Feb 6th 2025 | Hong Kong America’s president tempts many people to invoke the “madman theory” of diplomacy. In dealing with other countries, it helps if they think you are crazy. By making threats cre...
Feb 6th 2025 | Washington, DC Employers are ordering workers back to the office. In recent weeks Dell, a hardware-maker, and JPMorgan Chase, a bank, have issued such decrees. They join a growing list ...
Feb 6th 2025 It is hard to avoid the soft bigotry of low expectations. The EU’s statistics bureau titled a recent release—showing no economic growth in the last quarter of 2024—“GDP stable in the euro...
Feb 6th 2025 | Washington, DC Donald Trump’s supporters celebrate him as a man who says what he means and means what he says. The trade crisis he ignited over the past week has provided more proof, if...
Ahead of India’s budget on February 1st, Narendra Modi asked Lakshmi, the Hindu goddess of wealth, to bless the poor and the middle class. The prime minister’s request for divine intervention mingled ...
Feb 5th 2025 When the 24 cabinet secretaries and top-level officials in Donald Trump’s new government assemble, they will form one of the wealthiest administrations in history. Whether they are the ve...
Feb 4th 2025 | Hong Kong Bullies are often told to pick on someone their own size. Donald Trump has just followed that advice. After America’s president threatened to start a damaging new trade war wi...
Feb 3rd 2025 | Washington, DC DONALD TRUMP took North America to the precipice of a trade war over the weekend. On February 3rd he cooled things down, delaying tariffs on Canada and Mexico by a month ...
Verizon is teaming up with ForgiveCo to clear $10 million in consumer debt for more than 6,500 North Carolinians impacted by Hurricane Helene.The communications company said the debt relief campaign i...
Feb 2nd 2025 | WASHINGTON, DC LESS THAN two weeks into his new administration, Donald Trump has placed large tariffs on America’s three biggest trading partners—raising the spectre of a global trade w...
Jan 23rd 2025 For bears of both the market and polar kind, a planet without an ice cap is a tragedy. The Arctic is warming four times faster than the world at large, causing ice to shrink by an area t...
“Short essays” appear to be causing big problems in China’s bond market. Over the past year the term has been used to refer to rumours swirling around financial hubs, which often originate with brief ...
