Opinion

Ever since the 2008 global financial crisis, pundits have tried to guess which country could set off the next implosion. Last week, China seemed to put...

Among the credible candidates to be the economic capital of the 21st century, the oddest and most reluctant has got to be San Francisco. It is the main...

When President Barack Obama was elected in November 2008, the US economy was shrinking at a rate unmatched since World War II. In the seven years between...

While the Sultanate is working to take precautions against lower revenue from oil as a result of the decline in oil prices in the international market, by...

Why does misinformation spread so quickly on the social media? Why doesn’t it get corrected? When the truth is so easy to find, why do people accept...

The outbreak of sexual crime in Cologne on New Year's Eve is turning into the latest big problem for Chancellor Angela Merkel's liberal stance on...

On Christmas, hopes for high-level peace talks between India and Pakistan were higher than they’d been in years. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi made...

The world economy, as a whole, is forecast to grow by 2.7 per cent in 2016, while it hasn’t managed an increase of more than 3 per cent since 2011. The...