US regulators seized First Republic Bank and sold its assets to JPMorgan Chase this week, in a deal to resolve the largest US bank failure since the 2008 financial crisis. The move is an ...
How would you feel about working as a human alarm clock? It’s a job people used to do before the Industrial Revolution of the 18th century. They would go around the dark, cold streets and...
“The fog around the world economic outlook has thickened”. So says the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in its recently launched World Economic Outlook, the opening pages of which are do...
国の経済の健全性を測る指標は数多くあります。最もよく知られているのは国内総生産（GDP）ですが、その他に、経常収支という指標があります。
El trabajo a distancia no es sólo una tendencia, es una tendencia que ha engendrado otras nuevas tendencias. Una de las más interesantes es la de TikTok, donde los trabajadores a domicili...
¿Hay algo que el hidrógeno no pueda hacer? Podría propulsar coches, ayudar a producir acero e incluso calentar nuestras casas, dicen. Pero, ¿se trata sólo de palabrería o el rumor del hid...
学校教育に、eスポーツやエレクトロニック・スポーツと呼ばれる対戦型ビデオゲームの導入が進められています。日本では、初のeスポーツ専門の高校が開校し、教育出版社のピアソンは、英国eスポーツ連盟と共同で、世界初のesスポーツの資格を開発しました。
Remote work isn’t just a trend, it’s a trend that has spawned other new trends. One of the most interesting can be found on TikTok, where homeworkers have taken to “body doubling”, in whi...
Recession risks have been re-ignited by the recent banking collapses and rescue deals, and there are now concerns that global growth will weaken as the crisis heralds the end of the "easy...
This article was first published on 19 February 2020 and was updated on 29 March 2023.
Los videojuegos de competencia, también conocidos como deportes electrónicos, se están abriendo camino en los sistemas educativos. Japón acaba de abrir su primer instituto de deportes ele...
There are many measures of the health of a country’s economy. Gross domestic product (GDP) is probably the most well-known, but another measure is a country’s current account balance.
The US Federal Reserve has raised interest rates by a quarter of a percentage point but indicated it is on the verge of pausing further increases. The small rise is an attempt to balance ...
Competitive video gaming – also known as esports, or electronic sports – is finding its way into educational systems. Japan has just opened its first esports high school, and education pu...
Fears of a global banking crisis increased following a slump in the share price of Swiss bank Credit Suisse and the collapse of US lender Silicon Valley Bank.
