The world’s most visible champion of free trade offered some advice at Davos, where rising global protectionism was on everyone’s mind this week.

So we have an inflation number, which is better than not knowing, but it doesn’t tell us much. 2.2 percent for the year to ...

President Donald Trump has pledged cheaper prices and lower interest rates, but an economy transformed by the pandemic will make those promises difficult to keep ...

President Trump delivered a virtual address to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, criticizing what he viewed as "ruinous policies" of the Biden administration and saying he would help ...

There is, nowadays, a significant debate about the so-called NeoCon (neoconservative) philosophy of life and politics. Many wonder how good ...

THE depressing state of politics in Scotland, the UK, the USA and beyond has made me ask how it is that we’ve got into such a terrible place.

The National Retail Federation (NRF) estimates that 17% of items sold in 2024 were returned in 2024, totaling $890 billion, which is 15% higher than the previous year. The ...

W e haVE two covers this week. In one we consider Donald Trump’s imperial presidency. The consensus that America should be a ...

Then, on Inauguration Day, he promised to sign an executive order by February 1 that imposes 25 percent tariffs on all good imported from Mexico and Canada, and now has expressed an intent to put a 10 ...

Until, of course, in 2013 the Silk Road was shut down by FBI agents and Mr Ulbricht, then 29 years old, was arrested in the ...

A merican presidents are often disappointed to discover limits to their authority, but the country’s founders intended the nearly absolute pardon power to be an exception. Alexander Hamilton, for ...