- + Why fine wine and fancy art have slumped this year—Investing in luxury goods was a bad move in 2024
- + Just how frothy is America’s stockmarket?—We crunch the numbers to assess just how euphoric investors became in 2024
- + Don’t count on monetary policy to make housing affordable—Unless housebuilding picks up, neither cheap nor dear money will bring relief
- + Why Brazil’s currency is plunging—Fiscal and monetary policy are now pitted against one another
- + The search for the world’s most efficient charities—What the data say about doing good well
- + Conflict is remaking the Middle East’s economic order—Iran is boxed in as Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Turkey look to capitalise
- + Ukraine is winning the economic war against Russia—Whether that lasts depends on its ability to overcome acute shortages of power, men and money
- + The World Bank is struggling to serve all 78 poor countries—Bangladesh and Niger are very different places
- + The Federal Reserve takes on Trump—and stubborn inflation—Time for Jerome Powell to enter the octagon
- + What a censored speech says about China’s economy—If growth is on target, why is inflation so low?
- + Bitcoin is up by 138% this year. It is a nonsense-free rally—The link between digital assets and mainstream finance is strengthening
- + Which economy did best in 2024?—We rank countries on five measures
- + Are adults forgetting how to read?—A survey by the OECD suggests a worrying decline in literacy
- + How much oil can Trump pump?—The president-elect wants to be the ultimate energy baron
- + The hidden cost of Chinese loans—Governments that borrow from China must pay more to borrow from others
- + The hidden costs of Chinese loans—Governments that borrow from China must pay more to borrow from others
- + Xi Jinping’s campaign against gambling is a failure—Chinese citizens go to great lengths to bet
- + How sports gambling became ubiquitous—Europe is at the centre of the industry’s growth
- + Cronyism is a problem. But not always an economic one—Research on the topic is surprisingly nuanced
- + France is not alone in its fiscal woes—Deficits look worryingly wide across Europe
- + MAGA types have a point on debanking—A booming compliance industry is causing problems
- + How China will strike back at Trump—Xi Jinping has set out his tariff red lines. What if America crosses them?
- + Russia’s plunging currency spells trouble for its war effort—Supplies from China are about to become more expensive
- + The great-man theory of Wall Street—Why finance is still dominated by bold individuals
- + Hong Kong’s property slump may be terminal—Demographics and geopolitics will make a recovery harder
- + Why everyone wants to lend to weak companies—An unanticipated side-effect of Donald Trump’s election victory
- + American veterans now receive absurdly generous benefits—An enormous rise in disability payments may complicate debt-reduction efforts
- + Why Black Friday sales grow more annoying every year—Nobody is to blame. Everyone suffers
- + Trump wastes no time in reigniting trade wars—Canada and Mexico look likely to suffer
- + How Trump, Starmer and Macron can avoid a debt crunch—With deficits soaring, their finance ministers will have to be smart
- + What Scott Bessent’s appointment means for the Trump administration—The new treasury secretary faces a gruelling job
- + What Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders get wrong about credit cards—Forget interest rates. Rewards are the real problem
- + Computers unleashed economic growth. Will artificial intelligence?—Two years after ChatGPT-3.5 arrived, progress has been slower than expected
- + Should investors just give up on stocks outside America?—No, but it is getting a lot harder to keep the faith
- + Is China really a nation of slackers?—A new survey raises the question
- + Donald Trump’s gas war is about to begin—It could annoy some of his most loyal supporters
- + Our Big Mac index shows how burger prices differ across borders—Using patty-power parity to think about exchange rates
- + Vladimir Putin is in a painful economic bind—Russia’s reliance on China is becoming a problem
- + How to make Elon Musk’s budget-slashing dreams come true—He wants $2trn in cuts. We found nearly $5trn
- + Economists need new indicators of economic misery—Existing measures of discomfort are failing to predict elections
- + Why financial markets are so oddly calm—Indicators of market volatility have plunged
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