The Job Market Has Been Resilient. The Trade War Could Be Its Undoing.
For three years, the U.S. economy has been buffeted by rapid inflation, high interest rates and political instability at home...
Business
Donald Trump unveiled his long-trailed and much-dreaded new list of tariffs. They were worse than expected. Mr Trump announce...
Economic data, commodities and markets
Politics
A French court’s decision to bar Marine Le Pen, the leader of the hard-right National Rally (RN), from running for president ...
Can the world’s free-traders withstand Trump’s attack?
The condemnation was quick to arrive. “There seems to be no order in the disorder. No clear path through the complexity and c...
Donald Trump digs deep to revive American mining
Donald Trump wants minerals, and lots of them. America’s president is interested in Greenland for, among other things, its va...
How to run a smuggling business
“There are different types of smuggler,” explains an Iranian man who crossed the English Channel in an inflatable boat and wa...
India sees opportunity, as well as risk, in Trump’s trade war
However one views Donald Trump’s trade policy, he is not far wrong in calling India a “tariff king”. Jawaharlal Nehru, its fi...
Why Marine Le Pen should be allowed to run for president
BETWEEN 2004 and 2016, Marine Le Pen diverted European Union funds to pay her party’s political staff, falsely claiming that ...
The prospect of early elections in Ukraine has everyone in a spin
THE PREMIERE on February 28th of a new staging of “Macbeth” in Kyiv was initially eclipsed by the diplomatic disaster the sam...