A ferocious New York lawyer, Mr Cohn became Mr Trump’s mentor, “introducing him to the netherworld of sordid quid pro quos ...

H e brandished a chainsaw at campaign rallies, to signify his eagerness to clear-cut the thickets of bureaucracy and ...

John P. Hussman, who correctly called the 2000 and 2008 declines, said a recession might hit the U.S. economy as soon as in ...

Soderbergh didn’t capitalize on his success. Through most of the ’90s, he directed movies more suited to the arthouse than ...

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Millsaps College fired politics and religion professor James Bowley this week over an email he sent to students the day after Donald Trump won the 2024 presidential election. According to Bowley ...

BMO senior economist Robert Kavcic parses the real estate market and finds Ontario is the problem, “Canada’s housing market was flashing very mixed conditions at the end of 2024. While Ontario ...

The School of Economics introduced the annual Perraton lecture to honour our colleague – Dr Jonathan Perraton. This year we are joined by Professor Dame Diane Coyle. The five areas in Great Britain ...

John Robertson was a straight man. In a crooked world, and in what has become an even more crooked country, he was always a person of integrity who was reliable in supplying the unadulterated truth ...

And Miller, who is trying to clean up the wreckage created during the eras of immigration ministers John McCallum ... who say that’s still too many is economist Mike Moffatt, whom Prime Minister ...

High prices, she said, are going to be one of the major economic themes in 2025, along with the pressure that Donald Trump’s election in the United States will put on Canada. FP: The economy in 2024 ...