This wasn’t the start to the New Year Boris Johnson envisaged. Just weeks after beating the western world to approving the first vaccine against Sars-Cov-2 and launching a massive inoculation campaign, the Prime Minister was left to solemnly declare that the UK is facing a “perilous” moment. His warnings are reminiscent of the first lockdown when Britons were told they ...

Just because something is unlikely doesn’t mean it’s not worth worrying about it. A sudden return of inflation after years of weak price pressures fits right into this category. The euro zone is particularly exposed to a sudden return of inflation. The European Central Bank’s (ECB) loose monetary policy has played an essential role in preserving financial stability in the ...

Facebook Inc has long defended its lackadaisical approach to misinformation by saying that if it imposed stricter conditions, such content would proliferate elsewhere anyway. Far better to monitor conversation itself … or something. But pushing false information and incitement to violence to the darker recesses of the web would be better. Facebook’s line of reasoning has long seemed disingenuous, not ...