- + Tree murders and the economics of crime —Rich people can’t stop cutting down each other’s woodland
- + How AI is breaking cover letters —And leading to lower pay
- + In defence of personal finance —It may widen inequality. But it has many advantages
- + Old folk are seized by stockmarket mania —Investing in equities may make sense for individuals—but it could also exacerbate a crash
- + Recessions have become ultra-rare. That is storing up trouble —Continuous growth can make economies fat and slow
- + The problem with America’s shutdown economy —Gridlock in Washington prevents official data releases. And unofficial ones disagree
- + The trouble with America’s shutdown economy —Gridlock in Washington prevents official data releases. And unofficial ones disagree
- + What explains India’s peculiar stability? —In a tricky neighbourhood the country remains calm
- + Don’t blame AI for your job woes —The white-collar chill has more to do with the economy than with tech
- + Universal child care can harm children —Its growing popularity in America is a concern
- + Investors are telling Britain to cheer up a bit —The country’s economic problems are real, but its assets are doing surprisingly well
- + How Donald Trump can dodge a Supreme Court tariff block —No matter its ruling, the president has back-up powers
- + The mystery of China’s slumping investment —Its leaders don’t seem concerned. Should they be?
- + Why Wall Street won’t see the next crash coming —Even the best traders struggle to predict sudden jumps in volatility
- + Investors will help Jamaica recover from Hurricane Melissa —The country is in line for a pay-out from catastrophe bonds
- + The new globalisation paradox —In the age of Donald Trump, national autonomy requires deeper integration. Brazil shows why
- + India’s IPO boom is good news for its economy —Stockmarkets appear to be fuelling investment
- + A letter to investors from the White House Opportunities Fund —How the shift to state capitalism is panning out for America LLC
- + The end of the rip-off economy —From finance and medicine to used cars, artificial intelligence is radically improving market efficiency
- + China’s secret stockpiles have been a great success—so far —Xi Jinping is desperate for Trump-proof access to food, fuels and metals
- + The counterintuitive economics of smoking —How cigarette manufacturers profit from quitters
- + Will America’s new sanctions on Russian oil force a peace deal? —Donald Trump raises the pressure—but he may have to go further
- + China is being fuelled by inspiration, not perspiration —So long as its leaders are not lying
- + Can AI make the poor world richer? —It promises a level playing field. So have past technologies
- + Trumponomics is warping the world’s copper markets —It may not end well
- + Why investors still don’t believe in Argentina —Despite the best efforts of Donald Trump and Scott Bessent
- + How to make immigration palatable in a populist age —Guest-worker schemes are booming. They offer vast benefits to both host countries and the workers themselves
- + Wanted: a new finance writer —An opportunity to join the staff of The Economist
- + Why are American women leaving the labour force? —Maybe they are becoming tradwives. Or maybe there is a more straightforward explanation
- + The world economy shrugs off both the trade war and AI fears —Can anything bring it down?
- + Why Wall Street is fearful of more lending blow-ups —Both banks and private-markets giants are on cockroach-watch
- + Indian microfinance is in trouble —A model that has lifted millions out of poverty is threatened by rising defaults
- + The new economics of babymaking —A postcard from one of America’s youngest towns
- + America’s bankers are riding high. Why are they so worried? —Their latest earnings do not represent unalloyed good news
- + Donald Trump and Xi Jinping: both weaker than they think —As America and China clash over trade, cracks emerge in each side’s position
- + Would inflation-linked bonds survive an inflationary default? —A thought experiment on the nearest thing to a safe asset
- + The Economist is hiring a Senior Producer —Our Money Talks podcast team is recruiting an experienced producer to help launch a video spin-off
- + Joel Mokyr deserves his Nobel prize —The Nobel committee is belatedly recognising economic history
- + Why the ultra-rich are giving up on luxury assets —Forget fine wine, great art and glitzy mansions. There are finer things in life
- + America and China return to fierce trade conflict —Donald Trump threatens an extra 100% levy as rare-earth minerals prompt a fresh spat
- + The stockmarket is fuelling America’s economy —What happens in the event of a slump?
- + Front-line economics: lessons from Russia’s neighbours —How to survive on the border of war
- + Narendra Modi’s paltry target for India’s growth —The prime minister wants a $10trn economy by 2047. He should be bolder
- + The most dangerous corner of a balance-sheet —Forget debt. Here is something to villainise
- + Why Donald Trump’s tariffs are failing to break global trade —Six months on from “Liberation Day”, things look surprisingly rosy
- + Welcome to Zero Migration America —Closed borders will make the country smaller, poorer and less innovative
- + Don’t tax wealth —Even the most sophisticated arguments in favour of doing so make no sense
- + Credit markets look increasingly dangerous —A pair of bankruptcies highlight the risks
- + How the Trump administration learned to love foreign aid —America’s international assistance has not been destroyed—it has been transformed
- + The eccentric investment strategy that beats the rest —Introducing the 25/25/25/25 portfolio
- + China’s stockmarket rally may hurt the economy —The “wealth effect” is not the only way it has an impact
- + The economics of self-driving taxis —Waymo is a case study in automation
- + The AI talent war is becoming fiercer —How other countries hope to challenge America
- + Investing like the ultra-rich is easier than ever —And that worries regulators
- + Will Dubai’s super-hot property market avoid a crash? —Despite fears of a reckoning, its fundamentals look solid
- + How to spot a genius —In an age of artificial intelligence, the human kind is increasingly important
- + Russia’s besieged economy is clinging on —The good times have firmly come to an end, but wage growth remains strong
- + Would an all-out trade war be better? —Donald Trump has so far avoided retaliation, which might carry a cost of its own
- + Why European workers need to switch jobs —The continent’s labour market is ill-suited to an age of disruption
- + China’s future rests on 200m precarious workers —They may work in factories or for delivery apps, but are united by common struggles
- + Ukraine faces a $19bn budget black hole —Without funding, the country will be left vulnerable
- + Europe’s great stockmarket inversion —The hottest places to invest are on the continent’s periphery
- + America’s economy defies gloomy expectations —As the Federal Reserve cuts interest rates, growth is holding up
- + Can you make it to the end of this column? —Understanding the new economics of attention
- + How grain has gone from famine to feast —Prices are close to a five-year low
- + Meet Donald Trump’s aid agency —Or is it a sovereign-wealth fund in disguise?
- + Why American bondholders are jumpy about inflation —The Federal Reserve prepares to cut interest rates in tricky circumstances
- + Europe’s economy at last shows signs of a recovery —Even if there is plenty that could yet kill it
- + Chinese trade is thriving despite America’s attacks —The rest of the world is willing to be “ripped off”
- + What if the AI stockmarket blows up? —We find that the potential cost has risen alarmingly high
- + What if artificial intelligence is just a “normal” technology? —Its rise might yet follow the path of previous technological revolutions
- + Bond vigilantes take aim at France —With any luck, the stand-off might focus politicians’ minds
- + The hard right’s plans for Europe’s economy —It has moderated, but offers little hope of growth-boosting reform
- + Why supply shocks are a trap for commodity investors —Lessons from lithium’s fake rally
- + China turns crypto-curious —But would the country’s leaders really want stablecoins to succeed?
- + America is escaping its office crisis —The torment caused by covid-19 and high interest rates appears to be over
- + The threat of deflation stalks Asia’s economies —Blame China, slumping commodities and creaky growth
- + Trump’s interest-rate crusade will be self-defeating —New research shows the importance of central-bank credibility
- + Gambling or investing? In America, the line is increasingly blurred —Bet on stocks in a prediction market run by a sports-betting firm and a futures exchange
- + How Trump’s war on the Federal Reserve could do serious damage —Just consider what happens if inflation starts to rise again
- + Assessing the case against Lisa Cook —How strong is the evidence, and how bad would it be if the claims were true?
- + Why you should buy your employer’s shares —Even though doing so flies in the face of most financial advice
- + The Economist’s finance and economics internship —We invite applications for our Marjorie Deane scheme
- + Even as China’s economy suffers, stocks soar. What’s going on? —The Shanghai composite is defying gravity
- + Trump “fires” Lisa Cook, escalating his war on the Federal Reserve —There is little precedent: no Fed governor has been dismissed for cause before
- + Trump’s interest-rate crusade will be self-defeating —The president’s threats loomed over this year’s Jackson Hole conference
- + Fear the deficit-populism doom loop —Politicians, particularly in Europe, are in a terrible bind
- + Economists disagree about everything. Don’t they? —Their discipline is famous for its fissiparousness
- + The green transition has a surprising new home —Forget about northern Europeans, with their coalition governments and love of cycling
- + Can China cope with a deindustrialised future? —Communist Party officials face a difficult ideological turn
- + Trump’s trade victims are shrugging off his attacks —And China is gaining in the process
- + In praise of complicated investing strategies —To understand markets, forget Occam’s razor
- + How America’s AI boom is squeezing the rest of the economy —Beware the data-centre takeover
- + Where has the worst inflation problem? —We update our entrenchment measure
- + Growth-loving authoritarians are failing on their own terms —In Asia, East Africa and the Gulf leaders now face an unpleasant choice
- + What 630,000 paintings say about the world economy —Kandinsky, Monet and Rembrandt were economists as well as artists
- + Who will win from Trump’s tariffs? —New rates mean new “China plus one” locations
- + To sell Fannie and Freddie, Trump must answer a $7trn question —Investor optimism means the duo are outperforming Nvidia
- + Ivy League universities are on a debt binge —The borrowers, including Harvard, Princeton and Yale, benefit from a “prestige premium”
- + Palantir might be the most overvalued firm of all time —What would make it worth buying?
- + America’s housing market is shuddering —For the country’s homeowners, the good times are coming to an end
- + Xi Jinping’s city of the future is coming to life —It is both impressive and worrying
- + An economist’s guide to big life decisions —Forget your trip to the dentist. A new check-up is required
- + Want better returns? Forget risk. Focus on fear —A recent study suggests a new paradigm for asset pricing
- + If America goes after India’s oil trade, China will benefit —A crackdown on Russian crude would have knock-on consequences
- + America’s fertility crash reaches a new low —Even once-fecund states are having fewer children
- + Buy now, pay later is taking over the world. Good —Buy that burrito, and don’t let anyone judge you
- + Trump will not let the world move on from tariffs —Six charts show the damage to America, its trading partners and its consumers
- + Uncovering the secret food trade that corrupts Iran’s neighbours —Oil and terrorism are not the country’s only exports
- + The trade deal with America shows the limits of the EU’s power —The bloc opts for prudence over defiance
- + Japan’s dealmaking machine revs up —Private equity is enjoying a renaissance in an unlikely place
- + The deeper reason for banking’s retreat —Why bankers no longer play golf at 3pm
- + Despite double dissent, Jerome Powell retains his hold on markets —A hawkish tilt changes rate-cut expectations
- + A fresh retail-trading frenzy is reshaping financial markets —Blame apps and DORKs, not stimmies
- + Europe averts its Trumpian trade nightmare —A deal with America chooses certain tariffs over risky retaliation
- + Who’s feeling the pain of Trump’s tariffs? —Foreign companies are sharing the load. For now
- + What economics can teach foreign-policy types —Hegemons should care about even puny countries
- + Where will be the Detroit of electric vehicles? —A fierce battle is under way in China
- + Crypto’s big bang will revolutionise finance —The more useful stablecoins and tokens prove to be, the greater the risk
- + Why 24/7 trading is a bad idea —There are advantages to the old-fashioned working day
- + Want higher pay? Stay in your job —America’s cooling labour market is bad news for those who move about
- + Has Trump damaged the dollar? —Yes. How badly will become clear in the next crisis
- + Why is AI so slow to spread? Economics can explain —Businesses are ignoring the street of hundred-dollar bills
- + Trump’s real threat: industry-specific tariffs —Which countries would be hit hardest by levies on electronics and pharmaceuticals?
- + Americans can still get a 2% mortgage —At a time of high interest rates, there are bargains to be found
- + Stablecoins might cut America’s debt payments. But at what cost? —The Trump administration will take any help it can get
- + Our Big Mac index will sadden America’s burger-lovers —Trump’s tariffs have brought a double serving of pain
- + War, geopolitics, energy crisis: how the economy evades every disaster —A new form of capitalism may explain its success
- + Want to be a good explorer? Study economics —The battle to reduce risk has shaped centuries of ventures
- + Jane Street is chucked out of India. Other firms should be nervous —Around the world, marketmakers now face extra scrutiny
- + Japan has been hit by investing fever —Will old folk catch the bug?
- + Don’t invest through the rearview mirror —Markets are supposed to look forward; plenty of investors look back instead
- + Trump’s trade deals try a creative way to hobble China —To appease the world’s biggest market, countries must anger the world’s biggest trader
- + The great dealmaker is conspicuously short of trade deals —Donald Trump issues threats—and grants deadline extensions
- + Struggling with the trade war? Amateur football might help —Jiangsu’s party cadres find success with a bizarre idea
- + How America’s economy is dodging disaster —It is astonishingly dynamic, even under the weight of tariffs
- + Inside Iran’s war economy —Airstrikes and sanctions leave the country poor. They do little to halt its nuclear development
- + Vanguard will soon crush fees for even more investors —Pity the firm’s rivals
- + How to strike a trade deal with Donald Trump —Vietnam is the latest country to secure concessions
- + India’s Licence Raj offers America important lessons —Even when a protectionist system is dismantled, its problems can endure
- + Can Trump end America’s $1.8trn student-debt nightmare? —The Biden administration added to the problem. Now the “Big, Beautiful Bill” could help solve it
- + Xi Jinping wages war on price wars —Unfortunately for China’s leader, his own policies are often to blame for them
- + Big, beautiful budgets: not just an American problem —Across the rich world, governments are splashing the cash. What could go wrong?
- + Why commodities are on a rollercoaster ride —Pity Tommy Norris. And his real-world equivalents
- + Jane Street’s sneaky retention tactic —It involves the use of an obscure, French programming language
- + How to escape taxes on your stocks —Not that American investors need a guide—a booming industry is doing the job for them
- + The dream scenario for prediction markets —Polymarket and Kalshi are soaring in popularity. With a few tweaks, they could really take off
- + Politicians slashed migration. Now they face the consequences —Across the West the number of new arrivals is plummeting
- + Who are the world’s best investors? —The answer is not hedge funds or quant shops or short-sellers
- + Japan is obsessed with rice. And prices have gone ballistic —Politicians are reaching for increasingly extreme measures
- + Japan’s debts are shrinking. Its troubles may be only starting —Politicians have a yen for handouts
- + Investors ignore world-changing news. Rightly —The Nothing Ever Happens Market
- + Why today’s graduates are screwed —The bottom has fallen out of the job market
- + Can China reclaim its IPO crown? —Hong Kong is hot. The mainland very much is not
- + What the Israel-Iran war means for oil prices —We investigate possible scenarios
- + How to invest your enormous inheritance —Do not make the mistakes of the first Gilded Age
- + The economic lessons from Ukraine’s spectacular drone success —National security is a weak argument for battery subsidies
- + European stocks are buoyant. Firms still refuse to list there —Another star prepares to move from London to New York
- + Factory work is overrated. Here are the jobs of the future —America is trapped by its industrial fantasies
- + America and China have spooked each other —With the costs of the trade war abundantly clear, officials seek to restore their truce
- + The rise of the loner consumer —Solo spenders are a new economic force
- + Trump’s tariffs have so far caused little inflation —Our estimate of their impact will update every month
- + Stanley Fischer mixed rigour and realism, compassion and calm —The former IMF, Bank of Israel and Federal Reserve official died on May 31st
- + Trump thinks Americans consume too much. He has a point —He will not like the remedy, however
- + Who would pay America’s “revenge tax” on foreigners? —Overseas investors at first—then Americans
- + Why investors lack a theory of everything —Markets have no fundamental laws, which is why they are so interesting
- + Will the UAE break OPEC? —We find that the Emiratis are flouting the cartel’s rules on a grand scale
- + Trump’s financial watchdogs promise a revolution —The regulatory pendulum swings violently
- + India has a chance to cure its investment malaise —Global trade turmoil presents a rare opportunity
- + How might China win the future? Ask Google’s AI —The country’s sprawling industrial policy is beyond mere human comprehension
- + The courts block Trump’s tariffs. Can he circumvent their verdict? —American trade policy is in chaos
- + Shareholders face a big new problem: currency risk —Analysing it is more important than ever. Mitigating it is a nightmare
- + Why AI hasn’t taken your job —And any jobs-pocalypse seems a long way off
- + Soaring bond yields threaten trouble —Long-term debt is getting costlier, and not just in America
- + Trump threatens 50% tariffs. How might Europe strike back? —America’s tech giants are a point of vulnerability
- + Hong Kong says goodbye to a capitalist crusader —David Webb was an exemplary shareholder
- + What the failure of a superstar student reveals about economics —Aidan Toner-Rodgers was enjoying a meteoric rise at MIT. Then questions started to be asked about his work
- + Wall Street and Main Street are split on Trump’s chaos —The president prompted a similar divide last time round
- + Will Jamie Dimon build the first trillion-dollar bank? —We interview JPMorgan Chase’s boss, and his lieutenants
- + America’s scientific prowess is a huge global subsidy —And it is now under threat
- + Trump will be unpleasantly surprised by America’s tariff revenues —He should expect billions, not trillions
- + Economists are as confused as Trump about taxing the rich —Forget technocracy. The top rate is set by gut instinct
- + Is the market up or down? Republicans and Democrats disagree —Retail investing suffers from partisanship
- + China has got lucky with Trump. Can the rest of the world? —Progress in trade talks has so far been slow
- + How the Chinese Communist Party learnt to love villages —It wants people to move to cities. And the countryside
- + Poland: the ignored stockmarket superstar —Why the country’s shares are going gangbusters
- + Why the MAGA economy is thriving —The world’s largest market is becoming two
- + America has given China a strangely good tariff deal —For the next 90 days, at least
- + Trump’s trade deal with Britain will worry allies and rivals alike —Sir Keir Starmer will at least be pleased to have been first
- + Why Gen X is the real loser generation —Don’t cry for millennials or Gen Z. Save your pity for those in their 50s
- + Global turmoil has at least one beneficiary: currency traders —The foreign-exchange market has been reinvigorated by recent events
- + How Saudi Arabia is cranking up the pressure on its OPEC allies —Will oil prices fall much further?
- + Trump is a threat to Asia’s giant insurers —Not just its exporters
- + What happens when a hegemon falls? —Why economists are turning to a 50-year-old book on the Depression
- + America and China prepare for an Alpine trade clash —Might tariffs fall from their mountainous highs?
- + Buy the dip: the trend that keeps stocks from crashing —Retail investors now play a useful role at times of panic
- + Warren Buffett has created a $348bn question for his successor —Berkshire Hathaway’s next CEO has huge shoes to fill—and a mountain of cash to invest
- + Don’t blame imports for the fall in America’s GDP —Why what you’ve read about the trade deficit hurting growth is wrong
- + Why economists should like booze —A martini doesn’t just steady the nerves after a rollercoaster week
- + The risky world of private assets opens up to retail investors —Fund managers smell an opportunity to get even bigger
- + A takeover bid promises consolidation in Italian finance —But more complication, too
- + Why China has the upper hand in its trade war with America —A truce is still possible, but no one wants to be first to pick up the phone
- + How a mortgage transforms your investment portfolio —They turn retail savers into hedge-fund managers
- + America may be just weeks away from a mighty economic shock —Trade between China and America is already sinking
- + Vladimir Putin’s money machine is sputtering —After years of resilience, Russia’s economy is slowing down
- + Economists don’t know what’s going on —Blame crumbling statistical offices
- + Not just Trump: Asia has a trade problem of its own making —A “noodle bowl” of agreements gets in the way of regional commerce
- + Trump’s sovereign-wealth fund won’t make America richer —It will just make the country riskier
- + What price cool? $31 a month, according to students —The value of having the right text-message bubbles
- + Will China’s shoppers cushion the Trumpian blow? —Perhaps. But nastier outcomes are also imaginable
- + Should investors spend the trade war in India? —Mumbai may be a haven, but it is not a safe one
- + Why American tech stocks are newly vulnerable —Recent market turbulence has exposed uncomfortable weaknesses
- + Trump fires at the Fed. America’s economy is collateral damage —The president may test legal bounds as he tries to sway Jerome Powell
- + Unlike everyone else, Americans and Britons still shun the office —What is their love of working from home doing to their economies?
- + Trump wants a certain kind of immigrant: the uber-rich —He is right that America’s current “golden visa” is under-priced
- + Stockmarkets do not reward firms for investing in Trump’s America —The perils of reshoring
- + America is turning away China’s goods. Where will they go instead? —South-East Asia is exposed to both Chinese import competition and American ire
- + Can the euro go global? —With the dollar faltering, European policymakers have an opportunity
- + Poor countries would miss King Dollar —Even though they normally like a weaker greenback
- + Hell is other people’s currencies —As the Trump administration may soon find out
- + How Trump might topple the dollar —For the first time in many decades, the greenback looks vulnerable
- + Short-term pain, long-term gain, says Trump. Really? —America will be a country with shabbier roads, older airports and more dated factories
- + A flight from the dollar could wreck America’s finances —The currency’s dominance enables very high debts and deficits, meaning a plunge might spell disaster
- + Investors realise Trump’s pause was not the salvation it appeared —As China strikes back, reality sets in
- + Can China fight America alone? —The world’s two biggest economies begin an almighty trade clash
- + The tariff madness of King Donald, explained —As his policy turns on a dime, pity those tasked with justifying his actions
- + China has a weapon that could hurt America: rare-earth exports —It has only just begun to use it
- + America’s financial system came close to the brink —Chaotic markets threatened to trigger a full-blown crisis
- + Trump’s tariff pause brings investors relief—but worries remain —Amid market panic, he backs off his most extreme “reciprocal” tariffs
- + Bond-market convulsions look extremely dangerous —Treasury yields and other signs of stress are flashing red
- + Despite the pause, America’s tariffs are the worst ever trade shock —Reed Smoot, eat your heart out
- + How to charm Donald Trump —Over the next 90 days, countries must work out what America’s president wants
- + Why China thinks it might win a trade war with Trump —The country’s officials vow to “fight to the end”
- + Where real danger might lurk in chaotic markets —The worry is that wild swings could cause their own damage
- + Market carnage goes global —As stockmarkets plunge, Donald Trump seems untroubled. That is scary
- + Trump’s trade war threatens a global recession —Investors are worried. At least the economy is starting from a position of strength
- + Trump has exposed America’s world-leading firms to retaliation —At companies from Alphabet to Goldman Sachs, bosses will be holding their breath
- + Five crazy Trump tariffs you wouldn’t believe —Saint Pierre and Miquelon earns a dubious honour
- + China hits back hard against Trump’s tariffs —Stockmarkets plunge further in response
- + How worrying is the weakening dollar? —In times of trouble, the greenback normally strengthens
- + What America’s stockmarket plunge means —Farewell to 15 years of exceptionalism?
- + Financial markets flail in the face of America’s tariffs —Asia is hit hardest, but nowhere looks good
- + What a refugee camp reveals about economics —In Dzaleka, Malawi, everyone receives $9 a month
- + Tin, an overlooked critical metal, is enjoying a boom —Prized and in short supply, its price is very volatile
- + How Milei made Argentina deserving of an IMF bail-out —He offers the only way out of a supremely difficult situation
- + Trump takes America’s trade policies back to the 19th century —The president jacks up tariffs on all countries, with particularly sharp rises for much of Asia
- + The American government’s accidental private-credit subsidy —How a Depression-era lending scheme became a trillion-dollar wheeze
- + Can the world’s free-traders withstand Trump’s attack? —Much will depend on the courage of Europe
- + Trump’s “Liberation Day” is set to whack America’s economy —A rush of new tariffs will hurt growth, raise prices and worsen inequality
- + Even priests need the free market —What clergymen can learn from economists
- + Can foreign investors learn to love China again? —Wall Street still needs more to coax it back. But non-American firms may be ready to return
- + The surging gold price is boosting Central Asia’s economies —But foreign investors might want to tread carefully
- + Nubank has conquered Brazil. Now it is expanding overseas —The country’s struggling economy provides a push
- + Trump’s tariff pain: the growing evidence —As “liberation day” nears, American businesses suffer
- + How Europe can hurt Russia’s economy —Even if America lifts sanctions, the old continent has its own weapons
- + Live music seems recession-proof. Thank ticket scalpers —When demand softens, the secondary market absorbs the pain
- + Even the Trumpiest stocks are suffering —Investors may have misjudged which firms would thrive under the new administration
- + Beneath investors’ feet, the ground is shifting —More remarkable than slumping share prices are the forces behind them
- + The Trump administration is playing a dangerous stockmarket game —American investors are extremely exposed to a sell-off—and so is the economy
- + America’s Democrats should embrace “abundance liberalism” —Two new books contain much to commend them
- + Where will be the next electric-vehicle superpower? —Three Asian countries make their pitch
- + Can anything get China’s shoppers to spend? —An economic recovery depends on it. Yet a new action plan may not do the job
- + Why rents are rising too fast —Rich-world tenants are angry, and have reason to be
- + Can Europe cope with a free-spending Germany? —Pity the continent’s exporters
- + More testosterone means higher pay—for some men —A changing appetite for status games could play a role
- + Why “labour shortages” don’t really exist —Use the term, and you are almost always a bad economist or a special pleader
- + Your guide to the new anti-immigration argument —Nativists say that migrants raise house prices, cost money and undermine economic growth. Do they have a point?
- + What sparks an investing revolution? —Ideas that emerged from the University of Chicago in the 1960s changed the world. But as a new film shows, they almost didn’t
- + Will America’s stockmarket convulsions spread? —Investors are hurrying to find alternatives—but all face difficulties of their own
- + How Trump provoked a stockmarket sell-off —Will the president win back investors? Does he even want to?
- + Does Trump really want a weaker dollar? —Overturning three decades of American policy will not be painless
- + Investors think the Russia-Ukraine war will end soon —The prospect of peace is reshaping markets, in ways both ominous and promising
- + Donald Trump’s tariffs are a throwback to the 1930s —“Economic nationalism”, our predecessors wrote, “is almost an American invention”
- + Aid cannot make poor countries rich —For decades, officials have promised to raise economic growth. For decades, they have failed
- + It is not the economic impact of tariffs that is most worrying —What are the lessons of the 1930s?
- + Trump’s tariff turbulence is worse than anyone imagined —Even his concessions are less generous than expected
- + Why silver is the new gold —Safe-haven demand and solar panels have sent its price soaring
- + Trump’s new tariffs are his most extreme ever —America targets its three biggest trading partners: Canada, Mexico and China
- + El Salvador’s wild crypto experiment ends in failure —Its curtailment is the price of an IMF bail-out. And one worth paying
- + America is at risk of a Trumpian economic slowdown —Protectionist threats and erratic policies are combining to hurt growth
- + India has undermined a popular myth about development —Extreme poverty in the country has dropped to negligible levels
- + How to get rich in 2025 —Forget about your career. Today an inheritance is what matters
- + How cheap can investing get? —The answer depends on whether speculators resist zany ETFs
- + Meet Trump’s fiercest opponent: the bond market —Treasury yields are falling sharply. But not for the president’s desired reasons
- + Stablecoins: the real crypto craze —Policymakers are racing to catch up with their rapid rise
- + Why American credit-card delinquencies have suddenly shot up —They are now at a 13-year high. How concerned should you be?
- + China’s leaders look to have blinked in their property face-off —They did not want to bail out indebted firms. Now they are on the verge of doing so
- + Donald Trump’s reciprocal tariffs are absurd —At first glance, they are a bureaucratic nightmare. On a closer look, they are even worse
- + To spend big, Germany’s next government may need EU help —How self-imposed constraints could lead to a bizarre outcome
- + Investors fear inflation is coming back. They may be right —Is the world about to repeat the mistakes of the 1970s?
- + American inflation looks increasingly worrying —Trump’s tariffs are fuelling consumer concerns, which may prove self-fulfilling
- + Will Europe return to Putin’s gas? —A deal with the devil would boost the continent’s miserable economy
- + Cheap solar power is sending electrical grids into a death spiral —Pakistan and South Africa provide a warning for other countries
- + Russian inflation is too high. Does that matter? —In a strong economy, price pressure can endure for a long time
- + Why you should repay your mortgage early —For the first time in decades, the arithmetic suggests settling housing loans
- + How AI will divide the best from the rest —Optimists hope the technology will be a great equaliser. Instead, it looks likely to widen social divides
- + The danger of relying on OpenAI’s Deep Research —Economists are in raptures, but they should be careful
- + Elon Musk is failing to cut American spending —DOGE has so far disrupted everything in government bar the deficit
- + Donald Trump’s Super Bowl tariffs are an act of self-harm —Duties on aluminium and steel will throttle American industry and fragment global markets
- + Why Donald Trump’s protectionist zeal has only grown —Lessons from a week of chaos
- + Narendra Modi is struggling to boost Indian growth —Tax cuts may lift short-term output, but deeper reform is required
- + Europe has no escape from stagnation —Things look increasingly dark for the continent
- + When will remote workers see their pay cut? —Logging on at home is a perk, yet so far it has not been treated as such
- + Tariff uncertainty can be as ruinous as tariffs themselves —Whatever its geopolitical merits, the “madman theory” transfers badly to economics
- + Don’t propose with a diamond —Lab-grown gems may destroy both their own value and that of natural rocks, too
- + How to invest like a MAGA bigwig —Cannabis, crypto or half of North Dakota?
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