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The markets are alive with the sound of echo bubbles

Investors refuse to give up on ideas that recently made them a lot of money.

The rise of kitchen table economics

Monopoly policy discussions are starting to go mainstream in the United States.

How the temperature of US politics came down

Joe Biden and the contest with China are helping to calm things, for now.

The Premier League is global because it is local

The world is drawn to its distinctiveness, but also threatens it.

How the war in Ukraine met the culture wars

Vladimir Putin has found friends in the west by posing as a defender of traditional values.

Podcasts aren’t as smart as you think

They've replaced TV dramas as a way of not reading and feeling good about it.

Forget digital resurrection: let the dead stay dead

Our obsession with recreating people on screen and in reality is doomed to failure.

Hyper-efficiency is bad business

Southwest Airlines shows management by numbers has gone too far.

Has the pendulum really swung from capital to labour?

Worker power hasn’t strengthened as much as expected in 2022.

If you thought business jargon was bad . . . 

New research shows doctors speak in ways that baffle — and potentially cause real harm.