Jai Kedia and Jerome Famularo On October 16, the Fed, FDIC, and OCC rescinded interagency principles for climate-related financial risk management for large financial institutions. This is a positive development and a rare occasion when regulators narrow their scope. There ...

Ever since the Great Depression, most economists have claimed that the key to increasing economic growth is to lower unemployment. However, increasing the savings rate and building a capital structure are the keys to growth—and lower unemployment. ...

Travis Fisher and Jennifer Huddleston Artificial intelligence doesn’t run on optimism or buzzwords. It runs on electricity. This seems to be a growing concern as the technology advances, with outlets from Teen Vogue and Wired to the Washington Post and ...

Popular views of capitalism and free markets are not shaped by the facts, but rather by anti-capitalist intellectuals and the media. ...

Jeffrey A. Singer and Jennifer Huddleston Artificial Intelligence and Health Care: A Policy Framework for Innovation, Liability, and Patient Autonomy Artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly transforming every corner of society, including health care. Hospitals and clinics are integrating AI into ...

Pizza Hut’s UK dine-in business has entered administration, placing hundreds of jobs at risk and marking another blow to the increasingly fragile casual dining sector. The chain, owned by US-based Yum! Brands, has appointed FTI Consulting to oversee the process. ...

The Government has announced plans to introduce a new suite of vocational qualifications — known as V-levels — for students aged 16 and over, in a bid to simplify what ministers describe as a “confusing” post-GCSE landscape and strengthen the ...

Energy Secretary Ed Miliband has suggested the government is considering cutting the 5% rate of VAT on household energy bills, as ministers prepare measures to tackle the deepening cost-of-living crisis ahead of next month’s Budget. Speaking on the BBC’s Sunday ...

Weak consumer confidence has emerged as a growing threat to corporate performance, with a rising number of listed UK companies issuing profit warnings ahead of next month’s autumn Budget. According to a new report from EY, 64 UK-listed firms issued ...

Innovate UK has launched a new £1 million competition to fast-track breakthroughs in agentic artificial intelligence (AI) across three of the UK’s highest-growth sectors: advanced manufacturing, health and life sciences, and the creative industries. The Agentic AI Pioneers Prize aims ...