Economics
America has accumulated extraordinary financial wealth, yet its productive economy increasingly struggles to deliver affordable housing, modern infrastructure, skilled employment and industrial renewal. For decades, cheap credit and globalisation masked the growing divide between…
World
Nearly 80 countries have introduced emergency measures as the Iran war spreads through the world economy. India is…
Economics
Two warning lights are beginning to flash simultaneously across the American economy: inflation is rising again while long…
Economics
The Iran crisis is beginning to move beyond oil and into the hidden petrochemical systems that underpin modern…
Economics
Economics
Economics
Economics
Economics
The United Arab Emirates’ decision to leave OPEC is not just about oil production. It reflects a deeper shift in Gulf geopolitics, where alliances…
Economics
The Middle East war is already pushing up fuel, freight, food and transport costs across India, Southeast Asia and Africa.…
Britain
Britain’s reliance on gas means global shocks still drive domestic costs. The Middle East conflict is not creating a new…
United States
The dollar system is not breaking under geopolitical pressure — it is being exposed. As Washington shifts from Federal Reserve liquidity support to Treasury-led swap lines, access to dollars is becoming more selective, more…
Economics
The UN has now voted to call the transatlantic slave trade the gravest crime against humanity. Britain abstained.…
Economics
The Iran war did not suddenly break a healthy British economy. It hit a country that had already…
Economics
The ceasefire may have softened the rhetoric, but it did not restore the Strait of Hormuz as a…
Defence
The ceasefire did not restore normal transit through Hormuz. It produced a rationed, militarised passage regime in which insurance costs, sanctions risk, legal ambiguity…
Economics
Economics
Economics
Economics
Economics
The Iran war is no longer just an oil price story. It is becoming an Asian fuel allocation crisis in…
Economics
This is not a rerun of 1973. The old oil shock hit a manufacturing America near the height of its…
Economics
Donald Trump’s decision to give Iran 10 more days before threatened strikes on its energy infrastructure is being presented as tactical patience. It looks more like strategic constraint. Oil has surged, Wall Street has…
Economics
Economics
Economics
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Economics
Artificial intelligence is beginning to lift productivity in parts of the US economy. In Britain, it is not. The difference is not technological capability,…
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Elon Musk has consolidated his artificial intelligence venture xAI into SpaceX in a deal valued at around 1.25…
Economics
The rise of the £5 latte is not a story about coffee prices. It is a case study…
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
For two decades, companies rented business software because building it was slow, costly, and risky. That assumption has…
Economics
A leading strand of financial commentary argues the world has lost its way and fallen back into mercantilism. An Austrian…
Economics
Britain does not feel like a country in crisis. That is precisely the danger. Growth limps on, spending rises, and…