Why is there a bear market in plutocratic assets? The most obvious explanation would be that the super-rich are ...

The number of mega-deals—mergers, acquisitions and investments worth more than $10bn—announced this year is approaching a ...

Mr Mokyr is an economist and a historian. He is also an inbetweener; not fully happy in either camp. He writes better than ...

The effect is still hard to spot in official data. But a study of 300,000 companies suggests where hiring is weakening ...

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America is reviving the base as a staging ground for its expanding war against Latin America’s drug-gangs. Since August it ...

Next, the editorials insist that China is profoundly resilient. They note risks, including American protectionism and weak ...

To succeed, the process will require new leadership and sustained external pressure, writes the peace-deal veteran ...

The irony of the world’s fiscal mess is that economic conditions are benign. No major economy is in a recession. Public debts ...

Fixing the welfare state looks electorally impossible ...

The war has been a calamity. Close to 70,000 Palestinians have lost their lives. The Gaza Strip is flattened. Almost 500 ...

That leaves three unpalatable options: tax rises, default and inflation. The most likely is inflation—a danger looming over ...