Thankfully, reform agendas are arguably easier for governments to control than oil prices and geopolitics and most commentators who spoke to Bloomberg Businessweek Middle East were optimistic about regulatory reforms, particularly in the UAE and Saudi Arabia, in 2018. “We expect 2018 to be an
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U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May is battling to put out multiple political fires at home as she prepares for a crucial meeting in Brussels that she hopes will end the deadlock in Brexit talks. Euro-skeptics including members of May's own Conservative party set out new “red lines” for the negotiations ahead
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Turkey's economy has proved to be more than just resilient in recent years, showing strong growth even as developed countries around the world experience stagnation. Turkey has long benefitted from its position as a bridge between Europe, the Middle East and Asia. From ancient times when Turkey
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The overhaul by Republican lawmakers of the nation's tax laws percolated for weeks with virtually no public input, and by the end it turned into a chaotic mad dash with many last-minute changes Friday night and Saturday morning, some handwritten in the …
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The Republican tax plan isn't the only piece of bad economic policy coming out of Washington that's tilted dramatically in favor of big donors and corporate interests. As Bloomberg put it in a story last week, President Donald Trump “is on the verge of subsidizing coal plants that would otherwise be driven
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