NEW YORK — Last year, US President Joe Biden’s administration infuriated lobbyists representing Big Tech firms and others that profit from our personal data by denouncing a proposal that would have gutted domestic data privacy, online civil rights and liberties, and competition s

NEW YORK — Last year, US President Joe Biden’s administration infuriated lobbyists representing Big Tech firms and others that profit from our personal data by denouncing a proposal that would have gutted domestic data privacy, online civil rights and liberties and competition sa

NEW YORK — Competition is what makes markets work (when they do). But firms do not like competition because it tends to drive down profits.

PISA — As the world was recovering from the pandemic, inflation shot up, owing to widespread disruptions to global supply chains and sudden changes in patterns of demand.

NEW YORK — With the enactment last year of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), the United States fully joined the rest of the world’s advanced economies in combating climate change.

NEW YORK — The aftershocks of the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), while seemingly fading, are still reverberating around the world.

NEW YORK — The run on Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), on which nearly half of all venture-backed tech start-ups in the United States depend, is in part a rerun of a familiar story, but it’s more than that.

NEW YORK — The Republican Party has long wrapped itself in the American flag, claiming to be the defender of “freedom”. The GOP believes individuals should be free to carry firearms, spew hate speech, and eschew vaccines and face masks.

NEW YORK — Despite favourable indices, it is too soon to tell whether inflation has been tamed.