The political undertow

What a pity they are almost all dead. The Argentines who were around in the 1940s and ’50s, and old enough to remember Evita and to know what was going on. They could have come to Washington and reliv

We must be getting close to the end of one thing… and the start of something else. The thing whose end is nigh is the bubble on Wall Street. As a bubble inflates, the lightest, lowest-quality stocks f

Over the past four decades, as inequality has grown exponentially for all Americans, the number of poor and low-income white people—66 million in 2018—has swelled higher than any other demographic. Th

Speculation has reached fever pitch about the contents of the government’s forthcoming Autumn Budget. This follows the assessment of the highly respected NIESR (National Institute of Economic and Soci

Three accounts of modern liberalism

When Donald Trump took the oath of office for the second time in January 2025, he was surrounded not just by politicians and dignitaries, but by the CEOs of six of the world’s most visible technology