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The price of electricity Britain’s electricity bills ...

As China advances renewables and the U.S. returns to fossil fuels, the power of energy technology leadership is shifting

There may be few things that UK prime minister Keir Starmer and US president Donald Trump agree upon, but one of them is the benefits of nuclear power. The centrepiece of Trump’s recent state visit to

France’s wealthy have a “new nemesis”, says Denis Cosnard in Le Monde. Economist Gabriel Zucman’s proposal for a new wealth tax is dominating public discussion about how the country can close its gapi

Seniors in the U.S. and across Western developed nations are reaping a social security bonanza funded by younger workers and mountains of debt the old will never have to pay off

The dots appear to contradict one another, puzzling observers. How to connect them? Inflation over the last five years has been double the Federal Reserve’s target. Why then, does it cut its key lendi