Talks to keep Mark Carney as BoE Governor after June 2019
The Bank of England (BoE) and the Treasury are in talks about keeping Mark Carney on after June 2019. Mark Carney is the Governor...
Essay cheating growing fast, millions of students involved
Essay cheating is becoming progressively more common, a researcher at Swansea University in Wales revealed in a breakthrough study. Essay cheating involves people paying...
Increasing payments to burden developing countries due to climate change
Developing countries will have to endure increasing payments over the next decade due to climate change. Their debt payments over the next ten years...
Renewable energy requires lots of space, but it’s cleaner
Generating renewable energy requires more space than people may think. However, it is much cleaner than traditional fuel sources. Nuclear and natural gas take...
Insects will destroy more crops due to global warming
Global warming means that insects will destroy more crops, say researchers from the University of Washington who led a study. There have already been...
House price uncertainty reached all-time high after Brexit referendum
In the United Kingdom, the Brexit referendum pushed house price uncertainty to an all-time high. Researchers from Lancaster University Management School in England carried...
Euro Area and EU28 unemployment at 8.2% and 6.8% respectively July 2018
The euro area unemployment rate, seasonally adjusted, stood at 8.2% in July 2018. The EU28 unemployment rate was 6.8% for the same month. In...
Growth and productivity in information technology jobs outpaces other jobs
Information technology jobs have outpaced most other jobs in growth and productivity since 2004, a new study found. Positions in cybersecurity, and big data,...
Overconfident CEOs get sued more often
Shareholders are more likely to sue overconfident CEOs than other CEOs, says a new study. CEOs with big public personae have an abundance of...
Thank you notes more powerful than we realize
Thank you notes are much more powerful than we realize, say researchers from the University of Texas at Austin. Writing thank you notes is...