Late payments: the policy no-brainer for business
Mar 27, 2017 14:39 pm UTC| Insights & Views Business
Hammurabi nailed it back in 1772 BC when he declared: The first duty of government is to protect the powerless from the powerful. When it came to common sense, the sixth king of Babylon was an early adopter, earlier...
The return of the Great British 'manly man'
Mar 27, 2017 14:17 pm UTC| Insights & Views
When ships were made of wood, men were made of steel. So begins each episode of Mutiny, the latest in a series of television projects that, taken together, comprise a new action man subgenre of popular reality...
Chill out: how a new ‘cold economy’ could bring environmental benefits
Mar 27, 2017 14:09 pm UTC| Insights & Views Economy
The ability to keep things cold is a pillar of modern society demand is booming worldwide to deliver air conditioning, data centre cooling and transport refrigeration, particularly in emerging economies. Although our...
Is this the most secure coin in the world?
Mar 27, 2017 14:05 pm UTC| Insights & Views
Although people are becoming increasingly reliant on electronic forms of financial transaction, the introduction of a new coin still feels like an important occasion. The new 1 coin, which enters circulation on March 28,...
Hanson stirs the sugar pot and backflips on penalty rates
Mar 27, 2017 14:01 pm UTC| Insights & Views Law
The next big judgement day for Pauline Hanson will be the election in her home state of Queensland, due in under a year. Her vote there will determine how much fear she puts into the Coalition ahead of the federal...
Subsidies for healthy foods are a price worth paying to tackle obesity
Mar 27, 2017 13:58 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health
The heavy costs of an increasingly obese population are well known. Physical problems associated with a Body Mass Index over 30 include type 2 diabetes, strokes, and certain types of cancer. Psychological issues include...
FxWirePro: Strategic themes for shift from dollar to euro carry trades on macro confluences
Mar 27, 2017 12:49 pm UTC| Central Banks Insights & Views
With US-centric drivers fading from prominence, idiosyncratic and global drivers emanating from other regions will play a greater role in driving FX going forward. Many of these drivers have come from Europe recently,...
Johannesburg in a time of darkness: Ivan Vladislavić’s new memoir reminds us of the city’s fragility
Economist Chris Richardson on an ‘ugly’ inflation result and the coming budget
Biden administration tells employers to stop shackling workers with ‘noncompete agreements’
IceCube researchers detect a rare type of energetic neutrino sent from powerful astronomical objects