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  • 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
    The editorial board
    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
    The editorial board
    Germany’s overzealous debt brake

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

    Christian Lindner
  • Sunday, 26 November, 2023
    The editorial board
    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
    The editorial board
    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
  • Thursday, 23 November, 2023
    The editorial board
    A much-needed truce between Israel and Hamas

    Pause in hostilities to release hostages should lead to a humanitarian ceasefire

    People walk past a mural calling for the return of the hostages kidnapped during the October 7 Hamas cross-border attack in Israel,
  • Wednesday, 22 November, 2023
    The editorial board
    Jeremy Hunt’s fiscal fudge

    Britain’s Autumn Statement is good, bad and ugly all at the same time

    Jeremy Hunt departs Downing Street to deliver his Autumn Statement to UK parliament
  • Wednesday, 22 November, 2023
    The editorial board
    Ukraine needs reassurance from its allies

    Kyiv worries that war fatigue is growing in the US and the EU

    Ukrainian soldiers on combat training in the north of the country
  • Tuesday, 21 November, 2023
    The editorial board
    Argentina cannot afford another failure

    Libertarian Javier Milei offers a high-risk path to radical economic reform

    A man reads an Argentine newspaper whose front page shows the victorious Javier Milei
  • Monday, 20 November, 2023
    The editorial board
    OpenAI’s turbulent weekend

    Sam Altman’s sacking raises further concerns about the governance of artificial intelligence

    Sam Altman and OpenAI logo
  • Sunday, 19 November, 2023
    The editorial board
    Britain’s autumn statement is no time for short-termism

    Jeremy Hunt should prioritise the country’s economic health ahead of political pressures

  • Friday, 17 November, 2023
    The editorial board
    The feelgood factor will remain elusive

    Inflation is falling, but bad vibes will be harder to shift than politicians had hoped

    A person carrying shopping bags and an umbrella walks down a high street
  • Thursday, 16 November, 2023
    The editorial board
    A tentative reset between Washington and Beijing

    Despite mutual mistrust, both sides have an interest in trying to calm tensions

    Joe Biden and Xi Jinping in California. Their meeting provided encouraging signs that both sides are attempting to manage relations
  • Wednesday, 15 November, 2023
    The editorial board
    Britain’s migrant policy is in disarray

    Rishi Sunak’s attempt to rescue Rwanda plan by changing the law is misconceived

    UK officials help migrants arriving on the south coast of England. The British government should put its focus back on collaborating with its European neighbours
  • Tuesday, 14 November, 2023
    The editorial board
    The alarming cyber hack at ICBC

    Financial corporations and authorities need to step up their security efforts

    Image of a figure walking behind a glass wall of machine coding symbols
  • Monday, 13 November, 2023
    The editorial board
    David Cameron’s return reflects a vacuum in strategy

    Sacking Suella Braverman was overdue but sets up a clash with the Conservative right

    A smiling David Camerson walks past press photographers on his way out of 10 Downing Street
  • Sunday, 12 November, 2023
    The editorial board
    Pakistan’s expulsion order deepens the Afghan crisis

    Islamabad needs to reverse course, but the west has responsibility too

  • Friday, 10 November, 2023
    The editorial board
    The advent of the AI agent

    OpenAI’s app store marks the emergence of chatbots able to perform tasks

    OpenAI CEO Sam Altman speaks during the OpenAI DevDay event this week in San Francisco, California
  • Thursday, 9 November, 2023
    The editorial board
    Japan’s fiscal and monetary policies are moving in opposite directions

    Tokyo must consider whether a stimulus next year will help or hinder its central bank

    Kazuo Ueda, the Bank of Japan’s governor
  • Wednesday, 8 November, 2023
    The editorial board
    The coming wave of business bankruptcies

    Following years of low interest rates, creative destruction should be embraced

    A man walks past a boarded up shop in New York City
  • Tuesday, 7 November, 2023
    The editorial board
    Rishi Sunak is harming the UK’s climate reputation

    Mandating North Sea oil and gas licensing is not a good use of parliament’s time

    Activists protest in London against new oilfields
  • Monday, 6 November, 2023
    The editorial board
    An amnesty for Catalan secessionists is a gamble worth taking

    A politically expedient path can also be the right one to take

    Protesters in Barcelona rally against the proposed amnesty for pro-independence leaders. Polling suggests more than two-thirds of Spaniards oppose an amnesty
  • Sunday, 5 November, 2023
    The editorial board
    The great American spending spree

    Pay growth, savings and ‘fomo’ have helped the US economy defy a gloomy backdrop

    ‘Trick-or-treaters’ gather in the Allandale neighborhood on October 31 2023 in Austin, Texas
  • Friday, 3 November, 2023
    The editorial board
    The science of the successful succession

    Few things are certain, but the ephemerality of chief executives is one of them

    Ted Pick, wearing suit and tie, talks and gestures during and interview
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