UK retail sales remained muted in January following December’s fall, with fuel sales spiking and prices continuing to plummet. The Office for National Statistics (ONS) released the figures which showed retail sales volumes increased by just half a per cent ...
Just over nine in 10 (91.2 per cent ) card transactions made last year where paying by contactless would have been an option did use this technology, according to data from Barclays. The bank said this is the highest proportion ...
Rising interest rates have propelled annual profits at NatWest to their highest level since the bank’s government rescue during the 2008 financial crisis. Pre-tax operating profits at the taxpayer-backed high street lender jumped to £5.1 billion last year from £3.8 ...
The RMT union has announced further national strikes and wider action on the railways after rejecting offers from both train operators and Network Rail last week. The union’s 40,000 members across Network Rail and 14 train operators will strike on ...
Rishi Sunak arrived in Belfast on Thursday night, in a sign that a deal on the Northern Ireland protocol is imminent. The foreign secretary, James Cleverly, will also travel to Brussels on Friday for talks with the European Commission vice-president, ...
TOKYO, Feb 17 (Reuters) – For Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, Japan’s next central bank chief had to symbolize a departure from the unconventional policies of his predecessor Shinzo Abe – but without angering pro-growth lawmakers of Abe’s powerful political faction. ...
On this episode of Radio Rothbard, Ryan McMaken and Tho Bishop address whether the Ohio train disaster is an example of “capitalism gone amuck”. They discuss Murray Rothbard’s views on pollution, the secondary consequences of the regulatory state, and the decaying ...
Since 2014, the tiny country of Yemen has been devastated by the ongoing civil war following the Houthi takeover of the government. It only worsened in March 2015, when President Barack Obama began to aid the Saudi Arabians in the ...
Americans spend billions of dollars on treating heart disease. Prevention is cheaper, but thanks to perverse government incentives, preventing heart disease takes a backseat to medical spending. Original Article: “The Government Throws Money at Heart Disease, but Prevention Is Better than ...
The great Dr. Ron Paul has been right about all the major issues that confront the world today. He is right about the Fed, the Ukraine war, the FBI, and so much else. How has he managed to do that? ...