A pioneering London-based electric taxi firm has secured a £1.6 million asset refinance deal, strengthening its position in the capital’s rapidly evolving green transport sector and setting the stage for major growth. Sherbet Electric Taxi Company, which has fully decarbonised its fleet of London black cabs, will use the funding to pursue strategic mergers and acquisitions, boosting its fleet and ...
Having a successful legal career is more about embracing learning as a life-long practice and less about mastering one set of skills and calling it a day. While rewarding (both intellectually and financially), this career also demands constant sacrifices, mostly in the form of your time, which is not refundable – you simply must put in the hours to remain ...
A leading Welsh start-up accelerator programme has honoured six entrepreneurs for their breakthrough innovations, marking the end of an intensive 12-week initiative designed to supercharge business ideas into market-ready ventures. The Business Wales Start-Up Accelerator Programme, funded by the Welsh Government, assembled 21 aspiring entrepreneurs, equipping them with expert mentorship, hands-on support, and unparalleled networking opportunities. After three months of ...
Ian Vásquez Today, December 17, we’re releasing the tenth edition of the annual Human Freedom Index, which we co-publish with the Fraser Institute. The report paints a picture of the state of global freedom and freedom within 165 countries, drawing on 86 indicators of personal, economic, and civil liberties dating back to the year 2000. The index reflects our belief ...
Romina Boccia and Dominik Lett As part of the Cato Institute Report to the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), we submitted the following recommendations to address the abuse of emergency designations and advance fiscal responsibility. Emergency spending is out of control. Congress has designated nearly $12 trillion as emergency-related spending since 1992, circumventing statutory spending limits and enabling inflationary deficit ...
Several Senate Democrats are pushing a constitutional amendment to abolish the Electoral College and replace it with a presidential election system where the winner of the popular vote wins the White House contest. Sens. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii, and Peter Welch, D-Vt., introduced the proposed amendment, according to a press release. ‘In 2000, before the general election, I ...
‘President-elect Donald Trump’s popularity has reached a seven-year high and the majority of Americans approve of his handling of the transition process,’ Forbes recently reported. ‘A majority of respondents to a CNN/SSRS poll released Wednesday said they believe Trump will do a good job when he returns to the White House next month (54%),’ the story continued, ‘and approve of ...
Rachel Reeves could be forced into announcing emergency tax rises as early as this spring if the UK’s economic outlook continues to deteriorate, leading economists have warned. The Chancellor’s recently introduced tax and spending rules, known as the “stability rule,” leave her little room to manoeuvre if public finances falter, potentially compelling her to raise taxes or cut spending by ...
Guy Hands’ property company Annington has agreed to sell a portfolio of 36,347 military homes to the Ministry of Defence (MoD) for almost £6bn, concluding a protracted dispute between the billionaire investor and the UK government. The deal sees Annington, which was acquired by Hands’ private equity group Terra Firma in 2012, hand back its 999-year lease on the so-called ...
TikTok has made a final appeal to the US supreme court in a last-ditch effort to prevent the enforcement of a new American law that could force the platform’s Chinese parent company, ByteDance, to sell the popular video app or face a nationwide ban. ByteDance and TikTok filed an emergency injunction request to the justices on Monday, seeking to delay ...