In Recent weeks the world economy has been on a war footing, at least rhetorically. Ever since Brazil?s finance minister,…
French workers have begun another round of strikes in protest against President Nicolas Sarkozy?s proposals to extend the minimum retirement…
This makes him a rare bird, for most Democrats running for re-election are staying mum or apologising for their votes…
Some with jubilation, some with trepidation: freshers on campuses across England have just begun their university careers. They are a…
Look at the world economy as a whole, and you could be forgiven for thinking that the recovery is in…
Monsoon rains bring relief after the heat of summer but they can also cause flooding. A flood following a drought…
This week?s Conservative Party conference was its first as a governing party since 1996. But any sense of triumphalism was…
How the bulls believe quantitative easing will boost asset prices
Even by its own notoriously cyclical standards, investment banking has been on a stomach-churning ride in the past five years.
Many car designers are convinced that a radical change in automobile technology is going to be needed for the crowded…
The new fiscal year began in America on October 1st as it often does: without a budget. For five of…
Most people, among them the tens of thousands of workers who rallied in Brussels on September 29th, believe that fiscal…
As Western economies slid towards recession three years ago, media and advertising executives began to ask worrying questions.
The internet allowed people to pay lower prices for books but also encouraged them to pay stratospheric prices for shares…
Scurrying around the corridors of the business school at the National University of Singapore in his white lab coat last…
Bill Hicks, a chain-smoking comedian, loved to ridicule the ?eternal-life fantasy? of the non-smokers in his audience.
At least the panic of the spring, when Greece was on the edge of default, has receded a bit. The…
It is perhaps the biggest firm you have never heard of. The Boston Consulting Group says it has created more…
