Narrowing rates spread and declining current account surplus fuel capital flight fears
Daily Archives: October 1, 2018
Doubts over new Nafta deal unlocking US investment
Trade deal will pose a greater challenge to EU and Japanese automakers in the US
How a lesbian love story is bypassing censors online
Low-cost smartphones and mobile data are giving creative freedom to India’s film makers.
Can Trump really cut the US trade deficit?
The US President hopes the Nafta replacement will help change the trade balance – but it will take years to find out.
The battle for better disability rehab in North Africa
How one paraplegic woman has helped thousands of other disabled people in Morocco and across Africa.
A Trump trade war victory should matter to investors
Current global tensions look likely to have two possible outcomes
USMCA trade deal: Who gets what from ‘new Nafta’?
From carmakers to dairy farmers, who’s happy and who’s not, after Canada, US and Mexico struck a new deal?
Donald Trump says new trade deal is ‘most important ever’
US president says a new trading deal with Canada and Mexico to replace Nafta is ‘truly historic’.
Tin-eared, blockheaded: Theresa May’s party is laying waste to its own voters | Aditya Chakrabortty
Tory policies have concentrated power and wealth in a few hands. No wonder the party’s supporters now look to Labour
Believe the pundits, and the remedy for the Conservatives is simple. They need a new leader. Some new faces around the cabinet table.Some flashy new policies. And, everyone agrees, they need to stop flicking V-signs at business. But nothing too radical. An oil change, a spray job, and they’ll be motoring again.
Political wisdom is often little more than sonorous simple-mindedness, and this is a prime example. Judging by Philip Hammond’s speech to the Tory faithful on Monday, the chancellor doesn’t buy it, either. Humming through his lines was an anxiety about the threat posed by Jeremy Corbyn. Whatever their press releases say, cabinet ministers are stumbling through the Tory conference in Birmingham worried that Labour’s arguments about Britain’s broken economy are hitting home. And with good reason.
Related: Welfare spending for UK’s poorest shrinks by £37bn
Related: Is Theresa May’s plan for a festival of Brexit just an appalling sop to the DUP? | Andrew Adonis