Donald Trump thinks trade is a zero-sum game. Xi Jinping appears happy to wait for the trade war to backfire on the US president.
We’re spending about $56 billion a year on defence and that’s going to rise sharply,no matter who’s in power. Does anyone really think this won’t lead to income tax hikes?
For an election dominated by cost-of-living sloganeering,neither Labor nor the Coalition has bothered to utter a word on wages.
The meetings of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank this past week have been dominated by the future of a key building block of globalisation.
Enormous investments in factory equipment and artificial intelligence are giving China an edge in car manufacturing and other industries.
Meetings of two of the world’s key multilateral organisations this week will be overshadowed by the prospect that the US will withdraw from the institutions it helped create.
Psychologists say that extreme wealth changes people and their views of those who have less.
When politicians are no longer game to appeal to the better angels of our nature,you know we’ve got a problem.
In the Back to the Future trilogy,Generation X was promised technology would bring hoverboards and flying cars. Reality instead has brought Zoom meetings and career frustration.
Beijing is hardly likely to roll over given its financial and global trading strength.
If you’re sharing a meal with someone this Easter,chances are you’re happier.