Move follows unscheduled cut to two other rates after official data showed growing slowdown

New central head Than Than Swe survived attack by gunmen in April

A genuinely readable but non-neutral introduction to economics

…Bill Galvin, chief executive of USS, has written to employers suggesting that the improved finances could prompt discussions about raising benefits or cutting pensions contributions….

…As to the central bank , he is right too that its mandate needs to be redefined….

…By monitoring air pollution at a local level, we can build a worldwide bank of data to highlight pollution hotspots and help governments to establish effective policies to improve air quality….

…The Fed is not alone among central banks in taking an aggressive stance. For instance, read the comments from the Reserve Bank of New Zealand when it raised its rate by 50 basis points last week….

…further jump is expected in April, posing a grave threat to household finance s. The intervention by Truss, the foreign secretary, in the Sun on Sunday…

Gold bug and economist Peter Schiff has warned that the seeming ease in inflation for the United States economy is nothing to get too excited about, as Shark Tank star billionaire Mark Cuban is facing a class action lawsuit for allegedly promoting a “massive Ponzi scheme”.

…well as to the global economy. Mark Carney, former governor of the Bank of England, has called it the “tragedy of horizon”. In other words…