Playing ‘whack-a-mole’ with Meta over my fraudulent avatars
How is it possible that a company with such huge resources, including artificial intelligence tools, cannot deal with this?
Why the US will lose its battle with China
Trump’s unreliable America is throwing away the assets it needs
Trump’s tariffs will damage the world
The trade deficits will remain roughly unchanged - the globe will just end up poorer
Donald Trump’s second coming and the world
An economic renaissance is unlikely, not least because the US economy is very far from the disaster he proclaims it to be
UK government must make sure it isn’t a confidence killer
There is a danger that animal spirits and the propensity to invest expire in a vicious downward spiral
Dealing with the era of slow growth
Opportunities exist for the UK and its European neighbours, but they must grasp the nettle of economic reform
What makes the US truly exceptional
Are American pathologies the necessary price of economic dynamism?
Climate change is a global problem — it requires a global solution
The deal on financing agreed at Cop29 is too little, too late
Manufacturing is definitely not the future
It is so much easier to blame the disappearance of US jobs on China than on domestic consumers and automation
British chancellor Rachel Reeves needs a credible growth plan
The UK chancellor should explain how her programme is going to work
Naivety about Trump threatens all our futures
Plutocrats must understand that wealth is only a source of power if it is protected by a law-governed state
Immigration is both essential and impossible
The option of temporary worker contracts is not embraced by either side but it may be the solution
Is Germany the ‘sick man’ of Europe once again?
Its hostility to debt is folly or hypocrisy. It should use more of its surplus savings at home
People just do not want to pay the price of decarbonising the economy
Some 100 years from now people are likely to remember our era as the time when we knowingly bequeathed a destabilised climate. The market will not fix this global market failure
How not to do industrial policy
Politicians should acknowledge how much we could lose in the new era of suspicion, protectionism and interventionism