“He started it,” is playground justice. It may soon be America’s trade policy. On February 13th Donald Trump announced he had decided, for what he later called “purposes of fairness”, to employ recipr...
If you are going to buy a flat in China, common advice goes, you should buy it from a “model student”. That is, a developer who has followed the rules, kept debts under control and refrained from exce...
Feb 20th 2025 | New York WHEN IT COMES to the finances of American consumers, the viral videos produced by Caleb Hammer, a personal-finance social-media star, provide some cause for concern. His “fina...
Jerome Powell’s press conferences—sometimes market-moving events—have attracted less notice of late. With Donald Trump in the White House, the chair of the Federal Reserve faces competition for attent...
The Internal Revenue Service has doled out millions of tax refunds amid the ongoing 2025 tax filing season. More than 8 million tax refunds have gone out during the 2025 season as of Feb. 7 and, accor...
Feb 16th 2025 The first proper winter in three years had already reignited energy debates. With temperatures frigid and Asian competition for supplies fierce, the spot price at the Dutch Transfer Titl...
Annual inflation increased to 3% in January, rising above expectations and giving the Federal Reserve further reason to slow down interest rate cuts.Inflation increased 0.5% monthly, slightly exceedin...
Feb 13th 2025 | Washington, DC At a summit in Paris on February 10th and 11th, tech bosses vied to issue the most grandiose claim about artificial intelligence. “AI will be the most profound shift of ...
The holiday from reality, for the happy few enjoying it, has been delightful. Three years ago it was still possible to fix a mortgage rate in Britain and much of the euro area at somewhere near 1%. Am...
Feb 13th 2025 While inflation has cooled almost everywhere, in Russia it is hotting up. Consumer prices rose by 9.5% year on year in December, up from 8.9% the previous month and uncomfortably above t...
In 1812 Frederick Winsor, a madcap entrepreneur, invented the public utility. The idea behind his Gas Light and Coke company, which would supply residents of London, was that instead of each household...
In early February Openai, the world’s most famous artificial-intelligence firm, released Deep Research, which is “designed to perform in-depth, multi-step research”. With a few strokes of a keyboard, ...
