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Can 'Humphrey' AI Turn The U.K. Economy Around?
I'm glad to mention that my ‘GoldenEye' note generated a lot of feedback, some of it cursing my good luck to spend a week in the Caribbean. To atone, I spent four days last week in the foggy cold of England, touring from Oxford to Manchester…
Rachel Reeves could use £5billion Bitcoin to plug economic hole
Rachel Reeves is sitting on a £5billion windfall of Bitcoin seized from organised criminals that could now be used to plug the huge black hole in her budget. The Mail on Sunday has learnt the Government has amassed an astonishing stash of…
Trump's plan to crush the Irish economic miracle
Donald Trump was surrounded by a coterie of billionaires at his inauguration, basking in the adoration of the technology elite that swung behind his campaign to win the White House. The president benefited from more than $250m (£200m) donated…
Weird Economic Fear Gives Us A 13% Discount On This Dividend Payer
We hear a lot of chatter in the business media about productivity these days—specifically how it could decline in the US (and, by extension, hit our gains from stocks—and stock-focused CEFs). Today we're going to look at why this fear…
Havana luxury hotel 'unforgivable' amid Cuba's economic woes
It's impossible to miss. The huge rectangular mass of concrete and glass – the tallest building in Havana – dominates the city skyline, towering 150 metres above colonial homes with its 542 luxury rooms and majestic views of the city…
A new luxury hotel towers over Havana as Cuba's economic troubles mount and tourism plummets
HAVANA -- It's impossible to miss. The huge rectangular mass of concrete and glass — the tallest building in Havana — dominates the city skyline, towering 150 meters (490 feet) above colonial homes with its 542 luxury rooms and…
How climate change is breaking insurance-and theatening the global economy
The devastating wildfires in Los Angeles have made one threat very clear: Climate change is undermining the insurance systems American homeowners rely on to protect themselves from catastrophes. This breakdown is starting to become painfully clear…
Rachel Reeves eyes commuter town boom to boost home ownership and salvage economy
From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our latest documentary, 'The A Word', which…
Gig economy firms warned by UK government they may be operating illegally
Gig economy companies supplying “freelance” workers to shops, restaurants and warehouses may be operating illegally, the government has warned, after a series of Observer reports highlighting their use. Justin Madders, the employment…
The Ungovernable Economy | Trevor Jackson
“Capitalism is predicated on atomized individuals, democracy on shared publics,” writes Trevor Jackson in the Review 's January 16 issue. Reviewing Martin Wolf's The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism, Jackson examines capitalist…
Patrick Artus: 'Donald Trump's various economic policy goals are mutually incompatible
The main goals of Donald Trump's economic policy are known: Lowering prices by urging oil and natural gas producers to increase production to reduce energy costs and pressuring pharmaceutical companies to lower drug prices to restore Americans'…
The U.S. economy was already revved up before Trump took office. Could it get a lot better?
Donald Trump has vowed to turbo-charge the U.S. economy, but it's already been expanding rapidly for more than two years and it probably finished 2024 with another burst of strong growth. Gross domestic product, the official scorecard of the…
Frustrated with today's 'attention economy'? You're really going to hate what comes next
In the 1990s, the internet was a bit of a wonderland. It was new and liberating and largely free of corporate and government influence. Thirty years later, I don't think any of us would describe the internet this way. Worse, if subscribers to the…
Gold: New Economic Order Starts Now! | Jim Thorne
In a recent interview on the Soar Financially, Jim Thorne, Chief Market Strategist at Wellington Altus, issued a stark warning about the current economic landscape, predicting a shift towards a new economic order. Thorne, a veteran of the financial…
Geoffrey Bell, founded the elite Group of Thirty to assess international economic risk
Geoffrey Bell, who has died aged 85, was a globetrotting financial adviser and the founder of the Group of Thirty, an elite international assembly of economists and monetary experts. As a director of the London merchant bank Schroder Wagg and an…
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