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In 1933 Roosevelt tried to sack William Humphrey, one of the five commissioners of the Federal Trade Commission, over ...

Mr Trump is, in other words, trying to tell a specific story about his policies: that Americans will experience short-term ...

Many of Argentina’s 22 previous IMF programmes have ended in disaster. Mr Milei’s record gives some credibility to his ...

First, they hope to show Mr Trump and his allies that there are plenty of people unhappy with how his second term is ...

These days it is unusual to see a crowd of teenagers at the cinema ...

Sir Keir Starmer revels in the industrial nostalgia. The prime minister calls Britain’s steelworks a part of the “heritage of ...

In Japan the triple yasu was associated with national decline. Yet a flight from all American assets represents a far greater ...

A S HE SPEEDS down Zalaeherseh Street in Kherson, Artem, a Ukrainian soldier, points to blown-out apartments and debris. “The ...

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The removal of all sugary snacks from the office has gone very well. There was some grumbling at first, but it turns out that ...

As a result, Asians’ fondness for gold is often attributed to cultural reasons. But India and China are culturally very ...