In America, any early effects are likely to be diluted by the economy’s vastness and variegation. Better places to look for ...

The Federal Reserve raised its benchmark interest rate by 0.25 percentage points, to 3.75-4%, the central bank’s first ...

In the 2010s, when borrowing was cheap, even big debts looked manageable. Today, yields are high and rising fast, most ...

America and China have not held official AI talks since 2024, when they declared that humans should retain control of nuclear ...

But vast numbers of Chinese continue to flock abroad. Outbound travel collapsed during the covid pandemic. Since then, it has ...

Those opposed include President Donald Trump, whose administration fears more than anything losing America’s lead in AI to ...

Donald Trump, the president, is unmoved by the torrent of such demands. AI ’s supposed risks to humanity, he wrote on social ...

On Thursday Takaichi Sanae, Japan’s prime minister, will reshuffle her cabinet. Ministers in many of the most important ...

Thursday marks a year since a public inquiry first began uncovering how South Africa’s underworld increasingly threatens the ...

Markets expect the Bank of England to keep its interest rate at 3.75% when it meets on Thursday. If rate-setters do vote to ...

Don’t mention the “F” word. No, not that one. The one that is the title of a book by Mary Shelley. In a paper published on ...

The Federal Reserve raised its benchmark interest rate by 0.25 percentage points, to 3.75-4%, the central bank’s first ...