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The definitive guide to trade wars just dropped. Its authors have one message for Washington: Study your enemy thumbnail
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The definitive guide to trade wars just dropped. Its authors have one message for Washington: Study your enemy

Soumaya Keynes and Chad Bown have spent nearly a decade talking about trade. They started as podcast partners—nights and weekends, no advertising, holding...

The 50-year-old law that governed every software company just broke. Here’s what replaces it thumbnail
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The 50-year-old law that governed every software company just broke. Here’s what replaces it

In 1975, a software engineer named Fred Brooks published a management book that described the inherent difficulty of scaling technology companies. He called...

Current price of oil as of May 20, 2026 thumbnail
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Current price of oil as of May 20, 2026

At 9:30 a.m. Eastern Time today, the price of oil sits at $110.34 per barrel, using Brent as the benchmark (we’ll explain what...

U.S. national debt officially hits $39 trillion—adding approximately $5 billion a day since October thumbnail
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U.S. national debt officially hits $39 trillion—adding approximately $5 billion a day since October

It wasn’t even a year ago that fiscal hawks were wringing their hands over a new national debt milestone: The debt had hit...

Exclusive: Circle cofounder raises $30 million for Series A ā€˜AI-native bank’ Catena Labs thumbnail
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Exclusive: Circle cofounder raises $30 million for Series A ā€˜AI-native bank’ Catena Labs

Sean Neville, who cofounded the stablecoin giant Circle, has raised another stash of capital from top-flight venture capitalists. His startup Catena Labs, which...

GitHub says hackers stole data from thousands of internal repositories thumbnail
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GitHub says hackers stole data from thousands of internal repositories

The Business Economic provides reliable, free, up-to-the-minute syndicated news to any media publication. The Business Economic is a network member of the Associated...

Standard Chartered to swap 7,800 back-office jobs for AI as UK labour market wobbles thumbnail
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Standard Chartered to swap 7,800 back-office jobs for AI as UK labour market wobbles

Standard Chartered has fired the latest, and loudest, warning shot in the City’s march towards an artificial intelligence-led workforce, confirming plans to shed...

ICO Warns SMEs: one month to comply with new Data Complaints Law thumbnail
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ICO Warns SMEs: one month to comply with new Data Complaints Law

Britain’s small and medium-sized businesses have been put on notice. From 19 June 2026, exactly one month from today, every organisation that handles...

The ’43 club’: why Britain’s typical entrepreneur has barely aged a day in 25 years thumbnail
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The ’43 club’: why Britain’s typical entrepreneur has barely aged a day in 25 years

For all the column inches lavished on hoodie-wearing teenage coders and so-called ā€œSilver Starterā€ retirees launching second-act ventures from the kitchen table, the...

Greene King pulls the plug on supermarket strategy with sale of Old Speckled Hen to Spain’s Damm thumbnail
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Greene King pulls the plug on supermarket strategy with sale of Old Speckled Hen to Spain’s Damm

After more than a quarter of a century pouring Old Speckled Hen down the throats of British shoppers, Greene King has decided enough...