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

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Taxing imported motors may not create many new jobs at home

Teams and extremes

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What space, submarines and polar research teach about teamwork

How safe is your DNA in a bankruptcy?

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23andMe’s demise raises thorny legal questions

What space, submarines and polar research teach about teamwork

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Fed up with your colleagues? It could be worse

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

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Toys, backpacks and bottled water are out

Big law’s capitulation to Donald Trump may be bad for business

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As well as being a moral failure

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

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Not just a moral one

Lobbyists hope that Trump will produce a bonanza

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They have their work cut out

ASML’s boss has a warning for Europe

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Christophe Fouquet threatens to head elsewhere if his firm is not better protected

Musk Inc is under serious threat

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The world’s richest man has lost focus. His competitors are taking advantage

How hospitals inflate America’s giant health-care bill

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Non-profit institutions are no help

Should BHP, Rio Tinto and Vale learn from Chinese rivals?

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The mining industry is drifting apart into two distinct models

The horrors of shared docs

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Transparent, user-friendly, maddening

East Asia’s armsmakers are on the rise

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Rising demand at home and abroad is fuelling their growth

The luxury industry is poised for a deal wave

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A proposed tie-up between Prada and Versace is just the start

East Asia’s arms-makers are on the rise

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Rising demand at home and abroad is fuelling their growth

Will Trump’s tariffs turbocharge foreign investment in America?

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Companies from Asahi to TSMC are expanding production in America—for now

The race to elect the next head of the Olympics is heating up

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The winner will be faced with growing competition and a changing media landscape

America First may be a boon for Walmart’s Mexican business

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No, really

7-Eleven is still struggling to fend off its Canadian suitor

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The saga points to the sluggish pace of corporate reform in Japan

Western companies are experimenting with DeepSeek

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But concerns over security, censorship and dependence on China remain

The importance of repetition in the workplace

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The importance of repetition in the workplace

Why “labour shortages” don’t really exist

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Use the term, and you are almost always a bad economist or a special pleader

Your guide to the new anti-immigration argument

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Nativists say that migrants raise house prices, cost money and undermine economic growth. Do they have a point?

Elon Musk’s antics are not the only problem for Tesla

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The carmaker’s falling sales are sinking for other reasons too

Will America’s stockmarket convulsions spread?

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Investors are hurrying to find alternatives—but all face difficulties of their own

Trump’s metals tariffs will cost American industry dearly

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Not least because the president is ratcheting up duties on Canada

China’s AI boom is reaching astonishing proportions

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What might derail it?

Mistral, Europe’s biggest AI startup, is blowing hot

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Not being American or Chinese may now be a help, not a hindrance

Catering to protein-rich diets is a tasty business

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“High protein” is the new “low calorie”

As Germany’s defence stocks go ballistic, armsmakers are tooling up

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They are snapping up staff and sites from ailing firms

The behaviour that annoys colleagues more than any other

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And the reasons to try to remain calm

The pay gap between men and women won’t go away

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Our glass-ceiling index makes gloomy reading

The world’s trustbusters hint that they want more deals

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Do they really?

America's carmakers win a tariff reprieve, but still face a tricky dilemma

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They must hope levies are never imposed

Airbus has not taken full advantage of Boeing’s weakness

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That could leave a gap for other planemakers to fill

The business of second-hand clothing is booming

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Can it be profitable, too?

The Economist’s office agony uncle is back

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Another bulging postbag for Max Flannel

The smiling new face of German big business

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From Allianz to Zalando, pedlars of services are outdoing industrial firms at home—and foreign rivals abroad

Zyn is giving investors a buzz—for now

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Nicotine pouches are growing fast

The trouble with MAGA’s chipmaking dreams

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TSMC will keep making most of the world’s advanced chips at home for years to come

Nvidia is fighting both Trump and China

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Can the sizzling revenue growth last?

A guide to dodging Donald Trump’s tariffs

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How companies can lessen the blow from the American president’s assault on trade

A guide to dodging Trump’s tariffs

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How companies can lessen the blow from the American president’s assault on trade

Europe is set to start cutting red tape—lightly

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But those hoping for radical deregulation will be sorely disappointed

Hollywood’s Trump-baiting Oscars

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As Silicon Valley embraces the president, legacy media steers clear

Leaving the seat of power

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The doctrine of management by walking around matters more than ever

Elon Musk spells danger for Accenture, McKinsey and their rivals

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Why the American government could turn against consultants

Why Xi Jinping is making nice with China’s tech billionaires

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Jack Ma’s rehabilitation may be the most lucrative of all time

Xi’s rehabilitation of Jack Ma may be the most lucrative ever

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Why China’s leader is making nice with the country’s tech billionaires