BERLIN — Tourists around the world and especially in Europe are supportive of more eco-friendly trips but reluctant to carry the extra cost, according to studies and industry executives. In the European Union’s economic powerhouse Germany, for example, 24% of ...
WASHINGTON — Hate crimes in the United States surged 11.6% in 2021, with the largest number motivated by bias against Black people, followed by crimes targeting victims for ethnicity, sexuality and religion, the FBI said in a report released on ...
THOUSANDS of junior doctors are on strike this week, complaining of low pay and poor working conditions in Britain’s National Health Service (NHS). Many of the medics on picket lines are also thinking of walking out of their careers entirely ...
BEIJING — China will reopen its borders to foreign tourists for the first time in the three years since the COVID-19 pandemic erupted by allowing all categories of visas to be issued from Wednesday. The removal of this last cross-border ...
WOLFSBURG, Germany – Volkswagen chose Canada to build its first battery cell plant outside Europe, granting its cars access to both Canadian and US subsidies as it works to localize electric vehicle production chain in the region. Volkswagen AG confirmed ...
SAN DIEGO/CANBERRA – The United States, Australia and Britain on Monday unveiled details of a plan to provide Australia with nuclear-powered attack submarines from the early 2030s to counter China’s ambitions in the Indo-Pacific. Addressing a ceremony at the US ...
Shockwaves from the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank further pounded global bank stocks on Tuesday as assurances from President Joe Biden and other policymakers did little to calm markets and prompted a rethink on the interest rate outlook. Biden’s efforts to reassure markets and depositors came after ...
Shockwaves from the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank pounded global bank stocks on Tuesday as assurances from President Joe Biden and other policymakers failed to calm market worries about contagion and prompted a rethink on the interest rate outlook. Biden ...
Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) failed on Friday and was shut down by regulators. It was the second-largest failure in US history and the first since the global financial crisis. Almost immediately, the calls for bailouts started to come in. (Since ...
Welcome to Whose Economy Is It, Anyway?, where the rules are made up and the dollars don’t matter. Or at least that seems to be the view of the Yellen regime. As Doug French noted last week, Silicon Valley Bank ...