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A new wave of mass migration has begun
What does it mean for rich-world economies?
Published on 28 May 2023 | 3:49 pm
What performance-enhancing stimulants mean for economic growth
Could America’s Adderall shortage have harmed its productivity?
Published on 25 May 2023 | 9:38 am
China’s state capitalists celebrate their soaring shares
Government-owned firms have enjoyed a renaissance this year
Published on 25 May 2023 | 9:36 am
China and Russia compete for Central Asia’s favour
The problem is that the former Soviet republics are feeling increasingly flush
Published on 25 May 2023 | 9:35 am
The American credit cycle is at a dangerous point
Welcome to a bad time for big debts
Published on 24 May 2023 | 7:51 pm
What would humans do in a world of super-AI?
A thought experiment based on economic principles
Published on 23 May 2023 | 7:24 pm
What happens if America defaults on its debt?
An unimaginable eventuality becomes all too imaginable
Published on 22 May 2023 | 8:34 pm
LIBOR will at last be switched off in June
The scandal-ridden benchmark is a relic of a previous era
Published on 18 May 2023 | 10:23 am
Is China’s recovery about to stall?
The country appears to be stuck in a confidence trap
Published on 18 May 2023 | 9:50 am
The financial system is slipping into state control
What will it look like after the next spell of instability?
Published on 18 May 2023 | 9:43 am
Robert Lucas was a giant of macroeconomics
The discipline, willingly or not, has inhaled his influence
Published on 18 May 2023 | 9:28 am
How to invest in artificial intelligence
Private startups or public markets?
Published on 17 May 2023 | 4:30 pm
What America does after a debt-ceiling disaster
Magical solutions will not get it far, leaving an agonising fallback
Published on 15 May 2023 | 4:44 pm
Are America’s regional banks over the worst of it?
New data offer a glimpse at their balance-sheets
Published on 11 May 2023 | 10:13 am
India’s once-troubled banks are generating huge profits
What lies behind the unlikely turnaround?
Published on 11 May 2023 | 10:13 am
The meaty mystery at the heart of China’s economic growth
What kebab consumption says about the country’s consumption
Published on 11 May 2023 | 10:12 am
A new world order seeks to prioritise security and climate change
But policymakers must not forget the lessons of economics
Published on 11 May 2023 | 10:12 am
Investors brace for a painful crash into America’s debt ceiling
A solution will probably be found. But default is no longer unthinkable
Published on 10 May 2023 | 8:15 pm
Your job is (probably) safe from artificial intelligence
Why predictions of an imminent economic revolution are overstated
Published on 7 May 2023 | 4:16 pm
How Japanese policymakers ended up in a very deep hole
Ueda Kazuo, their new leader, must stop digging
Published on 4 May 2023 | 9:39 am
Gabriel Zucman, a controversial John Bates Clark medallist
The economist will always stand a little outside the mainstream
Published on 4 May 2023 | 9:37 am
China’s local-debt crisis is about to get nasty
Worries from a far-flung province
Published on 4 May 2023 | 9:34 am
America faces a debt nightmare
It is not just about gridlock in Washington
Published on 3 May 2023 | 8:36 pm
What the First Republic deal means for America’s banks
Regulators had to make it sweet enough for JPMorgan Chase to bite
Published on 3 May 2023 | 7:49 pm
First Republic fails, and is snapped up by JPMorgan Chase
Regulators arrange a deal for the California-based lender
Published on 1 May 2023 | 11:24 am
Are greedy corporations causing inflation?
That is the popular narrative. Yet there is reason to doubt it
Published on 30 April 2023 | 2:38 pm
Why commodity-trading scandals are multiplying
And banks are undeterred
Published on 27 April 2023 | 9:48 am
Patriotic Ukrainians are rushing to pay their taxes
Even those behind enemy lines are coughing up
Published on 27 April 2023 | 9:36 am
If China’s growth is so strong, why is inflation so weak?
A paradox that has analysts snickering
Published on 27 April 2023 | 9:34 am
Indian firms are flocking to the United Arab Emirates
Forget Mumbai. Dubai is the place to be
Published on 27 April 2023 | 9:32 am
Investors have reason to fear a strong economy
Meet the next pain trade
Published on 27 April 2023 | 9:30 am
Economists and investors should pay less attention to consumers
Their thoughts can be misleading
Published on 27 April 2023 | 9:24 am
First Republic Bank is on the edge of a precipice
Investors are fleeing after a dismal set of results
Published on 26 April 2023 | 4:33 pm
The Economist’s finance and economics internship
We invite applications for the 2023 Marjorie Deane internship
Published on 26 April 2023 | 1:26 pm
Welcome to a new, humbler private-equity industry
Dealmakers are getting back to work. Yet they will struggle to recapture past glories
Published on 25 April 2023 | 8:02 pm
Development finance needs to be bolder
Institutions are caught between competing expectations
Published on 20 April 2023 | 10:08 am
Is China better at monetary policy than America?
The country’s last technocrat offers a few provocative thoughts
Published on 20 April 2023 | 9:34 am
As China fixes its property mess, can foreign capitalists benefit?
Needless to say, they are not top of the state’s priority list
Published on 20 April 2023 | 9:28 am
Warren Buffett is shaking Japan’s magic money tree
Huge gaps between American and Japanese interest rates offer opportunities
Published on 20 April 2023 | 9:15 am
Is the worst now over for America’s banks?
In order to assess the damage, we look at three financial institutions
Published on 19 April 2023 | 8:50 pm
How to explain the puzzle of the world economy
Welcome to the Mona Lisa effect
Published on 17 April 2023 | 6:30 pm
Where did woke ideas start to spread?
A new paper suggests the phenomenon may be global—not American
Published on 13 April 2023 | 10:02 am
More and more Americans are gaming the deposit-insurance system
The firms quietly moving billions around the banking industry each day
Published on 13 April 2023 | 9:59 am
What luxury stocks say about the new cold war
Investors and security hawks live in different universes
Published on 13 April 2023 | 9:48 am
After decades of stagnation, wages in Japan are finally rising
But not by enough to satisfy the Bank of Japan
Published on 13 April 2023 | 9:45 am
How the state could take control of the banking system
Technology and regulation are making the government’s role in finance explicit
Published on 12 April 2023 | 6:07 pm
Life is getting tough for borrowers. Where will the pain be felt?
Ramifications from the fall of Silicon Valley Bank
Published on 11 April 2023 | 6:46 pm
Welcome to a new era of petrodollar power
What are the hundreds of billions of oil riches being spent on?
Published on 9 April 2023 | 6:49 pm
Stocks have shrugged off the banking turmoil. Haven’t they?
Why the current buoyancy is deceptive
Published on 5 April 2023 | 10:01 am
Chinese officials promise foreign investors greater access
Believe it when you see it
Published on 5 April 2023 | 10:00 am
The IMF faces a nightmarish identity crisis
The fund is caught between America and China, and its purpose is unclear
Published on 4 April 2023 | 8:57 pm
The Swiss rage about the demise of Credit Suisse
Scenes from the firm’s final annual general meeting
Published on 4 April 2023 | 8:14 pm
The rich world’s housing crunch is far from over
Markets can be split into three camps: early adjusters, bullet-dodgers and slow movers
Published on 2 April 2023 | 7:50 pm
China is now an unlikely safe haven
The country’s financial risks are its own. America’s quickly become everybody else’s, too
Published on 30 March 2023 | 10:21 am
Which countries have escaped the middle-income trap?
Progress is more noticeable in the Gulf than Africa
Published on 30 March 2023 | 9:57 am
How rare-gas supply adapted to Russia’s war
Against expectations, firms avoided disruption and chaos
Published on 30 March 2023 | 9:55 am
Did social media cause the banking panic?
New technology does more than just speed up financial wobbles
Published on 30 March 2023 | 9:53 am
Western lenders may regret forcing Ukraine to turn to the IMF
The worst outcome would be crippling the country with debts while it is still at war
Published on 30 March 2023 | 9:49 am
European banks and the price of safety
Why the continent’s lenders are so different to those in America
Published on 30 March 2023 | 9:48 am
Commercial-property losses will add to banks’ woes
Real-estate investors see a hellish-perfect-dumpster-fire-storm
Published on 29 March 2023 | 9:06 pm
Will the recent banking chaos lead to an economic crash?
So far, people seem remarkably blasé
Published on 28 March 2023 | 6:57 pm
After Credit Suisse’s demise, attention turns to Deutsche Bank
How serious are the difficulties facing the German lender?
Published on 24 March 2023 | 8:48 pm
The battle for Europe’s economic soul
Policymakers in Brussels ready their response to America’s protectionism
Published on 23 March 2023 | 11:24 am
How much longer will America’s regional banks hold up?
Despite the danger, policymakers must not intervene prematurely
Published on 23 March 2023 | 10:57 am
Why markets can never be made truly safe
In seeking to prevent a crisis, officials may have planted the seeds of the next one
Published on 23 March 2023 | 10:56 am
Policymakers face two nightmares: stubborn inflation and market chaos
The Federal Reserve grapples with a dilemma that will soon hit other countries
Published on 23 March 2023 | 10:49 am
America’s banks are missing hundreds of billions of dollars
How the Federal Reserve drained the financial system of deposits
Published on 21 March 2023 | 9:10 pm
Credit Suisse’s takeover causes turmoil in a $275bn bond market
Some even think it could spell the end of the Additional-Tier 1 asset class
Published on 20 March 2023 | 9:26 pm
Switzerland’s new megabank is bad news for Swiss bankers
The end of the 167-year-old institution will also be the end of many careers
Published on 19 March 2023 | 11:44 pm
The Federal Reserve must choose between inflation and market chaos
Will policymakers raise interest rates as planned?
Published on 19 March 2023 | 5:11 pm
The search for Silicon Valley Bank-style portfolios
Japanese investment outfits are similarly reliant on long-term bonds
Published on 16 March 2023 | 11:22 am
Is the global investment boom turning to bust?
Why capex spending is now heading in the wrong direction
Published on 16 March 2023 | 10:48 am
The Fed smothers capitalism in an attempt to save it
Its latest financial intervention is a new twist on an old story
Published on 16 March 2023 | 10:46 am
How deep is the rot in America’s banking industry?
Silicon Valley Bank may be the start of something grimmer
Published on 16 March 2023 | 10:40 am
Credit Suisse faces share-price turbulence, as fear sweeps the market
What will release the bank from its waking nightmare?
Published on 15 March 2023 | 9:45 pm
For markets Silicon Valley Bank’s demise signals a painful new phase
The Fed’s tightening is starting to bite
Published on 14 March 2023 | 8:49 pm
What the loss of Silicon Valley Bank means for Silicon Valley
Regulators prevented a cash crunch—but venture capital has not emerged unscathed
Published on 14 March 2023 | 7:37 pm
America’s government steps in to protect depositors at Silicon Valley Bank
As SVB and a rival collapse, regulators have expanded their role as a backstop
Published on 13 March 2023 | 3:59 am
Investors brace for fallout from Silicon Valley Bank
For the lender itself, three options lie ahead
Published on 12 March 2023 | 4:22 pm
What does Silicon Valley Bank’s collapse mean for the financial system?
A big lender to American startups goes under
Published on 10 March 2023 | 8:57 pm
Lessons from finance’s experience with artificial intelligence
Humans can take on the machines
Published on 9 March 2023 | 10:53 am
Emerging-market central-bank experiments risk reigniting inflation
New policies could undermine two decades of progress
Published on 9 March 2023 | 10:15 am
Why commodities shine in a time of stagflation
They offer high returns, low correlation with other assets and protection from inflation
Published on 9 March 2023 | 10:13 am
China’s Communist Party takes aim at hedonistic bankers
Time to forget about luxury cars and Shanghai’s nightlife
Published on 9 March 2023 | 10:08 am
How to measure China’s true economic growth
In search of a successor to the Li Keqiang Index
Published on 9 March 2023 | 10:07 am
New York’s stockmarkets are thrashing Hong Kong and London
As it attracts more overseas listings, the Big Apple is getting bigger
Published on 7 March 2023 | 6:51 pm
Can the West’s perplexing employment miracle continue?
There is little sign of more job losses, which may be bad news for economic vitality
Published on 5 March 2023 | 3:55 pm
Ajay Banga may be just what the fractious World Bank requires
His nomination is a symptom of the institution’s problems. Could he be their solution?
Published on 2 March 2023 | 10:45 am
The case against Google hinges on an antitrust “mistake”
Trustbusters are seeking to break up the tech giant, undoing a 15-year-old merger
Published on 2 March 2023 | 10:44 am
Is India’s boom helping the poor?
What vehicle sales reveal about the country’s growth
Published on 2 March 2023 | 10:33 am
Russia’s sanctions-dodging is getting ever more sophisticated
How banks are greasing the wheels of the growing grey trade
Published on 2 March 2023 | 10:32 am
The anti-ESG industry is taking investors for a ride
Making a stand comes at a considerable price
Published on 2 March 2023 | 10:30 am
America’s property market suggests recession is on the way
As developers find clever ways to cut mortgage rates, the Fed may fight back
Published on 1 March 2023 | 9:44 pm
David Solomon lacks answers for Goldman Sachs’s angry investors
The bank’s share price falls after an unsuccessful investor day
Published on 1 March 2023 | 3:58 pm
China’s cities are on the verge of a debt crisis
Without intervention, the result could be more protests and bond-market chaos
Published on 27 February 2023 | 6:11 pm
Big Asian economies take on the forces of international capital—and win
They are now rebuilding their arsenals
Published on 23 February 2023 | 11:01 am
What would the perfect climate-change lender look like?
Welcome to a second Bretton Woods
Published on 23 February 2023 | 10:59 am
Despite the bullish talk, Wall Street has China reservations
The growth juggernaut is trading at a discount
Published on 23 February 2023 | 10:57 am
What war has done to Europe’s economy
After the energy crisis comes low growth and stubborn inflation
Published on 23 February 2023 | 10:54 am