Behavioural frictions provide a persuasive explanation for part of the “irrationality” in the energy efficiency gap, but not a licence for indiscriminate intervention.
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An examination into Nepal’s booming hydropower industry, and whether long-term sustainability is possible, considering environmental and structural risks.
Ethiopia's need for a better route to the sea is real, but a coast of its own could only be taken by force, at a cost far higher than Djibouti's fees.
Whether or not Tucker Carlson is right about a nuclear strike this week, the target he names poses a problem that conventional weapons may not be able to solve. That problem will outlast his post.
In pharmaceutical M&A, the most expensive mistake is paying a premium for a future that clinical trials may never deliver - and three years on, Seagen's pipeline is testing that thesis.
Steam, electricity and computers each took decades to show up in productivity statistics. History suggests AI could pay off faster, but history also tells us that gains depend on how quickly firms reorganise.
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Germany has a reputation as a global powerhouse but in recent times its economy has struggled. Long term factors, geopolitical shocks and government responses shaping the German economy, all beg the question: can Germany climb its way back?
The government's new first-time buyer scheme promises to make homeownership more accessible and boost housebuilding. But how much of the benefit will reach buyers, and how much could end up with developers?
As global passive ETF assets under management approach $24 trillion, billions in savings are rushing into index-tracking fund for a sense of diversification, and the market structure is being changed dramatically. From the loss of active price discovery in market to creating the passive feedback loops for investor, the loss of active arbitrageurs in market is creating an enormous concentration risk for investors.
Fears over AI’s potential existential threat have entered the economic mainstream. As the US competes with China to lead the technology’s development, the prospect of slowing its advance looks increasingly remote.
Bosnia's voters have rewarded the very leaders who stand between them and Europe, and the EU has made that obstruction cheap. Brussels can still pull the country west, but only if it stops waiting for Bosnia's leaders to make the first move.
On 28 October, John Healey delivers his first Budget as Chancellor. He has made three promises that pull in different directions, and the numbers have moved against him since he made them.
Britain’s turn to drones and a ‘hybrid’ navy is sound strategy but funded at the margins and arriving in years with no money allocated, it is modernisation bought on an austerity budget.
Washington’s new sanctions have left no middle ground between Washington and its adversaries. The UAE has given way, Turkey is hedging, and India is bending, but the evidence indicates that the middle ground is not disappearing but moving.
From next April, the full state pension will be taxed for the first time. Two policies that were never meant to meet have collided, and the Chancellor has until the Autumn Budget to decide who pays.
Reform's £72m donor row shows Britain isn't turning into America, the rules are stricter and tightening, but the scale and the alleged foreign-money dodge make this a genuinely serious case, not just media noise.
Robert Hall and Michael Woodford won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Economics for rebuilding macroeconomic models around how households and firms form expectations. This piece provides an insight into their work and what it means for central banks today.
Japan's currency has continued to fall despite rising interest rates, exposing the limits of monetary policy when global markets move against domestic priorities.
France’s bond revolt is starting to look less like a market wobble and more like a eurozone-style warning, as political paralysis, rising borrowing costs and a government with little incentive to shrink the debt pile threaten to drain investor confidence and leave the French economy paying the bill.
Some would describe the so-called "neoclouds" as the railways of the AI revolution that facilitate the steam-trains of the next most powerful chips to thunder across. However, are these AI infrastructure giants economically viable in the long term?
How Bangladesh’s garment industry transformed more than just the country’s exports, giving millions of women paid employment and reshaping education, fertility and household decision-making.
Trump's promised $5,000 dividend has no confirmed funding source, raising questions about its inflation and economic risks. Here's what the numbers say.
Four years after default, Sri Lanka has growth, reserves and a near-complete restructuring, and an IMF review that just ended without agreement. The recovery keeps getting rescheduled, not resolved.
Rising government borrowing and an AI-driven corporate debt boom are testing how global capital is allocated across an increasingly crowded bond market.
Many developing economies are rich in commodities but capture little of the value created from them. Moving beyond extraction and into processing, manufacturing and branding could be key to escaping commodity dependence.
Anthropic is preparing to go public, but is the market ready for its extraordinary cash flows, speculative financing and mountain of infrastructure commitments built in pursuit of ever more powerful AI? The US economy is now hoping Anthropic can eventually turn that promise into certainty, and the question is: how long will Wall Street wait?
In 2013 there were 39 unicorns. Today there are over 1,300. But how many of them justify their immense valuations?
As governments and technology companies compete for increasingly expensive capital, rising bond yields are reshaping the cost of borrowing. Does the growing demand for debt means for governments, financial markets and the future of the AI boom.
Private equity's hopes dating from 2025 have once again been simmered this year, and the liquidity reckoning could quietly rewrite how the industry raises and returns capital.
Every Wednesday, Newcastle's sports societies turn a post-match tradition into one of the city's most predictable markets. A survey of 106 students shows where the money goes, why students keep spending it, and how venues price to take advantage.
The London discount looked like the reason UK companies keep being bought. It was really the lender's underwriting policy, and that sets the ceiling regardless of where the shares trade.
As Britain races to expand its electricity grid, Ofgem's new commitment fees should thin out a crowded connections queue, but only if they test whether projects are progressing rather than how deep developers' pockets are.
Anthropic's Claude has identified a previously uncharacterised biological system. For biotech investors, the real breakthrough could be AI making the earliest stage of drug discovery much cheaper.
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