Dame Jayne-Anne Gadhia, one of Britain’s most prominent businesswomen, is in advanced talks to sell her money-saving app to Vanquis Banking Group, the consumer lender. It is understood that Dame Jayne-Anne is nearing a deal with Vanquis – formerly known ...
Almost 1,000 workers at Gatwick Airport, including baggage handlers and check-in staff, will stage eight days of strikes from later this month. Staff will strike in a dispute over pay, the union Unite announced, at the start of the school ...
Barclays is set to close 14 more banks over the coming months it has been revealed today. The major high street bank will close 11 of its sites in England a further two in Wales and one in Scotland. The ...
Free rider is a term related to the political commons and rent seeking. It is like rent seeking, except it is perhaps more nuanced and eventually discourages the effective use of public goods found in the political commons. When I ...
Legal changes brought by the government to let agency staff fill in for striking workers have been quashed by the high court, with ministers’ approach to the policy being labelled “irrational”. A number of unions, including Aslef, the RMT and ...
In this week’s episode of Sector Spotlight, I discussed the rotation out of defensive sectors into more offensive sectors. The ongoing rotation, I should say, as it is a process that has been underway for a while already. This rotation ...
Millions of public sector workers will be given a pay rise of at least 6%, but government departments have been told to fund the rise from within existing budgets. Police officers, junior doctors and teachers in England are among those ...
More than a quarter of UK adults have used generative artificial intelligence such as chatbots, according to survey showing that 4 million people have also used it for work. Generative AI, which refers to AI tools that produce convincing text ...
On this episode of Radio Rothbard, Tho Bishop is joined by Mises Research Fellow Connor Mortell to talk about Connor’s research project on energy policy. Tho and Connor push back against common narratives—even some promoted by libertarians—of fossil fuels and green ...
On this episode of Good Money with Tho Bishop, Dr. Jonathan Newman joins to look at recent headlines on inflation. Tho and Jonathan discuss the larger costs of Fed policy on the real economy and how official government measures can ...