The Fed has failed to keep inflation low it might need to reinvent itself to avoid becoming the target of establishment-bashing populists.

With Musk's record breaking donation to charity in the news it's worth taking a look at philanthropy: does it help more than it hurts?

Russia has troops at the border with Ukraine which has renewed the NATO debate in Sweden, here's why Sweden absolutely shouldn't join.

The recent increase in inflation presents a challenge for central banks, but most of all an opportunity.

Was the optics of a failed retreat from Afghanistan was a potent symbol for the war or a stain on an otherwise productive intervention?

How much do our world and the worlds of Neuroancer and Cyberpunk 2077 have in common? Here's a way we could find out.

The president is said to be the most powerful man in the world. Ironically, Biden might be defined by the things he has no control over.

Trump is trailing in the polls, does that mean that Biden will take the White House? How significant is it to lead in the polls?

eflections on the 2016 election and Trump’s Presidency, and the argument against polarisation.

Memes and disinformation are intimately related, and I believe the information age changed the dominant paradigm for memes from positive to

Biden seems very likely to get the most votes, it remains to be seen if that's enough to win the White House.

Have the Fed's asset purchasing programmes changed the way people save, and thereby made market drops like the one in Q1 2020 more likely?

Hertz is offering bankrupt shares and people seem to want to buy, why?

This year has been quite chaotic so far, and there's a risk that partisanship could lead to more chaos in November.

Context is everything, and the current protests against police brutality wouldn't be as large were it not for the context of the pandemic.

High unemployment in the US isn't as bad as you might think, at least not economically, though socially and politically it might be

With only six months to November, who is the most likely Democratic candidate? And do they stand a chance against Trump?

"One of the greatest trade deals ever made!" seems more like a poorly thought through prop for political theatrics

Last year's terrible track record won't stop me from making more gloomy predictions. Here's what's going to happen in 2020.

I made some bold predictions about what was going to happen this year, let's find out how wrong I was.