The case for introducing fundamentally driven, or smart, global bond market indexes has been reinforced by both rapid growth in sovereign bond issuance and DM debt levels in recent years.

China has turned a corner, finally. Five years after Beijing began cracking down on its bloated property sector, its economy ...

Forecasts of the impact of artificial intelligence range from the apocalyptic to the utopian. An October 2025 report from ...

Finance minister Edun says modest GDP growth insufficient to reduce poverty, pledges reforms targeting productivity, SMEs, ...

NATO is in crisis. Several members refuse to let the United States, the backbone of the alliance, use bases and airspace for ...

Its main effect has been to centralise economic power and decision-making while undermining independent institutions. The ...

UK households are being urged to act before £640 vanishes every year, but what no one admits is how embarrassment can trap ...

Even that committed federalist, Alfred Deakin, foresaw that the states would eventually become ‘tied to the chariot wheels of ...

Public spending is economically and socially vital. It is not an economic liability, as some nowadays claim. Rising public ...

Capitalism remains undefeated. In 2023, over 100 leading economists from around the world, including progressive darling Thomas Piketty, signed a letter warning that “far-right” Argentine presidential ...

India’s economy, like the world’s, is structurally less vulnerable to oil shocks than it was back in the 1970s. But with ...