For more than 200 years Luddites have received bad press—worse even than the British Members of Parliament who voted in 1812 to put to death convicted machine-breakers.

American inflation has left its mark across the country’s economy and the world’s financial markets. It has also reared its head between the Golden Arches.

Oil prices could not shake off the potential ramifications of the downgrade of the US credit rating by Fitch as it increased the risk that US government spending would have to slow or we are headed on a path of fiscal suicide.

Big law enjoys a long life. For an illustration, examine “The Partners: Inside America’s Most Powerful Law Firms”, by James Stewart, published four decades ago.

The future of the vw brand is at stake.” When Thomas Schäfer, the mass-market marque’s newish boss, gave a presentation to his management team in early July, he did not sugarcoat its problems.

Last november something strange happened in Mountain View. A thick fog enveloped the headquarters of Alphabet, the parent company of Google. Not the meteorological sort—this stretch of Silicon Valley is reliably sunny. It was a fog of confusion.