Pakistan’s former prime minister Imran Khan has spent over a year in jail and faces more than 100 charges ranging from ...

Germany’s Olaf Scholz is expected to lose a confidence vote in parliament on Monday, and Arm and Qualcomm’s bitter legal feud ...

New legislation raises questions about whether Maga, or Wall Street, will steer the ship in the incoming administration ...

In the US, demand for metals critical to the green transition continues to climb sharply. But development of new mines there that could help fulfil that need has slowed to a crawl ...

Lex is correct ( December 5) about the superb opportunities now arising for savvy drone start-ups. If drones were cars, then in terms of industrial development and commercial rollout, we are probably ...

Shahin Vallée offers an intriguing historical comparison by suggesting that Scott Bessent could emulate James Baker, the former US Treasury secretary, in forging a grand bargain akin to the ...

From Donald J Boudreaux, Professor of Economics; Martha and Nelson Getchell Chair for the Study of Free Market Capitalism at the Mercatus Center, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, US ...

From Konstantinos Gravas, PhD, Department of History and Philosophy of Sciences, University of Athens (NKUA), Athens, Greece ...

He does, however, forget to mention a crucial component of both the European catch-up in the 1950s and 1960s, and the Japanese miracle in the 1970/80s, as well as China’s emergence in the 2000s — ...

However one worry he did not mention is that governments who give out misleading statistics quite soon believe their own lies, and don’t know the truth.

Lord Michael Spencer seems to feel that the chief executives of London-listed companies are underpaid (“Pay UK bosses like football stars, urges top financier”, Interview, December 12).

The biggest boom and bust in history — Wall Street 1929 — occurred some time after the creation of the Federal Reserve, while in Britain in more recent times the granting of independence to the Bank ...