It is important to resist the temptation to cherry-pick polls that support one’s case

It’s been a good year for the economy—but 2018 might not go so smoothly

We will miss Dr Yellen—more than perhaps most people currently realise

The idea that Britain could be a new Singapore is a Brexiteer fantasy which misunderstands how both economies work

The OBR’s gloomy economic forecasts show why Britain needed something bolder

In an Amish community in Indiana, those with one copy of the mutant SERPINE1 gene live up to seven years longer. How valuable is this finding?

The US President went quiet on the subject during his recent Asia trip—but America’s trade deficit with China this year will be just shy of $370 billion. He’s not going to take that lying down

The paper, on the “big bang” theory of the universe, offers a glimpse into the scope and ambition of Hawking’s mind from his formative years

It is far from certain whether Jerome Powell, Trump’s pick to succeed Janet Yellen, will rise to the occasion

Political chaos could come to undermine America’s economic strength