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Runaway rents are a “national phenomenon” with private renters in every region of England seeing increases of between 6% and 9% each year, according to new research published today by the …
Private rents rising 6 – 9% in every region of England, as NEF warns affordability crisis is a “national phenomenon” Read More
New Orleans could be surrounded by sea water in a matter of decades according to new research. The study says the US city has reached a “point of no return”, and that …
Floods and finance: why climate change will become a more pressing economic problem for UK households Read More
Recent evidence for the US finds that higher AI job postings reduce municipal bond yields, particularly for longer-maturity and lower-rated bonds. This column shows that in five non-US OECD countries, …
When AI meets local debt Read More
A dozen federal judges have presided over some of the most consequential environmental lawsuits in Louisiana’s history despite having financial ties or other connections to the petrochemical companies being sued, …
Judges Overseeing Louisiana’s Landmark Oil Cases Have Financial Stakes in Defendants Read More
(Thursday 9th April) 31 investors representing over US$1.8 trillion in assets under management have today issued a public statement urging freight and logistics companies to take urgent action to address …
Investors press freight industry to tackle fleet emissions Read MoreChatGPT: a conscience is what hurts when all your other parts feel good. I am going to come clean. I am an enthusiastic user of artificial intelligence (AI) or at …
The seduction of AI Read More
Richard Vague traces the class division and enmity that has characterised Trump’s presidency back to America’s colonial beginnings. Many thought that the presidential elections of 2016 and 2024 revealed something …
States of disunity from colonies to Trump Read More
The US Supreme Court’s ruling on Friday that most of Donald Trump’s tariffs were unlawful marked a humiliating defeat for the president. But the EU’s response was arguably just as …
Why Europe won’t confront Trump on trade – even when the courts do Read More
“We don’t need Venezuela’s oil. We have plenty of oil in the United States,” the US secretary of state, Marco Rubio, told an NBC interviewer the day after US troops snatched …
Not just oil, the Venezuela invasion is about preserving the petrodollar Read More
Over many decades, vast sums of money for innovation in farming including seeds, crop applications and new technologies has come from those large enterprises and organisations that can extract value …
Lack of agroecological funding could be costing us our future Read More