Undermining regulatory independence in America and Britain will deter investment, write William Kovacic and John Vickers ...

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China’s largest tech firms, including Alibaba, Baidu, Huawei and Tencent, are embracing the hype, and will be hoping to cash ...

Instead, it is stockmarkets outside America to which investors have been dashing. So far this year Europe’s Stoxx 600 index ...

The cuts to health aid have already interrupted essential services around the world, from antiretroviral therapy for HIV to ...

An analysis of several national surveys by The Economist suggests that the brighter mood sweeping across college campuses is ...

Reform UK has accused Rupert Lowe, one of its MP s, of threatening Mr Yusuf, and has reported him to the police, who say they ...

W HEN RODRIGO DUTERTE was arrested on the morning of March 11th, as he stepped off a plane in Manila, hundreds of supporters ...

CODDLING America’s steel industry has long been a policy of presidents from both sides of the political aisle. Donald Trump, ...

The Technological Republic. By Alexander Karp and Nicholas Zamiska. Crown Currency; 320 pages; $30. Bodley Head; £25 ...

B udget announcements are rarely dramatic events in South Africa. But the statement on March 12th by Enoch Godongwana, the ...

T HE SELL-OFF shows no sign of stopping. America’s S & P 500 index dropped by another 3% on March 10th, leaving the world’s ...