Are Wealth Taxes the Best Way to Tax the Ultra Rich?
Plans for a wealth tax, which is dividing France, have gotten popular around the world as inequality has widened and government debt has risen.
National/regional news and analysis
Will Trump’s Tariff Deal Tilt the Playing Field Back Toward China?
The president’s trade truce with China has lowered U.S. tariffs to a level that could pause a longer-term effort to reduce America’s dependence on Beijing.
Congress has been dodging responsibility for tariffs for decades – now the Supreme Court will decide how far presidents can go alone
On Nov. 5, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear one of the most consequential trade cases in decades. The justices will decide whether a president can rely on a Cold War–era emergency law, the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, to impose sweeping import duties on a vast share of what the United States buys from abroad.
Milei’s win should lock in financial backing from Trump. But at what cost to Argentinians?
In late October Argentina’s president, Javier Milei, won a decisive victory in the country’s midterm elections. The scale of the result caught most political commentators off-guard. It now gives the president the legislative capacity to push through his much touted programme of labour and tax reforms.
Supreme Court Confronts Trump and His Tariffs in Test of Presidential Power
The justices face a so-called legitimacy dilemma as they deal with a tricky legal dispute and a president who has made clear he would view defeat as a personal insult.
Private equity firms are snapping up mobile home parks − and driving out the residents who can least afford to lose them
In mobile home parks, like this one in Fairfax, Va., residents often own the home itself but rent the lot where the home sits. Michael Williamson/The Washington Post via Getty ImagesOne of America’s most affordable paths to homeownership is slipping away.
Investors prefer ‘I’ over ‘we’ when CEOs apologize
When corporate crises hit, the public looks to the CEO. From product recalls to workplace discrimination, to customer mistreatment scandals, CEOs are often thrust into the spotlight and forced to apologize.
But do the exact words they choose really matter?
Manufacturing grows in Oct amid persistent export challenges and higher input costs
Greece’s manufacturing PMI improved in October to 53.5 points, from 52 points in the previous month, S&P Global data showed on Monday.
Piraeus Bank profits at 815 mln in 9M, fees income at 489 mln
Piraeus Bank posted a net profit of 815 million euros in 9M 2025, from 882 million euros in 9M 202
Return to sender: Post office closures being reevaluated in wake of political uproar
A sweeping plan to shut down 204 branches of the Hellenic Post (ELTA) has triggered a political storm, exposing fractures within the ruling New Democracy party and drawing fierce criticism from opposition groups.
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