$2B Counter-Strike 2 crash exposes a legal black hole: Your digital investments aren’t really yours
In late October 2025, as much as US$2 billion vanished from a digital marketplace. This wasn’t a hack or a bubble bursting.
Could new tenants’ rights usher in rent controls? Here’s why that wouldn’t necessarily be a positive
David Fowler/ShutterstockHousing and high rental costs have been a major issue for the UK in the past decade. While other countries have moved towards protections for renters, rent control has not been a widespread feature of the British rental market for over a generation.
The ‘Marathon Man’ approach to bank supervision
Can we really build better mousetraps?
Letters from Andrew Bailey on the Bank’s Black Future Leadership Sponsorship Programme
Letters to Rupert Lowe MP
OPEKEPE inquiry sparks new political clash as despondent public looks on
The parliamentary inquiry into the OPEKEPE farming subsidy scandal has been thrown into turmoil, with the government being accused by the opposition of ensuring that a key witness Giorgos Xylouris – a Cretan farmer and former New Democracy member nicknamed “Frappé” - will not testify.
A Tap-to-Pay Society Is Leaving These New Yorkers Behind
As fewer people carry cash, vendors, street performers and people experiencing homelessness and unemployment are at a disadvantage.
Job Gains Disguise Weakness Beyond Service Industries
The unemployment rate rose in September as more people looked for jobs, according to data delayed by the government shutdown.
September Jobs Report Injects More Uncertainty Into Fed’s December Decision
Policymakers at the central bank are at odds over the need to cut interest rates for a third straight meeting, as inflation picks up again and the labor market slows down.
One small change Rachel Reeves could make to close tax loopholes and raise revenue
Myvector/ShutterstockWhatever decisions Rachel Reeves makes in her second budget as UK chancellor, it is clear that she needs to find lots of money. Some argue that the best and fairest way of doing this is to raise the taxes of the country’s wealthiest people.
Successive UK governments keep failing on fraud – and the problem is only getting worse
In the UK alone, fraud is thought to cost the economy £219 billion per year. tete_escape/ShutterstockFraud is now the most common offence in the UK accounting for more than 40% of reported crime.
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