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Tariffs done, but what ripple effects follow next?

by Bill Blain | Apr 7, 2025 | Head Of Research, zNewsletter

“Curiously enough, the only thing that went through the mind of the bowl of petunias as it fell was Oh no, not again.” In times of financial stress, the market tends to take on a momentum all of its own. We may be in for further shocks, instabilities...

London must be the UK’s shining star, not a vortex

by John Ashmore | Feb 9, 2019 | The Economist, zNewsletter

London is the lodestar of the UK economy – but it has an image problem According to a newly released report, it’s time for London to shed its uncaring image and show the rest of the UK a little love. The Centre for London’s London, UK: Strengthening ties...

The myth of the idle rich

by Ben Ramanauskas | Jan 31, 2019 | The Economist

This month Oxfam released a report, as it does every year, pointing out that there are some very rich people in the world and how terrible this is. The report gained a great deal of media attention (as it does every year), with the vast majority of political...

Israel is a lesson in what makes nations thrive

by Marian L. Tupy | May 24, 2018 | The Analyst

This week I joined in the celebration of the 70th anniversary of the founding of Israel at an event at magnificent Andrew W. Mellon Auditorium in Washington, D.C. In attendance were many of America’s movers and shakers, including US Vice President Mike Pence. The...

The Rich List is evidence that capitalism isn’t broken

by Tim Worstall | May 17, 2018 | The Economist

Interesting proof that Thomas Piketty got the modern economy wrong comes from The Sunday Times’s annual rich list, which was published yesterday. Some 94 per cent of the 1,000 people made the cut not by getting rich the old fashioned way — by marrying or inheriting —...