Understanding how these harmonies conjure thoughts, memories and emotions is perhaps the greatest scientific question of all—the brain seeking to understand itself—and yet the question remains ...
For years the NHL has ranked a distant fourth in North American sports leagues, behind the National Football League ( NFL ), the National Basketball Association ( NBA) and Major League Baseball ( MLB) ...
It is tempting to conclude that the fragmentation described in this special report—of capital flows, payment networks and financial institutions—might be spurred by geopolitics, but has little bearing ...
More than a century on, financial globalisation’s second age has given the day trader tapping at her phone a menu of options that would put Keynes’s imaginary gentleman to shame. Though war has ...
The prioritisation of national security above unfettered investment is reshaping the movement of capital across borders. Global capital flows—especially foreign direct investment (FDI)—have plunged, ...
At the same time, China’s retail payment providers have also grown to rival Western incumbents such as Mastercard and Visa. UnionPay, a Chinese card network, is now the world’s largest by transaction ...
Indeed there would be. VTB’s shop front in the City of London kept busy for years (and briefly employed your correspondent). Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022 finally prompted severe enough ...
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Term had ended at Columbia University. Classes were over, and the provost had announced that final exams would be conducted remotely, so the Manhattan campus was emptying fast. On Thursday a few kids ...
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IN 1989 LARRY GAGOSIAN, who has since become the world’s most powerful art dealer, was asked whether there was anything he would like to see change in the art market. “That is like asking Dante what ...
In 2018, European officials watched President Donald Trump blow up a nuclear deal with Iran, reimpose sweeping sanctions and mull disconnecting its banks from SWIFT. They had had enough. America was ...