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The Electro-Industrial Stack Will Move the World
Ambition, Indonesia Finance Minister, Dollar vs Gold, and Pay for Job
Peeyush Jain & Mohit Garg
September 10, 2025
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The Quote 💭
“Men of great ambition have sought happiness and have found fame.”
The Tweet 🐦
Here we go: Indonesia Finance Minister is removed and is replaced with Purbaya Yudhi Sadewa who is head of Indonesia’s Deposit Insurance Corporation.
The key question for markets is whether Prabowo can have his cake and eat it too. To afford the lunch program, she had to make
— Trinh (@Trinhnomics)
9:30 AM • Sep 8, 2025
Last week, protests erupted in Indonesia after lawmakers suggested giving themselves a large monthly housing allowance. The main reason for the quick backlash is the lack of jobs.
The Infographic 💹
The dollar is losing reserve currency status. It’s down to 42% of global reserves, and gold is rapidly rising.
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The Short Read 📝
Typically, nobody wants a job that does not pay a salary but in China, young people are paying companies to pretend that they work for them. With the Chinese economy slowing down, youth unemployment is at more than 14% meaning a lot of young adults are without jobs. With real jobs hard to come by, a lot of youth would rather pay companies and pretend to work there instead of just sitting at home.
Such operations are common across China’s biggest cities such as Shenzen, Shanghai, Nanjing, Wuhan, Chengdu and Kunming. These facilities resemble typical offices and are equipped with computers, internet access, meeting rooms and tea rooms. Users can utilise the facilities to just sit around or apply for real jobs. Sometimes the daily fee, usually between 30 and 50 yuan, also includes lunch, snacks and drinks. Most of the users tend to be fresh college graduates and the average age is around 30. Read more…
The Long Read 📜
The Electro-Industrial Stack Will Move the World - by Ryan McEntush
Software has revolutionized the office—but its transformation of the physical world has stalled. While planning and design were digitized, “last-mile” execution remains bound by complex, human-dependent workflows. Manufacturing productivity surged in the 1990s, yet plateaued when further automation hit physical and institutional limits. The missing link is what McEntush calls the electro-industrial stack—the technological foundation that makes machines behave like software. It spans from minerals and metals (converted into advanced components), to energy storage, power electronics, actuators, and real-time, software-controlled compute.
Key building blocks—rare-earth mining, lithium-ion chemistry, silicon-carbide power electronics, and robotics—have evolved over decades. Yet today, China increasingly dominates their production and scaling, exposing strategic vulnerability. The convergence of this electrified stack with AI in industrial systems promises a leap in physical-world productivity. Tesla exemplifies this by integrating software, sensors, and electrified systems to accelerate innovation. But wide adoption will require vertically integrated, software-native supply chains, coordinated policy, domestic capacity, and alliances to ensure technological leadership—and prevent falling behind in this vital era.
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