As Defence budgets come under fire, defence companies are deploying new tactics to protect their profits. Britain is cutting military…
Passing through California on a mid-term campaign swing, Barack Obama made a point of stopping off to see Steve Jobs,…
Announcing the fiercest public-spending cuts in decades in the House of Commons on October 20th, George Osborne, the chancellor of…
Ever since Ben Bernanke, the chairman of the Federal Reserve, signalled in the summer that he stood ready to keep…
Michael Porter, a management guru, warned businesses not to be ?stuck in the middle.? Firms that use a mix of…
A Truth universally acknowledged for some years in Western financial markets has been that a single stock exchange in possession…
In the world of business they call it ?the consumerisation of IT?: employees who are used to powerful smart phones…
The town of Alpha in Queensland, Australia, has only 400 residents, including one part-time ambulance driver and a lone…
It was supposed to be a final act. The Lisbon treaty, successor to the ill-fated European Union constitution, which…
Six million tonnes of cement; 5m tonnes of pig iron; 4.12m tonnes of steel?China?s first five-year plan, formulated with…
Few announcements have been awaited with such foreboding. A drumroll of leaks and horror stories over the summer created…
The strike-weary French have grown used to a day?s worth of infrequent trains, absent teachers, undelivered post and…
When Terra Firma, a European private-equity firm, was considering buying EMI Group, a big music company, it referred to the…
Tony Blair?s government first introduced upfront charges for students in Britain in 1998; they were replaced in England in 2004…
The organisers of this year?s annual meetings of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank, held in Washington, DC, on…
On october 20th the suspense will end. George Osborne will disclose where the spending cuts set out in his budget…
Nuclear power should be hot. It emits virtually no carbon dioxide. It requires no costly imports of oil from countries…
Rocket science may be out of fashion on Wall Street, but it still has a following at the Federal Reserve.
