Yesterday
- Opinion
- Energy transition
Why the world’s biggest climate conference is a cynical scam
The COP process is now worse than superfluous: it has become a cynical exercise in moral blackmail against the West.
October
- Opinion
- US Votes 2024
From Bezos to Dimon, US billionaires tiptoe around Trump
It’s as if January 6 never happened. The US corporate world has either fallen silent or quietly ‘normalised Trump’. Could that be about their stock options?
August
- Opinion
- Global economy
An enormous error has overstated the US boom
Markets have been caught off guard by a drastic revision of non-farm payrolls, the worst miss since the Lehman crisis.
April
- Opinion
- Carbon challenge
New Malthusians are wrong: a rich world will need less energy
We will need to generate only half the energy we do now to replace today’s electricity use, lift the global South, and feed all those data centres. So rejoice.