The Veritas Brief

Reinsurers cut catastrophe prices by up to 25% on 1 July. American homeowners still pay 46% more than in 2021. Both facts describe the same warming atmosphere. We read the July 2026 renewal reports, the Munich Re and Swiss Re loss data, and EIOPA's protection-gap dashboard, and we follow the money from a Bermudian balance sheet to a renewal notice in Altadena. Why does the reinsurance market c...

First Abu Dhabi Bank reported a two percent profit decline in Q1. But beneath the headline was a much deeper story: war risk, oil volatility, the Strait of Hormuz, liquidity pressure, capital discipline, and the role of sovereign power behind one of the Gulf’s most important banks. In this episode of The Veritas Brief , we explain why FAB’s quarter was not simply weak or strong — but a case study...

Britain didn't crash out of the European Union. It leaked — slowly, quietly, for ten years. A decade on from the referendum, the argument about Brexit has moved from prophecy to forensics, and the evidence is finally in. In this episode, we follow the money through the slow subtraction: the contested GDP estimates, ranging from the OBR's 4% to Stanford's 6–8%; the trade friction that t...

A far-right party polling at 38% — the highest in its history. A governing coalition built to keep one man out, now sitting on a trapdoor. And a country in its third straight year of recession. In this episode of the Veritas Brief, we ask what a Herbert Kickl chancellorship would actually mean — for Austria, for its economy, and for a European Union it sits at the very heart of. We unpack the aust...

The largest IPO in history made Elon Musk a paper trillionaire overnight. The stock popped 19% on day one. A rocket launched an hour before the opening bell. And almost nobody read the document underneath it all. In this episode of Veritas Brief, we turn the volume down on the spectacle and reads the SpaceX S-1: a company valued at more than 100x sales, a "space" business that loses mone...

Russia didn't collapse after 2022 — and the Kremlin never stops saying so. But beneath the stocked supermarket shelves and the headline GDP figures, independent economists describe something slower and far more dangerous: a war machine consuming the very foundations it stands on. In this episode of The Veritas Brief, we go beneath Russia's surface stability to the structural crisis its own...

Germany’s far-right AfD is no longer just a protest movement. It is now leading national polls, gaining historic strength in eastern Germany, and moving closer to real political power. In this episode of Veritas Brief, a slow-journalism podcast by Veritas Europaea , we examine what the AfD’s rise could mean not only for Germany, but for Europe and the wider global economy. This is not only a story...