It’s not often you see a supermarket make national news for not letting someone work for free. Usually the outrage runs in the other direction—“greedy corporations exploiting unpaid labour” and so on. But today’s piece in The Telegraph about Waitrose ...
“I see that you are preparing the groundwork for supporting Nixon,” Rothbard wrote Meyer. “Again, for shame! Is this what conservative principles are coming down to…?” ...
Jeffrey Miron To moderate economic downturns, [g]overnments frequently issue stimulus payments .… Economic theory suggests [such]… payments should be timely, targeted, and temporary, but elected officials usually decide whether to adopt or repeal these programs. This means that political considerations ...
JCB has announced plans to invest £100 million in a major overhaul of its flagship Rocester plant in Staffordshire, in a move set to safeguard 8,000 UK jobs and bolster confidence in the nation’s struggling manufacturing sector. The project will ...
There have been four gold busts under the fiat dollar money regimes since the “freeing” of the gold price in March 1968. Will the current gold boom end in a similar bust? ...
UK inflation held steady at 3.8 per cent in September, confounding expectations of a rise and increasing the likelihood that the Bank of England could cut interest rates before the end of the year. The latest Office for National Statistics ...
The cyber attack that crippled Jaguar Land Rover’s operations has been confirmed as the most expensive in British history, with losses estimated at £1.9 billion, according to new analysis from the Cyber Monitoring Centre (CMC). The incident, which halted JLR ...
The governmental response to the covid pandemic was to cripple the economy. To compensate for the damage, the Federal Reserve unleashed massive inflation in an attempt to do what the Fed always does in a crisis: bail out the economic ...
Allica Bank has acquired Kriya, the award-winning SME lending fintech formerly known as MarketFinance, in a move that marks the UK’s fastest-growing fintech’s entry into the embedded payments market and signals its ambition to deliver £1 billion of SME working ...
Former Deputy Prime Minister Sir Nick Clegg has warned that the current wave of valuations across the artificial intelligence sector is “crackers”, arguing that many AI businesses have yet to demonstrate viable paths to profitability despite the billions pouring into ...