Denmark has lashed out against the EU's plan to establish a minimum wage, arguing it would undermine a national labor-market model that's popular with unions and employers Article 7 votes
Norway's oil workers fear for future as rigs go remote – shift to operating oil rigs remotely from land, accelerated by lower crude prices, has rekindled concerns among unions business Article 923 words 4 votes
Big banks entrusted money to GardaWorld. It secretly lost track of millions. banking Article 4582 words 7 votes
First it was toilet paper—now we’re running out of fridges. Here’s why. Article 808 words, published Oct 10 2020 16 votes
Wisconsin denies Foxconn tax subsidies after contract negotiations fail business Article 1382 words 12 votes
Understanding measurement issues is key to understanding ‘economic growth’ economics Article 1799 words 5 votes
Strike by workers in the Norwegian oil sector could soon wipe out nearly one-quarter of the country's petroleum output business Article 710 words 11 votes
Lengthy era of rock-bottom interest rates leaving its mark on US economy economics Article 1808 words 10 votes
The disruption con: Why Big Tech’s favourite buzzword is nonsense economics Article 2994 words, published Sep 24 2020 6 votes
CEO of Philip Morris, the company that makes Marlboro, says cigarette sales may end within ten to fifteen years business Article 290 words 9 votes
The FinCen Files: Thousands of secret suspicious activity reports offer a picture of corruption and complicity - and how the government lets it flourish Article 3948 words 11 votes
RAND study uncovers massive income shift to the top 1% - The median worker should be making as much as $102,000 annually—if some $2.5 trillion wasn’t being “reverse distributed” every year economics Article 1424 words 33 votes
"We have capitalism for the poor and socialism for the rich" - Mark Blyth economics Video 50:06, published May 27 2020 13 votes
Doesn’t feel like a recession? You should be paying more in taxes economics Article 1247 words, published Sep 3 2020 12 votes
LVMH backs out of $16.2 billion acquisition of Tiffany, citing US threats of tariffs on French goods. Tiffany has filed a lawsuit to enforce the agreement business Article 126 words 6 votes
Intimidation, surveillance and conspiracy theories: Inside the Financial Times' five-year investigation of the billion-dollar Wirecard fraud Article 4800 words 5 votes
Multiple US court rulings have found Amazon responsible for defects in products sold by third-party merchants business Article 2117 words 6 votes
More than half of San Francisco storefronts closed due to pandemic business Article 444 words 8 votes
Major shakeup for the Dow Jones Industrial Average index in the US: three new stocks join Article 11 votes
The stock market looks like the Bitcoin economy, and that’s not a good thing economics cryptocurrency Article 1573 words 9 votes
Home ownership is the West’s biggest economic-policy mistake. It is an obsession that undermines growth, fairness and public faith in capitalism leaders economics Article 1071 words, published Jan 16 2020 23 votes
Vanguard is outsourcing recordkeeping work, along with 1,300 of its workforce, to Infosys business Article 841 words 11 votes
Norway's wealth fund loses £16bn in first half of 2020 after Covid panic – state support has restored investor confidence but fund expects more market turmoil economics Article 551 words 7 votes
The recession is over for the rich, but the working class is far from recovered economics Article 2019 words 7 votes
Millennials slammed by second financial crisis fall even further behind economics Article 63 words 15 votes
Fishing has always been a way of life on the Faroe Islands, where fish accounts for 90% of all exported goods – but coronavirus is hitting its efforts to increase tourism business Article 1228 words 4 votes