In recent years, negative interest rates have gained much attention in the financial world. Negative interest rates are an unconventional monetary policy tool that some...

On January 8, 2023, China opened its borders for the first time in almost three years, marking an end to its zero-Covid policy. People rushed...

Last November’s Autumn Statement proposed a programme of “fiscal consolidation” – financed through tax rises and spending cuts – of £55 billion by 2027-28. The...

The oil curse, an economic concept developed by economists such as Richard Auty, Jaffery Sachs and Andrew Warner in the 1990s, describes the common scenario...

As we approach 2023, the global economy is poised to undergo resets. One exists within personal finance and the way economic agents interact within markets....

In African industry it is difficult to avoid the influence of Chinese businesses in all sectors from mining to technology all the way to ceramics....

The recent crash of FTX and the surrounding controversy have led to serious scepticism about the integrity of cryptocurrency platforms and cryptocurrencies themselves. Introduced as...

Public sector strike levels in the UK soar. The number of working days lost to strikes has risen to the highest in more than a...

In early November, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, a former factory worker, and Brazil’s first working-class president received 50.9 percent of the vote out of...

In Shenzhen, one of the most prosperous cities in China, Reuters reported that a large group of people formed a row on a street in...