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Are there any business winners in Trump 2?

“THE GOLDEN age of America begins right now,” intoned Donald Trump at the start of his inaugural address on January 20th. The business world bought the glittering talk, in anticipation of lower...

Donald Trump digs deep to revive American mining

Donald Trump wants minerals, and lots of them. America’s president is interested in Greenland for, among other things, its vast store of minerals and the largest deposits of rare earths outside China....

Donald Trump’s plan for American carmaking is full of potholes

Donald Trump has promised to impose sweeping tariffs on imported goods on April 2nd, dubbing it “Liberation Day”. The car industry got a preview of what is in store a week earlier,...

Teams and extremes

If you are fed up with the other people on your team, remember this: it could be so much worse. Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, two American astronauts, returned to Earth on...

Barnes & Noble, a bookstore, is back in the business of selling books

CENTRAL PARK bisects upper Manhattan, creating two neighbourhoods and, apparently, two reading cultures. On the Upper West Side, the New York Times is “a standout for us” in terms of driving book...

How safe is your DNA in a bankruptcy?

Spit in a tube and, for about $100, discover secrets held by your DNA. That was the promise of 23andMe, a direct-to-consumer genetic-testing company. It proved popular—more than 15m customers coughed up...

What space, submarines and polar research teach about teamwork

If you are fed up with the other people on your team, remember this: it could be so much worse. Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, two American astronauts, returned to Earth on...

Big law’s capitulation to Donald Trump is a business failure

IT PASSES FOR a courtroom truism that whoever wins or loses, the lawyers come out on top—especially in litigious America. The same goes for political outcomes. Had Kamala Harris and the Democratic...

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