United States
The Economist
America may be a petrostate. But the energy shock still hurts
And further angers economically frustrated citizens
📢 Published on 📅 19 March 2026 🕒 11:21 am
Which country is the biggest loser from the energy shock?
We rank the poor world’s exposure and buffers
📢 Published on 📅 19 March 2026 🕒 11:18 am
The new economics of sex work
As the sex economy grows, it deserves serious analysis
📢 Published on 📅 19 March 2026 🕒 11:16 am
What if Donald Trump decided to ban oil exports?
Trying to keep prices low that way could backfire spectacularly
📢 Published on 📅 18 March 2026 🕒 8:54 pm
Will South Korea’s epic bull market survive the energy shock?
Probably, but investors should brace for more volatility
📢 Published on 📅 17 March 2026 🕒 7:14 pm
China cannot escape the energy shock
Despite renewables and reserves, it will suffer
📢 Published on 📅 17 March 2026 🕒 6:58 pm
The Iran war is roiling commodities far beyond oil
Shortages of fuels and chemicals threaten industries from farming to pharmaceuticals
📢 Published on 📅 16 March 2026 🕒 10:34 pm
Why investors won’t know what to make of AI for a while
Markets always struggle to price technological revolutions
📢 Published on 📅 12 March 2026 🕒 3:11 pm
Liquefied natural gas: the overlooked economic chokepoint
Alternatives to Gulf supplies are scarce
📢 Published on 📅 11 March 2026 🕒 12:06 pm
Donald Trump’s options to cool oil prices are sorely limited
He says he has a plan. It would need to be very cunning
📢 Published on 📅 10 March 2026 🕒 9:55 pm
Time to buy the most rubbish stocks you can find
The dash for trash
📢 Published on 📅 10 March 2026 🕒 9:46 pm
The Iran energy shock reverberates across financial markets
For investors, the war is like the invasion of Ukraine all over again
📢 Published on 📅 9 March 2026 🕒 7:49 pm
The Iran war puts Asia in an energy panic
Stranded Gulf supplies are choking off the region’s economies
📢 Published on 📅 8 March 2026 🕒 5:48 pm
Would America be in recession without the super-rich?
American anxieties are K-shaped. The economy is more like a slash-mark
📢 Published on 📅 8 March 2026 🕒 12:36 pm
To understand why countries grow, look at their firms
The third way in development economics
📢 Published on 📅 5 March 2026 🕒 10:36 am
India’s economy is not as big as economists thought
But it is growing faster
📢 Published on 📅 5 March 2026 🕒 10:33 am
Americans’ electricity bills are up. Don’t blame AI
Were it not for data centres, prices might be even higher
📢 Published on 📅 5 March 2026 🕒 10:31 am
European pensions are a $30trn missed opportunity
If only more countries went Dutch
📢 Published on 📅 4 March 2026 🕒 10:58 pm
Why war isn’t always good for defence stocks
They win only if governments want just enough weapons—but not too many
📢 Published on 📅 3 March 2026 🕒 8:19 pm
The nightmare war scenario is becoming reality in energy markets
The longer the war in the Gulf, the harsher the global economic fallout
📢 Published on 📅 3 March 2026 🕒 8:15 pm
War in Iran could cause the biggest oil shock in years
Prices have surged—and may stay high for a while
📢 Published on 📅 1 March 2026 🕒 12:28 pm
America’s trade chaos is just beginning
Tariff wrangling will stretch through the rest of Donald Trump’s term, and beyond
📢 Published on 📅 26 February 2026 🕒 10:37 am
Protectionists dislike trade and migration. And capital flows?
The amount of money crossing borders has flattened off—but not because of capital controls
📢 Published on 📅 26 February 2026 🕒 10:36 am
Why Chinese people spend so much on food
A 21st-century test of a 19th-century observation
📢 Published on 📅 26 February 2026 🕒 10:31 am
America’s welfare state is more European than you think
State-level policies are making up for stingy federal provision
📢 Published on 📅 25 February 2026 🕒 10:55 pm
A viral research note on AI gets its economics wrong
Too much of a good thing
📢 Published on 📅 25 February 2026 🕒 10:21 pm
The AI productivity boom is not here (yet)
Artificial intelligence is improving fast. Its effect on output, not so much
📢 Published on 📅 22 February 2026 🕒 12:41 pm
Markets are churning furiously beneath the surface
AI is prompting investors to reassess every business model under the sun
📢 Published on 📅 22 February 2026 🕒 12:29 pm
Donald Trump answers a Supreme Court rebuke with new tariff threats
The immediate economic impact will be more uncertainty
📢 Published on 📅 20 February 2026 🕒 5:52 pm
The EU is thrashing out a more muscular set of economic policies
The bloc is done playing nicely
📢 Published on 📅 19 February 2026 🕒 10:52 am
Did America’s war on poverty fail?
Deprivation has fallen dramatically—but not necessarily because of the welfare state
📢 Published on 📅 19 February 2026 🕒 10:52 am
Prediction markets are rife with insider betting
That does not mean regulators should stamp it out
📢 Published on 📅 19 February 2026 🕒 10:33 am
How big is the prize of reopening Russia?
The Kremlin is promising $12trn-worth of deals to Donald Trump’s administration
📢 Published on 📅 17 February 2026 🕒 8:30 pm
The financialisation of AI is just beginning
Get ready for a new wave of securities, hedges and collateral
📢 Published on 📅 17 February 2026 🕒 7:16 pm
Donald Trump’s schemes to juice the economy
Watch out for sneaky stimulus
📢 Published on 📅 15 February 2026 🕒 6:08 pm
Ethnic minorities are driving America’s startup boom
The covid-19 pandemic set entrepreneurial spirits surging—for some
📢 Published on 📅 12 February 2026 🕒 10:37 am
Why China’s central bank won’t save the country from deflation
It’s not about the exchange rate any more
📢 Published on 📅 12 February 2026 🕒 10:34 am
Chinese homebuyers are enraged by shoddy building standards
Crooked walls and broken promises are harming China’s property market
📢 Published on 📅 12 February 2026 🕒 10:33 am
How to put a price on a human life
As ghoulish as it sounds, it is far better than the alternative
📢 Published on 📅 12 February 2026 🕒 10:32 am
What drives the wage gap between men and women?
Surprise: it’s still motherhood
📢 Published on 📅 11 February 2026 🕒 5:27 pm
Who wrangled the best trade deal from Donald Trump?
The agreements look one-sided. Their consequences may not be
📢 Published on 📅 10 February 2026 🕒 7:16 pm
The coldest crypto winter yet
An asset class that is all about vibes suddenly has awful vibes
📢 Published on 📅 10 February 2026 🕒 6:50 pm
How to hedge a bubble, AI edition
Protecting your portfolio from a crash looks harder than ever
📢 Published on 📅 8 February 2026 🕒 2:23 pm
Hong Kong is getting its financial mojo back
The hub is attracting more deals. And more Beijing-style politics
📢 Published on 📅 5 February 2026 🕒 10:32 am
Untangling the ideas of Donald Trump’s Fed nominee
What is Warshonomics?
📢 Published on 📅 5 February 2026 🕒 10:30 am
Why the dollar may have much further to fall
It is hard to be a safe haven when trouble starts at home
📢 Published on 📅 5 February 2026 🕒 10:28 am
Can emerging markets’ stellar run continue?
There is a lot more going for them than “sell America”
📢 Published on 📅 4 February 2026 🕒 6:41 pm
America and India strike a long-awaited trade truce
Will it last?
📢 Published on 📅 2 February 2026 🕒 11:33 pm
AI is not the only threat menacing big tech
Are Meta and Google ads really recession-proof?
📢 Published on 📅 2 February 2026 🕒 7:34 pm
Has America hit “peak tariff”?
Uncle Sam’s take may go downhill from here
📢 Published on 📅 1 February 2026 🕒 11:20 am
What will Kevin Warsh’s Federal Reserve look like?
Donald Trump’s nominee was an inflation hawk—until he wasn’t
📢 Published on 📅 30 January 2026 🕒 5:17 pm
The fate of Japan’s $6trn foreign portfolio rattles global markets
The knock-on effects of a sell-off in Japanese-held foreign investments would be far-reaching
📢 Published on 📅 29 January 2026 🕒 10:00 am
Why is the yen still so weak?
Newly alluring yields on Japanese bonds have not propped up the currency
📢 Published on 📅 29 January 2026 🕒 10:00 am
Our Big Mac index carries an Asian warning
It isn’t just Japan: other currencies also look cheap
📢 Published on 📅 29 January 2026 🕒 10:00 am
Just how debased is the dollar?
Not nearly as much as it could be
📢 Published on 📅 28 January 2026 🕒 11:18 pm
The West and Ukraine are capsizing Russia’s shadow fleet
And sinking its oil revenues in the process
📢 Published on 📅 27 January 2026 🕒 8:23 pm
What is driving gold’s relentless rally?
The ancient asset is attracting new investors
📢 Published on 📅 27 January 2026 🕒 12:15 pm
Why AI won’t wipe out white-collar jobs
The technology will expand their scope and raise their value
📢 Published on 📅 26 January 2026 🕒 8:16 pm
Can America’s bond market keep defying the vigilantes?
Donald Trump’s threats over Greenland are the latest test
📢 Published on 📅 22 January 2026 🕒 2:07 pm
An audacious new book about a “precocious” country
There is no such thing as “the” Indian growth model
📢 Published on 📅 22 January 2026 🕒 10:36 am
National job stereotypes need updating
Unemployment rates in rich countries are becoming topsy-turvy
📢 Published on 📅 22 January 2026 🕒 10:34 am
The ascent of India’s economy
It has benefited from a slice of luck, a commitment to economic reform and a shove from Donald Trump
📢 Published on 📅 22 January 2026 🕒 10:34 am
American decay versus American dynamism
Only a decline in corporate America’s vigour will dent the country’s dominance of financial markets
📢 Published on 📅 21 January 2026 🕒 8:20 pm
Japan’s bond-market tremble reflects a fiscal-monetary clash
As investors worry about budgetary laxity, the central bank prepares for more rate hikes
📢 Published on 📅 21 January 2026 🕒 5:31 pm
Denmark braces for Donald Trump’s Greenland tariffs
The economy is well prepared, but more exposed than it used to be
📢 Published on 📅 20 January 2026 🕒 6:25 pm
Donald Trump’s Greenland tariffs are no great blow to Europe
An escalating trade war would be another matter, however
📢 Published on 📅 19 January 2026 🕒 9:31 pm
China hits its GDP target—in a weird way
Strong exports make up for weak investment
📢 Published on 📅 19 January 2026 🕒 3:02 pm
Why America’s bond market just keeps winning
Vigilantes have shrugged off ballooning debt and attacks on the Fed
📢 Published on 📅 18 January 2026 🕒 11:18 am
The economics of regime change
Lessons from history for Venezuela and Iran
📢 Published on 📅 15 January 2026 🕒 10:28 am
Jerome Powell punches back
The administration’s latest attack on America’s central bank has not gone well
📢 Published on 📅 14 January 2026 🕒 10:18 pm
Donald Trump’s crusade against usury reaches Wall Street
His fight against high interest rates could get messy
📢 Published on 📅 14 January 2026 🕒 10:09 pm
Is passive investment inflating a stockmarket bubble?
A widely circulated working paper suggests so
📢 Published on 📅 14 January 2026 🕒 9:02 pm
It’s not just the Fed. Politics looms over central banks everywhere
But can the public stomach higher inflation?
📢 Published on 📅 14 January 2026 🕒 6:19 pm
The Trump administration threatens the Fed with a criminal cudgel
The president denies all knowledge. A bizarre fight could get nasty
📢 Published on 📅 12 January 2026 🕒 4:34 am
Pessimism is the world’s main economic problem
Gloomy expectations are starting to matter more than the data
📢 Published on 📅 11 January 2026 🕒 5:41 pm
What “Pluribus” reveals about economics
A hit Apple TV show offers useful lessons
📢 Published on 📅 8 January 2026 🕒 11:56 am
Vietnam’s growth is fast—but fragile
The economy is unduly reliant on a handful of conglomerates
📢 Published on 📅 8 January 2026 🕒 10:30 am
Why Europe’s biggest pension funds are dumping government bonds
Dutch reforms will push up borrowing costs across the continent
📢 Published on 📅 8 January 2026 🕒 10:27 am
Venezuela’s astoundingly messy debts are about to get messier
Oil majors, hedge funds, Chinese lenders—all have a stake
📢 Published on 📅 7 January 2026 🕒 7:36 pm
Is it better to rent or buy?
Much depends on long-term interest rates
📢 Published on 📅 7 January 2026 🕒 12:42 pm
America’s missing manufacturing renaissance
Donald Trump’s tariffs have hurt the factories they were meant to protect
📢 Published on 📅 6 January 2026 🕒 5:10 pm
An American oil empire is a deeply flawed idea
Donald Trump’s ambitions are expansive. His plans are limited
📢 Published on 📅 4 January 2026 🕒 12:38 pm
RedBird, a small firm doing big media deals
Its wingspan stretches from Hollywood to AC Milan
📢 Published on 📅 30 December 2025 🕒 1:48 pm
China’s property woes could last until 2030
Despite the best efforts of its social-media censors
📢 Published on 📅 30 December 2025 🕒 1:48 pm
Investors head into 2026 remarkably optimistic
Few expect a crash in the year to come
📢 Published on 📅 30 December 2025 🕒 1:48 pm
America’s economy looks set to accelerate
A monetary-fiscal loosening is coming
📢 Published on 📅 30 December 2025 🕒 1:48 pm
Forget affordability. Europe has an availability crisis
Tight regulation is largely to blame
📢 Published on 📅 30 December 2025 🕒 11:42 am
Why fewer Americans are giving than before
The decline of philanthropy is not just about Donald Trump
📢 Published on 📅 23 December 2025 🕒 11:45 am
The five biggest market developments of 2025
Looking back on a rollercoaster year for investors
📢 Published on 📅 21 December 2025 🕒 1:18 pm
How to interpret the pain at the edge of America’s labour market
In the past it has foretold wider weakness. This time may be different
📢 Published on 📅 21 December 2025 🕒 1:03 pm
Watch who you’re calling childless
Women in America are having as many babies over their lifetimes as they did two decades ago
📢 Published on 📅 18 December 2025 🕒 10:42 am
Meet the American investors rushing into Congo
They are taking on war, corruption and China
📢 Published on 📅 18 December 2025 🕒 10:40 am
This Christmas, raise a glass to concentrated market returns
A surprisingly large share of companies lag far behind their former greatness
📢 Published on 📅 17 December 2025 🕒 7:14 pm
Where America’s most prominent short-sellers are placing their bets
We interview three financial sleuths
📢 Published on 📅 16 December 2025 🕒 6:44 pm
Crypto’s real threat to banks
The industry is supplanting Wall Street’s privileged position on the American right
📢 Published on 📅 15 December 2025 🕒 7:44 pm
Germany has a lawyer problem
Its endless bureaucratic rules trap would-be reformers
📢 Published on 📅 11 December 2025 🕒 11:14 am
What a stiff drink says about China’s economy
The baijiu business is the latest to be struck by “involution”
📢 Published on 📅 11 December 2025 🕒 11:12 am
America’s bond market is quiet—almost too quiet
Scott Bessent has a cunning plan
📢 Published on 📅 11 December 2025 🕒 11:10 am
Wall Street is drooling over bank mergers
The world’s most fragmented financial industry faces dramatic change
📢 Published on 📅 11 December 2025 🕒 11:07 am
Asia’s inexpensive AI stocks should worry American investors
Tech mania looks very different in Japan, South Korea and Taiwan
📢 Published on 📅 10 December 2025 🕒 7:18 pm
AI misinformation may have paradoxical consequences
To understand why, consider the side-blotched lizard
📢 Published on 📅 4 December 2025 🕒 10:25 am
Can golden toilets fix China’s economy?
Communist Party officials think so
📢 Published on 📅 4 December 2025 🕒 10:24 am
Bitcoin has plunged. Strategy Inc is an early victim
It holds 3% of the world’s total supply
📢 Published on 📅 4 December 2025 🕒 10:24 am
American sanctions are putting Russia under pressure
In time, though, its tankers will find new routes
📢 Published on 📅 4 December 2025 🕒 10:24 am
Stockholm is Europe’s new capital of capital
And with Sweden embarking on a borrowing spree, it is a bond trader’s paradise
📢 Published on 📅 3 December 2025 🕒 8:06 pm
Which Kevin Hassett would lead the Federal Reserve?
He was once a right-of-centre tax expert. He has become a partisan hack
📢 Published on 📅 3 December 2025 🕒 7:26 pm
How to spot a bubble bursting
Forget valuations. Look out for search-engine hits and fund managers getting fired
📢 Published on 📅 1 December 2025 🕒 7:49 pm
Why worries about American job losses are overstated
Bosses, investors, policymakers—all are fearful of a jobs-pocalypse
📢 Published on 📅 30 November 2025 🕒 3:27 pm
Self-driving cars will transform urban economies
A robotaxi boom is coming. The impacts might be broader than you expect
📢 Published on 📅 27 November 2025 🕒 11:41 am
China’s property market is (somehow) worsening
Government remedies are not up to the job
📢 Published on 📅 27 November 2025 🕒 11:37 am
Narendra Modi plans to free up India’s giant labour force
Socialist employment restrictions will be swept away
📢 Published on 📅 27 November 2025 🕒 11:14 am
One weird trick to solve the affordability crisis
If voters dislike big numbers, there is a purely nominal fix
📢 Published on 📅 27 November 2025 🕒 10:47 am
How to short the bubbliest firms
Private markets present fearsome challenges
📢 Published on 📅 26 November 2025 🕒 9:30 pm
Investors expect AI use to soar. That’s not happening
Recent surveys point to flatlining business adoption
📢 Published on 📅 26 November 2025 🕒 4:30 pm
Why investors are increasingly fatalistic
Everyone knows share prices have a long way to fall. Even so, getting out now might be a mistake
📢 Published on 📅 23 November 2025 🕒 12:19 pm
Visa restrictions are bad for Indians—but maybe not for India
Remittances may fall, but opportunities are opening up
📢 Published on 📅 20 November 2025 🕒 11:24 am
Economists get cold feet about high minimum wages
Governments are pushing the policy to its limits
📢 Published on 📅 20 November 2025 🕒 11:24 am
Can the Chinese economy match Aruba’s?
Xi Jinping has lofty goals for 2035. But China faces a real problem
📢 Published on 📅 20 November 2025 🕒 11:24 am
America’s huge mortgage market is slowly dying
Donald Trump’s remedies threaten to inflame a housing crisis
📢 Published on 📅 19 November 2025 🕒 7:46 pm
Crypto got everything it wanted. Now it’s sinking
The slump could spread across financial markets
📢 Published on 📅 18 November 2025 🕒 9:57 pm
Is this the end of the scorching gold rally?
As bullish stories get tested, investors should worry
📢 Published on 📅 16 November 2025 🕒 3:15 pm
Tree murders and the economics of crime
Rich people can’t stop cutting down each other’s woodland
📢 Published on 📅 13 November 2025 🕒 11:47 am
How AI is breaking cover letters
And leading to lower pay
📢 Published on 📅 13 November 2025 🕒 11:03 am
In defence of personal finance
It may widen inequality. But it has many advantages
📢 Published on 📅 12 November 2025 🕒 8:38 pm
Old folk are seized by stockmarket mania
Investing in equities may make sense for individuals—but it could also exacerbate a crash
📢 Published on 📅 11 November 2025 🕒 7:04 pm
Recessions have become ultra-rare. That is storing up trouble
Continuous growth can make economies fat and slow
📢 Published on 📅 10 November 2025 🕒 7:33 pm
The problem with America’s shutdown economy
Gridlock in Washington has prevented official data releases. And unofficial ones disagree
📢 Published on 📅 9 November 2025 🕒 3:10 pm
What explains India’s peculiar stability?
In a tricky neighbourhood the country remains calm
📢 Published on 📅 6 November 2025 🕒 11:01 am
Don’t blame AI for your job woes
The white-collar chill has more to do with the economy than with tech
📢 Published on 📅 6 November 2025 🕒 10:51 am
Universal child care can harm children
Its growing popularity in America is a concern
📢 Published on 📅 5 November 2025 🕒 8:27 pm
Investors are telling Britain to cheer up a bit
The country’s economic problems are real, but its assets are doing surprisingly well
📢 Published on 📅 5 November 2025 🕒 7:58 pm
How Donald Trump can dodge a Supreme Court tariff block
No matter its ruling, the president has back-up powers
📢 Published on 📅 4 November 2025 🕒 3:17 pm
The mystery of China’s slumping investment
Its leaders don’t seem concerned. Should they be?
📢 Published on 📅 3 November 2025 🕒 7:08 pm
Why Wall Street won’t see the next crash coming
Even the best traders struggle to predict sudden jumps in volatility
📢 Published on 📅 2 November 2025 🕒 11:46 am
Investors will help Jamaica recover from Hurricane Melissa
The country is in line for a pay-out from catastrophe bonds
📢 Published on 📅 30 October 2025 🕒 11:22 am
The new globalisation paradox
In the age of Donald Trump, national autonomy requires deeper integration. Brazil shows why
📢 Published on 📅 30 October 2025 🕒 11:20 am
India’s IPO boom is good news for its economy
Stockmarkets appear to be fuelling investment
📢 Published on 📅 29 October 2025 🕒 9:13 pm
A letter to investors from the White House Opportunities Fund
How the shift to state capitalism is panning out for America LLC
📢 Published on 📅 29 October 2025 🕒 7:44 pm
The end of the rip-off economy
From finance and medicine to used cars, artificial intelligence is radically improving market efficiency
📢 Published on 📅 27 October 2025 🕒 4:58 pm
China’s secret stockpiles have been a great success—so far
Xi Jinping is desperate for Trump-proof access to food, fuels and metals
📢 Published on 📅 26 October 2025 🕒 12:28 pm
The counterintuitive economics of smoking
How cigarette manufacturers profit from quitters
📢 Published on 📅 26 October 2025 🕒 12:23 pm
Will America’s new sanctions on Russian oil force a peace deal?
Donald Trump raises the pressure—but he may have to go further
📢 Published on 📅 23 October 2025 🕒 7:12 pm
China is being fuelled by inspiration, not perspiration
So long as its leaders are not lying
📢 Published on 📅 23 October 2025 🕒 10:04 am
Can AI make the poor world richer?
It promises a level playing field. So have past technologies
📢 Published on 📅 23 October 2025 🕒 10:03 am
Trumponomics is warping the world’s copper markets
It may not end well
📢 Published on 📅 23 October 2025 🕒 9:52 am
Why investors still don’t believe in Argentina
Despite the best efforts of Donald Trump and Scott Bessent
📢 Published on 📅 22 October 2025 🕒 7:26 pm
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
📢 Published on 📅 22 October 2025 🕒 3:55 pm
Wanted: a new finance writer
An opportunity to join the staff of The Economist
📢 Published on 📅 22 October 2025 🕒 10:53 am
Why are American women leaving the labour force?
Maybe they are becoming tradwives. Or maybe there is a more straightforward explanation
📢 Published on 📅 21 October 2025 🕒 3:21 pm
The world economy shrugs off both the trade war and AI fears
Can anything bring it down?
📢 Published on 📅 20 October 2025 🕒 4:07 pm
Why Wall Street is fearful of more lending blow-ups
Both banks and private-markets giants are on cockroach-watch
📢 Published on 📅 19 October 2025 🕒 4:13 pm
Indian microfinance is in trouble
A model that has lifted millions out of poverty is threatened by rising defaults
📢 Published on 📅 16 October 2025 🕒 9:08 am
The new economics of babymaking
A postcard from one of America’s youngest towns
📢 Published on 📅 16 October 2025 🕒 9:08 am
America’s bankers are riding high. Why are they so worried?
Their latest earnings do not represent unalloyed good news
📢 Published on 📅 15 October 2025 🕒 8:25 pm
Donald Trump and Xi Jinping: both weaker than they think
As America and China clash over trade, cracks emerge in each side’s position
📢 Published on 📅 15 October 2025 🕒 8:16 pm
Would inflation-linked bonds survive an inflationary default?
A thought experiment on the nearest thing to a safe asset
📢 Published on 📅 15 October 2025 🕒 7:02 pm
The Economist is hiring a Senior Producer
Our Money Talks podcast team is recruiting an experienced producer to help launch a video spin-off
📢 Published on 📅 15 October 2025 🕒 10:07 am
Joel Mokyr deserves his Nobel prize
The Nobel committee is belatedly recognising economic history
📢 Published on 📅 13 October 2025 🕒 6:17 pm
Why the ultra-rich are giving up on luxury assets
Forget fine wine, great art and glitzy mansions. There are finer things in life
📢 Published on 📅 12 October 2025 🕒 4:34 pm
America and China return to fierce trade conflict
Donald Trump threatens an extra 100% levy as rare-earth minerals prompt a fresh spat
📢 Published on 📅 11 October 2025 🕒 7:09 am
The stockmarket is fuelling America’s economy
What happens in the event of a slump?
📢 Published on 📅 9 October 2025 🕒 10:21 am
Front-line economics: lessons from Russia’s neighbours
How to survive on the border of war
📢 Published on 📅 9 October 2025 🕒 10:10 am
Narendra Modi’s paltry target for India’s growth
The prime minister wants a $10trn economy by 2047. He should be bolder
📢 Published on 📅 9 October 2025 🕒 10:02 am
The most dangerous corner of a balance-sheet
Forget debt. Here is something to villainise
📢 Published on 📅 8 October 2025 🕒 7:13 pm
Why Donald Trump’s tariffs are failing to break global trade
Six months on from “Liberation Day”, things look surprisingly rosy
📢 Published on 📅 8 October 2025 🕒 6:20 pm
Welcome to Zero Migration America
Closed borders will make the country smaller, poorer and less innovative
📢 Published on 📅 7 October 2025 🕒 6:05 pm
Don’t tax wealth
Even the most sophisticated arguments in favour of doing so make no sense
📢 Published on 📅 2 October 2025 🕒 10:23 am
Credit markets look increasingly dangerous
A pair of bankruptcies highlight the risks
📢 Published on 📅 2 October 2025 🕒 10:22 am
How the Trump administration learned to love foreign aid
America’s international assistance has not been destroyed—it has been transformed
📢 Published on 📅 2 October 2025 🕒 10:19 am
The eccentric investment strategy that beats the rest
Introducing the 25/25/25/25 portfolio
📢 Published on 📅 1 October 2025 🕒 6:45 pm
China’s stockmarket rally may hurt the economy
The “wealth effect” is not the only way it has an impact
📢 Published on 📅 29 September 2025 🕒 4:46 pm
The economics of self-driving taxis
Waymo is a case study in automation
📢 Published on 📅 28 September 2025 🕒 1:10 pm
The AI talent war is becoming fiercer
How other countries hope to challenge America
📢 Published on 📅 25 September 2025 🕒 10:08 am
Investing like the ultra-rich is easier than ever
And that worries regulators
📢 Published on 📅 24 September 2025 🕒 7:19 pm
Will Dubai’s super-hot property market avoid a crash?
Despite fears of a reckoning, its fundamentals look solid
📢 Published on 📅 24 September 2025 🕒 4:18 pm
How to spot a genius
In an age of artificial intelligence, the human kind is increasingly important
📢 Published on 📅 23 September 2025 🕒 5:31 pm
Russia’s besieged economy is clinging on
The good times have firmly come to an end, but wage growth remains strong
📢 Published on 📅 21 September 2025 🕒 8:58 am
Would an all-out trade war be better?
Donald Trump has so far avoided retaliation, which might carry a cost of its own
📢 Published on 📅 18 September 2025 🕒 10:26 am
Why European workers need to switch jobs
The continent’s labour market is ill-suited to an age of disruption
📢 Published on 📅 18 September 2025 🕒 10:15 am
China’s future rests on 200m precarious workers
They may work in factories or for delivery apps, but are united by common struggles
📢 Published on 📅 18 September 2025 🕒 9:50 am
Ukraine faces a $19bn budget black hole
Without funding, the country will be left vulnerable
📢 Published on 📅 17 September 2025 🕒 7:44 pm
Europe’s great stockmarket inversion
The hottest places to invest are on the continent’s periphery
📢 Published on 📅 17 September 2025 🕒 7:35 pm
America’s economy defies gloomy expectations
As the Federal Reserve cuts interest rates, growth is holding up
📢 Published on 📅 14 September 2025 🕒 1:39 pm
Can you make it to the end of this column?
Understanding the new economics of attention
📢 Published on 📅 11 September 2025 🕒 9:35 am
How grain has gone from famine to feast
Prices are close to a five-year low
📢 Published on 📅 11 September 2025 🕒 9:33 am
Meet Donald Trump’s aid agency
Or is it a sovereign-wealth fund in disguise?
📢 Published on 📅 11 September 2025 🕒 9:31 am
Why American bondholders are jumpy about inflation
The Federal Reserve prepares to cut interest rates in tricky circumstances
📢 Published on 📅 10 September 2025 🕒 7:05 pm
Europe’s economy at last shows signs of a recovery
Even if there is plenty that could yet kill it
📢 Published on 📅 10 September 2025 🕒 4:27 pm
Chinese trade is thriving despite America’s attacks
The rest of the world is willing to be “ripped off”
📢 Published on 📅 9 September 2025 🕒 3:55 pm
What if the AI stockmarket blows up?
We find that the potential cost has risen alarmingly high
📢 Published on 📅 7 September 2025 🕒 4:19 pm
What if artificial intelligence is just a “normal” technology?
Its rise might yet follow the path of previous technological revolutions
📢 Published on 📅 4 September 2025 🕒 9:22 am
Bond vigilantes take aim at France
With any luck, the stand-off might focus politicians’ minds
📢 Published on 📅 4 September 2025 🕒 9:21 am
The hard right’s plans for Europe’s economy
It has moderated, but offers little hope of growth-boosting reform
📢 Published on 📅 4 September 2025 🕒 9:21 am
Why supply shocks are a trap for commodity investors
Lessons from lithium’s fake rally
📢 Published on 📅 3 September 2025 🕒 6:45 pm
China turns crypto-curious
But would the country’s leaders really want stablecoins to succeed?
📢 Published on 📅 2 September 2025 🕒 5:55 pm
America is escaping its office crisis
The torment caused by covid-19 and high interest rates appears to be over
📢 Published on 📅 1 September 2025 🕒 7:20 pm
The threat of deflation stalks Asia’s economies
Blame China, slumping commodities and creaky growth
📢 Published on 📅 1 September 2025 🕒 5:31 pm
Trump’s interest-rate crusade will be self-defeating
New research shows the importance of central-bank credibility
📢 Published on 📅 28 August 2025 🕒 10:00 am
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
📢 Published on 📅 28 August 2025 🕒 9:59 am
How Trump’s war on the Federal Reserve could do serious damage
Just consider what happens if inflation starts to rise again
📢 Published on 📅 28 August 2025 🕒 9:56 am
Assessing the case against Lisa Cook
How strong is the evidence, and how bad would it be if the claims were true?
📢 Published on 📅 27 August 2025 🕒 7:35 pm
Why you should buy your employer’s shares
Even though doing so flies in the face of most financial advice
📢 Published on 📅 27 August 2025 🕒 7:21 pm
The Economist’s finance and economics internship
We invite applications for our Marjorie Deane scheme
📢 Published on 📅 27 August 2025 🕒 1:26 pm
Even as China’s economy suffers, stocks soar. What’s going on?
The Shanghai composite is defying gravity
📢 Published on 📅 27 August 2025 🕒 12:55 pm
Trump “fires” Lisa Cook, escalating his war on the Federal Reserve
There is little precedent: no Fed governor has been dismissed for cause before
📢 Published on 📅 26 August 2025 🕒 8:36 am
Trump’s interest-rate crusade will be self-defeating
The president’s threats loomed over this year’s Jackson Hole conference
📢 Published on 📅 25 August 2025 🕒 5:55 pm
Fear the deficit-populism doom loop
Politicians, particularly in Europe, are in a terrible bind
📢 Published on 📅 24 August 2025 🕒 1:28 pm
Economists disagree about everything. Don’t they?
Their discipline is famous for its fissiparousness
📢 Published on 📅 21 August 2025 🕒 10:15 am
The green transition has a surprising new home
Forget about northern Europeans, with their coalition governments and love of cycling
📢 Published on 📅 21 August 2025 🕒 9:55 am
Can China cope with a deindustrialised future?
Communist Party officials face a difficult ideological turn
📢 Published on 📅 21 August 2025 🕒 9:52 am
Trump’s trade victims are shrugging off his attacks
And China is gaining in the process
📢 Published on 📅 20 August 2025 🕒 3:33 pm
In praise of complicated investing strategies
To understand markets, forget Occam’s razor
📢 Published on 📅 18 August 2025 🕒 6:12 pm
How America’s AI boom is squeezing the rest of the economy
Beware the data-centre takeover
📢 Published on 📅 18 August 2025 🕒 6:12 pm
Where has the worst inflation problem?
We update our entrenchment measure
📢 Published on 📅 17 August 2025 🕒 3:36 pm
Growth-loving authoritarians are failing on their own terms
In Asia, East Africa and the Gulf leaders now face an unpleasant choice
📢 Published on 📅 14 August 2025 🕒 10:25 am
What 630,000 paintings say about the world economy
Kandinsky, Monet and Rembrandt were economists as well as artists
📢 Published on 📅 14 August 2025 🕒 9:57 am
Who will win from Trump’s tariffs?
New rates mean new “China plus one” locations
📢 Published on 📅 14 August 2025 🕒 9:57 am
To sell Fannie and Freddie, Trump must answer a $7trn question
Investor optimism means the duo are outperforming Nvidia
📢 Published on 📅 14 August 2025 🕒 9:56 am
Ivy League universities are on a debt binge
The borrowers, including Harvard, Princeton and Yale, benefit from a “prestige premium”
📢 Published on 📅 13 August 2025 🕒 5:13 pm
Palantir might be the most overvalued firm of all time
What would make it worth buying?
📢 Published on 📅 12 August 2025 🕒 3:57 pm
America’s housing market is shuddering
For the country’s homeowners, the good times are coming to an end
📢 Published on 📅 10 August 2025 🕒 10:17 am
Xi Jinping’s city of the future is coming to life
It is both impressive and worrying
📢 Published on 📅 7 August 2025 🕒 10:00 am
An economist’s guide to big life decisions
Forget your trip to the dentist. A new check-up is required
📢 Published on 📅 7 August 2025 🕒 9:49 am
Want better returns? Forget risk. Focus on fear
A recent study suggests a new paradigm for asset pricing
📢 Published on 📅 6 August 2025 🕒 7:08 pm
If America goes after India’s oil trade, China will benefit
A crackdown on Russian crude would have knock-on consequences
📢 Published on 📅 6 August 2025 🕒 6:33 pm
America’s fertility crash reaches a new low
Even once-fecund states are having fewer children
📢 Published on 📅 5 August 2025 🕒 5:44 pm
Buy now, pay later is taking over the world. Good
Buy that burrito, and don’t let anyone judge you
📢 Published on 📅 4 August 2025 🕒 6:28 pm
Trump will not let the world move on from tariffs
Six charts show the damage to America, its trading partners and its consumers
📢 Published on 📅 1 August 2025 🕒 7:50 pm
Uncovering the secret food trade that corrupts Iran’s neighbours
Oil and terrorism are not the country’s only exports
📢 Published on 📅 31 July 2025 🕒 12:19 pm
The trade deal with America shows the limits of the EU’s power
The bloc opts for prudence over defiance
📢 Published on 📅 31 July 2025 🕒 10:27 am
Japan’s dealmaking machine revs up
Private equity is enjoying a renaissance in an unlikely place
📢 Published on 📅 31 July 2025 🕒 10:04 am
The deeper reason for banking’s retreat
Why bankers no longer play golf at 3pm
📢 Published on 📅 31 July 2025 🕒 10:02 am
Despite double dissent, Jerome Powell retains his hold on markets
A hawkish tilt changes rate-cut expectations
📢 Published on 📅 30 July 2025 🕒 10:28 pm
A fresh retail-trading frenzy is reshaping financial markets
Blame apps and DORKs, not stimmies
📢 Published on 📅 29 July 2025 🕒 4:00 pm
Europe averts its Trumpian trade nightmare
A deal with America chooses certain tariffs over risky retaliation
📢 Published on 📅 28 July 2025 🕒 12:11 am
Who’s feeling the pain of Trump’s tariffs?
Foreign companies are sharing the load. For now
📢 Published on 📅 27 July 2025 🕒 10:53 am
What economics can teach foreign-policy types
Hegemons should care about even puny countries
📢 Published on 📅 24 July 2025 🕒 9:16 am
Where will be the Detroit of electric vehicles?
A fierce battle is under way in China
📢 Published on 📅 24 July 2025 🕒 9:16 am
Crypto’s big bang will revolutionise finance
The more useful stablecoins and tokens prove to be, the greater the risk
📢 Published on 📅 23 July 2025 🕒 7:01 pm
Why 24/7 trading is a bad idea
There are advantages to the old-fashioned working day
📢 Published on 📅 23 July 2025 🕒 6:21 pm
Want higher pay? Stay in your job
America’s cooling labour market is bad news for those who move about
📢 Published on 📅 22 July 2025 🕒 2:21 pm
Has Trump damaged the dollar?
Yes. How badly will become clear in the next crisis
📢 Published on 📅 20 July 2025 🕒 2:37 pm
Why is AI so slow to spread? Economics can explain
Businesses are ignoring the street of hundred-dollar bills
📢 Published on 📅 17 July 2025 🕒 9:33 am
Trump’s real threat: industry-specific tariffs
Which countries would be hit hardest by levies on electronics and pharmaceuticals?
📢 Published on 📅 17 July 2025 🕒 9:33 am
Americans can still get a 2% mortgage
At a time of high interest rates, there are bargains to be found
📢 Published on 📅 17 July 2025 🕒 9:33 am
Stablecoins might cut America’s debt payments. But at what cost?
The Trump administration will take any help it can get
📢 Published on 📅 16 July 2025 🕒 6:57 pm
Our Big Mac index will sadden America’s burger-lovers
Trump’s tariffs have brought a double serving of pain
📢 Published on 📅 16 July 2025 🕒 4:03 pm
War, geopolitics, energy crisis: how the economy evades every disaster
A new form of capitalism may explain its success
📢 Published on 📅 15 July 2025 🕒 4:40 pm
Want to be a good explorer? Study economics
The battle to reduce risk has shaped centuries of ventures
📢 Published on 📅 10 July 2025 🕒 9:57 am
Jane Street is chucked out of India. Other firms should be nervous
Around the world, marketmakers now face extra scrutiny
📢 Published on 📅 10 July 2025 🕒 9:56 am
Japan has been hit by investing fever
Will old folk catch the bug?
📢 Published on 📅 10 July 2025 🕒 9:42 am
Don’t invest through the rearview mirror
Markets are supposed to look forward; plenty of investors look back instead
📢 Published on 📅 9 July 2025 🕒 6:43 pm
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
📢 Published on 📅 8 July 2025 🕒 5:15 pm
The great dealmaker is conspicuously short of trade deals
Donald Trump issues threats—and grants deadline extensions
📢 Published on 📅 7 July 2025 🕒 10:52 pm
Struggling with the trade war? Amateur football might help
Jiangsu’s party cadres find success with a bizarre idea
📢 Published on 📅 6 July 2025 🕒 10:59 am
How America’s economy is dodging disaster
It is astonishingly dynamic, even under the weight of tariffs
📢 Published on 📅 6 July 2025 🕒 10:55 am
Inside Iran’s war economy
Airstrikes and sanctions leave the country poor. They do little to halt its nuclear development
📢 Published on 📅 3 July 2025 🕒 9:57 am
Vanguard will soon crush fees for even more investors
Pity the firm’s rivals
📢 Published on 📅 3 July 2025 🕒 9:55 am
How to strike a trade deal with Donald Trump
Vietnam is the latest country to secure concessions
📢 Published on 📅 3 July 2025 🕒 9:10 am
India’s Licence Raj offers America important lessons
Even when a protectionist system is dismantled, its problems can endure
📢 Published on 📅 2 July 2025 🕒 6:32 pm
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
📢 Published on 📅 1 July 2025 🕒 3:52 pm
Xi Jinping wages war on price wars
Unfortunately for China’s leader, his own policies are often to blame for them
📢 Published on 📅 30 June 2025 🕒 4:59 pm
Big, beautiful budgets: not just an American problem
Across the rich world, governments are splashing the cash. What could go wrong?
📢 Published on 📅 29 June 2025 🕒 2:33 pm
Why commodities are on a rollercoaster ride
Pity Tommy Norris. And his real-world equivalents
📢 Published on 📅 26 June 2025 🕒 8:57 am
Jane Street’s sneaky retention tactic
It involves the use of an obscure, French programming language
📢 Published on 📅 26 June 2025 🕒 8:57 am
How to escape taxes on your stocks
Not that American investors need a guide—a booming industry is doing the job for them
📢 Published on 📅 26 June 2025 🕒 8:57 am
The dream scenario for prediction markets
Polymarket and Kalshi are soaring in popularity. With a few tweaks, they could really take off
📢 Published on 📅 25 June 2025 🕒 6:50 pm
Politicians slashed migration. Now they face the consequences
Across the West the number of new arrivals is plummeting
📢 Published on 📅 22 June 2025 🕒 3:21 pm
Who are the world’s best investors?
The answer is not hedge funds or quant shops or short-sellers
📢 Published on 📅 19 June 2025 🕒 10:33 am
Japan is obsessed with rice. And prices have gone ballistic
Politicians are reaching for increasingly extreme measures
📢 Published on 📅 19 June 2025 🕒 10:32 am
Japan’s debts are shrinking. Its troubles may be only starting
Politicians have a yen for handouts
📢 Published on 📅 19 June 2025 🕒 10:32 am
Investors ignore world-changing news. Rightly
The Nothing Ever Happens Market
📢 Published on 📅 18 June 2025 🕒 6:04 pm
Why today’s graduates are screwed
The bottom has fallen out of the job market
📢 Published on 📅 16 June 2025 🕒 3:12 pm
Can China reclaim its IPO crown?
Hong Kong is hot. The mainland very much is not
📢 Published on 📅 15 June 2025 🕒 4:54 pm
What the Israel-Iran war means for oil prices
We investigate possible scenarios
📢 Published on 📅 13 June 2025 🕒 5:45 pm
How to invest your enormous inheritance
Do not make the mistakes of the first Gilded Age
📢 Published on 📅 12 June 2025 🕒 9:56 am
The economic lessons from Ukraine’s spectacular drone success
National security is a weak argument for battery subsidies
📢 Published on 📅 12 June 2025 🕒 9:23 am
European stocks are buoyant. Firms still refuse to list there
Another star prepares to move from London to New York
📢 Published on 📅 11 June 2025 🕒 8:47 pm
Factory work is overrated. Here are the jobs of the future
America is trapped by its industrial fantasies
📢 Published on 📅 10 June 2025 🕒 5:27 pm
America and China have spooked each other
With the costs of the trade war abundantly clear, officials seek to restore their truce
📢 Published on 📅 10 June 2025 🕒 2:37 pm
The rise of the loner consumer
Solo spenders are a new economic force
📢 Published on 📅 9 June 2025 🕒 5:56 pm
Trump’s tariffs have so far caused little inflation
Our estimate of their impact will update every month
📢 Published on 📅 5 June 2025 🕒 10:11 am
Stanley Fischer mixed rigour and realism, compassion and calm
The former IMF, Bank of Israel and Federal Reserve official died on May 31st
📢 Published on 📅 5 June 2025 🕒 9:42 am
Trump thinks Americans consume too much. He has a point
He will not like the remedy, however
📢 Published on 📅 5 June 2025 🕒 9:36 am
Who would pay America’s “revenge tax” on foreigners?
Overseas investors at first—then Americans
📢 Published on 📅 4 June 2025 🕒 6:26 pm
Why investors lack a theory of everything
Markets have no fundamental laws, which is why they are so interesting
📢 Published on 📅 4 June 2025 🕒 5:35 pm
Will the UAE break OPEC?
We find that the Emiratis are flouting the cartel’s rules on a grand scale
📢 Published on 📅 1 June 2025 🕒 1:51 pm
Trump’s financial watchdogs promise a revolution
The regulatory pendulum swings violently
📢 Published on 📅 29 May 2025 🕒 10:25 am
India has a chance to cure its investment malaise
Global trade turmoil presents a rare opportunity
📢 Published on 📅 29 May 2025 🕒 10:08 am
How might China win the future? Ask Google’s AI
The country’s sprawling industrial policy is beyond mere human comprehension
📢 Published on 📅 29 May 2025 🕒 9:54 am
The courts block Trump’s tariffs. Can he circumvent their verdict?
American trade policy is in chaos
📢 Published on 📅 29 May 2025 🕒 9:22 am
Shareholders face a big new problem: currency risk
Analysing it is more important than ever. Mitigating it is a nightmare
📢 Published on 📅 28 May 2025 🕒 7:05 pm
Why AI hasn’t taken your job
And any jobs-pocalypse seems a long way off
📢 Published on 📅 26 May 2025 🕒 11:55 am
Soaring bond yields threaten trouble
Long-term debt is getting costlier, and not just in America
📢 Published on 📅 25 May 2025 🕒 2:00 pm
Trump threatens 50% tariffs. How might Europe strike back?
America’s tech giants are a point of vulnerability
📢 Published on 📅 23 May 2025 🕒 6:43 pm
Hong Kong says goodbye to a capitalist crusader
David Webb was an exemplary shareholder
📢 Published on 📅 22 May 2025 🕒 10:15 am
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
📢 Published on 📅 22 May 2025 🕒 10:11 am
Wall Street and Main Street are split on Trump’s chaos
The president prompted a similar divide last time round
📢 Published on 📅 22 May 2025 🕒 9:59 am
Will Jamie Dimon build the first trillion-dollar bank?
We interview JPMorgan Chase’s boss, and his lieutenants
📢 Published on 📅 22 May 2025 🕒 9:55 am
