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Newest Business Plexus articles and commentary, listed by publication date.
China is still known for high household saving, but household debt has risen fast. A comparison with U.S. household debt shows how China moved from low leverage to a property-debt hangover while American households deleveraged after 2008.
A 2026 guide to which semiconductor chips are selling well, which are lagging, and why AI demand is lifting HBM, AI accelerators, server DRAM, enterprise SSDs, networking chips, and advanced packaging while other chip markets remain mixed.
A country-by-country table of Southeast Asia real GDP growth forecasts for 2026, with notes on why Vietnam, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Cambodia, and Laos are expected to outpace slower regional economies.
A series on Ukraine's emerging missile strategy: why manufacturability, production speed, replacement rate, and accessible engineering choices may matter more than building the world's most advanced ballistic missile.
Chess is no longer just a tournament game. The modern chess business runs through Chess.com, Lichess, Chessable, streaming, YouTube, esports events, sponsorships, courses, and software.
A viral claim says Ukraine is connecting FPV drones to remote operators around the world. The claim is not confirmed, but the larger trend is real: drone warfare is becoming gamified, remote, validated by video, and increasingly dependent on communications links.
China wants more trade, reserves, and payment infrastructure to move through the yuan. The yuan is gaining ground around China-linked trade, but the dollar still dominates reserves, payments, FX trading, and trade finance.
A catalog of Russia's major power brokers, how they fit into Putin's system, and how Ukraine's infrastructure strikes are pressuring the oil-linked side of Russia's elite economy.
A newest-first catalog of Ukraine's recent strikes on Russian refineries, oil depots, terminals, fuel logistics, and export infrastructure, updated with the July 6 Omsk, Yaroslavl, Vysotsk, Kaluga, Crimea, and Sea of Azov attacks.
Tanker rates have surged as Middle Eastern crude starts moving again through a still-disrupted Strait of Hormuz. Here is how tanker owners make money, what costs they face, and why rates can stay high even as oil prices fall.
Poland remains broadly anti-Russia and strategically supportive of Ukraine, but refugee fatigue, farmer anger, nationalist politics, and the Volhynia/UPA dispute are making that support more conditional.
Ukraine says it struck a Russian semiconductor plant in Voronezh that makes components for missile systems. Reports differ on whether the weapon was an AGM-188 Rusty Dagger, Storm Shadow, or another air-launched cruise missile.
China's housing crisis is still grinding lower in 2026. Prices are falling again, sales and investment remain weak, local governments are under pressure, and demographics make a fast rebound harder.
SpaceX stock is down sharply on June 22, 2026. The issue is not whether SpaceX is an extraordinary company, but whether the stock price already assumes too much future growth.
Thailand is easing some foreign business restrictions while cracking down on nominee property structures. Foreign investors, retirees, and would-be buyers need to understand the split before committing money.
Chess used to produce famous but financially insecure champions. Streaming, sponsorships, online platforms, and chess businesses have created a new class of chess millionaires.
A practical guide to choosing web hosting: shared hosting, managed WordPress, VPS, unmanaged servers, dedicated servers, cloud platforms, ecommerce hosting, and the providers people actually use.
Thai authorities are raiding foreign-linked businesses in Phuket, Krabi and Phang Nga over alleged nominee structures. Here is what nominee shareholders are, why the structure is illegal, and which businesses are under scrutiny.
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says Belarus must remove Russian drone repeater equipment from towers near Ukraine. Here is what repeaters are, why they matter, and how they affect the war.
A practical guide to tracking oil and energy prices with clickable links for crude benchmarks, futures curves, contango, inventories, tankers, floating storage, refined products, jet fuel, diesel, and natural gas.