Amid the turmoil of the oil-price bubble and credit crunch in 2008, a few analysts and economists discovered something remarkable. An obscure shipping index compiled in the shadow of London’s “Gherkin” tower had become a sort of daily prophecy about the direction of the global economy. The Baltic Dry Index could be used as a ”Predictor of Global Stock Returns, ...

It’s easy to criticise just about any proposed climate change solution as not effective enough. The buildup of greenhouse gases is simply too big of a problem to be solved by one course of action alone, whether it’s increasing the use of solar energy or giving up beef orcapturing carbon from the atmosphere. A recent estimate that planting lots of ...

Over the past couple of weeks, there have been increasing signs that the Trump administration — and particularly the president himself — is moderating its position on North Korea’s stockpile of nuclear weapons. Gone are the adamant statements that the US will only accept complete, immediate and irreversible denuclearisation. Instead, we’ve seen a symbolic but historic meeting between Trump and ...