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    • Thursday, 21 December, 2023
      The editorial board
      The pitfalls of seizing Russian assets to fund Ukraine

      Moscow must be made to pay, but without risking harm to global financial stability

      Russia’s central bank in Moscow
    • Wednesday, 20 December, 2023
      The editorial board
      Global trade shudders over blockages in the Suez and Panama canals

      Geopolitical risk and climate change highlight the need for resilience in core supply routes

      A large container vessel is guided through the Suez Canal by a tug
    • Tuesday, 19 December, 2023
      The editorial board
      The UK’s harsh new rules on family visas

      Planned increase in salary threshold has left thousands of couples in limbo

      Passengers arriving at Gatwick airport
    • Monday, 18 December, 2023
      The editorial board
      The EU has a messy Orbán problem

      Stand-off over funds to Ukraine has laid bare the need to reform how the bloc works

      Victor Orban stands at a podium with the Hungarian flag on the front of it
    • Sunday, 17 December, 2023
      The editorial board
      Benjamin Netanyahu’s failing leadership

      The US is showing signs of unease with Israel’s conduct of the war and its lack of planning for the future of Gaza

    • Friday, 15 December, 2023
      The editorial board
      Central bankers sing from different hymn sheets

      The timing and extent of interest rate cuts are now in the spotlight

      Christine Lagarde, European Central Bank president, Andrew Bailey, Bank of England governor, and Jay Powell
    • Thursday, 14 December, 2023
      The editorial board
      India’s booming stock market

      Investors are buying into a growth story. Policymakers must now ensure it plays out

      The Bombay Stock Exchange building in Mumbai, India
    • Wednesday, 13 December, 2023
      The editorial board
      COP28 is better than feared, but less than needed

      Call to move away from fossil fuels lacks deadlines to phase them out

      Sultan al-Jaber, the COP28 president, and others, at the talks in Dubai
    • Tuesday, 12 December, 2023
      The editorial board
      Universities must protect both speech and student safety

      US colleges need to clarify the difference between words and actions

      Claudine Gay, president of Harvard University, Liz Magill, then president of University of Pennsylvania, and Sally Kornbluth, president of MIT, testify earlier this month
    • Monday, 11 December, 2023
      The editorial board
      A crunch week for Ukraine

      Failure to unblock US and EU aid would imperil Kyiv’s financial stability

      Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky speaks during a joint press conference with US President Joe Biden (unseen) in Kyiv, on February 20 2023
    • Sunday, 10 December, 2023
      The editorial board
      Venezuela’s threat to annex part of Guyana

      Washington should reimpose full sanctions on President Maduro’s authoritarian government

      A woman holds a map of Venezuela with Essequibo included during a rally in Caracas. President Maduro has ordered state oil and gas companies to grant drilling rights in the region
    • Sunday, 10 December, 2023
      The editorial board
      The flawed carbon credit trade needs fixing

      A more rigorous market would be a boon for developing countries — and the climate

      A view of land clearing for palm oil plantation of the peatland forest inside Singkil peat swamp Leuser ecosystem, habitat of Sumatran orangutan (Pongo abelii) in Iemeudama village on November 13, 2016 in Trumon subdistrict, South Aceh, Aceh province, Indonesia
    • Friday, 8 December, 2023
      The editorial board
      Lessons from an international school report

      Worrying global trends belie valuable guidance for education policy

      A secondary school class using laptops.
    • Thursday, 7 December, 2023
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      Rishi Sunak is in a hole over immigration policy

      Dubious Rwanda plan to ‘stop the boats’ recalls the Johnson and Truss eras

      An inflatable craft carrying migrants crosses the shipping lane in the English Channel on August 4, 2022 off the coast of Dover, England
    • Wednesday, 6 December, 2023
      The editorial board
      Tesla meets the European social model

      Elon Musk should adapt to the Swedish system, not the other way around

      A worker strikes outside a Tesla centre in Segeltorp, Sweden. Foreign investors need to respect the rules and cultures of the countries where they seek to do business
    • Tuesday, 5 December, 2023
      The editorial board
      Bitcoin’s bounceback déjà vu

      The buy-and-hold case for crypto remains largely a fiction

      A bitcoin ATM in Barcelona, Spain
    • Monday, 4 December, 2023
      The editorial board
      China’s accelerating rise in consumer defaults

      Bankruptcy procedures need fixing to support Beijing’s economic ambitions

      Pedestrians at a street market
    • Sunday, 3 December, 2023
      The editorial board
      The inflation battle enters the hard last mile

      Central banks still face hurdles in returning price growth to 2 per cent sustainably

    • Friday, 1 December, 2023
      The editorial board
      Charlie Munger and the Magnificent Seven

      Warren Buffett’s confidant would urge investors to focus on big tech’s fundamentals

      Logos of the so-called Magnificent Seven
    • Thursday, 30 November, 2023
      The editorial board
      Mexico is wasting its nearshoring opportunity

      With better government policy, the economy could boom

      A cow’s carcass in the Mexican state of Chihuahua
    • Wednesday, 29 November, 2023
      The editorial board
      An oil and gas COP

      UAE is under intense pressure to deliver a successful climate summit

      People arrive at the COP28 conference in Dubai
    • Tuesday, 28 November, 2023
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      Britain’s pointless diplomatic faux pas with Greece

      Rishi Sunak’s snub to his counterpart over the Parthenon sculptures was an own goal

    • Monday, 27 November, 2023
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      Germany’s overzealous debt brake

      Balanced budget ruling has thrown the country’s green transition into question

      Christian Lindner
    • Sunday, 26 November, 2023
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      Short sellers are misunderstood

      Bans on the stock investment strategy are often misguided and harmful

      Christian Bale playing the investor Michael Burry in the 2015 film ‘The Big Short’
    • Friday, 24 November, 2023
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      Geert Wilders’ victory is a warning for Europe

      Success of the far right in the Netherlands will embolden populists elsewhere

      An election poster for Geert Wilders
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