Why don’t more countries import their electricity?
The waters off Singapore teem with tankers, container ships, freighters and smacks, importing everything from oil to electron...
Knowing what your colleagues earn
How much do your colleagues get paid? In a few countries, such as Norway, you can take a good guess by looking at public reco...
To end birthright citizenship, Donald Trump misreads the constitution
IN HIS INAUGURATION speech Donald Trump promised that, in his administration, “we will not forget our constitution.” Before t...
Chinese AI is catching up, posing a dilemma for Donald Trump
If there is a single technology America needs to bring about the “thrilling new era of national success” that President Donal...
Do tariffs raise inflation?
Mountain-naming turned out to be a curiously high priority for Donald Trump. Mere hours after his inauguration, the president...
European governments struggle to stop rich people from fleeing
When a government falls apart, pay attention to the laws ministers still manage to pass. Germany’s collapsing “traffic-light”...
Saba Capital wages war on underperforming British investment trusts
“Have you no shame?” cried Boaz Weinstein during a presentation to investors on January 14th. The boss of Saba Capital, an Am...
Has Japan truly escaped low inflation?
Japan is used to the position in which it currently finds itself: apart from the rest of the rich world. Elsewhere, as inflat...
The Rachel Reeves theory of growth
SPEAK TO the world’s financiers assembled at Davos this week, and Britain rarely comes up. When it does, the mood is hardly c...
How American bankers dodged the MAGA carnage
Wall Street was poorly represented in the expensive seats behind Donald Trump at his inauguration. That honour fell instead t...