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Unfortunately, that same insight could also explain Mr Trump’s choices to become his most important lieutenants, including ...

Seth Stephens-Davidowitz is a data scientist and author who formerly worked at Google.

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Mr Trump has a point: the civil service needs renovating. Too few people get fired. More than 40% of federal workers surveyed ...

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The view that African firms and governments pay a higher cost of capital than is necessary to compensate investors in debt ...

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But the war in Ukraine has upset that cosy arrangement. As a country that has suffered an illegal invasion, Cyprus—and its ...