Economy

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

Successful countries need alliances, but not to be shackled to old obligations. They need to be open to partners, but to push hard in their own interests. They need, in other words, to be more like India

Scientists predict that, during the next century, entire regions of the earth will run out of water. And the day that a tap is turned on and nothing comes out, it will all be too late

In the first part of this year the UK economy grew and no one felt a thing. That’s very bad news for government – and for everyone

In a $12bn Colorado court challenge, an heiress claims she was swindled out of her inheritance. But the argument is about much more than one woman’s money and about the infinite possibilities of the world of offshore finance

Brexit has been a disaster and the old, post-war order is never coming back. In the decade ahead, Britain – and Ukraine – must become part of the EU to help build a new, independent Europe

It may be self-sufficient in energy, but America can’t shut itself off from the global economy. As a result, the president’s war of choice in the middle east is about to make everything a lot more expensive

Trump’s war against Iran has led to a sharp, upward change in the path of interest rates. The question, as ever – who benefits?

Global crises can have all sorts of effects – after Covid, so many Japanese girls arrived in Sydney, the brothels needed Japanese receptionists. Now we are heading for an economic slump and the signs aren’t good

Trillions of dollars of investments rest on one assumption: you can trust AI agents with real work. Now, a landmark, peer-reviewed study says you can’t – no wonder Wall Street is getting nervous

Paul Johnson, the former head of Britain’s most important economic think tank, spent years scrutinising the UK. In his new book, he reveals one of the biggest misconceptions people have about the country and how it works

Reform’s deputy leader is under pressure over the same kind of allegations he once used to bash Angela Rayner

Voters have fallen out of love with the social security net – which is odd seeing as so many are likely to use it at some point. What went wrong?

The continent needs to take the crucial step towards ending US global economic dominance. Here’s how to do it

For Trump to stand a chance at the mid-terms, he needs to win over independents. But they hate him – and their dislike is only growing

The region is getting hotter and drier to the point of being uninhabitable. And in the coming decades, as the world moves to renewables and the oil price starts to collapse, what then?

The president is probably not directly part of insider trading - but those close to him could well be

Bring back quantitative easing, reboot the OBR and – for a while – let inflation shrink the debt mountain

We were lab rats in one of the biggest economic experiments of all time. It was a disaster, and it’s getting worse all the time

The argument over the design of Britain’s banknotes is absurd, and misses a much more important financial decision taken in Westminster that most politicians seem to have missed or ignored

The oil supply has gone and with an economy in ruins, Cubans are now struggling to eat. US sanctions are pushing the Caribbean nation towards catastrophe

Prediction markets are a way of betting on the future. But have members of the Trump administration been using them to profit from secret military knowledge?

Young people can’t get a job nowadays. It’s not because they’re workshy, or snowflakes – it’s because last year, over a million 16-24 year olds were chasing just 17,000 positions. The result? Misery

For a while it looked as if Elon Musk would dominate the world of electric cars – but then he turned out to be a basket-case. Now there’s a new global leader in town

With his own man as chair of the Federal Reserve, and infuriated by the Supreme Court ruling on tariffs, the president might now seek to manipulate the currency for political ends

While older Britons have their final salary pensions and the triple lock, young people today can’t even afford to start a family. That could be pushing the country towards political disaster

Economic facts are catching up with the political untruths of the Trump administration

One neighbourhood in Nairobi is now so commercially successful that it has become a regional trade hub