Europe chickens out of tariff war

“America has progressed from infancy to senility without passing through a period of maturity.” So said a character in one of Ian Fleming’s short stories in 1960. He was wrong then – or, was he, as so

Last Friday, US president Donald Trump signed a proclamation entitled “Restriction on Entry of Certain Nonimmigrant Workers”, stating that a new $100,000 fee will be imposed for H-1B visa applications

Poor Donald Trump. There are two major parts to the US president’s political programme: tariffs and deportations. Both are in trouble with the law. Federal judges have blocked him from swiftly deporti

Google’s lawyers won’t have had much time for the golf course recently. Just days after being handed what was widely regarded as a let-off for monopolistic abuse of the search market in the US, the co

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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