Is Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel secretly working for a hedge fund on the side?
That is the most charitable explanation of her briefings over the weekend that her government has no intention of bailing out the once-mighty Deutsche Bank if it (...)
A narrowing of the polls. An elderly and tarnished opponent. A resilient populist, who, despite every known law of political campaigning, manages to stay in contention. The world outside the United States is about to start getting its head around (...)
Mark Carney, the governor of the Bank of England, is hardly the most reliable guide to anything.
He has warned constantly that interest rates will have to rise soon, but has managed to get through three years in office without changing them even (...)
In fact, there is a good Brexit and a bad Brexit — in which either the U.K. works out a fairly amicable resettlement of its relationship with its European neighbors, or, alternatively, Brexit triggers an ugly trade war that could easily ripple out (...)