Beautiful Economics

Beautiful Economics

Economics explained carefully and kept where you can find it again — not buried in a feed two days after it was written.

Start with a concept Why this site exists

PLATE I

How long a piece of writing stays findable A post in the feed reaches almost nobody after about forty-eight hours. A page on this site stays findable, and slowly gains readers through search, for years. readers who can still find it gone by hour 48 A post in the feed A page on this site published 1 month 3 years
How long a piece of writing stays findable. A post in the feed reaches almost nobody after about forty-eight hours. A page at its own address keeps being found, and slowly gains readers through search, for years.

The rupee this morning

European Central Bank reference rates, 2026-10-16

The rupee is noticeably stronger against the dollar than a month ago, at 94.96 to the dollar — a move of 1.0%.

  • $1 buys ₹94.96 ▼ 1.02% stronger over a month 90-day range ₹94.49 – ₹96.78
  • €1 buys ₹106.86 ▼ 2.99% stronger over a month 90-day range ₹106.53 – ₹111.96
  • £1 buys ₹126.63 ▼ 1.33% stronger over a month 90-day range ₹125.92 – ₹130.69
  • ¥100 buys ₹60.09 ▼ 2.48% stronger over a month 90-day range ₹58.44 – ₹62.05

Slower numbers, for scale. These move once a year, not once a day.

  • 2.4% Consumer price inflation Annual average, India · 2025
  • 7.57% GDP growth Annual, constant prices · 2025
  • 4.22% Unemployment Modelled ILO estimate · 2025

Annual indicators from the World Bank. Updated automatically each weekday.

Today's concept

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Comparative advantage

Two people both gain from trading even when one of them is better at everything.

Latest writing

  • 17.10.2026

    Why Beautiful Economics now has its own address

    The page stays. But a post that disappears in two days is a bad place to keep something you want people to use more than once.

  • 12.10.2026

    Your feed is loud for a reason

    Headlines did not get shriller because journalists got worse. They got shriller because attention became the scarce good, and scarcity has consequences economists can describe precisely.

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