In one sense, a weak dollar is good news for the world. Behind the global economy?s current revival is a…
Milton Friedman argued for legalising insider trading on the grounds that it benefited all investors by quickly disseminating new information.…
This year?s Web 2.0 Summit, an annual technology conference in San Francisco, featured a reception at a swanky hotel dubbed…
Barney Frank, head of the financial-services committee in America?s House of Representatives, likes to point out that shaping legislation, like…
Watching an industry committing political suicide is ugly. That is what investment banks are doing by paying bumper bonuses a…
One of the few calamities that has not befallen the world economy during the past two years is a dollar…
Judged by their giant compensation bills, Wall Street?s banks are in fine fettle. But pay is one of the few…
On March 5th an index of the value of the American dollar against six other big currencies touched 89.11, its…
Every year, many leading lights of the internet world congregate at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco. The 2009…
As the week commences when General Motors is set to conclude a deal to sell Opel, its European arm, the…
The Bank of Japan pioneered the process known as quantitative easing in 2001-06, when it massively boosted the reserves that…
The worst may be over for America?s financial markets, but they are still abnormal. Bill Dudley, head of the Federal…
Building economic models usually involves stripping the world down to its most essential features. But simple theories often struggle to…
The word grameen means ?of the village? in Bengali. But Grameenphone, Bangladesh?s biggest mobile-phone firm with over 21m subscribers, is…
Every year, says Paul French, head of Access Asia, a research firm based in Shanghai, the same company buys the…
The alpine hamlets and valleys of Vorarlberg, Austria?s westernmost province, rarely attract much attention, even at home. Yet the region…
Gold fascinates investors. The latest surge in bullion?nominal prices this week topped $1,050 an ounce, a record?has generated headlines that…
After riding a wave of improvement since the spring, the economy stumbled in September according to the latest figures.
