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Monday December 04, 2023
News Desk.

  • December 04, 2023

    Economic paradox

    Something weird is happening in America. GDP growth for Q3 was just revised up from an already scorching 4.9 per cent to 5.2 per cent, more...

  • December 04, 2023

    Profit-sharing plan

    What if the government made companies hand a slice of their profits to workers? In Britain and America, the question is about as live as the pigeon...

  • November 27, 2023

    OpenAI and the rift at the heart of Silicon Valley

    In the past year, Sam Altman, chief executive of OpenAI, has become the embodiment of a contradiction at the heart of artificial intelligence....

  • November 27, 2023

    Green finance

    What makes a project “green”? In cases such as wind farms, the answer is obvious. Other definitions can be woolly. A bank might extend climate...

  • November 20, 2023

    Shallow recession

    The euro zone appears to be in the middle of another recession but worries about whether definitive growth figures due early next year will have a...

  • November 13, 2023

    A rollercoaster ride

    There are 358 days until the 2024 US presidential election. And if the political strategist James Carville was right that “it’s the economy,...

  • November 06, 2023

    Cautionary tale

    A milestone move by the European Central Bank toward launching a digital euro within a few years means the time has come for the newest incarnation...

  • October 30, 2023

    Credit crunch

    The great government bond slump of 2023 is reaching the point where bankers and investors are shuffling in their seats and eyeing each other...

  • October 30, 2023

    Graduates’ pay gap

    It doesn’t require a close examination of economic statistics to be aware that US incomes have far outstripped those in Britain in recent years. A...

  • October 23, 2023

    A call for action

    Pakistan has long grappled with the challenge of implementing effective tobacco control measures. Recently, numerous prominent civil society groups...