Birds of a feather flock together. It applies to Donald trump and his team of billionaires. The Republican presidential candidate has unveiled an economic team that’s a mirror image of the candidate. The 13-member team includes several billionaire bankers and investment managers. They are all men. And they have been in business with Donald before. Here lies the dichotomy. …

  The global economy desperately needed some good news. That’s what it got in the latest US jobs report. Ahead of today’s release of the US employment report for July, the mood was decidedly gloomy, with economic activity slowing in most other advanced countries, the UK facing a real and present danger of an economic recession and the risk of …

  The UK’s enormous soft power, painstakingly built in the post-imperial era, looks weakened following Brexit. In fact, negotiating acceptable divorce terms or preventing an economic decline may prove much easier than restoring British influence. Some early indications of how Brexit has damaged the UK’s international perception can be found in a recent Ipsos poll conducted in 16 countries. In …