The Great Memory Gamble: How One Tiny Chip Now Steers The World Economy
From Hiroshima to Seoul to Boise, the world is pouring trillions into AI memory chips. What the great HBM gamble...
July 4, 2026Section
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The United States and Canada set the price of money, the direction of technology, and the trade rules the rest of the world lives by. The Rio Times covers North America through an emerging-market lens: the Fed and the dollar, Wall Street and the AI boom, tariffs and the policies that decide how capital flows to – or away from – Latin America. This hub gathers our daily US and Canada coverage and connects it to the wider Global South story.
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Washington Freezes the North American Trade Pact — and the Americas Feel It
Washington declined to renew the USMCA on its sixth anniversary, opening a decade of annual reviews. Why it splits Mexico...
July 3, 2026
The Day Half the World’s Wealth Rode on One AI Bet
A Meta cloud plan triggered a global memory-chip rout from Seoul to Wall Street. Why Asia's AI boom is now...
July 3, 2026
Weak June US Jobs and Cheap Oil Reach LatAm
America's June jobs report missed badly as oil slid near $68. What the cooling US labour market and easing crude...
July 3, 2026
One Short Seller, A Global Chip Tremor – And What It Means For Latin America
Michael Burry's short bet against Nvidia and chips triggered a Seoul circuit breaker and a global tremor. What the AI...
July 3, 2026
USA & Canada Intelligence Brief
USA & Canada Intelligence Brief — US hiring nearly stalls in June, Washington refuses to renew the CUSMA trade deal,...
July 3, 2026
Washington Lets USMCA Slide Into Annual Reviews – And Reshapes the Hemisphere’s Trade Map
Washington declined to renew USMCA, triggering a decade of annual reviews. What the tariff standoff means for Mexico, Canada and...
July 2, 2026USA & Canada Intelligence Brief
USA & Canada Intelligence Brief — Trump won't renew the USMCA trade pact, Canada marks a rainy Canada Day, US...
July 2, 2026
Who Gets to Belong: Citizenship and Dissent This Week
An American court widened the circle of belonging while African courts were used to narrow it, posing the oldest question...
July 2, 2026