Clara Bellweather

Clara Bellweather is a student at Brown University, concentrating on Economics with a specific focus on behavioral finance and wealth inequality. She combines her rigorous analytical training with a passion for storytelling to explore how economic policies translate into human experiences.

Americas·Asia·Opinion

September 27, 2026

Double the Tariff, Double the Shock: The Inflationary Danger of Coercive Trade

Last week, I published a comprehensive report titled Weaponizing Commerce: The Mirage of a Coercive Trade Policy, which investigated the historical precedents and structural failures of using tariffs as instruments of geopolitical

Report

September 20, 2026

Weaponizing Commerce: The Mirage of a Coercive Trade Policy

Historically utilized for domestic protection and geopolitical coercion, tariffs consistently fail as instruments of statecraft. While they offer short-term political posturing and temporary industrial shelter, long-term empirical evidence—from the British Corn Laws

Americas·Opinion

September 3, 2026

There is No Neutral Map Anymore

For years, Silicon Valley’s preferred answer to political controversy has been that technology is merely infrastructure. Algorithms rank, platforms host, maps map. Politics happens somewhere else. Lake Ontario has just demolished that

$70 Billion Tech Tsunami: Why US Giants Are All-In on India

Amazon’s fresh pledge to invest $35 billion in India over five years, coming days after Microsoft’s $17.5 billion commitment to cloud and AI infrastructure, signals that India has become the primary global

December 13, 2025

Americas·Asia·Technology

Saving the World From Itself: Why the UN Still Matters at 80

Dag Hammarskjöld once warned that the United Nations was never meant to deliver paradise—only to keep humanity from plunging into hell. As world leaders assemble for the 80th session of the UN

November 21, 2025

Opinion

Unraveling the US’ $38 Trillion Debt: Implications for Trade Partners

The U.S. has hit a historic and alarming national debt level of $38 trillion in 2025, marking a critical point with broad implications that could reshape global economic and geopolitical power dynamics.

November 13, 2025

Americas·Opinion

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Clara Bellweather

Double the Tariff, Double the Shock: The Inflationary Danger of Coercive Trade

Weaponizing Commerce: The Mirage of a Coercive Trade Policy

There is No Neutral Map Anymore

$70 Billion Tech Tsunami: Why US Giants Are All-In on India

Saving the World From Itself: Why the UN Still Matters at 80

Unraveling the US’ $38 Trillion Debt: Implications for Trade Partners

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