Economy

Actually, not only can a sovereign state go bust, but it has already happened… and to a modern state not so far from home.

While the bursting of the AI bubble will be Silicon Valley’s nemesis, in the UK it is in more mundane sectors that we are witnessing a crisis far more profound

Fortunately, the promises of AI are about as realistic as programable central bank digital currencies… and for much the same reason

At least “drill-baby-drill” demonstrates some understanding that energy is, and always was, the driver of economic growth.

More cerebral commentators at least acknowledge that the British disease goes back much further than October’s budget or even the election of Boris Johnson.

In the early-2010s there was a perverse repeat of the oil boom of the post-war years.

Nowhere is the current predicament facing the UK economy more apparent than in Britain’s once-thriving public houses

As industrial civilisation hurtles past limits, having decision makers largely illiterate about STEM subjects is as dangerous as Earth limits themselves.

Like Katrina before it, Helene is an embarrassment to the American establishment...

In a neoliberal system, government itself has become a cargo cult