Sterling has punched up to new highs for the year on the back of a comprehensive election victory for Boris Johnson’s Conservative Party. With the parliamentary handbrake on Johnson’s Brexit deal now released — and the trouncing of Jeremy Corbyn’s high-taxing, business-baiting Labour Party delivered with great force — we should see sustained pound gains. Nevertheless, as I outlined earlier, ...

Economics changed a lot in the 2010s, mostly in good and healthy ways. But much remains to be done in terms of the discipline’s public image, the reliability of its methods and the success of its policy recommendations. Here are a few ways that economics should strive to change itself in the 2020s: Reform Economics Education Economic research has become ...

This has not been a great century for working in retail. The sector, which added about 5 million jobs from 1980 through the end of 2000, has added only 416,100 since. Since January 2017, retailers have shed 145,200 jobs even as overall employment growth has remained strong. The obvious explanation here is the rise of online shopping. Nonstore retailers such ...