The growth of the early 2000s hid a lot of risk. Too much of it relied on debt, property and financial risk-taking. By 2009, that had caught up with the…
The early 2000s started with a wobble. The world avoided the millennium bug, but the dot.com bust still left damage behind, mainly across tech stocks and venture capital. The recovery…
Ten years on from the Brexit referendum, Northern Ireland’s economic story is still too often told in extremes. Depending on who you spoke to at the time, Brexit was either…
I attended UKREiiF for the first time this year and came away struck not just by the scale of the conference itself, but by the extent to which discussions kept…
“We didn’t come here to start the conversation.We came here to decide which conversations were real.” That comment, from a European space tech company I spoke with at SelectUSA 2026,…
2025 has been a year of recalibration for international trade. According to preliminary estimates, global trade is projected to reach approximately USD 34 trillion, representing modest but steady growth despite…
