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In the gap between rhetoric and action, plenty of space exists for others, including his own advisers, to impose their own ...

How we saw the world ...

A head of India’s budget on February 1st, Narendra Modi asked Lakshmi, the Hindu goddess of wealth, to bless the poor and the ...

The green revolution, where Europe has a head start, is gaining followers around the world. But if companies are keen to splash the cash, they have a funny way of showing it. Their investment rate has ...

E mployers are ordering workers back to the office. In recent weeks Dell, a hardware-maker, and JPMorgan Chase, a bank, have ...

Whatever its geopolitical merits, the madman theory transfers badly to economics. Crazy leaders are hard to predict.

That a bank manager, of all people, could be fooled on a scale sufficient to bring down a bank is a sign of how sophisticated ...

Since De Beers, the world’s leading diamond company, ingeniously announced that “diamonds are forever” in the 1940s, most engagement rings have included a diamond—and an expensive one at that. The ...

That leads to the biggest reason to fear tariffs, which is that the federal government needs the money. Its deficit in 2024 ...

In their different ways, Edgar and Rita were both victims of “pig-butchering”, the most lucrative scam in a global industry ...

Even so, his proposal of an American “takeover” of Gaza on February 4th was extraordinary. He combined sinister ideas—ethnic ...