It seems Hollywood’s screenwriters are “doomers” when it comes to artificial intelligence, believing it poses an existential ...

In response, Xi Jinping, China’s ruler, introduced a policy called “supply-side structural reform”. Its original aim was to ...

The Fed operates with what is known as instrument independence, which means that it can raise or lower interest rates or buy ...

Nor should founders be fetishised: people derive meaning and create value from all sorts of work. But some entrepreneurial ...

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The construction industry is plagued by low productivity, in part because not enough people are willing to work in it. A startup in the Netherlands is trying to fill that gap. Monumental has a team of ...

Brazil’s friendliness with Iran is set to continue on July 6th and 7th when the BRICS, a group of 11 emerging-market ...

President Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act, now working its way through Congress, permanently extends tax cuts ...

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This is the uncomfortable question before Julie Sweet, Accenture’s boss since 2019. Her two-part answer has been to insist ...

The fate of birthright citizenship is still up in the air. But judges’ ability to block the president’s agenda has been ...