Argues that AI's labor-market impact is mediated not only by occupation-level exposure, but by the organizational architecture in which the occupation is embedded. The same job presents a different automation surface in a modularized large firm — a narrow codifiable slice — than in a bundled small firm where one person handles many tasks at once. AI does not encounter "the analyst"; it encounters a task bundle, and the bundle is set by firm structure.

Examines how the erosion of NATO, WTO and OPEC credibility has raised the structural floor of global volatility — and what that implies for portfolio construction. Introduces an Institutional Erosion Index (IEI) and tests its relationship with VIX and MOVE floor regimes across 2012–2026.

How platform design, matching algorithms and monetisation structures create a systematic wedge between user welfare and app revenue — suppressing match quality and long-term relationship formation. Combines industrial organisation, information economics and empirical evidence from US dating markets 2010–2024.

A cross-country food affordability index using observed meal prices at the point of consumption — not ingredient costs. Covers 25 dishes across 21 countries. Preliminary backtests suggest strong predictive performance for government turnover events at elevated food-stress thresholds, outperforming headline CPI and Misery Index benchmarks in the current sample. Full methodology, data and results in the dashboard.