A final poll ahead of B.C.’s election day finds the BC NDP is favoured to win a third term. However, it is still a close race. A new Ipsos poll conducted in partnership with Global BC shows the ...

In a Thai restaurant in London’s West End last week, eight strangers gathered to discuss freedom of speech in Britain’s universities. The group had come together after signing up to ...

Three men are being awarded the Nobel Prize for Economics for their work exploring why some societies prosper and others don’t. Their answer, in a nutshell, lies in government institutions ...

My aunt married into money. She’s never made any significant contribution from that wealth to the rest of the family. Which is fair, it’s her husband’s asset, not ours! Her family and her in ...

The remarks from Mr Campbell and other members of Patriotic Millionaires UK, a campaign group of the rich calling for higher taxes on the rich, forms part of a report by the Institute for Public ...

Why do some countries become rich, while others remain impoverished? It’s a question that inspired three academics awarded this year’s Nobel prize in economics—Daron Acemoglu and Simon ...

A police investigation into an alleged pyramid scheme that claimed revenues of more than US$300 million and attracted hundreds of thousands of members highlights a lucrative yet deceptive business ...

“ON PRESENT policies and performance, the United States is condemned to slower growth than the other main industrial countries for the foreseeable future.” So declared the Competitiveness ...

In countries that were already rich and in places where European settlers did not survive well because of illnesses or the climate, “colonial institutions were extractive”, Coyle says.

Most people in America don't believe they're rich. In fact, only 12% of the population thinks they're wealthy, according to recent research from Edelman Financial Engines. Car insurance premiums ...