A Backwards History of Money
Money did originate from the state, no matter how many times contemporary monetary theorists might claim otherwise.
The Economics of Sector-Specific Minimum Wages
Ryan Bourne and Nathan Miller (Getty Images) State and local governments are increasingly turning to sector-specific minimum wages. SeaTac, Washington, ...
Northern Powerhouse Rail risks becoming ‘another HS2’, MPs warn
After 12 years in the planning, the north’s flagship rail scheme still has no detailed design and a £45 billion ...
Missing Today’s USMCA Deadline Doesn’t Mean the Deal Is Dead
Scott Lincicome and Chad Smitson (Wikimedia Commons) Today (July 1) marks the official deadline for renewing the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement ...
Royal Mail’s festive collection cap leaves small firms fearing a lost Christmas
Small firms are bracing for a squeezed Christmas after Royal Mail moved to cap the volume of mail it will ...
Getty walks away from $3.7bn Shutterstock merger after CMA editorial demand
Getty Images has abandoned its planned $3.7 billion merger with Shutterstock, walking away rather than accept a condition imposed by ...
Britain claims world’s third-highest number of billion-dollar start-ups
Britain has cemented its position as Europe’s undisputed home for high-growth business, with a record 80 “unicorn” companies now valued ...
What the end of the Halifax name means for its customers
Few names have loomed larger over the British high street than Halifax, and after 173 years it is being retired. ...
HMRC’s supreme court win drags more LLP members into the employee tax net
More members of limited liability partnerships could soon be taxed as employees rather than as genuine partners, pushing up their ...
Why the NEET challenge is now a business problem, not just a social one
I have spent more than 25 years working at the point where education, employability and opportunity meet, and I have ...
