The latest business news around the world.
The latest business news around the world.
A startling statistic recently surfaced from the Office for National Statistics – despite 77% of unemployed autistic people being eager to work, only 29% are currently employed. Hopefully, this figure will improve following the Government’s recently launched Buckland review, an…
The UK’s dominant services sector continued its growth streak last month as consumers kept spending on leisure and technology. Survey data from services companies, known as the purchasing managers’ index (PMI), hit 55.2 in May, down a little from April’s…
British Airways (BA) has revealed all its staff who are paid in the UK have been caught up in a cyber incident that has exposed personal data including bank and contact details to hackers. It emerged last week that a…
The Republic of Ireland’s domestic economy recovered strongly in the first quarter of 2023, official data suggests. Output, as measured by modified domestic demand (MDD), expanded by 2.7% compared to the final quarter of 2022. It had fallen in the…
A group of MPs have called for the appointment of a dedicated “crypto tsar” to oversee plans to turn the UK into a digital asset hub today, as stark divisions emerge in parliament over the future direction and role of…
From the late-1980s until the early 2000s, the Cypherpunks – a group of cryptographers, mathematicians, computer scientists and activists – worked to build what they referred to as a crypto-anarchist “Galt’s Gulch in cyberspace.” This virtual place would be one…
With the pandemic and the rise of climate alarmism, attacks on economic growth have multiplied. An increasingly larger set of pundits, academics, and politicians now embrace some variants of de-growth. They tie economic growth to a variety of “bad” outcomes.…
In 2010, I had a student proudly state in my class that he was boycotting all BP gas stations in response to the disastrous Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Roughly two years later, some of my students were choosing to boycott…
This week, we speak with entrepreneur Ramit Sethi, who is the founder and chief executive officer of the online education platform I Will Teach You to Be Rich (IWT), which attracts more than 1 million readers a month.…
Twitter’s head of trust and safety, Ella Irwin, has resigned from her position at the social media company. Her departure comes amid ongoing criticism regarding the platform’s approach to content moderation and struggles with advertiser retention following Elon Musk’s acquisition…
