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      <title>The WTO Cut Its 2025 Trade Forecast. The Numbers Matter More Than the Headline</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The WTO swung from 2.7% growth to a 0.2% contraction forecast in April 2025, then to -2.2% in June. The trade rerouting in Census data is the real story.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2026 08:56:57 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Valentina Sokolov</dc:creator>
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      <title>How Economic Sanctions Actually Work</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Designation lists, blocked property, and secondary sanctions are legal mechanics with a mixed record — here is how the instruments work and what the evidence says they achieve.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 08:56:56 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Gabriela Montoya</dc:creator>
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      <description><![CDATA[The definitive CBAM regime began on 1 January 2026, but the threshold, the deductions and the certificate calendar decide who actually pays.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 22 Aug 2026 08:49:19 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Valentina Sokolov</dc:creator>
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      <title>How Central Bank Swap Lines Move Dollars Across Borders</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Six central banks have kept standing dollar swap lines open since October 31, 2013. The mechanism is two transactions, one exchange rate, and a credit risk that never crosses the border.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2026 08:49:18 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Gabriela Montoya</dc:creator>
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      <title>How Weekly Jobless Claims Numbers Get Made</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The Labor Department's Thursday initial claims figure passes through two separate state filings and a federal seasonal-adjustment step before it reaches markets, and a related rate decides who gets extra weeks of benefits.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2026 08:49:16 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Valentina Sokolov</dc:creator>
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      <title>Developing Countries&apos; Debt Payments Hit A 50-Year High</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Low- and middle-income nations paid $741 billion more in debt service than they received in new financing from 2022 to 2024, the widest such gap in five decades, World Bank data show.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 16 Aug 2026 08:49:15 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Henrik Larsen</dc:creator>
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      <description><![CDATA[A funding lapse triggers the 1950s-era Antideficiency Act automatically, deciding which federal employees keep working, which are furloughed, and when they get paid.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2026 08:49:14 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Gabriela Montoya</dc:creator>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2026 08:49:13 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Henrik Larsen</dc:creator>
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      <title>How Critical Minerals Agreements Reshape Trade Blocs</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Critical minerals agreements explained: the U.S.-Japan template, the Minerals Security Partnership, IRA linkage, and producer countries' leverage.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Gabriela Montoya</dc:creator>
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      <title>The 90-Day Clock Behind US Foreign Deal Reviews</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[A statutory review-then-investigation timeline, not a blanket veto power, is what actually governs how Washington screens foreign investment — and CY2025 filings show where the scrutiny concentrates.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2026 08:49:12 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Christopher Lee</dc:creator>
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      <title>How the EU Carbon Border Mechanism Phases In</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[CBAM explained: certificate mechanics, the 2026 definitive phase, covered goods, costs for exporters, and the trade-law fight around it.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Gabriela Montoya</dc:creator>
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      <title>How the Belt and Road Restructures Its Loans</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[BRI debt explained: the 1.1-trillion-dollar lending record, the turnaround to collection, Common Framework cases, rescue lending, and the Hambantota myth.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Gabriela Montoya</dc:creator>
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      <description><![CDATA[Friendshoring explained: bloc trade data, Mexico and Vietnam's rise, China's rerouting, fragmentation costs, and what actually decoupled.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 19 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Gabriela Montoya</dc:creator>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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