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The ongoing Conservative Party leadership hustings haven’t seen much agreement between candidates, but they have resulted in the creation of a new political narrative: “Gordon Brown economics”. Foreign secretary Liz Truss explained away her rejection of cost of living “handouts” for households with the phrase. But even as she indicated…

Live, rolling coverage of business, economics and financial markets as chief executives of energy companies visit Downing Street to discuss crisis

Oxford Economics has predicted that the Saudi economy will cross the trillion-dollar mark for the first time this year. The leader in global economic forecasting and econometric analysis pointed out that the growth rate of Saudi Arabia's national product will reach 7.5 % during 2022. The International Monetary Fund has…

Rolling live coverage of business, economics and financial markets as analysts weigh risk of recessions across the world

Degrowth - the idea that a finite planet cannot sustain ever-increasing consumption - is about the closest you can get to a heresy in economics, where growth is widely held as the best route to prosperity.

THE debate around the economics of independence has failed to focus enough on the costs of Scotland staying in – rather than leaving – the…

‘If Russia were to completely cut supplies and we had a cold winter it would be a perfect storm’

The company behind one of the region's largest energy infrastructure projects - the proposed $589 million Newcastle Gas Dock - says unfavourable changes in economics of the gas industry has forced it to weigh up the project's commercial viability.

Consumer prices in the U.S. are rising due to inflation at the fastest rate they have in decades. Earlier this summer, SciLine interviewed Martha Olney, a teaching professor emerita of economics at the University of California, Berkeley, about what’s causing prices to rise and what the government can do to…