Matthew Lynn

A bond crisis is heading France's way – the country is drowning in debt and has no easy way out of it. It's time to prepare for the bailout, says Matthew Lynn

It is starting to look very likely that the government will drop the complete ban on the sale of petrol cars after 2035 and ease up on the targets

THE oil price is rising. The war in the Gulf shows little sign of ending any time soon. France is leading the eurozone into a fresh crisis, and the AI bubble may burst at any moment.

The oil price is rising. The war in the Gulf shows little sign of ending any time soon. France is leading the eurozone into a fresh crisis, and the AI bubble may burst at any moment.

Elon Musk, the world's richest man, talks a good game as he pitches a merger between his two largest companies, SpaceX and Tesla.

It risks turning Wednesday’s big speech into the Paddington bear Budget. The left of the Labour party, high on promises of ending 40 years of neo-liberalism, might have been hoping for a wealth tax, an exit charge, plus sweeping renationalisation of...

As the brutal sell-off of financial assets demonstrated, Brazil has also voted for economic chaos. That rarely ends well

They can’t afford to buy a house, they face crippling interest rates on their loans if they go to university, and Claude, Chat and Gemini can do that entry-level job they were hoping for far more efficiently than they ever could.

The shift to the right across South America has been stopped. One of President Trump’s key regional allies has been defeated. The global left, and most of the centre, has been celebrating the victory of President Lula over Flávio Bolsonaro in a...

It risks turning Wednesday's big speech into the Paddington bear Budget. The left of the Labour party, high on promises of ending 40 years of