The d.c. brief

If the most prized commodity in the 20th century was oil, in the 21st it is data. It is both our humdrum reality and our anxious obsession. It tracks everything from which online advertisements we are

There are concerns legal case against Lisa Cook is politically-motivated

When bad news is just bad news not good news for markets

“We’ll have a majority [on the Federal Reserve Board] very shortly… People are paying too high an interest rate… We have to get the rates down a little bit,” says Donald Trump. The US president isn’t

Last Friday was not a good one for Erika McEntarfer, the head of the US Bureau of Labour Statistics (BLS). After a poor set of labour market numbers she was fired by president Donald Trump, who said h

Issue of the week: the battle for the ...