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Beware: taking a stand can be expensive The hedge fund’s branding is a clue. 1789 Capital was set up last year and named after the year Congress proposed America’s bill of rights. It offers investors the chance to put money...

Elon Musk’s fiendish conundrum On the night before Elon Musk unveiled Tesla’s first-quarter results on April 23rd, your columnist brought his car to a halt, noticing a futuristic vehicle hooked up to a Tesla charging station in Los Angeles. It...

Only America’s courts can save the video app now Joe biden joined TikTok only two months ago, with a short video entitled “lol hey guys”. On April 24th America’s president approved a bill that could ban the popular app. The...

Gossip in the workplace Gossip is everywhere. On one estimate, from Megan Robbins and Alexander Karan of University of California, Riverside, people spend 52 minutes a day on average talking about other people. Gossip pervades the workplace. You hear it...

Companies far and wide are feeling the effects of the conflict It was supposed to be the new Middle East: a quieter, neutral entrepot where Arabs and Jews, Shia Iranians and Sunni Arabs, Americans, Chinese and even Russians could all...

The American planemaker needs one hell of a pilot Few companies have had a worse start to the year than Boeing. In January a panel masking an unused emergency exit blew out of a 737 max over Oregon. Thankfully the...

Disney, Ford, Microsoft and the age of the quasi-merger No firm is an island. All strike contracts and compete with others. Conversely, when bosses decide a relationship would be better governed by fiat, one firm may acquire another—as bhp, a...

Improved human capital and a better relationship between the centre and the states will be crucial At the start of the 18th century India was one of the world’s two largest economies, with China the other. Part of that came...

But it is also bringing plenty of tensions Every day 1,000 trucks jostle along a single-lane road to Khavda, near India’s border with Pakistan, to build the Adani Group’s 730 square kilometre solar and wind farm. When completed, the project,...

For growth to become more sustainable, it needs to be broader based When shashi tharoor, a stalwart member of parliament for the opposition Congress Party, criticises the current growth model as “trickle-down economics” that doesn’t trickle down, he has a...

The changes are allowing Indian firms to become more dynamic Ramesh muthuramalingam founded Alphacraft, a manufacturing firm, 25 years ago in a small workshop in the southern city of Coimbatore. It now operates out of a 4,500 square-metre (50,000 square-foot)...

There is much more change to come In “lombard street”, published in 1873, Walter Bagehot, then editor of The Economist, wrote that the City of London’s success was based on taking funds that elsewhere were kept under floorboards, and putting...

With the right changes, it can become an engine of global growth, say Arjun Ramani and Thomas Easton The consecration of the Ram temple in Ayodhya, a city in Uttar Pradesh, in January was a matter of supreme importance to...

America, China and the battle for supremacy Flows of information and energy underpin all economic activity, and advanced technologies support both. Hence the sky-high stakes in the tech wars between America and China. Started during Donald Trump’s first term in...

But it is all the more powerful as a result Reform uk may have an address at 83 Victoria Street in London. The right-wing challenger party may be registered with the Electoral Commission, a bit below Putting Crewe First and...

The excitement over metro mayors cannot disguise the rot One leaflet being stuffed into letterboxes by Liberal Democrats in Hull, a city of almost 270,000 people in East Yorkshire, argues that Labour politicians spent too much money on some car-park...

An annual conference offers Foucauldian analyses of the BBC radio drama. And cakes It feels less like a fact than a philosophy problem. “The Archers”, a bbc radio drama centred on the fictional rural village of Ambridge, contains numerous silent...

Britain’s second-most-important tax is riddled with holes Biscuits are tricky tax terrain. One way they can fall foul of Britain’s value-added tax (vat), a consumption levy, is to have an overindulgent chocolate coating. But how much is too much? A...