Consumers may want more safety from the products they buy than unfettered market competition provides.
New chancellor Jeremy Hunt tells Commons that there will be tax rises and spending cuts.
With artificial intelligence (AI) gradually gaining ground in every industry around the world, the adoption of AI by smaller towns and cities is now closer than ever.
Washington and Riyadh have long been rocky. Joe Biden is willing to reevaluate the US-Saudi relationship.
Vladimir Putin warns against Western involvement in Ukraine.
As time goes by, I find it increasingly hard to explain to the non-econ world just what happened back in September 2008, when during a period of perhaps 2-3 weeks there seemed to me a meaningful chance (and by “meaningful,” I mean large enough to keep me awake at night) that the US banking and financial sector would melt down in a way that would have led not just to the substantial recession that did occur, but to something much worse.
More than 330,000 deaths in Britain were recorded between 2012 and 2019 due to the government's austerity policies.