UK economy and politics in charts

On June 23, 2016, Britons headed to the polls to vote on whether to stay in the European Union. A shock result emerged overnight: the electorate had voted to leave the bloc by 52% to 48%. The pound tanked. London’s FTSE 100 tumbled. Then-Prime Minister David Cameron — who had called the referendum and led…

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Alan Greenspan, former chairman of the Fed, dies at age 100

Alan Greenspan, the longtime Federal Reserve chairman known as “the Maestro” who became one of the most influential economic policymakers of his era and famously warned of “irrational exuberance,” has died. He was 100. The influential economist died Monday from complications of Parkinson’s Disease, said his wife of 29 years, Andrea Mitchell, the chief Washington…

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