Global Finance

Printing money, 100 dollar notes. Nanny finance illustration

Does Nanny know what’s best for us…?

By CHARLES WHITE-THOMSON “NANNY finance” — excessive quantitative easing and rate-cutting by central banks — has dominated the world for many years. This overly soft...
Low-emission fertilizer: signing of MOU

Danes, nukes, and fertilizer. Really.

By HAL WILLIAMS FOUR Danish companies are poised to provide low-emission fertilizer for Indonesia. Oh, and one of them is a nuclear power firm... Topsoe, Alfa...
Boris Johnson, UK PM, looking serious

The incredible Boris lets his imagination take flight

BV’s JASON AGNEW gives Boris Johnson a poke with a pointy stick, and considers the likely outcomes of Brexit — at this stage… IT’S A...
Camel racing with robot jockeys

Camel racing hits its stride as robot jockeys take the saddle

The sport is making a massive comeback in the UAE thanks to some new technology that’s proving to be big business PEOPLE have been racing...
Graph of bullets

Arms maker Remington files for bankruptcy amid falling sales and backlash...

Debts, faulty trigger mechanisms and a link to the Sandy Hook massacre have all harmed the US gun manufacturer in recent months REMINGTON Outdoor Company,...
UK currency, pound stering

Autumn Statement wins attention…and some approval

By HAL WILLIAMS BRITISH Chancellor Jeremy Hunt’s Autumn statement has caused another avalanche of responses in the BV inbox, and there are — unsurprisingly —...

Roger Federer: Excellence Personified

Out with friends celebrating his 18th birthday in December 2004, young Spanish tennis fan Juan Aparicio had the grievous misfortune to be involved in...

Nouriel Roubini: 2008 Revisited?

The question I am asked most often nowadays is this: Are we back to 2008 and another global financial crisis and recession? My answer is...
Liliane Bettencourt

World’s richest woman dies

Obituary: Liliane Bettencourt: 1922 - 2017 Controversy and questionable politics were never far away to divert attention from some remarkable skill at leading an industry...
Cannabis plants

Dramatic about-turn on legal cannabis has US states in turmoil and...

The American Green Rush to the newly legalised cannabis industry had barely begun when prohibitionist US Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced, just days into...