Fri, Oct 18 2019

DO A COUNTRY'S inhabitants get happier as it gets richer? Most governments seem to believe so, given their relentless focus on increasing GDP year by year. Reliable, long-term evidence linking wealth and happiness is, however, lacking. And…

A UN report finds that many children are getting either too little food, or too much TWENTY YEARS ago UNICEF, the United Nations' children's agency, took a detailed look at the diet of the world's youngsters. The story was grim: malnutrition…

Customers of Hargreaves Lansdown have heavily criticised the UK's biggest online funds supermarket after almost 300,000 of them were caught in the collapse of Woodford Investment Management. Hargreaves had championed funds from Neil Woodford, the…

“Payment for order flow” just sounds bad. It describes a process where a market maker pays a broker to send it a retail order for shares, in return guaranteeing its execution at, or better than, the current best price. If the market…

Economists have a new method for predicting big downturns BY ALMOST any measure, America's economy is in fine fettle. GDP growth is robust. Unemployment is nearing a 50-year low. And the stockmarket is up by a whopping 50% since 2016. Yet, for all…