SodaStream to fizz up the market

In recent weeks, Brighton has become the focus of Palestinian boycott activity, with demonstrators noisily picketing the clinical Ecostream store on the city’s main thoroughfare, Western Road.

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The UK pay gap is getting greater

At a time of national austerity one might have expected pay in Britain’s boardrooms to have subsided. After all it is the year of the “shareholder spring” when investors across Britain reportedly rose up against greed among directors.

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Who are the giants that will save the economy?

Match-making websites and speed dating have become essentials in the great courting ritual. But how many people realise that the modern substitute for the shadkhan is partly the result of research carried out by economist Alvin Roth?

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Jobs at core of MENA problems

The Arab Spring and the turmoil left in its wake, has concentrated the minds of policymakers on dealing with the economic causes of the uprising across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA).

A new study, presented at the International Monetary Fund (IMF)/World Bank meetings earlier this month, seeks to address the weaknesses, particularly in the labour market, in the region.

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Digital giants are destroying our high-streets

Hang out the bunting, let’s celebrate. Apple has miraculously become the most valuable quoted company in history. How did it reach this exalted status?

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Donor dollars are everything in the US

The emergence of Sandy Weill, the American financier who drove a coach and horses through the Glass-Steagall banking restrictions Act, as an advocate of breaking up the super-banks into separate investment banking and utility banking units, was something of a Damascene moment.

Glass-Steagall is the law that limited the investing risks banks could take.

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It's time to be bold with the banks

The 2008 financial crisis tested our faith in the stability of Britain's banks and the reckless lending decisions made during the financial boom with Royal Bank of Scotland and HBOS (merged into Lloyds) attracting the most opprobrium.

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Women are key in boardroom battles

The Jewish community has recently been going through one of its regular bouts of angst concerning the lack of women in leadership roles. But it should not think it is alone. The general business sectors face the same problem.

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Should we listen to Paul Krugman to get us out the crisis?

No economist has been more outspoken about the causes and consequences of the “Great Panic” and “Great Recession” than Nobel prize winner Paul Krugman. He is one of a golden generation of economic thinkers, spawned by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), that have emerged to dominate the debate about the causes and consequences of slump.

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