Germany’s Merz to press cabinet for faster pro-growth reforms

Social Security’s cost-of-living adjustment could be as much as 3.6% in 2027.

Canada’s financial system has functioned well through a challenging year. Households and businesses remain in stable financial condition, and banks have strengthened their capacity to absorb shocks. However, vulnerabilities have increased in some parts of the system, and a more turbulent global environment poses risks to financial stability.

Drone view of oil tanker HELGA berthed at one of Iraq’s southern offshore oil terminals near Basra as it prepares to load crude oil, becoming the second vessel to arrive since the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, April 24, 2026. Mohammed Aty | Reuters Oil prices rose in choppy trading Wednesday as U.S. forces…

Many Americans are waiting longer to hit traditional milestones like getting married, having kids, or buying a home. Gail Rudnick has some grandmotherly advice for these late bloomers: “It doesn’t all have to be perfect” to get started. The 84-year-old is part of the duo behind “Excuse My Grandma,” a podcast where she and her…

en English Economics Jul 27, 2026 Dambisa Moyo Companies have poured billions of dollars into AI in anticipation of transformative productivity gains and cost savings, but the returns have yet to justify those investments. Rising costs, intellectual-property risks, and mounting cybersecurity…

Parents’ and teachers’ expectations and aspirations are critical drivers of educational outcomes, yet what causally shapes these expectations remains unclear. In the present study, we address this question by deploying the random experiment of meiosis: namely, conditional on parental genotype, offspring genotype is random, allowing for the unconfounding of unique child characteristics from the more…