Is middle eastern oil money being used to buy more than just success for football clubs?

Tim Harford investigates bad productivity data, AI carbon, nuns and quiet album ends.

ALT: Michael Jai White: This Whole Situation Is Nuts Man

Transactions fuel criticism of the party’s lack of transparency over its financing

The market misremembers 2008. That same blind spot sits at the center of the AI boom.

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FindAPhD. Search Funded PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships at University of Sheffield, Management School.

When did care homes come to be seen as recession-proof investments? And who pays the price?

Interactive map of 3.4 million Bluesky users, visualised by their follower pattern.

Under-fire utility paid almost as much in interest and dividends as it invested in the network in past 15 years

Accounting rules are holding back investment just as it needs to meet growth and net zero requirements

Almost a decade after a private equity firm began reshaping a struggling life insurer, authorities are grappling with a $2.2 billion shortfall. Policyholders fear life-changing losses.

The OBR is understood to have downgraded the UK's productivity level in early Budget forecasts

The government’s made a very big promise: to build 1.5 million new homes in England by 2029. Anita Rani and Justin Rowlatt travel the length of the country to find out if it can be done.

The discount retailer said the issue has been resolved but will have a financial impact

Abi O’Connor will join Sheffield University Management School’s Centre for Research into Accounting and Finance in Context to research a project titled ‘Following urban assetisation: a comparative the...

A look back to the days of Enoch Powell suggests a better model

High critical report finds that instead of promised annual saving of £100m, fees have rocketed amid financial crisis

Utility claims new legislation to block bonuses will not capture ‘retention payments’

The new report, written by Richard Goulding, Adam Leaver and Jonathan Silver, critically examines the supply-side, property-led urban development model, using Manchester as a case study.

Ed Miliband travels to Beijing saying co-operation with China vital to protect future generations, as US and Russia push for expansion of fossil fuels * Ed Miliband: ‘The global battle against the climate crisis needs China’ The UK is hoping to…

Selling off assets to foreign owners, deregulating markets, and liberalising financial services only leads to inequality and instability, says Dhananjayan Sriskandarajah, chief executive of the New Ec...

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