THE RICH are different from other people. They have more money and, in most places, they pay much less tax. Going by one broad definition of income that combines consumption and someone’s change ...
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After working in the field for 61 years—longer than anyone else alive—I am gratified to see AI at the heart of global conversation. Yet most commentary misses how large language models like ...
THE TITLE of the Ukraine Recovery Conference that opened on June 11th in Berlin may seem overly hopeful. For the moment there is still a lot more destruction than reconstruction going on in the ...
These figures follow a tough period. Adjusted for inflation, prices have fallen by 20% in Canada, Germany and New Zealand. They are well off their peaks in some American cities, including San ...
Last year almost 16m guns were sold in the United States. According to a government survey, 16% of adults have used marijuana in the past month. People buying a gun must fill in a seven-page ...
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 ...
A picture of Mexican president-elect Claudia Sheinbaum with a raised fist was digitally altered to show her holding a menorah and wearing earrings shaped like Stars of David. Fact Checkcategory ...
Ren Zhengfei, the founder of Huawei, often talks of his firm’s clashes with America in military parlance. “It’s time to pick up the guns, mount the horses and go into battle,” he said in ...
WHEN FRANCE play their opening fixture in the European Football Championship on June 17th, all eyes will be on Kylian Mbappé (pictured, right). The 25-year-old forward is considered one of the ...
Our model is updated every day and combines state and national polls with economic indicators to predict the election results across the country. To work out the likely electoral-vote totals, we ...
In a factory in a smoggy corner of China’s inland Shaanxi province, the country’s world-leading solar industry is on display. Robots scoot around carrying square slices of polysilicon, a ...