Economy

Andy Burnham may be in No 10, but he will soon find that he is not the boss after all. There is a beast watching his every move – the bond market. One wrong step, and it will devour him whole

They came with skills the country desperately needs. Instead, we tell them to clean and stack shelves

New recruiting processes are sidelining accomplished women at what should be the very peak of their careers

For all the success, the billions and the international fame, the boss of LVMH is revealed as a man made miserable by his own success

If this wild prediction came true, it would make his own companies virtually worthless

The self-employed now have to report to HMRC each quarter. It’s time-consuming, expensive and hopeless

The new PM has made a flying start. But financial danger lurks ahead

Higher rates should be the end, not the start, of a new narrative of citizenship and statecraft

The retired Tory peer used an unusual turn of phrase while writing about the UK’s move to decarbonise its energy system. Why avoid the word 'bank'?

The population of Bradford has changed, but to say this represents some kind of social failure is ridiculous. How do we get beyond these obvious lies?

There are many ways in which women are ‘kept’, sometimes by men, sometimes by members of their own family. But that has never worked for me.

The chancellor decided that too many Germans were skiving, so he tried to change the rules. But it didn’t work

Abelardo de la Espriella is pro-Trump, pro-cuts, pro-Israel and very anti-left. He’s made big, wild promises – will he be able to keep them?

The inequality campaigner is certain that he’s right – but that may not be enough 

Burnham could end Treasury stagnation with a single department that centralised water, energy, transport and telecoms

The prime minister is not so much a political leader as a national myth and the extent of his appeal, as shown in recent state elections, is so huge that it’s changing India into a single-party state

Economic Affairs is the new online publication of the IEA - the think tank which provided the intellectual ballast to Liz Truss’s 45 days in office

The former Federal Reserve chair is dead at 100. Once regarded with awe, the financial crisis made clear he wasn’t what he appeared

Everywhere you go, in the real world and online, you are under constant surveillance from the government or one of the tech giants. Unless, that is, you happen to be a billionaire

Boris Johnson and Michael Gove have marked the 10-year referendum anniversary with articles full of self-serving nonsense

A brilliant, forensic, sector-by-sector analysis of the damage done to our economy, our businesses and our daily lives by leaving the European Union

His fortune and empire are more fragile than his IPO’s backers believe

A sorry list of leaders have failed to grasp even the most basic economic lessons, with disastrous results

A generation has grown up that didn’t vote in the referendum, but has had to suffer the consequences of leaving the EU. Now they want to rejoin

It's petrifying, but I’m one of the three-quarters of UK workers who aren't on course for a "moderate pension income"

The paper claimed that 'Project Fear' was pure propaganda - but the economic facts show it was all too real

After the 2008 crash, it took a global effort to get the world economy back on track. But if another disaster did occur, with Trump in power, cooperation would be much harder

Dating has become a series of compounded costs, where the freedoms of being independent now come with a penalty

Britain’s 16-24-year-olds face too many barriers and not enough opportunities. This is how we can help them

The current president is clueless on the world stage. But, if the Democrats ever get back into power, they won’t turn the US into an open, internationalist peacebroker. Their focus is their voters – it looks set to stay that way

Companies are using AI systems for recruitment, arguing that it’s a way of removing bias from the system. But it brings with it a whole load of other problems, some of them just as bad

That first step into the outside world is harder now than ever before – the starting jobs simply aren’t there. The consequences of that are being felt across an entire generation