Jan 17th 2025 | Hong Kong The company at the heart of “Severance”, a celebrated TV show that just began its second season, features a department of “Macrodata Refinement”. Its workers must spot discon...
The California wildfires have brought widespread disaster to communities in Southern California. It’s also contributed to a serious insurance crisis happening in the state. Many insurers have pulled o...
Jan 16th 2025 THE SCENES of devastation in Los Angeles were just the latest in a recent barrage. Last year hurricanes in the Atlantic, earthquakes in Japan and flooding in Europe all carried huge fina...
Jan 16th 2025 Judged by their revealed preferences, people love cities. Metropolises such as London and New York are bursting at the seams, with house prices to match. China, meanwhile, can boast at l...
Jan 16th 2025 | Johannesburg It was a momentous occasion. But the peal of the bell did not initiate a flurry of trading at the Ethiopian Securities Exchange, which opened on January 10th. With no brok...
Claudia Winkleman, a television presenter with a helmet of shiny hair, is not a typical economics teacher. Yet students should consider her game show. Those learning outside Britain may opt for any of...
Annual inflation increased to 2.9% in December, rising modestly above the 2.7% annual inflation rate of the previous month, according to the Consumer Price Index (CPI) released by the Bureau of Labor ...
Jan 15th 2025 | New York According to Jamie Dimon, chief executive of JPMorgan Chase and king of Wall Street, bankers were elated upon Donald Trump’s election victory. Many chafed under Joe Biden’s pr...
As President Joe Biden's term draws to a close, he has granted federal student loan relief to an additional 150,000 borrowers.These 150,000 borrowers include almost 85,000 who attended schools that ch...
Jan 13th 2025 On November 25th the Elva, a tanker flagged in São Tomé and Príncipe, clandestinely picked up 2m barrels of Iranian crude off Malaysia’s coast. Sailing from there to north-east China, th...
Almost everywhere, government-bond yields are rising fast. Those on ten-year American Treasury bonds are almost 5%. German bunds now offer 2.6%, up from close to 2% in December. Japanese bond yields a...
Jan 10th 2025 The fires that are burning through southern California may be shocking, but they are not surprising. Anyone who lived in the Hollywood Hills was aware of the danger. And for anyone who f...
