- + 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”
- + What happened to the artificial-intelligence investment boom?—Perhaps AI is a busted flush. Perhaps the revolution will just take time
- + Three surprises that could inflame commodity markets in 2024—What it would take for another bout of mayhem
- + American stocks loiter near an all-time high—Their performance this year will depend on the real economy
- + Robert Solow was an intellectual giant—His criticisms were energetic and witty, which could make them harder to take
- + Has America really escaped inflation?—The country’s extraordinary economic vigour keeps the threat alive
- + How to get rich in the 21st century—The race to become the next economic superpower
- + Will America manage a soft landing in 2024?—Policymakers rarely bring down inflation without a recession. This time they might
- + The five biggest market surprises of 2023—Shareholders have had a remarkably good year. Forecasters have had a terrible one
- + Hong Kong’s problems trace back to China. And also America—The “superconnector” suffers the worst of both worlds
- + Can the carbon-offset market be saved?—Market prices have crashed
- + Where does the modern state come from?—Economists attempt to answer a profound political question
- + Why bitcoin is up by almost 150% this year—Introducing the cockroach theory of crypto
- + Which economy did best in 2023?—Another unlikely triumph
- + The mystery of Britain’s dirt-cheap stockmarket—It might be old and unfashionable, but investors are ignoring surprisingly juicy yields
- + Is China understating its own export success?—The $230bn puzzle at the heart of the country’s trade figures
- + How to sneak billions of dollars out of China—A new era of capital flight has begun
- + Why stockpickers should get out more—The importance of having an opinion about Baku’s kebabs
- + How to put boosters under India’s economy—With the right policies, growth could be astonishing
- + Europe’s economy is in a bad way. Policymakers need to react—Wage growth now appears to be fizzling out
- + Vladimir Putin is running Russia’s economy dangerously hot—Extravagant war spending is fuelling inflation
- + Will China leave behind its economic woes in 2024?—Xi Jinping must decide whether to set an ambitious growth target
- + Why it might be time to buy banks—Just not in America
- + How to sell free trade to green types—This year’s COP offers an opportunity to make the case
- + Will a fiscal mess thwart Japan’s nascent economic growth?—Fears first raised a quarter of a century ago may be about to come true
- + At last, a convincing explanation for America’s drug-death crisis—There is a more plausible cause than despair
- + Who made millions trading the October 7th attacks?—Researchers highlight suspicious activity
- + Is the world’s most important asset market broken?—Regulators have proposed radical changes to how Treasuries are traded, to the dismay of investors
- + Why economists are at war over inequality—Income gaps are growing inexorably—aren’t they?
- + Short-sellers are endangered. That is bad news for markets—Nobody likes shorts, but they provide an invaluable service
- + How to get African oil out of the ground without Western lenders—Go local, woo traders or head east
- + China edges towards a big bail-out—But officials are wary of moral hazard
- + Real wages have risen in America and are rebounding in Europe—Yet workers remain miserable
- + An unruly OPEC is causing problems for Russia and Saudi Arabia—The cartel is failing to drive up oil prices
- + Welcome to a golden age for workers—How jobs are being transformed for the better
- + How will America’s economy fare in 2024? Don’t ask a forecaster—The consensus is that there is no consensus
- + The obesity pay gap is worse than previously thought—It affects men as well as women, and is wider for the well-educated
- + How to save China’s economy—Lessons from the last stimulus for the next one
- + Investors are going loco for CoCos—Thanks to miserable yields in stocks, AT1 bonds have gone from death-blow to go-go
- + The rich world claims it has paid its overdue climate debts—That will not stop countries squabbling over the bill for a hotter planet
- + Another crypto boss falls—Changpeng Zhao may face jail, while his firm pays a $4.3bn fine
- + Why house prices have risen once again—Across the rich world, they have brushed off higher rates. Can that last?
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