. Illustration by The Geostrata Every single reason is true, but it is not the primary reason. All thes

INTRODUCTION TO THE ADOPTION OF AI: AFRICA Of the countless innovations made in the 20th and 21st centuries, Artificial Intelligence (AI) has emerged as one of the most transformative technologies of our era. What began as a mere computational tool has now evolved into a powerful driver of economic growth. The scope of AI has expanded immensely, with its applications now extending to automation, decision making, resource allocation, data organisation and analytics. Illustr

According to the conventional narrative of human history, citizenship was a sacred, unbreakable tie that combined ancestry, birthright, and common cultural heritage. Your country chose you, frequently by pure happenstance of where you were born. The high-altitude lounges of Dubai, Singapore, and Zurich, however, are writing a different story in the twenty-first century. Illustration by The Geostrata Citizenship is now a diverse asset class rather than a fate. Small countries

Investment is a small but highly volatile component of a nation’s gross domestic product. As domestic belief in the future of a country’s growth feeds more into investments than corporate necessity, most fluctuations in terms of investment, particularly business fixed investment, or private capital expenditure, can be traced back to demand-side catalysts. Illustration by The Geostrata THE THEORETICAL FOUNDATIONS Investment is not merely an autonomous activity, but is under

The governments of India and the United Kingdom announced a landmark Free Trade Agreement with symmetry on 6 May 2025 and formally signed this agreement on 24 July 2025. Throughout this process, India’s Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) played a critical and often informal role in providing strategic coordination, direction, and oversight to the international significance of this event. Illustration by The Geostrata By illuminating the PMO’s role, we gain insight into how the hig

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