2025-12-11 13:00:56
Muted dissent like this does not signal a Fed that won’t let itself be pushed around.
2025-12-11 13:00:25
When the UK heeded Boris Johnson’s Brexit call and narrowly voted to leave the European Union in 2016, a generation was appalled. According to the writer Michael Cockerell, Johnson’s own 18-year-old nephew Oliver spoke for the 73% of younger voters who voted to remain, telling his mother that night: “Uncle Boris has just stolen our future.”
2025-12-11 12:30:22
Why would the European Central Bank’s German representative promote a hike in interest rates when the euro bloc's biggest economy has been in recession for the last two years? Isabel Schnabel is "rather comfortable" with the futures market starting to anticipate the central bank will tighten monetary conditions as its next move. That would risk making a major policy error, condemning the euro area to a continued bout of anemic growth.
2025-12-11 12:00:22
In Germany, a political reality is taking shape that was long unthinkable. For the first time since World War II, a far-right party is close enough to power that it’s planning to govern rather than just grow and disrupt. To prepare for a scenario where it might rule and fill public offices, the anti-immigrant AfD is professionalizing its internal structure. But sleek organization doesn’t equal moderate politics. On the contrary, it may be about to morph into its most potent form yet: effective a
2025-12-11 06:32:08
Between President Trump’s “no more Mr. Nice guy” and the sorry state of America’s charitable scene, generosity is hard to come by these days.
2025-12-11 05:00:22
When IndiGo entered India's already crowded skies two decades ago, it was a revelation. It was supposedly a low-cost airline, but it was more comfortable and welcoming than most of our full-service carriers. Its well-maintained cabins had a calming, if excessively cutesy, aesthetic. It felt like a world-beating product when Indians too frequently have to put up with second-best.