LONDON — Britain’s economy is staring down a familiar foe: creeping inflation that threatens to erode living standards and stall recovery. Yet amid the headlines of a 3.4% CPI rise in December 2025—the first uptick in five months—and a slowdown…
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In the snow-capped peaks of Davos, Switzerland, where the world’s power brokers convene each year under the banner of the World Economic Forum (WEF), President Donald Trump took center stage this week, delivering a message that resonated more with champagne…
Japan and the United States convened their second high-level consultation committee meeting on Tuesday, signaling renewed momentum in deploying a landmark $550 billion Japanese investment pledge that anchors the allies’ hard-won trade agreement. The two-hour virtual session, co-chaired by Japanese…
U.S. job growth defied expectations in September, according to a Labor Department report issued nearly seven weeks late due to the government shutdown. Payrolls rose by a seasonally adjusted 119,000 on the month, the strongest gain since April, the Labor Department said…
President Donald Trump announced on Friday that the United States will slap an additional 100% tariff on all Chinese imports starting November 1, on top of existing duties, while imposing sweeping export controls on “any and all critical software.” The…
In the heart of the Midwest, where golden fields stretch toward the horizon under a crisp autumn sky, the hum of combines should signal prosperity. Instead, for America’s soybean farmers, harvest season has become a grim countdown to financial ruin.…
WASHINGTON — In a significant blow to President Donald Trump’s efforts to reshape the Federal Reserve, a federal appeals court on Monday night rejected the administration’s emergency bid to remove Governor Lisa Cook from the central bank’s Board of Governors,…
The UK’s economy, long hamstrung by years of socialist-leaning policies and bureaucratic overreach, has officially hit a wall. Official figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) confirm that gross domestic product (GDP) flatlined at zero growth in July, a…
For much of the past century, in both the United States and elsewhere, the inexorable trend has been for people to move from rural areas and towns to ever larger cities, particularly those with vibrant downtown cores such as New…
WASHINGTON — In an unprecedented escalation of his long-standing feud with the Federal Reserve, President Donald Trump on Monday announced the immediate removal of Governor Lisa Cook from the central bank’s board, citing allegations of mortgage fraud stemming from a…
