Economy

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

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