- + The UAE is using a wealth fund to gain diplomatic sway—And to build holiday resorts
- + How far could America’s stockmarket fall?—With the prospect of cheaper money receding, shares look unusually vulnerable
- + Chinese authorities are now addicted to traffic fines—What that tells you about the country’s economic woes
- + Don’t like your job? Quit for a rival firm—Lina Khan hopes to free the American worker
- + Is inflation morally wrong?—Workers think so. Economists disagree
- + Why a stronger dollar is dangerous—It sets the stage for a nasty new Trump-China clash, among other things
- + How American politics has infected investing—Beware: taking a stand can be expensive
- + Can the IMF solve the poor world’s debt crisis?—The fund will freeze out China if that is what it takes to offer relief
- + Frozen Russian assets will soon pay for Ukraine’s war—And America now hopes to convince others to make better use of the stash
- + Citigroup, Wall Street’s biggest loser, is at last on the up—Jane Fraser’s unexpected success
- + Wall Street’s biggest loser at last looks to be on the up—An unexpected turnaround at Citigroup
- + Why the stockmarket is disappearing—Large companies such as ByteDance, OpenAI and Stripe are staying private
- + Even without war in the Gulf, pricier petrol is here to stay—Expensive oil could put Donald Trump in the White House
- + Generation Z is unprecedentedly rich—Millennials were poorer at this stage in their lives. So were baby-boomers
- + China’s better economic growth hides reasons to worry—The country’s leaders are too complacent about deflation
- + What China’s central bank and Costco shoppers have in common—Hint: it is not a fondness for cryptocurrencies
- + How fast is India’s economy really growing?—Statisticians take the country’s figures with a pinch of salt
- + Ukrainian drone strikes are hurting Russia’s oil industry—The world’s third-largest producer is now an importer of petrol
- + China’s state is eating the private property market—Pity those soon to buy a home
- + When will Americans see those interest-rate cuts?—Following a nasty surprise, some now think they may come only after the presidential election
- + Would America dare to bring down a Chinese bank?—Janet Yellen promises sanctions for those supporting Vladimir Putin’s war
- + The rich world faces a brutal spending crunch—Countries including America, Britain and France are up against remorseless fiscal logic
- + What will humans do if technology solves everything?—Welcome to a high-tech utopia
- + How to build a global currency—India is the latest country to try. Painful reforms are required
- + Will FTX’s customers be repaid?—As Sam Bankman-Fried is locked up, his erstwhile depositors await their fate
- + The Federal Reserve cleans up its money-printing mess—It wants to avoid upsetting markets, and is so far succeeding
- + Daniel Kahneman was a master of teasing questions—How a psychologist transformed economics
- + Wanted: a new economics writer—An opportunity to join the staff of The Economist
- + How Xi Jinping plans to overtake America—Digital twins, nuclear fusion and the small matter of fixing China’s economy
- + China’s banks have a bad-debt problem—As is becoming increasingly obvious
- + Which country will be last to escape inflation?—A new dividing line in the global fight
- + How the “Magnificent Seven” misleads—Forget the supergroup of stockmarket darlings
- + How India could become an Asian tiger—The world’s most selective bureaucracy is struggling to make it happen
- + Europe’s economy is under attack from all sides—First Putin, now Xi. Next Trump?
- + As markets soar, should investors look beyond America?—The country’s stocks are extremely expensive
- + How to trade an election—It is becoming harder for investors to ignore politics
- + Why “Freakonomics” failed to transform economics—The approach was fun, but has fallen out of favour
- + America’s realtor racket is alive and kicking—Celebrations over a settlement between agents and homeowners are premature
- + First Steven Mnuchin bought into NYCB, now he wants TikTok—Is there any limit to his ambitions?
- + Why America can’t escape inflation worries—The Federal Reserve sticks to its plans, despite an uncertain situation
- + Japan ends the world’s greatest monetary-policy experiment—For the first time in 17 years, officials raise interest rates
- + How China, Russia and Iran are forging closer ties—Assessing the economic threat posed by the anti-Western axis
- + How NIMBYs increase carbon emissions—Opposition to new buildings has unfortunate consequences
- + The private-equity industry has a cash problem—Little wonder its investors are protesting
- + China’s economic bright spots provide a warning—What a visit to an optimistic port reveals
- + Saudi Arabia’s investment fund has been set an impossible task—It must earn eye-watering returns while speeding the shift to a post-oil economy
- + China is churning out solar panels—and upsetting sand markets—The hunt for grains with a silica concentration of more than 99.9%
- + Is the bull market about to turn into a bubble?—Share prices are surging. Investors are delighted—but also nervous
- + Russia’s economy once again defies the doomsayers—As an election nears, Vladimir Putin now looks to have inflation under control
- + An economist’s guide to the luxury-handbag market—It is plagued by counterfeits—and information asymmetries
- + How investors get risk wrong—Contrary to popular wisdom, more volatile stocks do not outperform
- + The world is in the midst of a city-building boom—Everyone, from Donald Trump and Peter Thiel to Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, is getting involved
- + America’s rental-market mystery—And why it may deter the Federal Reserve from cutting interest rates
- + Globalisation may not have increased income inequality, after all—A new study questions the received wisdom on trends within countries
- + Bitcoin’s price is surging. What happens next?—The cryptocurrency is up by 63% this year
- + Can Israel afford to wage war?—As the battle continues, costs are spiralling
- + The Economist’s finance and economics internship—We invite applications for the 2024 Marjorie Deane internship
- + Activist investing is no longer the preserve of hedge-fund sharks—ExxonMobil and Starbucks are victims of the latest trend
- + Are passive funds to blame for market mania?—They have killed off many of those willing to bet on a downturn
- + Uranium prices are soaring. Investors should be careful—The metal has a history of meltdowns
- + What do you do with 191bn frozen euros owned by Russia?—The question that now confronts Western policymakers
- + How Trump and Biden have failed to cut ties with China—It is hard to overcome economic incentives
- + Stockmarkets are booming. But the good times are unlikely to last—Although AI is propelling valuations, there are deeper forces at work
- + Gucci, Prada and Tiffany’s bet big on property—High-end fashion has some new houses
- + Europe faces a painful adjustment to higher defence spending—The choices: taxes, cuts elsewhere, more borrowing
- + Trump wants to whack Chinese firms. How badly could he hurt them?—History provides a guide
- + As the Nikkei 225 hits record highs, Japan’s young start investing—Will more now favour domestic stocks?
- + Russia outsmarts Western sanctions—and China is paying attention—How the rise of middle powers helps America’s enemies
- + Should you put all your savings into stocks?—As markets roar, an old argument returns
- + The Ukraine war offers energy arbitrage opportunities—It also provides a glimpse at the future of European gas supplies
- + In defence of a financial instrument that fails to do its job—Inflation-linked bonds are a poor inflation hedge, but that’s not the point
- + Investing in commodities has become nightmarishly difficult—What happened to that “supercycle”?
- + Is working from home about to spark a financial crisis?—That is the worry. But it is overblown
- + How San Francisco staged a surprising comeback—Forget the controversy. America’s tech capital is building the future
- + How the world economy learned to love chaos—War, high interest rates and financial strife are yet to bring down growth
- + The false promise of Indonesia’s economy—Presidential candidates vow to deliver 7% growth. Voters have heard it before
- + Bankers have reason to hope Trump triumphs—Will they now spend big on his campaign?
- + The dividend is back. Are investors right to be pleased?—Why cash payments are no longer the preserve of widows and orphans
- + Are NYCB’s troubles the start of another banking panic?—Probably not. But they do suggest broader problems
- + China’s stockmarket nightmare is nowhere near over—The situation ought to worry Xi Jinping
- + Universities are failing to boost economic growth—Too often they generate ideas that no one knows how to use
- + China’s leaders are flailing as markets drop—The government is not used to being bullied
- + Bitcoin ETFs are off to a bad start. Will things improve?—Lessons from similar exchange-traded funds
- + Biden’s chances of re-election are better than they appear—The economy is providing a headwind at present. That could soon change
- + What four more years of Joe Biden would mean for America’s economy—Bigger government, for a start
- + Evergrande’s liquidation is a new low in China’s property crisis—A judge in Hong Kong surprises the mainland
- + Your pay is still going up too fast—Why the last part of the inflation fight may be the hardest
- + The false promise of friendshoring—America, China and Europe appear to be trading less with their geopolitical rivals
- + How American states squeeze athletes (and remote workers)—The public loves jock taxes; baseball players do not
- + Why sweet treats are increasingly expensive—For the sake of your wallet, it might be time to rethink your diet
- + What Donald Trump can learn from the Big Mac index—Should the presidential candidate go on another crusade against the yuan?
- + Investors may be getting the Federal Reserve wrong, again—Why expectations of imminent interest-rate cuts could be misplaced
- + Wall Street titans are betting big on insurers. What could go wrong?—How private-markets giants are overhauling the financial system
- + As China’s markets suffer, what alternatives do investors have?—Optimism about the world’s second-largest stockmarket is a distant memory
- + The Middle East faces economic chaos—Escalating conflict threatens to tip several countries over the brink
- + Australian houses are less affordable than they have been in decades—In spite of rising borrowing costs, prices have stayed stubbornly resilient
- + The countries which raised rates first are now cutting them—Farewell to Hikelandia
- + Wall Street is praying firms will start going public again—The IPO market is on its longest cold streak since 1980
- + What economists have learnt from the post-pandemic business cycle—The curious and furious recovery has brought some old ideas back to the fore
- + China’s population is shrinking and its economy is losing ground—The “peak China” narrative is proving difficult to shift
- + Ted Pick takes charge of Morgan Stanley—Can he keep the bank’s stellar run going?
- + How strong is India’s economy under Narendra Modi?—It has neither boomed nor slumped. But growth may be taking off
- + Bill Ackman provides a lesson in activist investing—His battle with Harvard University features familiar weapons
- + Will spiking shipping costs cause inflation to surge?—Disruption in the Suez and Panama canals is prompting concern
- + A guide to the Chinese Communist Party’s economic jargon—It is incomprehensible, and increasingly important
- + Has Team Transitory really won America’s inflation debate?—As prices cool, the battle heats up
- + Xi Jinping risks setting off another trade war—Why Western politicians should prepare for a second “China shock”
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