Ahead of the Russian presidential election, President Vladimir Putin is keen to ensure that Russians’ real disposable incomes as measured by official statistics don’t decline. So the State Statistical Service has made sure of it. On February 19, the government agency reported that in January, the disposable income measure was unchanged from January, 2017. To produce that result, it had ...

When SpaceX’s 230-foot Falcon Heavy blasted off on February 6, it became a global sensation. But a much quieter launch three days earlier may turn out to be more important. That’s when a 31-foot rocket known as the SS-520-5 took off from Japan’s Uchinoura Space Center. It’s the smallest rocket ever to place an object into Earth orbit — and ...

French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel say they want to make the common currency area more resilient and adaptable, but their two countries have traditionally disagreed over how that should be achieved. Can crack economists from the relevant countries solve the problem for them? They are giving it a shot — but building a European consensus will ...