It was only a few months ago that investors were preoccupied with US tariffs and the closure of the Strait of Hormuz. But these issues have...
From the early 1980s until the COVID-19 pandemic hit in 2020, the world economy enjoyed unusually good conditions. The Cold War ended, defense budgets shrank, and...
On 16 October, the UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) proposed granting Microsoft the status of a company with strategic market power in business software....
Europe's pay-as-you-go pension systems rest on promises worth several times GDP, financed by taxes and debt that future workers have never agreed to. The only...
Japan is set to launch a spacecraft on the world's first mission to bring back samples from Phobos, one of the two small, potato-shaped moons...
As hyperscale data centres appear on planning maps beside villages, farmland and residential areas, who decides what technological progress looks like, and who pays the...
On a recent visit to Sapporo, the city on Japan’s northern island where my parents came from, my wife and I found gentle people, mild...
