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The markets are alive with the sound of echo bubbles

The recent surge in tech stocks has true believers buzzing that the downturn of late last...

The rise of kitchen table economics

It is not often that a Pulitzer Prize-winning dramatist gives the keynote speech at a competition...

How the temperature of US politics came down

Is the US learning to live with division? I don’t put this thought forward with much...

The Premier League is global because it is local

The club is called Arsenal. To put the definite article before its name was natural enough...

How the war in Ukraine met the culture wars

For some time, I have been watching the culture wars from a safe distance. The issues...

Podcasts aren’t as smart as you think

This is a non-exhaustive list of the podcasts in my library at present. The Rest Is History. Hardcore...

Forget digital resurrection: let the dead stay dead

Until his death in 2018, fans of Marvel comics could, when going to see their favourite...

Hyper-efficiency is bad business

Did you have a happy holiday season? Probably not if you travelled on Southwest Airlines. The...

Has the pendulum really swung from capital to labour?

At the start of this year, there was a lot of talk about the renewed power...

If you thought business jargon was bad . . . 

Like every other journalist I know, I spent part of last week mucking around with ChatGPT,...

Australia, China and the judgment of the Solomons

If you wanted to nominate a country in the world with zero strategic significance, the Solomon...

Is it ethical to make — and play — war games?

I killed a man last night. I shot him three times. I aimed for the head...

Why Visa and Mastercard have yet to face their Kodak moment

There are now 332 fintech unicorns in the world, according to a new ranking by small...

Tech lay-offs teach us a lesson about the ‘war for talent’

Once upon a time, young graduates thought they had a choice to make: they could become...

Psychedelics and business could make for a bad trip

In case you don’t have any tech bro friends who’ve told you this already: the “psychedelic...

Geopolitics is the biggest threat to globalisation

How might globalisation end? Some seem to imagine a relatively peaceful “decoupling” of economies until recently...

We are dangerously reliant on GPS to tell the time

On October 17, air traffic controllers at Dallas Fort Worth airport in Texas received a worrying...

Why the business world is so bad at politics

Before the ritual self-disembowelment, Yukio Mishima had other ways of getting his point across. The point...

Deflecting asteroids is only one thing on humanity’s worry list

It was, literally, a striking achievement. In the early hours of Tuesday, a NASA spacecraft slammed...

The age of uncertainty for CEOs

The chief executives of some of Europe’s top companies are on the way out. In recent...