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290 nieuwsberichten over British.

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Capitalism’s status hierarchy is being upturned

At a recent dinner party, Schumpeter got talking to a wildly successful young man who was downright miserable. He was on the very fast track at a very big hedge fund. His friends, however, were making even bigger bucks in artificial intelligence, a field...

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Meet the committee to buy Europe

Europe wants bigger firms. Its apparatchiks say so every time they talk about integration and competitiveness. „The leaders want true European champions,” announced António Costa, the Portuguese head of the European Council, in February.

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What investment gurus get wrong

Financial advice was once doled out solely by well-paid professionals, and solely to the wealthy. Then, from the 1980s, celebrity advisers took their tips to large radio and TV audiences, especially in America. Today legions of social-media...

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China can be a useful bogeyman in American politics

China wants more sway over how the world thinks. The country’s latest five-year plan aims for a major leap in international influence. This often manifests on social media as cute videos of pandas or futuristic ones of high-speed trains.

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Britain is not yet ready to rejoin the EU

Ten years and six prime ministers after voting to quit the European Union, Britain has, to paraphrase Dean Acheson, lost a continent but not yet found a role. The referendum on June 23rd 2016, in which Britons voted for Brexit by 52% to 48%, has left them...

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Tournament of losers

Money, it is often said, has ruined football. Staging the men’s World Cup mostly in America, a country that has produced so many great businessmen and so few good footballers, was supposed to mark the triumph of big business over the beautiful game.

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How should bosses talk about AI?

If you are a bank boss and in the headlines, you are either Jamie Dimon or you have screwed up. Bill Winters, the chief executive of Standard Chartered, an emerging-markets bank headquartered in Britain, made waves recently when he talked about a planned...

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Bre-entry may be the next drama to grip the European Union

Picture the scene, some time in the 2030s. Three dozen leaders of the European Union’s member states crowd around a gilded desk in some history-laden hall—perhaps in Versailles, Sarajevo or Rome. The Spanish prime minister signs a thick vellum...