Economic Impacts of Sanctions on Iran’s Nuclear Program: Effects on Oil Markets and Middle Eastern Stability

The international community, particularly Western nations, has long been focused on Iran’s nuclear ambitions, seeing them as a destabilizing factor in the Middle East. To prevent Iran from potentially developing nuclear weapons, the United States and European countries have imposed stringent economic sanctions aimed at cutting off Iran’s access to resources and technology essential to […]

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From school debt management to the “Girl math” phenomenon: Gen Z and the “new” financial education

It is almost impossible that, in the past couple of years, scrolling through your TikTok “For You” page or on your Instagram feed, you have not encountered the recurring “Girl math” meme or more generally “FinTok” contents. In typical Gen Z fashion, trends are used to define and popularize behaviors and views of every kind, […]

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The Future of the Mind-Machine Connection: The Science and Ethics of Brain-Computer Interfaces

What if our thoughts could turn into actions? What if every idea, every emotion, could be translated into digital commands? This is the world that brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) are opening up for us. The idea of directly connecting the brain to a machine is not new. As early as the 1970s, the first experiments showed […]

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The September 2022 Pound depreciation and its consequences

This article aims to illustrate what happens to markets and monetary trends when governments take drastic actions that scare investors away. While governments use monetary and fiscal policy to stabilise their economies, a loss of investor confidence can lead to swift and severe consequences as demonstrated by the United Kingdom’s recent economic turbulence under Liz […]

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