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During the years of ultra cheap money, companies loaded up on debt but now the concern is whether they will be able to handle the mountain of debt as...

Klaus Schwab, who founded the World Economic Forum (WEF), has said his childhood during World War II inspired him to build an organisation that would make...

The overwhelming defeat that Britain’s Parliament inflicted upon Prime Minister Theresa May’s Brexit plan was fresh confirmation that there is no...

When Prime Minister Narendra Modi led his Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to a landslide victory in the 2014 general election, he promised to be all things to...

In 1942, William Beveridge issued an epoch-defining report that established a model for welfare states in the post-war era. He recognized that the old...

Transatlantic security today looks a lot like a ghost plane. With the “crew” incapacitated – that is, bereft of ideas or leadership – it is flying...

One year ago, BlackRock chairman and CEO Larry Fink wrote a letter to 500 CEOs asking them to rethink their sense of purpose. “To prosper over time,” he...

After more than 17 years, the time has come to accept two important truths about the war in Afghanistan. The first is that there will be no military victory...

My childhood arrived late. Born to an impoverished family in a stone quarry in Rajasthan, I knew how to crack rocks before I could spell my name. My parents...

In the early hours of January 10, election authorities in the Democratic Republic of Congo finally announced that Félix Tshisekedi, leader of the...