Crypto bulls go wild for trump

The way that central banks responded to the global financial crisis almost 20 years ago is often derided as “printing money” and “debasement”. This shorthand is odd. Whereas a Roman emperor might deba

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In May 2008, I was in Ireland on a holiday I eventually had to cut short because the property and credit bubble had made everything absurdly expensive and blown my budget. One day, I fell into convers

It was the year that Donald Trump caused chaos with tariffs, Elon Musk took a chainsaw to the US government, Angela Rayner was forced to resign, and Gary Lineker left the BBC. Here we take a look at some of the people who made the headlines in 2025

“The failure of economists to forecast recessions is virtually unblemished,” notes Prakash Loungani, assistant director at the International Monetary Fund (IMF). This includes the economists at the IM

How’s the trade war going? Short answer: as badly as expected. Capricious tariffs have shown the rest of the world that the US cannot be trusted. And they have pushed trading partners away and closer