IT ALREADY RANKS among the biggest investment booms in modern history. This year America’s large tech firms will spend nearly $400bn on the infrastructure needed to run artificial-intelligence (ai) ...

A common criticism of fundamentals models is that they are extremely easy to “over-fit”—the statistical term for deriving equations that provide a close match to historical data, but break down when ...

As in most years, Nordic countries are at the top of the table. And for the second year in a row we are crowning Sweden the winner. Like its neighbours, Sweden has high female labour-force ...

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For most of human history, coupling up was not merely a norm; it was a necessity. Before reliable contraception, women could not control their fertility, and most were far too poor to raise children ...

Editor’s note (Oct 14th): We have adjusted our tracker methodology to reduce the weight of repeat daily tracking surveys, to increase the weight of the most recent surveys and to dampen the effect of ...

THE PREMIERE on February 28th of a new staging of “Macbeth” in Kyiv was initially eclipsed by the diplomatic disaster the same day between Volodymyr Zelensky and Donald Trump in the White House. The ...

“Do you know what really impresses me? I saw a robot pick up an egg!’’ exclaimed Roger Smith, chairman of General Motors, in 1985. The American carmaker, which two decades earlier had been the first ...

CENTRAL-BANK digital currencies are coming. China has started large-scale trials of the “e-yuan”. European officials want to launch a digital euro by 2025. America’s Federal Reserve is studying ...

EIGHTEEN months ago, Li & Fung, a firm that manages supply chains for retailers, saw 100 gigabytes of information flow through its network each day. Now the amount has increased tenfold. During 2009, ...