Gaining currency?
Wit Olszewski
With Wall Street slowly taking charge of crypto, the days of radical outsiders launching successful altcoins may be numbered.
African arbitrators are needed for African disputes.
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Why Africa needs more African arbitrators.
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A look at the theory behind nationalising key public services, as well as what has happened in practice.
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Traditional expectations can be a problem in relationships.
Boom times.
Artem Aleshko
A toxic mix of ugly politics and structural economic problems is threatening to tip debt over the edge.
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The UK has benefited from EU labour protections, which will be vulnerable to the Conservative party’s deregulation agenda.
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A breakdown of the infrastructure and operating costs, as well as the market impact of giving free full-fibre broadband to the whole country.
Elon Musk is making a big bet with his new Gigafactory near Berlin.
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One of the questions I’m asked most frequently is: how can you make sense of Tesla’s wild strategies?
Supporting and empowering jobseekers has better results than the current “economic” approaches used by jobcentres up and down the country.
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Being out of work is hard: here’s how psychology is helping to make the process of finding a job a little easier.
Dawn Butler, Labour’s shadow women and equalities secretary.
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Labour and the Liberal Democrats go further than the current system but would still leave the UK lagging behind many of its international peers.
A real living wage would make a big difference to those on low pay.
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Promised increases from both sides are a striking new feature of UK politics and could be transformative for many.
Shaybah oilfield in Rub Al-Khali, Saudi Arabia.
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US dominance over the international oil system has influenced the relationship between Saudi Arabia and Iran.
Short-sighted?
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A political economist explains the background to Labour and the Conservatives’ new commitment to spending and borrowing.
Have more free time, get more work done.
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The benefits of a four-day working week, without loss of pay, can outweigh the cons for both businesses and staff.
‘East German or West German?’
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The collapse of the East German economy following unification has combined with racism and neoliberalism to feed far right support.
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The Saudi government’s oil firm is set to become the world’s biggest public company, but investors are already betting against its long-term prospects.
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Flexible work has the potential to solve many issues that see people fall out of the workforce but many companies still struggle to do it right.
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In the UK today, the term ‘craft beer’ has so many associations that there’s a danger it may end up meaning nothing at all.
Beat Dis.
DANIEL CONSTANTE
Giants like Disney and NBCUniversal have been locked in the horns of a business problem known as the innovator’s dilemma.
The new Uber Works app.
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Uber Works is the next step in the evolution of the gig economy.
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Although it has yet to fly any paying passengers and is currently loss making, Virgin Galactic aims to be profitable by 2021.
Ricky, from Sorry We Missed You.
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Flexibility is just a euphemism for exploitation.
Construction underway of a new port at Lamu, Kenya.
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A new push to focus development efforts on big infrastructure projects could have unitended consequences.
The UK has signed a number of trade deals to keep trade flowing in the event of a no-deal Brexit.
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The UK has signed 15 trade agreements, covering 46 countries. Most fail to cover human rights issues.
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New research reveals remarkable evidence of a copper-mining bonanza in Wales that was so productive the metal reached France, Germany, Denmark and Sweden.