Even for the very best investors, in other words, identifying a bubble is a good deal easier than judging when it will burst.

And then there are leaf blowers. In recent years dozens of municipalities have enacted ordinances restricting or entirely ...

Much of this is posturing. A company looks better in investors’ eyes if it attributes staff cuts to its technological prowess ...

Welcome to The War Room. This newsletter regularly covers Ukraine, Gaza and other geopolitical flashpoints, and rightly so.

The other is the National Escape Clause (nec), which allows countries to increase defence spending by up to 1.5% of gdp over ...

Between 2011 and 2021 the number of members in Africa increased by 120%, compared with 19% globally. Matt Martinich, a ...

Jacqueline Harpman was born into a Jewish family in Belgium in 1929 and “ IWHNKM ” evokes the horrors of Nazism. Her slim, ...

The rebels have a point. Across Europe playgrounds are emptying while care homes fill up. The European Commission reckons that by 2070 there will be barely two working-age adults on the continent for ...

America and China are locked in an AI arms race, but they aren’t the only ones running. Countries worldwide are quietly ...

Donald Trump said he had decided who to nominate to succeed Jerome Powell as chair of the Federal Reserve, though he declined to name his pick. Kevin Hassett, a senior economic adviser to Mr Trump, ...

Now finance is entering the next major evolution in market infrastructure—one that could move assets faster and more securely ...

On November 30th the country held a referendum on their proposal to levy a 50% federal inheritance tax on the super-rich and ...