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Improving health literacy may help solve America’s pandemic problems

by Economy Team in Issues
Published 6 years ago

Sports betting is becoming big in Africa and smartphones may be why

by Economy Team in News
Published 6 years ago

Brazil got mad when offered £18m to help put out the Amazon fires

by Economy Team in News
Published 6 years ago

Here’s why Trump wants to buy Greenland

by Economy Team in News
Published 6 years ago

Millennials may be reading horoscopes to deal with economic insecurity

by Economy Team in News
Published 6 years ago

Poland scraps income tax for young adults

by Economy Team in News
Published 6 years ago

40 degree heatwaves will be the norm in Britain by 2040

by Economy Team in News
Published 6 years ago

Berlin is freezing everybody’s rent for 5 years

by Economy Team in News
Published 7 years ago

Chernobyl is becoming a top holiday trip

by Economy Team in News
Published 7 years ago

Some Arab countries are getting worried about food waste during Ramadan

by Economy Team in News
Published 7 years ago

Did Trump just say he wants to buy the NHS?

by Economy Team in News
Published 7 years ago

Alabama bans abortion

by Economy Team in Issues
Published 7 years ago

The UK could have net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050

by Economy Team in News
Published 7 years ago

Credit scores are going international

by Economy Team in News
Published 7 years ago

Trump thinks Cuban MLB players fund “brutal” communism

by Economy Team in News
Published 7 years ago

China’s rating people on how ‘good’ a citizen they are

by Economy Team in News
Published 7 years ago

Some rich people illegally bribed their kids into Ivy League schools

by Economy Team in News
Published 7 years ago

One big hurricane could ruin world economy

by Economy Team in News
Published 7 years ago

Venezuela is mad the USA tried to give food to its hungry people

by Economy Team in News
Published 7 years ago

China says it’ll use force if needed to take back Taiwan

by Economy Team in Issues
Published 7 years ago

Hungarians have been asked to work an extra 400 hours a year.

by Economy Team in News
Published 7 years ago

Here’s how the value of the pound is figured out

by Economy Team
Published 7 years ago

Americans want their workplaces to pay them to never call in sick

by Economy Team in News
Published 7 years ago

The French are rioting over rising fuel tax

by Economy Team in Issues
Published 7 years ago

Japan is giving away free houses

by Economy Team in News
Published 7 years ago

What actually is the EU?

by Economy Team
Published 7 years ago

Japanese companies told to pay compensation to former forced workers

by Economy Team in Issues
Published 7 years ago

Amazon is accused of using surge-pricing to take advantage of the Californian wildfires

by Economy Team in Issues
Published 7 years ago

Feminism might literally save women’s lives

by Economy Team in Issues
Published 7 years ago

People have some opinions on the fees migrants pay to send money to their families

by Economy Team in Issues
Published 7 years ago

AirBnB has got entangled in the conflict between Israel and Palestine

by Economy Team in Issues
Published 7 years ago

Now Spain is threatening to scupper any Brexit deal

by Economy Team in News
Published 7 years ago

A Brexit negotiator suggested Britain stay in the EU till 2022

by Economy Team in News
Published 7 years ago

Are fewer fast food joints a sign poor Americans are getting poorer?

by Economy Team in News
Published 7 years ago

Chinese shoppers just spent $30 billion celebrating being single

by Economy Team in News
Published 7 years ago

Democrats win House of Representatives in US midterm elections

by Economy Team in News
Published 7 years ago

Is Ibiza’s new tourist tax scaring away Brits?

by Economy Team in News
Published 7 years ago

Scouts try to go gender neutral… and get sued

by Economy Team in News
Published 7 years ago

America continues sanctioning the shit out of Iran

by Economy Team in News
Published 7 years ago

Women have declared war on make-up

by Economy Team in Issues
Published 7 years ago

Should the government ban adverts for harmful products?

by Economy Team in Issues
Published 7 years ago

Trump is “very unhappy” with America’s central bank.

by Economy Team in News
Published 7 years ago

Saudi Arabia discovers crime doesn’t pay

by Economy Team in News
Published 7 years ago

Open borders vs. closed borders

by Economy Team in Issues
Published 7 years ago

Trump’s presidency has built up a big, beautiful… budget deficit

by Economy Team in News
Published 7 years ago

Brazil’s trade in soybeans is causing drama

by Economy Team in News
Published 7 years ago

It’ll take more than a Nobel Prize to stop climate change, say activists

by Economy Team in Issues
Published 7 years ago

China thinks dead people are bad for the economy

by Economy Team in News
Published 7 years ago

Foreigners want to open businesses in North Korea

by Economy Team in News
Published 7 years ago

China and America’s trade war just got even bigger

by Economy Team in News
Published 7 years ago

We should all stop what we’re doing and focus on fixing poverty in Africa

by Economy Team in Issues
Published 7 years ago

Asia just got hit by a super typhoon (yes, that’s the technical term)

by Economy Team in News
Published 7 years ago

Greece ditches austerity

by Economy Team in News
Published 7 years ago

Trump’s said he thinks China is a “currency manipulator” again

by Economy Team in News
Published 7 years ago

Venezuela is getting a new currency

by Economy Team in News
Published 7 years ago

US sanctions on Iran are officially back

by Economy Team in News
Published 7 years ago

France is introducing on-the-spot fines for sexual harassment

by Economy Team in Issues
Published 7 years ago

The EU proposes member states receive €6,000 for each migrant taken in

by Economy Team in Issues
Published 7 years ago

Venezuela’s inflation rate could hit a MILLION percent

by Economy Team in News
Published 7 years ago

Are people getting richer, or have they just stopped saving?

by Economy Team in News
Published 7 years ago

The US isn’t budging on Iran sanctions

by Economy Team in News
Published 7 years ago

Trump says May’s Brexit proposal would “probably kill” her chances at a US trade deal

by Economy Team in News
Published 7 years ago

Trump escalates trade war… big time

by Economy Team in News
Published 8 years ago

Canadians hit back at Trump with tariffs

by Economy Team in News
Published 8 years ago

EU politicians reach an agreement on migration

by Economy Team in News
Published 8 years ago

Saudi women drivers will add $90 billion to the economy, estimates say

by Economy Team in News
Published 8 years ago

Harley Davidson is going to move manufacturing abroad

by Economy Team in News
Published 8 years ago

Greece’s ‘bailout’ programme is about to end

by Economy Team in News
Published 8 years ago

Panama Papers firm doesn’t actually know who most of its customers were

by Economy Team in Issues
Published 8 years ago

The G7 almost went really well, until it didn’t

by Economy Team in News
Published 8 years ago

Canada’s voting on legalising recreational marijuana

by Economy Team in News
Published 8 years ago

Trump puts tariffs on steel and aluminium for EU, Canada, Mexico

by Economy Team in News
Published 8 years ago

The US is undoing post-2008 financial regulation and people are worried

by Economy Team in News
Published 8 years ago

The finance world is freaking out about Italy

by Economy Team in News
Published 8 years ago

The US is putting limits on visas for Chinese students

by Economy Team in News
Published 8 years ago

The world’s dullest sounding war is “on hold”

by Economy Team in News
Published 8 years ago

Trump’s delayed putting planned tariffs on UK steel and aluminium

by Economy Team in News
Published 8 years ago

China wants foreign investment to help build microchips

by Economy Team in News
Published 8 years ago

The UK *is* leaving the customs union

by Economy Team in News
Published 8 years ago

The world’s falling apart, apparently

by Economy Team in News
Published 8 years ago

A mum took her baby to an exam and it can teach us a lot about being a woman at work

by Economy Team in News
Published 8 years ago

China’s weapon of choice in its ‘war’ with the US? Soybeans, obvs

by Economy Team in News
Published 8 years ago

Public sector workers and Emmanuel Macron are battling for French voters’ hearts

by Economy Team in News
Published 8 years ago

The world’s most dull-sounding war may have just begun

by Economy Team in News
Published 8 years ago

There are lots more jobs in the US, but wages aren’t playing ball

by Economy Team in News
Published 8 years ago

A Saudi prince is visiting the UK this week

by Economy Team in News
Published 8 years ago

Trump doesn’t want China’s steel, China doesn’t care

by Economy Team in News
Published 8 years ago

What will Brexit do to the environment?

by Economy Team in Issues
Published 8 years ago

Here’s how many primary school teachers we could pay if people stopped avoiding tax

by Saman Sadeghi Afgeh in Issues
Published 8 years ago

What actually are the Paradise Papers?

by Economy Team in Issues
Published 8 years ago

Everyone is telling Germans to spend more money but they won’t listen

by Victoria Waldersee in News
Published 8 years ago

Here’s what the world’s most powerful leaders will be talking about at their summit this week

by Economy Team in News
Published 9 years ago

Economics researchers just asked 150,000 people how they’re feeling, not what they’re earning

by Sofia Quaglia
Published 9 years ago

We asked young people about the biggest change their country’s economy is facing

by Economy Team in Issues
Published 9 years ago

Hundreds of billions of euros haven’t solved the Greek crisis. Will 8 billion more do much good?

by Economy Team in News
Published 9 years ago

Are things really getting ‘much better’ for Brazilians?

by Marina Romiti in News
Published 9 years ago

Qatar’s neighbors are angry with the government, but citizens pay the price

by Victoria Waldersee in News
Published 9 years ago

The US is out of the Paris deal and people are psyched, pissed, or pretty chill about it

by Economy Team in News
Published 9 years ago

Venezuelans are queueing for toilet paper and throwing poo bombs at politicians. How did things get so bad?

by Oliver Griffin in News
Published 9 years ago

Sweden listed the whole country on Air BnB

by Economy Team
Published 9 years ago

Governments act like selling weapons is like any other trade agreement. It’s not

by Economy Team in News
Published 9 years ago

India might be about to launch the biggest test of ‘basic income’ yet

by Economy Team in News
Published 9 years ago

France’s new president wants to steal all Britain’s bankers

by Economy Team in News
Published 9 years ago

Australia’s government is putting coal over coral. It’s an economic disaster

by Simon Black
Published 9 years ago

Paying interest on your loans? In Islam, you shouldn’t have to

by Sarah Lang
Published 9 years ago

South Africa’s economy has just been labelled ‘junk’. Here’s why

by David Francis in News
Published 9 years ago

Indian government workers are being told to work 18-20 hours a day or quit

by Ellie Clayton in Issues
Published 9 years ago

Woah! Are we actually closer to finding aliens?

by Raif Howley in News
Published 9 years ago

Confused about ‘Trumpcare’? Us too

by Economy Team in Issues
Published 9 years ago

4 things you might not know about North Korea

by Economy Team in Issues
Published 9 years ago

Meet the Taiwanese woman rebuilding her village with the power of DIY

by Sofia Quaglia in Voices
Published 9 years ago

Nicaragua has found a new way to protect sex workers

by Samantha Eyler in Issues
Published 9 years ago

Zina’s Kitchen is the Netherlands’ first business run by a female refugee

by Annabella Stieren in Issues
Published 9 years ago

The UK government rejected suggestions on how to close the gender pay gap

by Economy Team in Issues
Published 9 years ago

Romanian anti-corruption protests might not unseat the government, but they’re still full of hope

by Brindusa Ioana Nastasa in Issues
Published 9 years ago

How engagement rings became the marker of true love

by Sofia Quaglia
Published 9 years ago

Shanghai’s ‘marriage markets’ are exactly what they sound like. We checked one out

by Helen Roxburgh
Published 9 years ago

Loads of bankers met in Washington this week. What were they talking about?

by Raymond O'Lenic in Issues
Published 9 years ago

The story behind Trump’s wall with Mexico, explained

by Olivia Wills in News
Published 9 years ago

How China is reinventing itself as a footballing superpower

by Raif Howley in News
Published 9 years ago

France’s socialist candidate propelled himself to the top on these three ideas

by Felicity Simpson Morfey in News
Published 9 years ago

‘This American carnage stops right here, right now’ – Trump’s inauguration speech in brief

by Economy Team
Published 9 years ago

What’s the point of Davos?

by Mark Richards
Published 9 years ago

The little town of Prato has been taken over by Chinese stuff. I had a look around

by Saman Sadeghi Afgeh
Published 9 years ago

How come an oil businessman is running America’s foreign affairs?

by Clare Speak in News
Published 9 years ago

Brazil has zipped up the government wallet for twenty years. Here’s why

by Flavia Garcia in News
Published 9 years ago

The #NoDAPL victory proves people power really does get stuff done

by Dalia Gebrial in Issues
Published 9 years ago

Most Cuban Americans celebrated the death of Castro…but I wasn’t one of them

by Tyler August in Issues
Published 9 years ago

Why does Afghanistan grow so much opium?

by Patricia Nilsson in News
Published 9 years ago

Ethiopia is in a state of emergency. What’s going on?

by Daniel Cullen in News
Published 9 years ago

Here’s why the death of the King of Thailand is such a big deal

by Wen-Yu Weng in News
Published 9 years ago

America now has so much cheese it doesn’t know what to do with it all

by Kimberly Poff in News
Published 9 years ago

What does the civil war in Yemen have to do with the British economy?

by Ben Tippet in Issues
Published 9 years ago

Want a loan? Who needs a credit rating when you’ve got Facebook shares and likes?

by Pedro Sousa in News
Published 9 years ago

We asked Athenians whether they think Greece’s economy is recovering. Here’s what they said

by Petros Poulopoulos in Voices
Published 9 years ago

My attempt at making sushi got me thinking about the problem of food waste around the world

by Nada Ihab in Issues
Published 9 years ago

Denmark’s hippie commune pushes us outside our comfort zone. For that alone, it’s worth discovering

by Ioan Marc Jones in Issues
Published 9 years ago

The G20 gang got together in China to talk about how the economy’s doing. Here’s what they said

by Economy Team in News
Published 9 years ago

We ordered some pizzas and asked Deliveroo drivers in London why they’ve been on strike

by Ben Murray in News
Published 9 years ago

Economy Asks: Chicago

by Economy Team in Voices
Published 9 years ago

What do the Rio Olympics mean for the Brazilian economy?

by Najma Ali
Published 9 years ago

What do people really think of the Olympic Park four years after the London Games?

by Economy Team in Voices
Published 9 years ago

My town, Bienne: Steep mountains, steeper living

by Ernie Stairs in Voices
Published 9 years ago

Occupations, strikes, riots. Forget the football, WTF is going on in France?

by Ben Tippet in Issues
Published 9 years ago

Supermarket queues, no toilet paper, chicken that costs a week’s wages. What’s going on in Venezuela?

by Lorenzo Fränkel in News
Published 10 years ago

I didn’t realize I lived in the middle of the ‘rust belt’, so I decided to find out exactly what it means

by Sara Zayto in Voices
Published 10 years ago

China is loaded, but it looks like it’s been seriously maxing out on credit. What’s going on and what does it mean?

by Mark Richards in Issues
Published 10 years ago

Would EU believe it? Britain votes to leave the European Union. So, what happens now?

by Economy Team in Issues
Published 10 years ago

Economy Asks: Hawaii

by Economy Team in Voices
Published 10 years ago

Kampala: The city as a marketplace

by Camilla Kuckartz in Voices
Published 10 years ago

The UK’s government wants to link tuition fees to inflation, but what does that mean?

by Economy Team in Issues
Published 10 years ago

The UK government’s ideas for prison reform make some pretty huge assumptions about human beings

by Economy Team in Issues
Published 10 years ago

A cattle herder in Cameroon, a brain surgeon in Texas, a farmer in Yorkshire: a look at working days around the world

by Economy Team in Issues
Published 10 years ago

My town, Detroit: from bankruptcy to boomtown?

by Sara Zayto in Voices
Published 10 years ago

As Boris gets on his bike, here’s a quick guide to the candidates for London Mayor

by Sara Zayto in News
Published 10 years ago

Does the new the UK national living wage still mean ‘livin’ on a prayer’ for those earning it?

by Daniel Lapedus in Issues
Published 10 years ago

My town, LA: working like a demon in the City of Angels

by Priscilla Santoli in Voices
Published 10 years ago

My town, Denver: cranes, costumes, craft beer and cannabis

by John Runnels in Voices
Published 10 years ago

We asked London who runs the world’s economy. Surely not Donald Trump?

by Economy Team in Voices
Published 10 years ago

What are the ‘Panama Papers’, and what’s going on with tax havens?

by Economy Team in Issues
Published 10 years ago

What’s behind the UK budget, and do people get it?

by Economy Team in News
Published 10 years ago

The UK Budget through the decades

by Economy Team in News
Published 10 years ago

Why benefit cuts for disabled people will only damage the UK economy

by Sharon Brennan in Issues
Published 10 years ago

Economy Asks: Detroit

by Economy Team in Voices
Published 10 years ago

Economy Asks: London

by Economy Team in Voices
Published 10 years ago

20 short films that ask some big questions about the US economy

by Economy Team in Issues

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