Economy

Inflation has become the latest excuse trotted out to try and sideline Biden's economic agenda.

New global agreements notwithstanding, the world remains woefully behind in reducing greenhouse-gas emissions at the rate necessary to prevent catastrophic climate-change scenarios. Businesses are increasingly embracing the green challenge, but they need policymakers to meet them halfway.

Western elites blew it. And the world will now likely pay a very high price for these mistakes.

The dominant model followed by virtually all major economies today is inflicting severe damage on the planet’s fragile ecosystem and causing wide economic and social inequalities. Can a diagram of a doughnut offer us the key to resolve our predicament?

To expand personal freedom, recover from the Covid pandemic and curb the climate crisis—let’s embrace a shorter working week.

Recent price increases in the U.S., and demands for a forceful response by the Federal Reserve, have brought back memories of the 1970s and all of the economic and political disasters of those years.