Chelsea striker Diego Costa is reported to be interested in a move to China.
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The sleeping giant of world football has started flexing its financial muscles.
Can the Premier League and other European clubs compete with the might of China?
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Ridiculed and ignored in 2016, what can the ‘dismal science’ offer us now?
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The foundations are shaky after the previous regime, but there are reasons to be optimistic about Theresa May’s initiative.
Trade unions protest the state of the economy.
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After eight torturous years of crisis, Greeks are working long and hard with very little to show for it.
Softer than she seems.
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The UK government’s inability to devise a fundamentally new economic policy is why it will likely fudge a soft Brexit.
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A future of trade wars and isolationism will not solve the grand challenges which are dragging down fragile economies.
Standing tall.
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The one audience that was prepared for a hard Brexit, it seems, was the City of London.
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Leaders in Davos are being asked to consider how global cooperation could be reinvigorated. They could do worse than start with UN reforms.
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The way the pound rebounded does not reflect long-term confidence in the currency.
Port Talbot’s man of steel stands proudly over the town.
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Forget the sunset pictures that accompanied so much media coverage of the steel crisis. Steel is an industry of the future, not the past.
Theatre of dreams.
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Fixed odds betting terminals attract all the attention, but something alarming is being overlooked.
Theresa May goes global.
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The UK’s decision to leave the single market and customs union will have huge consequences.
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The defining characteristics of our species will make us and our labour relevant in a new era.
Trade dealer in chief.
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President-elect Donald Trump has offered the UK a quick post-Brexit trade deal but he’ll face some legal hurdles to make it happen.
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Expectations are high that China will take the reins of global leadership at Davos, but don’t expect Xi Jinping to upset the apple cart.
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The system is rigged for a small minority to profit, but are we brave enough to deploy the solutions that would work?
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When politicians win by stoking nationalism and isolationism, who will be brave enough to walk the harder path?
Marketing can lead you astray.
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New research shows how marketers get away with making their food look and sound healthier than it really is.
‘My fellow disenfranchised Americans …’
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New measure of 32 countries’ economic balance places UK and US near bottom of the pile.
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Two High Street titans look like they are travelling different paths, but watch out for trouble in 2017.
A wage ceiling is worth talking about.
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The idea of a minimum wage has become widely accepted so why is a maximum wage so controversial?
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By focusing on forecasting issues, economists remain disengaged with real-world problems.
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The World Economic Forum draws a straight line from social injustice to many of the risks facing the world in 2017.
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Despite performing the same job, one of BA’s three cabin crew fleets earns far less than their colleagues.
Taking care of business. Will Trump be hands off?
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One cymbal manufacturer has survived 400 years, but most in-house companies fail to survive through the generations.