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Have humans passed peak brain power?
Data across countries and ages reveal a growing struggle to concentrate, and declining verbal and numerical reasoning.
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Financial Times
Business & Finance
Age discrimination payouts are getting bigger
High value cases of dismissed senior leaders show older workers must be taken seriously.
Business & Finance
Can businesses ever run a true meritocracy?
Corporate leaders are ditching diversity for performance-based promotion. Critics say it is not that simple.
Business & Finance
When we politicise everything we make society stupider
By losing our ability to see things at face value we are losing our grip on reality.
Business & Finance
Is air travel becoming more dangerous?
A spate of high-profile incidents has shone fresh light on aviation safety.
Business & Finance
How Washington plans to defend the dollar
Trade tariffs grab headlines but the less-visible fight around money matters deeply to the president.
Business & Finance
Innovations expected to turbo-charge crypto ETF industry
Participants say favourable regulatory environment could lead to enthusiasm for diversified indices of digital tokens.
Business & Finance
European gas faces déjà vu all over again
Until the continent fixes its underlying energy mix it will find it hard to fully quash the siren song of Russian imports.
Business & Finance
What eggflation teaches us about must-have goods
Some researchers argue inelasticity is becoming a feature of the stock market.
