Hava, Head of the Accounting Department, Jerusalem School of Business, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel ...

Yet within Iran’s history lies a powerful example of Persian leadership at its finest. Cyrus the Great (c 600—530 BCE) founded the Achaemenid Empire, establishing one of history’s most remarkable ...

From Guy Wroble, Denver, CO, US ...

You report that the UK Treasury has received a £500mn windfall from the closure of the National Fund ( Report, June 13). It is good to read this in your newspaper in particular, as it is believed that ...

Adding to Martin Wolf’s fine obituary of Stanley Fischer ( June 7) it should be noted that, for all his accomplishments and high positions, he was modest, always a good listener and had a fine sense ...

Starmer’s pre-existing commitment to boost military spending to 2.5 per cent of GDP by 2027 will exclude public investment in other areas up to 2030. The Institute for Fiscal Studies estimates that a ...

The so-called “Taco trade” (Trump always chickens out) is real, and some degree of future tariff easing may be already priced into equities. It doesn’t feel like there is enough blood in the street, ...

Sanctions succeed only against a hedonistic nation like the white minority in the former apartheid South Africa and never against a spartan one like North Koreans, Cubans, Iranians and now Russians.

“President [Donald] Trump will sign an additional executive order this week to keep TikTok up and running,” White House press ...

Donald Trump “may decide he needs to take further action” to stop Iran enriching uranium, vice-president JD Vance said on Tuesday. In comments on X, Vance, who has taken a more isolationist stance on ...

I’ve bought into them all’ ...

Once at the vanguard of globalisation, international business chambers in the country now face a trickier challenge in seeking change ...