Anthony Savagar, Misa Tanaka and Jagdish Tripathy With increased availability of big data and computing power, more firms are adopting algorithmic and AI-powered pricing to adjust prices rapidly in…

Confronting America’s gerontocratic crisis

Pension provision is a running sore of British public policy. While the current ‘triple-lock’ guarantees the real value of the state pension, that pension

Lord George Robertson will use a speech to accuse

How should the government respond to the crisis in the Middle East?

The Islamabad negotiations were supposed to conclude the Iran War in such a way that the US and Israel would have something to show for the thousands of lives lost and ruined, the vast quantities of o...

There is a reason he wants an exit from Iran

Stopping the war weeks short would vindicate their Hormuz strategy.

Richard Holroyd tells MPs the firm will sign a charter with the departments that are members of the Synergy shared-services cluster

The president’s critics have raised concerns about the action in oil futures, S&P 500 ETF options and prediction markets.

The president has said that he wants to wrap up the conflict in the coming weeks.

This post is a set of my observations on the current war in Iran and my thoughts on the broader strategic implications. I am not, of course, an expert on the region nor do I have access to any spec…

When 7,500 pages isn’t enough detail

Thousands of Brent and WTI contracts changed hands 15 minutes before president’s message on Truth Social

These states can do more to help as Tehran blocks and targets their energy.

‘You don’t have the cards,’ Trump said a year ago. Today U.S. allies implore Ukraine for drone help.

Qatar's Ras Laffan refinery was among a list of sites Iran threatened would be targets after an earlier attack on its South Pars gas field facilities.

Nearly two weeks in, it’s clear just how ill thought-through Trump’s regional war is.

Government bonds are widely viewed as safe assets, especially in times of recession and financial crisis. This column presents evidence from three centuries of US and UK history showing that wars and pandemic-scale emergencies have in fact consistently produced large real losses for bondholders, challenging the conventional notion that government bonds are safe assets.

On the morning of April 14, 1988, the USS Samuel B. Roberts, an Oliver Hazard Perry-class frigate cruising through the Persian Gulf, struck a mine. The

The defeat by the Greens in Greater Manchester demonstrates the danger of failing to address economic burdens

White House officials revealed that the vice president made his opposition known in the leadup.

From blackouts in Kherson to water shortages in Luhansk, Russia’s new imperial domains in Ukraine’s occupied territories are in turmoil.

America and Israel May Have Bitten Off More Than They Can Chew

Trump Needs to Figure Out What He Wants—and Quickly

The answer is rather more interesting than you might have thought

Tehran is carrying out many of the strikes with one-way attack drones.

Institutions are failing to deliver basic commitments because of failures of leadership

Traffic through the Strait of Hormuz has ground to a virtual halt, unleashing the most severe energy crisis since the 1970s.

Crisis makes the strongest case for a different kind of state.

Labour needs a theory of capitalism.

Now that Trump has anointed himself the new Supreme Leader of Iran, a few thoughts on where his crusade to bring peace to the Middle East via death and destruction from the sky may be heading