Why 24/7 trading is a bad idea
Stock exchanges are the quaintest corners of modern finance. At other financial institutions, the typical trading floor features…
Germany’s “memory culture” prevents it from coping with Gaza
TO walk around Berlin is to experience something no other capital city offers: a physical landscape that forces…
Does exercise really improve mental health?
How, where, why you work out may be more important than the amount of exercise you get Research…
The sleeping policeman at the heart of Europe
For a continent with a masochistic penchant for regulation, Europe is oddly not very good at crafting it.…
India’s Licence Raj offers America important lessons
Jawaharlal Nehru, India’s first prime minister, and Donald Trump, America’s president, do not share many similarities. Nehru was…
How strongmen mastered the art of dividing Europe
It takes weeks of haggling by ministers and their diplomatic underlings to craft what the leaders of the…
How to make prediction markets more useful
If you could invent something to fulfill an economist’s dream, it would look an awful lot like a…
Feckless Europe accepts Trump’s Lone Ranger diplomacy
IF EUROPE CANNOT have America as a global policeman, it will settle for Donald Trump as the Lone…
Europe wants to show it is ready for war. But would anyone show up to fight one?
Nice tanks you got there, Europe—got anyone to drive ’em? Such are the taunts the continent’s generals might…
How might China win the future? Ask Google’s AI
If China dominates the 21st-century economy, its industrial policy will get a lot of the credit. The state’s…