Big Tech takes aim at the low-profit retail-banking industry
Nov 21st 2019LISBON, LONDON AND SAN FRANCISCOTHE ANNUAL Web Summit in Lisbon each year is Woodstock for geeks. Over three days…
Cost-benefit analyses offend against the notion that life is priceless
Nov 16th 2019THE AIRLESS nooks under a man’s foreskin are a cosy spot for microbes. These can inflame the surrounding skin,…
Stiff sentences for bank fraud capture Italy’s sour public mood
Nov 14th 2019MILANIN THE VAULTS of Monte dei Paschi di Siena is a torn and yellowing sheet of paper: a death sentence from the…
Why currency traders are serene even as Western politics gets messy
Nov 21st 2019TRADE WARS; talk of impeachment; the spread of populist politicians and hung parliaments across Europe. It is hardly…
What next for Europe’s banking union?
Nov 21st 2019ACCORDING TO AN analogy popular in Brussels, the euro zone is a house that needs fixing. Everyone frets about its…
How machine learning is revolutionising market intelligence
Nov 21st 2019THE THAMES seems to draw people who work on intelligence-gathering. The spooks of MI6 are housed in a funky-looking…
Excess Asian savings are weighing on global interest rates
Nov 21st 2019SHANGHAIIT IS NEARLY 15 years since Ben Bernanke, then the chairman of the Federal Reserve, argued that a “global…
Do not write off the macro hedge-fund manager just yet
Nov 28th 2019IF YOU WATCH much too much televised football (soccer, if you must), you will often hear a particular lament. Whatever…
Does the economy affect elections any more?
Nov 28th 2019“THE ECONOMY, stupid,” was the slogan of a strategist in Bill Clinton’s campaign for the presidency in 1992….