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Along a mountainous stretch of the South Caucasus lies a potentially important trade route—one that straddles a series of geopolitical flashpoints that have set off countless conflicts over the centuries, right up into recent years.

This is Washington Edition, the newsletter about money, power and politics in the nation’s capital. Today, economics and politics editor Ben Holland looks at the past week’s progress toward a Trump-Putin summit. Sign up here and follow us at @bpolitics. Email our editors here.

During more than a decade of war in Syria, plenty of external powers got involved. The hope now for the country’s shattered economy is that at least some of them will want a stake in its recovery, too.

I’m Ben Holland, an economics editor in Washington. Today we’re looking at the implications for inflation from US corporate profit margins. Send us feedback and tips to ecodaily@bloomberg.net. And if you aren’t yet signed up to receive this newsletter, you can do so here.

I’m Ben Holland, an economics editor in Washington. Today we’re looking at the implications for inflation from US corporate profit margins. Send us feedback and tips to ecodaily@bloomberg.net. And if you aren’t yet signed up to receive this newsletter, you can do so here.

I’m Ben Holland, an economics editor in Washington. Today we’re looking at trade and GDP. Send us feedback and tips to ecodaily@bloomberg.net. And if you aren’t yet signed up to receive this newsletter, you can do so here.

When two of US President Donald Trump’s top lieutenants issued a call to remove government spending from the nation’s most-watched gauge of economic growth, they waded into an old and fierce debate that goes far beyond statistics.

US companies are plowing money into building data centers as they race to get ahead in artificial intelligence.

Interest payments by the US government are rising fast, according to the latest budget numbers published by the Treasury — and even faster in reality.