Nobel-winning economist Claudia Goldin claims that WNBA players are vastly “underpaid” relative to their male counterparts in the NBA. Economic analysis, however, tells us a different story. ...
Poundland, one of Britain’s best-known discount retailers, has been sold for a nominal sum of £1 as part of a last-ditch rescue deal that could see up to 200 of its 800 stores shuttered and thousands of jobs put at ...
Mary Portas leads Westminster rally for Better Business Act as momentum grows for purpose-led reform
Momentum is building behind the Better Business Act as more than 150 business leaders gathered in Westminster on Wednesday morning to call for a new model of responsible capitalism that balances profit with social and environmental purpose. Hosted by B ...
A team of Oxford Saïd Business School alumni has secured £700,000 in UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) funding to bring affordable, clean energy to off-grid communities in Nigeria—potentially replacing thousands of diesel and petrol generators with a sustainable alternative. Led ...
British exports to the United States plunged by £2 billion in April — the largest monthly drop on record — as President Trump’s “liberation day” tariffs took effect, dealing a significant blow to transatlantic trade. According to official data released ...
Disney and Universal have filed a landmark lawsuit against AI image generator Midjourney, accusing the San Francisco-based company of large-scale copyright infringement and calling its tools a “bottomless pit of plagiarism”. The entertainment giants allege that Midjourney’s AI model, which ...
The UK economy shrank more sharply than expected in April, with month-on-month gross domestic product (GDP) falling by 0.3 per cent, according to official figures released by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) on Wednesday. City economists had forecast a ...
Gold has officially eclipsed the euro to become the second-largest global reserve asset, according to a new report from the European Central Bank (ECB), marking a major shift in central bank strategy amid rising geopolitical tensions and concerns over traditional ...
The federal bureaucracy has been called a “headless fourth branch of government.” So long as this unchecked army of bureaucrats, technocrats, and deep-state operatives is allowed free rein, it will be impossible to make progress in limiting the state’s power ...
Governments at all levels play the same game—always threatening to eliminate school buses, police departments, ambulances, garbage collection—whatever can succeed in bringing the voters or appropriation committee members to their senses and increasing taxes and spending. ...