Bloomberg German discounters Lidl and Aldi raised prices more sharply than other supermarkets in the UK last month as food inflation spreads to every area of grocery. Shoppers at Lidl saw their bills rise by 21.1% last month versus a year earlier and Aldi was close behind with a 20.8% increase, according to a report from Which, a consumer …

  Bloomberg The writing was on the wall when Britain finalized its break from the European Union: The UK sorely lacked the battery manufacturing capability that would be absolutely critical to the auto industry’s future, leaving the country’s already declining car sector in a make-or-break bind. The failure of Britishvolt Ltd. to get past the stage of developing prototypes for …

  Bloomberg Public borrowings in the US and elsewhere have swelled because of overspending partly fueled by fractured politics, said former International Monetary Fund Chief Economist Raghuram Rajan. “The size of the debt has gone up tremendously,” he told a panel at the World Economic Forum in Davos. “Part of the problem that’s going on is clearly there is a …