The ‘markets’ aren’t the economy

Alex Hern looks at how a chance change in the make-up of the Dow Jones would lead to a 2000 point difference, and asks what this tells us about economic decision-making

Steve Jobs: He did it his way

Steve Jobs, the co-founder and, until recently, CEO of Apple, died last night at home with his family. Jobs had lived with pancreatic cancer for four years, but had carried on working at the company he built from nothing –test