Elon Musk greeted with flattery and feasts during China trip
Billionaire Elon Musk was showered with praise during a trip to China this week, with people on social media calling him “a pioneer”, “Brother Ma”
Exclusive: Credit Suisse axes China bank plan to avoid regulatory conflict under UBS
Credit Suisse has scrapped plans to set up a locally incorporated bank in China to sidestep a potential regulatory conflict arising from its merger with UBS,
Credit Suisse bankers leaving by the hundreds every week
Hundreds of Credit Suisse employees are resigning each week in a sign of uncertainty gripping the lender while it is being taken over by rival
Chinese tech entrepreneurs keen to ‘de-China’ as tensions with US soar
For the ambitious Chinese tech entrepreneur, expanding into the U.S. just keeps getting harder. Before 2019, there were few major impediments to having a Chinese
Texas battery rush: Oil state’s power woes fuel energy storage boom
BlackRock, Korea’s SK, Switzerland’s UBS and other companies are chasing an investment boom in battery storage plants in Texas, lured by the prospect of earning
Fiscal consequences of corporate tax avoidance
Multinational corporations routinely shift their profits to tax havens globally in order to benefit from low-tax environments. This column uses German municipal data on trade
How declining population growth might portend a future of increasing resource scarcity
In the coming century, the global economy will experience an unprecedented convergence of two trends, as the world’s population reaches its peak while simultaneously approaching
Another systemic debt crisis in low-income countries can be prevented – if we act now
There are growing concerns that low-income countries may be in or close to a systemic debt crisis. This column argues that while debt distress indicators
Employer perspectives on employee work location: collaboration, culture and control
This paper discusses employers’ experience of working fully remotely during the pandemic, and their approaches to returning to the office following the pandemic. We chose
World No Tobacco Day 2023: We need food, not tobacco, in an age of megathreats
The theme for this year’s World No Tobacco Day, “We need food, not tobacco,” to be commemorated on May 31, is apt given the rising food
