Ryan Hogg

Ryan Hogg

Ryan Hogg was a Europe business reporter at Fortune.

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Gita Gopinath, IMF First Deputy Managing Director, takes part in a Press conference during the second day of the annual meetings of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank Group (WBG), in Marrakesh on October 10, 2023. The IMF kept its 2023 global growth forecast unchanged but warned that the economy is “limping along” as inflation remains high and the outlooks for China and Germany were downgraded. (Photo by FADEL SENNA / AFP) (Photo by FADEL SENNA/AFP via Getty Images)

‘Cold War II’ might be coming, IMF deputy says, and it could wipe trillions of dollars from the global economy

LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM – 2022/06/26: British Airways aircrafts are seen at London Heathrow Airport. Hundreds of the flag carriers ground staff have voted to strike next month over a 10% pay cut imposed during the coronavirus pandemic. (Photo by Tejas Sandhu/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Saudi Arabia dives deeper into Western assets as it looks set to become the majority owner of the U.K.’s busiest airport in a $12bn deal

A customer selects goods at a supermarket in San Mateo, California, the United States, Nov. 29, 2023. The U.S. Commerce Department said on Wednesday that it now estimates the country’s GDP grew at an annualised pace of 5.2 percent in the third quarter, up from its initial estimate of 4.9 percent. (Photo by Li Jianguo/Xinhua via Getty Images)

The biggest study of ‘greedflation’ yet looked at 1,300 corporations to find many of them were lying to you about inflation

HONOLULU, UNITED STATES – 2020/03/05: Pedestrians walk past a French high fashion luxury goods manufacturer Hermes store. (Photo by Alex Tai/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

The heir to luxury retail empire Hermès is reportedly planning to adopt his 51-year-old gardener so he can pass on his $11 billion fortune

Daniel Ek, chief executive officer and co-founder of Spotify AB, stands for a photograph after a news conference in Tokyo, Japan, on Thursday, Sept. 29, 2016. Spotify Ltd. is bringing its popular online music service to Japan, a large and lucrative market where fans have demonstrated a continuing fondness for CDs and even vinyl records. Photographer: Akio Kon/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Spotify faces the music after Daniel Ek wields the layoff axe—but is it smart cost-cutting or the beginning of a spiral?

Airplanes from the airlines, from left, Lufthansa, British Airways, Air France and KLM line the gates of Termian D at George Bush Intercontinental Airport on Friday, June 15, 2012, in Houston. ( Smiley N. Pool / Houston Chronicle ) (Photo by Smiley N. Pool/Houston Chronicle via Getty Images)

Air France and Germain airline Lufthansa tried to sneak false environmental claims into their ads—they’ve now been banned

Zurich old town by the Limmat river on a sunny summer day in Switzerland largest city

‘Zoogler’-packed Zurich just overtook New York as the most expensive city in the world

An employee stocks Christmas ornaments at a Wal-Mart Stores Inc. location in Burbank, California, U.S., on Thursday, Nov. 16, 2017. Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving, marks the traditional start to the U.S. holiday shopping season. Photographer: Patrick T. Fallon/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Holiday hiring has changed a lot since 2022–and data offers a sneak peek into the widening economic gulf between the U.S. and the U.K. this Christmas

Luxury yachts exhibited on the opening day of the Monaco Yacht Show at Port Hercules in Monaco, on Wednesday, Sept. 27, 2023. The show runs from Sept. 27-30. Photographer: Jeremy Suyker/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Billionaire heirs just overtook self-made ones for the first time, UBS says—and they’re unlikely to pay the same taxes or care as much about philanthropy

LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM – OCTOBER 02: A large scale replica of the blue Ikea shopping bag is seen surrounding the site of a new store in the Oxford Street retail area on October 02, 2023 in London, United Kingdom. (Photo by Leon Neal/Getty Images)

Ikea stores owner plans to spend $1.1 billion to cut prices next year in the latest sign of global deflation: ‘Ikea is made for crisis’

BLETCHLEY, ENGLAND – NOVEMBER 01: SpaceX, X (formerly known as Twitter), and Tesla CEO Elon Musk speaks with members of the media during day one of the AI Safety Summit at Bletchley Park on November 01, 2023 in Bletchley, England. The UK Government are hosting the AI Safety Summit bringing together international governments, leading AI companies, civil society groups and experts in research to consider the risks of AI, especially at the frontier of development, and discuss how they can be mitigated through internationally coordinated action. (Photo by Leon Neal/Getty Images)

Elon Musk claims Ireland’s prime minister ‘hates the Irish people’ in wake of Dublin riots—it’s the billionaire’s latest salvo over immigration and free speech

Aitana is a 25-year-old AI-generated model.

A Spanish agency became so sick of models and influencers that they created their own with AI—and she’s raking in up to $11,000 a month

Portrait of Tom Connaughton.

Spotify’s U.K. boss took paid paternity leave 26 times longer than the average American dad—but it took a conversation with his manager to fully embrace it

Michael O'Leary has found himself in another war of words with government authorities.

CEO of Europe’s largest budget airline brushes off Italy’s investigation into low-cost carriers as a ‘joke’

LONDON, ENGLAND – OCTOBER 01: The Ernst & Young (EY) offices stand in 1 More London Riverside on October 1, 2018 in London, England. The government has called for a review of the British auditing industry after a series of scandals including the collapses of Carillion and BHS revealed serious failures in the auditing process. The ‘Big Four’ accounting firms, which are Deloitte, PwC, Ernst & Young (EY) and KPMG audit the large majority of the UK’s largest listed companies. (Photo by Jack Taylor/Getty Images)

EY is considering closing one of its major HQs because of remote working and climate change