“Today, the US median income is still below where it was at the beginning of this century.” — Edward Luce Copy Share Image
“Ironically, some of the lowest-paid jobs – in barbershops and nail salons – will be among the safest.” — Edward Luce Copy Share Image
“It is the elites who are loosening their allegiances and workers who are reaching for national flags.” — Edward Luce Copy Share Image
“The world’s elites have helped to provoke what they feared: a populist uprising against the world economy.” — Edward Luce Economics Copy Share Image
“The advantages of being raised on the right side of the tracks are too implicit to be enumerated. It is the few… — Edward Luce Left behind Copy Share Image
“The new economy requires consumers with spending power – just as the old one did. Yet much like the farmer who eats… — Edward Luce Economics Copy Share Image
“Such risk aversion breeds its own failure. So deeply rooted is gentrification that Richard Florida has now modified his widely acclaimed thesis… — Edward Luce Big city Copy Share Image
“The stability of the planet – and the presumption of restraint – will have to rest in the hands of Xi Jinping… — Edward Luce Powerful leaders Copy Share Image
“Since the turn of the millennium, and particularly over the last decade, no fewer than twenty-five democracies have failed around the world,… — Edward Luce Around the world Copy Share Image
“All of America’s new jobs have been generated by independent work, which has risen by 7.8 per cent a year.65” — Edward Luce New job Copy Share Image
“Chicago’s success is no longer symbiotic with its rural neighbours. It comes at their expense.” — Edward Luce Success Copy Share Image
“clustered behind national barriers, what was good for General Motors was good for America. The annual gross domestic product figure meant as… — Edward Luce Bottom line Copy Share Image
“We cannot simultaneously pursue democracy, national determination and economic globalisation.” — Edward Luce Democracy Copy Share Image
“The downward pressure on the incomes of the West’s middle classes in the coming years will be relentless.” — Edward Luce Copy Share Image
“Orwell’s fear was that Big Brother would always be watching you. Huxley’s dread was that we would be too busy watching Big… — Edward Luce Books Copy Share Image
“They yearn for the security of a lost age. Just as America believed it had entered a post-racial era, Britain persuaded itself… — Edward Luce Cybersecurity Copy Share Image
“There is a thin line between convincing people of the merits of a case and suggesting they are moral outcasts if they… — Edward Luce Thin line Copy Share Image
“Just as the West’s support for the Afghan jihad against the Soviets in the 1980s laid the ground for the rise of… — Edward Luce Copy Share Image
“Can the West regain its optimism? If the answer is no – and most of the portents are skewing the wrong way… — Edward Luce Golden age Copy Share Image
“The emergence of China is the most dramatic event in economic history. We are living in an age of convergence no less… — Edward Luce History Copy Share Image
“If the democratically backed will of the world’s largest trading bloc can be undone by a group of unelected trade judges, imagine… — Edward Luce Copy Share Image
“In San Francisco, an ideas factory for America’s most liberal social policies, more than six in ten homes are now worth more… — Edward Luce San francisco Copy Share Image
“The meritocratic society has given way to a hereditary meritocracy. The children of the rich are overwhelmingly likely to stay rich.” — Edward Luce Children Copy Share Image
