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In his first term, concerns that Mr Trump was profiting from the presidency focused on the Trump Organisation’s hotels in ...

Beyond that, the minimum wage is a crude and wasteful tool for redistribution. Many minimum-wage workers are not poor, but ...

Every Indian city has at least one district dedicated to inexpensive, unbranded clothing, filled with small traders like Mr ...

B “high-skilled” worker visa must now pay an upfront fee of $100,000. Britain has reduced the length of its post-study visa ...

Under Deng Xiaoping, China’s government aimed to double the size of the economy between 1980 and 1990 and do it again by the ...

German cars command only 17% of the Chinese market, down from a peak of 27% in 2020, according to Rhodium, a consultancy.

Europe’s regulatory cake is multilayered; one might call it a bureaucratic mille-feuille. Citizens and companies are subject ...

And the government has given up on prosecuting corruption ...

If Europe is not to drift into irrelevance, it urgently needs to find a new, tough-minded way of using power. So far, this ...

This is the Anything Goes Era in America. It did not start with Donald Trump, but he has upped the tempo and removed ...

Governments’ embrace of high minimum wages is not a fad. It reflects the favourable attitude of many economists towards the policy since the turn of the century. Unfortunately, just as minimum wages ...