Nvidia and other designers prepare the blueprints. “Foundries” like TSMC of Taiwan turn these into physical products by ...

To add to climate warriors’ gloom, Shell, a British oil giant, won an important legal victory this week. In 2021 a Dutch ...

T he spectre of deindustrialisation has long haunted Germany. Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022 caused energy ...

Lots of demand is Asian: China and India make up a fifth of the world’s economic output ... Since the start of 2022, monetary authorities in China, Turkey and India have bought 316, 198 and ...

As the summit got underway Thursday, protesters angry over a recent surge in crime clashed with police, defying Peruvian ...

Chart: The Economist The market ... measure of the pain in 2022 was the value of sterling. All else being equal, higher interest rates should be a boon for a rich-world currency, but sterling ...

Other parts of the democratic world are intrigued ... and there are surprising downsides. Chart: The Economist Start with turnout. It regularly breaks 90% in Uruguay and Bolivia.

Until the 19th century the story of King’s Cross was a mixture of myth (Boudicca probably did not fight the Romans here) and trivia (the remains of a mammoth were discovered here in 1690). History ...

History shows that regardless of who’s in power, the U.S. has consistently outperformed its global peers and rewarded those ...

A BRICS payments system would allow “economic operations without being dependent on those that decided to weaponise the dollar and the euro”. This system, which Russia calls “ BRICS Bridge”, is ...