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The Economist
Can countries grow richer by exporting people, not goods?
That depends where those people end up
📢 Published on 📅 April 30, 2026 🕒 09:40
India’s weak currency reflects deeper problems than the Iran war
It highlights a persistent inability to draw in foreign investors
📢 Published on 📅 April 30, 2026 🕒 09:38
How Kalshi can help the Federal Reserve
Prediction markets may be a win for central banking
📢 Published on 📅 April 30, 2026 🕒 09:29
A global fight over banking rules is just getting started
Co-operation on the financial system will be the casualty
📢 Published on 📅 April 28, 2026 🕒 17:39
San Francisco, AI capital of the world, is an economic laggard
Artificial intelligence is booming. Its heartland is not
📢 Published on 📅 April 26, 2026 🕒 16:23
Will Kevin Warsh Trumpify the Federal Reserve?
The incoming Fed chair says he wants regime change. But a revolution is unlikely
📢 Published on 📅 April 26, 2026 🕒 13:17
Wanted: a new finance writer
An opportunity to join the staff of The Economist
📢 Published on 📅 April 23, 2026 🕒 16:45
Has the World Bank performed a U-turn on industrial policy?
Interventionists who think so should read its new report more closely
📢 Published on 📅 April 23, 2026 🕒 09:16
Renewables are shining. The Iran war amplifies their appeal
Two new reports are a must-read of energy-starved governments
📢 Published on 📅 April 23, 2026 🕒 09:16
Xi Jinping wants a powerful currency. America’s war has helped
More countries are starting to use China’s payment infrastructure
📢 Published on 📅 April 23, 2026 🕒 09:15
Chinamaxxing is starting to catch on, in China
It’s a boon for the tourist trade
📢 Published on 📅 April 23, 2026 🕒 09:15
Global energy markets are on the verge of a disaster
Scenarios now range from bad to awful
📢 Published on 📅 April 21, 2026 🕒 20:46
The stablecoin market has got too stable
Rapid growth in dollar-backed crypto has stalled
📢 Published on 📅 April 21, 2026 🕒 19:10
American corporate profits keep shrugging off global tumult
Earnings expectations are through the roof
📢 Published on 📅 April 20, 2026 🕒 19:49
Hormuz is (apparently) unblocked. Energy markets remain a mess
Mines, mistrust and missing ships will keep markets tight for months
📢 Published on 📅 April 17, 2026 🕒 19:42
Global imbalances are back. Who’s to blame?
The suspects look familiar
📢 Published on 📅 April 16, 2026 🕒 09:58
Pakistan’s deft diplomacy is an economic blessing. And a curse
It allows the country’s rulers to put off necessary reforms
📢 Published on 📅 April 16, 2026 🕒 09:58
War will drain the Gulf’s $6trn treasure chest
The conflict complicates life for the custodians of Middle Eastern oil fortunes
📢 Published on 📅 April 15, 2026 🕒 13:37
How to build a portfolio when bonds fail to buffer stocks
The classic hedge has fallen apart, but don’t dump it just yet
📢 Published on 📅 April 14, 2026 🕒 17:12
The tech jobs bust is real. Don’t blame AI (yet)
Why technology firms are shedding workers
📢 Published on 📅 April 13, 2026 🕒 13:19
America’s next Fed chair is caught in a vice
Inflation was heating up even before the war in Iran
📢 Published on 📅 April 12, 2026 🕒 14:43
One neat trick to end extreme poverty
An age-old problem might have a surprisingly simple solution
📢 Published on 📅 April 9, 2026 🕒 10:03
Can the secondary market allay private-credit fears?
In the short run, a bit. In the long run, a lot more
📢 Published on 📅 April 9, 2026 🕒 10:03
The latest Italian banking whodunnit has it all
A a coup, a conspiracy and even a (possibly unrelated) corpse
📢 Published on 📅 April 9, 2026 🕒 10:03
South Korea’s AI industrial policy meets the energy shock
The collision will not be pretty
📢 Published on 📅 April 9, 2026 🕒 10:03
The third Gulf war will scar energy markets for a long time yet
Residual risks and ruined infrastructure will keep prices high
📢 Published on 📅 April 8, 2026 🕒 21:55
Bye, bye to the Trump trades
Markets are calling time on many Donald-adjacent bets
📢 Published on 📅 April 7, 2026 🕒 18:35
How the Iran war has sowed panic among farmers
Soaring prices for fertiliser and fuel could cause a global food shock
📢 Published on 📅 April 7, 2026 🕒 15:12
As Iran’s civilian economy crumbles, its military economy grows stronger
War has split the country in two
📢 Published on 📅 April 6, 2026 🕒 19:45
Inflation or recession? The tug of war in bond markets
Governments’ borrowing costs are being pulled in opposite directions
📢 Published on 📅 April 5, 2026 🕒 08:17
“Liberation Day” has reshaped trade—but not as Donald Trump hoped
In many ways, global commerce has strengthened
📢 Published on 📅 April 1, 2026 🕒 11:00
Can a country get too rich?
Norway shows the potential pitfalls of uncommon prosperity
📢 Published on 📅 April 1, 2026 🕒 10:59
Coal is back in fashion
An LNG crunch is good news for the world’s dirtiest fuel
📢 Published on 📅 March 31, 2026 🕒 17:27
After Iran, gold is looking less glittery
Is the yellow metal the new crypto?
📢 Published on 📅 March 30, 2026 🕒 15:54
How Iran is making a mint from Donald Trump’s war
China is helping the Revolutionary Guards profit from Iranian crude
📢 Published on 📅 March 29, 2026 🕒 11:44
The decline and fall of the Roman currency empire
The fate of ancient coins offers uncomfortable lessons about dollar dominance
📢 Published on 📅 March 26, 2026 🕒 10:18
Christine Lagarde’s sober tone on the Gulf war energy shock
Our interview with the ECB’s president
📢 Published on 📅 March 26, 2026 🕒 10:17
Markets are gripped by an alarming cognitive dissonance
Investors all seem to think everyone else is wrong
📢 Published on 📅 March 24, 2026 🕒 19:14
China’s new masterplan for its tech economy in 2030 and beyond
The Communist Party’s technological ambition is breathtaking
📢 Published on 📅 March 24, 2026 🕒 14:12
How high could global inflation go?
With luck, the Iran war won’t cause a recession. But the surge in energy prices will push up the cost of living
📢 Published on 📅 March 23, 2026 🕒 20:37
Westerners are fleeing their countries in record numbers
This will have economic consequences for the places they flee and their destinations
📢 Published on 📅 March 22, 2026 🕒 10:41
Even the best-case scenario for energy markets is disastrous
Whatever happens, high prices will outlive the Iran war
📢 Published on 📅 March 22, 2026 🕒 10:15
America may be a petrostate. But the energy shock still hurts
And further angers economically frustrated citizens
📢 Published on 📅 March 19, 2026 🕒 11:21
Which country is the biggest loser from the energy shock?
We rank the poor world’s exposure and buffers
📢 Published on 📅 March 19, 2026 🕒 11:18
The new economics of sex work
As the sex economy grows, it deserves serious analysis
📢 Published on 📅 March 19, 2026 🕒 11:16
What if Donald Trump decided to ban oil exports?
Trying to keep prices low that way could backfire spectacularly
📢 Published on 📅 March 18, 2026 🕒 20:54
Will South Korea’s epic bull market survive the energy shock?
Probably, but investors should brace for more volatility
📢 Published on 📅 March 17, 2026 🕒 19:14
China cannot escape the energy shock
Despite renewables and reserves, it will suffer
📢 Published on 📅 March 17, 2026 🕒 18:58
The Iran war is roiling commodities far beyond oil
Shortages of fuels and chemicals threaten industries from farming to pharmaceuticals
📢 Published on 📅 March 16, 2026 🕒 22:34
Why investors won’t know what to make of AI for a while
Markets always struggle to price technological revolutions
📢 Published on 📅 March 12, 2026 🕒 15:11
Liquefied natural gas: the overlooked economic chokepoint
Alternatives to Gulf supplies are scarce
📢 Published on 📅 March 11, 2026 🕒 12:06
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 📅 March 10, 2026 🕒 21:55
Time to buy the most rubbish stocks you can find
The dash for trash
📢 Published on 📅 March 10, 2026 🕒 21:46
The Iran energy shock reverberates across financial markets
For investors, the war is like the invasion of Ukraine all over again
📢 Published on 📅 March 9, 2026 🕒 19:49
The Iran war puts Asia in an energy panic
Stranded Gulf supplies are choking off the region’s economies
📢 Published on 📅 March 8, 2026 🕒 17:48
Would America be in recession without the super-rich?
American anxieties are K-shaped. The economy is more like a slash-mark
📢 Published on 📅 March 8, 2026 🕒 12:36
To understand why countries grow, look at their firms
The third way in development economics
📢 Published on 📅 March 5, 2026 🕒 10:36
India’s economy is not as big as economists thought
But it is growing faster
📢 Published on 📅 March 5, 2026 🕒 10:33
Americans’ electricity bills are up. Don’t blame AI
Were it not for data centres, prices might be even higher
📢 Published on 📅 March 5, 2026 🕒 10:31
European pensions are a $30trn missed opportunity
If only more countries went Dutch
📢 Published on 📅 March 4, 2026 🕒 22:58
Why war isn’t always good for defence stocks
They win only if governments want just enough weapons—but not too many
📢 Published on 📅 March 3, 2026 🕒 20:19
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 📅 March 3, 2026 🕒 20:15
War in Iran could cause the biggest oil shock in years
Prices have surged—and may stay high for a while
📢 Published on 📅 March 1, 2026 🕒 12:28
America’s trade chaos is just beginning
Tariff wrangling will stretch through the rest of Donald Trump’s term, and beyond
📢 Published on 📅 February 26, 2026 🕒 10:37
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 📅 February 26, 2026 🕒 10:36
Why Chinese people spend so much on food
A 21st-century test of a 19th-century observation
📢 Published on 📅 February 26, 2026 🕒 10:31
America’s welfare state is more European than you think
State-level policies are making up for stingy federal provision
📢 Published on 📅 February 25, 2026 🕒 22:55
A viral research note on AI gets its economics wrong
Too much of a good thing
📢 Published on 📅 February 25, 2026 🕒 22:21
The AI productivity boom is not here (yet)
Artificial intelligence is improving fast. Its effect on output, not so much
📢 Published on 📅 February 22, 2026 🕒 12:41
Markets are churning furiously beneath the surface
AI is prompting investors to reassess every business model under the sun
📢 Published on 📅 February 22, 2026 🕒 12:29
Donald Trump answers a Supreme Court rebuke with new tariff threats
The immediate economic impact will be more uncertainty
📢 Published on 📅 February 20, 2026 🕒 17:52
The EU is thrashing out a more muscular set of economic policies
The bloc is done playing nicely
📢 Published on 📅 February 19, 2026 🕒 10:52
Did America’s war on poverty fail?
Deprivation has fallen dramatically—but not necessarily because of the welfare state
📢 Published on 📅 February 19, 2026 🕒 10:52
Prediction markets are rife with insider betting
That does not mean regulators should stamp it out
📢 Published on 📅 February 19, 2026 🕒 10:33
How big is the prize of reopening Russia?
The Kremlin is promising $12trn-worth of deals to Donald Trump’s administration
📢 Published on 📅 February 17, 2026 🕒 20:30
The financialisation of AI is just beginning
Get ready for a new wave of securities, hedges and collateral
📢 Published on 📅 February 17, 2026 🕒 19:16
Donald Trump’s schemes to juice the economy
Watch out for sneaky stimulus
📢 Published on 📅 February 15, 2026 🕒 18:08
Ethnic minorities are driving America’s startup boom
The covid-19 pandemic set entrepreneurial spirits surging—for some
📢 Published on 📅 February 12, 2026 🕒 10:37
Why China’s central bank won’t save the country from deflation
It’s not about the exchange rate any more
📢 Published on 📅 February 12, 2026 🕒 10:34
Chinese homebuyers are enraged by shoddy building standards
Crooked walls and broken promises are harming China’s property market
📢 Published on 📅 February 12, 2026 🕒 10:33
How to put a price on a human life
As ghoulish as it sounds, it is far better than the alternative
📢 Published on 📅 February 12, 2026 🕒 10:32
What drives the wage gap between men and women?
Surprise: it’s still motherhood
📢 Published on 📅 February 11, 2026 🕒 17:27
Who wrangled the best trade deal from Donald Trump?
The agreements look one-sided. Their consequences may not be
📢 Published on 📅 February 10, 2026 🕒 19:16
The coldest crypto winter yet
An asset class that is all about vibes suddenly has awful vibes
📢 Published on 📅 February 10, 2026 🕒 18:50
How to hedge a bubble, AI edition
Protecting your portfolio from a crash looks harder than ever
📢 Published on 📅 February 8, 2026 🕒 14:23
Hong Kong is getting its financial mojo back
The hub is attracting more deals. And more Beijing-style politics
📢 Published on 📅 February 5, 2026 🕒 10:32
Untangling the ideas of Donald Trump’s Fed nominee
What is Warshonomics?
📢 Published on 📅 February 5, 2026 🕒 10:30
Why the dollar may have much further to fall
It is hard to be a safe haven when trouble starts at home
📢 Published on 📅 February 5, 2026 🕒 10:28
Can emerging markets’ stellar run continue?
There is a lot more going for them than “sell America”
📢 Published on 📅 February 4, 2026 🕒 18:41
America and India strike a long-awaited trade truce
Will it last?
📢 Published on 📅 February 2, 2026 🕒 23:33
AI is not the only threat menacing big tech
Are Meta and Google ads really recession-proof?
📢 Published on 📅 February 2, 2026 🕒 19:34
Has America hit “peak tariff”?
Uncle Sam’s take may go downhill from here
📢 Published on 📅 February 1, 2026 🕒 11:20
What will Kevin Warsh’s Federal Reserve look like?
Donald Trump’s nominee was an inflation hawk—until he wasn’t
📢 Published on 📅 January 30, 2026 🕒 17:17
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 📅 January 29, 2026 🕒 10:00
Why is the yen still so weak?
Newly alluring yields on Japanese bonds have not propped up the currency
📢 Published on 📅 January 29, 2026 🕒 10:00
Our Big Mac index carries an Asian warning
It isn’t just Japan: other currencies also look cheap
📢 Published on 📅 January 29, 2026 🕒 10:00
Just how debased is the dollar?
Not nearly as much as it could be
📢 Published on 📅 January 28, 2026 🕒 23:18
The West and Ukraine are capsizing Russia’s shadow fleet
And sinking its oil revenues in the process
📢 Published on 📅 January 27, 2026 🕒 20:23
What is driving gold’s relentless rally?
The ancient asset is attracting new investors
📢 Published on 📅 January 27, 2026 🕒 12:15
Why AI won’t wipe out white-collar jobs
The technology will expand their scope and raise their value
📢 Published on 📅 January 26, 2026 🕒 20:16
Can America’s bond market keep defying the vigilantes?
Donald Trump’s threats over Greenland are the latest test
📢 Published on 📅 January 22, 2026 🕒 14:07
An audacious new book about a “precocious” country
There is no such thing as “the” Indian growth model
📢 Published on 📅 January 22, 2026 🕒 10:36
National job stereotypes need updating
Unemployment rates in rich countries are becoming topsy-turvy
📢 Published on 📅 January 22, 2026 🕒 10:34
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 📅 January 22, 2026 🕒 10:34
American decay versus American dynamism
Only a decline in corporate America’s vigour will dent the country’s dominance of financial markets
📢 Published on 📅 January 21, 2026 🕒 20:20
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 📅 January 21, 2026 🕒 17:31
Denmark braces for Donald Trump’s Greenland tariffs
The economy is well prepared, but more exposed than it used to be
📢 Published on 📅 January 20, 2026 🕒 18:25
Donald Trump’s Greenland tariffs are no great blow to Europe
An escalating trade war would be another matter, however
📢 Published on 📅 January 19, 2026 🕒 21:31
China hits its GDP target—in a weird way
Strong exports make up for weak investment
📢 Published on 📅 January 19, 2026 🕒 15:02
Why America’s bond market just keeps winning
Vigilantes have shrugged off ballooning debt and attacks on the Fed
📢 Published on 📅 January 18, 2026 🕒 11:18
The economics of regime change
Lessons from history for Venezuela and Iran
📢 Published on 📅 January 15, 2026 🕒 10:28
Jerome Powell punches back
The administration’s latest attack on America’s central bank has not gone well
📢 Published on 📅 January 14, 2026 🕒 22:18
Donald Trump’s crusade against usury reaches Wall Street
His fight against high interest rates could get messy
📢 Published on 📅 January 14, 2026 🕒 22:09
Is passive investment inflating a stockmarket bubble?
A widely circulated working paper suggests so
📢 Published on 📅 January 14, 2026 🕒 21:02
It’s not just the Fed. Politics looms over central banks everywhere
But can the public stomach higher inflation?
📢 Published on 📅 January 14, 2026 🕒 18:19
The Trump administration threatens the Fed with a criminal cudgel
The president denies all knowledge. A bizarre fight could get nasty
📢 Published on 📅 January 12, 2026 🕒 04:34
Pessimism is the world’s main economic problem
Gloomy expectations are starting to matter more than the data
📢 Published on 📅 January 11, 2026 🕒 17:41
What “Pluribus” reveals about economics
A hit Apple TV show offers useful lessons
📢 Published on 📅 January 8, 2026 🕒 11:56
Vietnam’s growth is fast—but fragile
The economy is unduly reliant on a handful of conglomerates
📢 Published on 📅 January 8, 2026 🕒 10:30
Why Europe’s biggest pension funds are dumping government bonds
Dutch reforms will push up borrowing costs across the continent
📢 Published on 📅 January 8, 2026 🕒 10:27
Venezuela’s astoundingly messy debts are about to get messier
Oil majors, hedge funds, Chinese lenders—all have a stake
📢 Published on 📅 January 7, 2026 🕒 19:36
Is it better to rent or buy?
Much depends on long-term interest rates
📢 Published on 📅 January 7, 2026 🕒 12:42
America’s missing manufacturing renaissance
Donald Trump’s tariffs have hurt the factories they were meant to protect
📢 Published on 📅 January 6, 2026 🕒 17:10
An American oil empire is a deeply flawed idea
Donald Trump’s ambitions are expansive. His plans are limited
📢 Published on 📅 January 4, 2026 🕒 12:38
America’s economy looks set to accelerate
A monetary-fiscal loosening is coming
📢 Published on 📅 December 30, 2025 🕒 13:48
RedBird, a small firm doing big media deals
Its wingspan stretches from Hollywood to AC Milan
📢 Published on 📅 December 30, 2025 🕒 13:48
China’s property woes could last until 2030
Despite the best efforts of its social-media censors
📢 Published on 📅 December 30, 2025 🕒 13:48
Investors head into 2026 remarkably optimistic
Few expect a crash in the year to come
📢 Published on 📅 December 30, 2025 🕒 13:48
Forget affordability. Europe has an availability crisis
Tight regulation is largely to blame
📢 Published on 📅 December 30, 2025 🕒 11:42
Why fewer Americans are giving than before
The decline of philanthropy is not just about Donald Trump
📢 Published on 📅 December 23, 2025 🕒 11:45
The five biggest market developments of 2025
Looking back on a rollercoaster year for investors
📢 Published on 📅 December 21, 2025 🕒 13:18
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 📅 December 21, 2025 🕒 13:03
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 📅 December 18, 2025 🕒 10:42
Meet the American investors rushing into Congo
They are taking on war, corruption and China
📢 Published on 📅 December 18, 2025 🕒 10:40
This Christmas, raise a glass to concentrated market returns
A surprisingly large share of companies lag far behind their former greatness
📢 Published on 📅 December 17, 2025 🕒 19:14
Where America’s most prominent short-sellers are placing their bets
We interview three financial sleuths
📢 Published on 📅 December 16, 2025 🕒 18:44
Crypto’s real threat to banks
The industry is supplanting Wall Street’s privileged position on the American right
📢 Published on 📅 December 15, 2025 🕒 19:44
Germany has a lawyer problem
Its endless bureaucratic rules trap would-be reformers
📢 Published on 📅 December 11, 2025 🕒 11:14
What a stiff drink says about China’s economy
The baijiu business is the latest to be struck by “involution”
📢 Published on 📅 December 11, 2025 🕒 11:12
America’s bond market is quiet—almost too quiet
Scott Bessent has a cunning plan
📢 Published on 📅 December 11, 2025 🕒 11:10
Wall Street is drooling over bank mergers
The world’s most fragmented financial industry faces dramatic change
📢 Published on 📅 December 11, 2025 🕒 11:07
Asia’s inexpensive AI stocks should worry American investors
Tech mania looks very different in Japan, South Korea and Taiwan
📢 Published on 📅 December 10, 2025 🕒 19:18
AI misinformation may have paradoxical consequences
To understand why, consider the side-blotched lizard
📢 Published on 📅 December 4, 2025 🕒 10:25
Can golden toilets fix China’s economy?
Communist Party officials think so
📢 Published on 📅 December 4, 2025 🕒 10:24
Bitcoin has plunged. Strategy Inc is an early victim
It holds 3% of the world’s total supply
📢 Published on 📅 December 4, 2025 🕒 10:24
American sanctions are putting Russia under pressure
In time, though, its tankers will find new routes
📢 Published on 📅 December 4, 2025 🕒 10:24
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 📅 December 3, 2025 🕒 20:06
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 📅 December 3, 2025 🕒 19:26
How to spot a bubble bursting
Forget valuations. Look out for search-engine hits and fund managers getting fired
📢 Published on 📅 December 1, 2025 🕒 19:49
Why worries about American job losses are overstated
Bosses, investors, policymakers—all are fearful of a jobs-pocalypse
📢 Published on 📅 November 30, 2025 🕒 15:27
Self-driving cars will transform urban economies
A robotaxi boom is coming. The impacts might be broader than you expect
📢 Published on 📅 November 27, 2025 🕒 11:41
China’s property market is (somehow) worsening
Government remedies are not up to the job
📢 Published on 📅 November 27, 2025 🕒 11:37
Narendra Modi plans to free up India’s giant labour force
Socialist employment restrictions will be swept away
📢 Published on 📅 November 27, 2025 🕒 11:14
One weird trick to solve the affordability crisis
If voters dislike big numbers, there is a purely nominal fix
📢 Published on 📅 November 27, 2025 🕒 10:47
How to short the bubbliest firms
Private markets present fearsome challenges
📢 Published on 📅 November 26, 2025 🕒 21:30
Investors expect AI use to soar. That’s not happening
Recent surveys point to flatlining business adoption
📢 Published on 📅 November 26, 2025 🕒 16:30
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 📅 November 23, 2025 🕒 12:19
Visa restrictions are bad for Indians—but maybe not for India
Remittances may fall, but opportunities are opening up
📢 Published on 📅 November 20, 2025 🕒 11:24
Economists get cold feet about high minimum wages
Governments are pushing the policy to its limits
📢 Published on 📅 November 20, 2025 🕒 11:24
Can the Chinese economy match Aruba’s?
Xi Jinping has lofty goals for 2035. But China faces a real problem
📢 Published on 📅 November 20, 2025 🕒 11:24
America’s huge mortgage market is slowly dying
Donald Trump’s remedies threaten to inflame a housing crisis
📢 Published on 📅 November 19, 2025 🕒 19:46
Crypto got everything it wanted. Now it’s sinking
The slump could spread across financial markets
📢 Published on 📅 November 18, 2025 🕒 21:57
Is this the end of the scorching gold rally?
As bullish stories get tested, investors should worry
📢 Published on 📅 November 16, 2025 🕒 15:15
Tree murders and the economics of crime
Rich people can’t stop cutting down each other’s woodland
📢 Published on 📅 November 13, 2025 🕒 11:47
In defence of personal finance
It may widen inequality. But it has many advantages
📢 Published on 📅 November 12, 2025 🕒 20:38
Old folk are seized by stockmarket mania
Investing in equities may make sense for individuals—but it could also exacerbate a crash
📢 Published on 📅 November 11, 2025 🕒 19:04
Recessions have become ultra-rare. That is storing up trouble
Continuous growth can make economies fat and slow
📢 Published on 📅 November 10, 2025 🕒 19:33
The problem with America’s shutdown economy
Gridlock in Washington has prevented official data releases. And unofficial ones disagree
📢 Published on 📅 November 9, 2025 🕒 15:10
What explains India’s peculiar stability?
In a tricky neighbourhood the country remains calm
📢 Published on 📅 November 6, 2025 🕒 11:01
Don’t blame AI for your job woes
The white-collar chill has more to do with the economy than with tech
📢 Published on 📅 November 6, 2025 🕒 10:51
Universal child care can harm children
Its growing popularity in America is a concern
📢 Published on 📅 November 5, 2025 🕒 20:27
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 📅 November 5, 2025 🕒 19:58
How Donald Trump can dodge a Supreme Court tariff block
No matter its ruling, the president has back-up powers
📢 Published on 📅 November 4, 2025 🕒 15:17
The mystery of China’s slumping investment
Its leaders don’t seem concerned. Should they be?
📢 Published on 📅 November 3, 2025 🕒 19:08
Why Wall Street won’t see the next crash coming
Even the best traders struggle to predict sudden jumps in volatility
📢 Published on 📅 November 2, 2025 🕒 11:46
Investors will help Jamaica recover from Hurricane Melissa
The country is in line for a pay-out from catastrophe bonds
📢 Published on 📅 October 30, 2025 🕒 11:22
The new globalisation paradox
In the age of Donald Trump, national autonomy requires deeper integration. Brazil shows why
📢 Published on 📅 October 30, 2025 🕒 11:20
India’s IPO boom is good news for its economy
Stockmarkets appear to be fuelling investment
📢 Published on 📅 October 29, 2025 🕒 21:13
A letter to investors from the White House Opportunities Fund
How the shift to state capitalism is panning out for America LLC
📢 Published on 📅 October 29, 2025 🕒 19:44
The end of the rip-off economy
From finance and medicine to used cars, artificial intelligence is radically improving market efficiency
📢 Published on 📅 October 27, 2025 🕒 16:58
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 📅 October 26, 2025 🕒 12:28
The counterintuitive economics of smoking
How cigarette manufacturers profit from quitters
📢 Published on 📅 October 26, 2025 🕒 12:23
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 📅 October 23, 2025 🕒 19:12
China is being fuelled by inspiration, not perspiration
So long as its leaders are not lying
📢 Published on 📅 October 23, 2025 🕒 10:04
Can AI make the poor world richer?
It promises a level playing field. So have past technologies
📢 Published on 📅 October 23, 2025 🕒 10:03
Trumponomics is warping the world’s copper markets
It may not end well
📢 Published on 📅 October 23, 2025 🕒 09:52
Why investors still don’t believe in Argentina
Despite the best efforts of Donald Trump and Scott Bessent
📢 Published on 📅 October 22, 2025 🕒 19:26
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 📅 October 22, 2025 🕒 15:55
Wanted: a new finance writer
An opportunity to join the staff of The Economist
📢 Published on 📅 October 22, 2025 🕒 10:53
Why are American women leaving the labour force?
Maybe they are becoming tradwives. Or maybe there is a more straightforward explanation
📢 Published on 📅 October 21, 2025 🕒 15:21
The world economy shrugs off both the trade war and AI fears
Can anything bring it down?
📢 Published on 📅 October 20, 2025 🕒 16:07
Why Wall Street is fearful of more lending blow-ups
Both banks and private-markets giants are on cockroach-watch
📢 Published on 📅 October 19, 2025 🕒 16:13
Indian microfinance is in trouble
A model that has lifted millions out of poverty is threatened by rising defaults
📢 Published on 📅 October 16, 2025 🕒 09:08
The new economics of babymaking
A postcard from one of America’s youngest towns
📢 Published on 📅 October 16, 2025 🕒 09:08
America’s bankers are riding high. Why are they so worried?
Their latest earnings do not represent unalloyed good news
📢 Published on 📅 October 15, 2025 🕒 20:25
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 📅 October 15, 2025 🕒 20:16
Would inflation-linked bonds survive an inflationary default?
A thought experiment on the nearest thing to a safe asset
📢 Published on 📅 October 15, 2025 🕒 19:02
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 📅 October 15, 2025 🕒 10:07
Joel Mokyr deserves his Nobel prize
The Nobel committee is belatedly recognising economic history
📢 Published on 📅 October 13, 2025 🕒 18:17
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 📅 October 12, 2025 🕒 16:34
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 📅 October 11, 2025 🕒 07:09
The stockmarket is fuelling America’s economy
What happens in the event of a slump?
📢 Published on 📅 October 9, 2025 🕒 10:21
Front-line economics: lessons from Russia’s neighbours
How to survive on the border of war
📢 Published on 📅 October 9, 2025 🕒 10:10
Narendra Modi’s paltry target for India’s growth
The prime minister wants a $10trn economy by 2047. He should be bolder
📢 Published on 📅 October 9, 2025 🕒 10:02
The most dangerous corner of a balance-sheet
Forget debt. Here is something to villainise
📢 Published on 📅 October 8, 2025 🕒 19:13
Why Donald Trump’s tariffs are failing to break global trade
Six months on from “Liberation Day”, things look surprisingly rosy
📢 Published on 📅 October 8, 2025 🕒 18:20
Welcome to Zero Migration America
Closed borders will make the country smaller, poorer and less innovative
📢 Published on 📅 October 7, 2025 🕒 18:05
Don’t tax wealth
Even the most sophisticated arguments in favour of doing so make no sense
📢 Published on 📅 October 2, 2025 🕒 10:23
Credit markets look increasingly dangerous
A pair of bankruptcies highlight the risks
📢 Published on 📅 October 2, 2025 🕒 10:22
How the Trump administration learned to love foreign aid
America’s international assistance has not been destroyed—it has been transformed
📢 Published on 📅 October 2, 2025 🕒 10:19
The eccentric investment strategy that beats the rest
Introducing the 25/25/25/25 portfolio
📢 Published on 📅 October 1, 2025 🕒 18:45
China’s stockmarket rally may hurt the economy
The “wealth effect” is not the only way it has an impact
📢 Published on 📅 September 29, 2025 🕒 16:46
The economics of self-driving taxis
Waymo is a case study in automation
📢 Published on 📅 September 28, 2025 🕒 13:10
The AI talent war is becoming fiercer
How other countries hope to challenge America
📢 Published on 📅 September 25, 2025 🕒 10:08
Investing like the ultra-rich is easier than ever
And that worries regulators
📢 Published on 📅 September 24, 2025 🕒 19:19
Will Dubai’s super-hot property market avoid a crash?
Despite fears of a reckoning, its fundamentals look solid
📢 Published on 📅 September 24, 2025 🕒 16:18
How to spot a genius
In an age of artificial intelligence, the human kind is increasingly important
📢 Published on 📅 September 23, 2025 🕒 17:31
Russia’s besieged economy is clinging on
The good times have firmly come to an end, but wage growth remains strong
📢 Published on 📅 September 21, 2025 🕒 08:58
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 📅 September 18, 2025 🕒 10:26
Why European workers need to switch jobs
The continent’s labour market is ill-suited to an age of disruption
📢 Published on 📅 September 18, 2025 🕒 10:15
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 📅 September 18, 2025 🕒 09:50
Ukraine faces a $19bn budget black hole
Without funding, the country will be left vulnerable
📢 Published on 📅 September 17, 2025 🕒 19:44
Europe’s great stockmarket inversion
The hottest places to invest are on the continent’s periphery
📢 Published on 📅 September 17, 2025 🕒 19:35
America’s economy defies gloomy expectations
As the Federal Reserve cuts interest rates, growth is holding up
📢 Published on 📅 September 14, 2025 🕒 13:39
Can you make it to the end of this column?
Understanding the new economics of attention
📢 Published on 📅 September 11, 2025 🕒 09:35
How grain has gone from famine to feast
Prices are close to a five-year low
📢 Published on 📅 September 11, 2025 🕒 09:33
Meet Donald Trump’s aid agency
Or is it a sovereign-wealth fund in disguise?
📢 Published on 📅 September 11, 2025 🕒 09:31
Why American bondholders are jumpy about inflation
The Federal Reserve prepares to cut interest rates in tricky circumstances
📢 Published on 📅 September 10, 2025 🕒 19:05
Europe’s economy at last shows signs of a recovery
Even if there is plenty that could yet kill it
📢 Published on 📅 September 10, 2025 🕒 16:27
Chinese trade is thriving despite America’s attacks
The rest of the world is willing to be “ripped off”
📢 Published on 📅 September 9, 2025 🕒 15:55
What if the AI stockmarket blows up?
We find that the potential cost has risen alarmingly high
📢 Published on 📅 September 7, 2025 🕒 16:19
What if artificial intelligence is just a “normal” technology?
Its rise might yet follow the path of previous technological revolutions
📢 Published on 📅 September 4, 2025 🕒 09:22
Bond vigilantes take aim at France
With any luck, the stand-off might focus politicians’ minds
📢 Published on 📅 September 4, 2025 🕒 09:21
The hard right’s plans for Europe’s economy
It has moderated, but offers little hope of growth-boosting reform
📢 Published on 📅 September 4, 2025 🕒 09:21
Why supply shocks are a trap for commodity investors
Lessons from lithium’s fake rally
📢 Published on 📅 September 3, 2025 🕒 18:45
China turns crypto-curious
But would the country’s leaders really want stablecoins to succeed?
📢 Published on 📅 September 2, 2025 🕒 17:55
America is escaping its office crisis
The torment caused by covid-19 and high interest rates appears to be over
📢 Published on 📅 September 1, 2025 🕒 19:20
The threat of deflation stalks Asia’s economies
Blame China, slumping commodities and creaky growth
📢 Published on 📅 September 1, 2025 🕒 17:31
Trump’s interest-rate crusade will be self-defeating
New research shows the importance of central-bank credibility
📢 Published on 📅 August 28, 2025 🕒 10:00
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 📅 August 28, 2025 🕒 09:59
How Trump’s war on the Federal Reserve could do serious damage
Just consider what happens if inflation starts to rise again
📢 Published on 📅 August 28, 2025 🕒 09:56
Assessing the case against Lisa Cook
How strong is the evidence, and how bad would it be if the claims were true?
📢 Published on 📅 August 27, 2025 🕒 19:35
Why you should buy your employer’s shares
Even though doing so flies in the face of most financial advice
📢 Published on 📅 August 27, 2025 🕒 19:21
The Economist’s finance and economics internship
We invite applications for our Marjorie Deane scheme
📢 Published on 📅 August 27, 2025 🕒 13:26
Even as China’s economy suffers, stocks soar. What’s going on?
The Shanghai composite is defying gravity
📢 Published on 📅 August 27, 2025 🕒 12:55
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 📅 August 26, 2025 🕒 08:36
Trump’s interest-rate crusade will be self-defeating
The president’s threats loomed over this year’s Jackson Hole conference
📢 Published on 📅 August 25, 2025 🕒 17:55
Fear the deficit-populism doom loop
Politicians, particularly in Europe, are in a terrible bind
📢 Published on 📅 August 24, 2025 🕒 13:28
Economists disagree about everything. Don’t they?
Their discipline is famous for its fissiparousness
📢 Published on 📅 August 21, 2025 🕒 10:15
The green transition has a surprising new home
Forget about northern Europeans, with their coalition governments and love of cycling
📢 Published on 📅 August 21, 2025 🕒 09:55
Can China cope with a deindustrialised future?
Communist Party officials face a difficult ideological turn
📢 Published on 📅 August 21, 2025 🕒 09:52
Trump’s trade victims are shrugging off his attacks
And China is gaining in the process
📢 Published on 📅 August 20, 2025 🕒 15:33
In praise of complicated investing strategies
To understand markets, forget Occam’s razor
📢 Published on 📅 August 18, 2025 🕒 18:12
How America’s AI boom is squeezing the rest of the economy
Beware the data-centre takeover
📢 Published on 📅 August 18, 2025 🕒 18:12
Where has the worst inflation problem?
We update our entrenchment measure
📢 Published on 📅 August 17, 2025 🕒 15:36
Growth-loving authoritarians are failing on their own terms
In Asia, East Africa and the Gulf leaders now face an unpleasant choice
📢 Published on 📅 August 14, 2025 🕒 10:25
What 630,000 paintings say about the world economy
Kandinsky, Monet and Rembrandt were economists as well as artists
📢 Published on 📅 August 14, 2025 🕒 09:57
Who will win from Trump’s tariffs?
New rates mean new “China plus one” locations
📢 Published on 📅 August 14, 2025 🕒 09:57
To sell Fannie and Freddie, Trump must answer a $7trn question
Investor optimism means the duo are outperforming Nvidia
📢 Published on 📅 August 14, 2025 🕒 09:56
Ivy League universities are on a debt binge
The borrowers, including Harvard, Princeton and Yale, benefit from a “prestige premium”
📢 Published on 📅 August 13, 2025 🕒 17:13
Palantir might be the most overvalued firm of all time
What would make it worth buying?
📢 Published on 📅 August 12, 2025 🕒 15:57
America’s housing market is shuddering
For the country’s homeowners, the good times are coming to an end
📢 Published on 📅 August 10, 2025 🕒 10:17
Xi Jinping’s city of the future is coming to life
It is both impressive and worrying
📢 Published on 📅 August 7, 2025 🕒 10:00
An economist’s guide to big life decisions
Forget your trip to the dentist. A new check-up is required
📢 Published on 📅 August 7, 2025 🕒 09:49
Want better returns? Forget risk. Focus on fear
A recent study suggests a new paradigm for asset pricing
📢 Published on 📅 August 6, 2025 🕒 19:08
If America goes after India’s oil trade, China will benefit
A crackdown on Russian crude would have knock-on consequences
📢 Published on 📅 August 6, 2025 🕒 18:33
America’s fertility crash reaches a new low
Even once-fecund states are having fewer children
📢 Published on 📅 August 5, 2025 🕒 17:44
Buy now, pay later is taking over the world. Good
Buy that burrito, and don’t let anyone judge you
📢 Published on 📅 August 4, 2025 🕒 18:28
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 📅 August 1, 2025 🕒 19:50
Uncovering the secret food trade that corrupts Iran’s neighbours
Oil and terrorism are not the country’s only exports
📢 Published on 📅 July 31, 2025 🕒 12:19
The trade deal with America shows the limits of the EU’s power
The bloc opts for prudence over defiance
📢 Published on 📅 July 31, 2025 🕒 10:27
Japan’s dealmaking machine revs up
Private equity is enjoying a renaissance in an unlikely place
📢 Published on 📅 July 31, 2025 🕒 10:04
The deeper reason for banking’s retreat
Why bankers no longer play golf at 3pm
📢 Published on 📅 July 31, 2025 🕒 10:02
Despite double dissent, Jerome Powell retains his hold on markets
A hawkish tilt changes rate-cut expectations
📢 Published on 📅 July 30, 2025 🕒 22:28
A fresh retail-trading frenzy is reshaping financial markets
Blame apps and DORKs, not stimmies
📢 Published on 📅 July 29, 2025 🕒 16:00
Europe averts its Trumpian trade nightmare
A deal with America chooses certain tariffs over risky retaliation
📢 Published on 📅 July 28, 2025 🕒 00:11
Who’s feeling the pain of Trump’s tariffs?
Foreign companies are sharing the load. For now
📢 Published on 📅 July 27, 2025 🕒 10:53
What economics can teach foreign-policy types
Hegemons should care about even puny countries
📢 Published on 📅 July 24, 2025 🕒 09:16
Where will be the Detroit of electric vehicles?
A fierce battle is under way in China
📢 Published on 📅 July 24, 2025 🕒 09:16
Crypto’s big bang will revolutionise finance
The more useful stablecoins and tokens prove to be, the greater the risk
📢 Published on 📅 July 23, 2025 🕒 19:01
Why 24/7 trading is a bad idea
There are advantages to the old-fashioned working day
📢 Published on 📅 July 23, 2025 🕒 18:21
Want higher pay? Stay in your job
America’s cooling labour market is bad news for those who move about
📢 Published on 📅 July 22, 2025 🕒 14:21
Has Trump damaged the dollar?
Yes. How badly will become clear in the next crisis
📢 Published on 📅 July 20, 2025 🕒 14:37
Why is AI so slow to spread? Economics can explain
Businesses are ignoring the street of hundred-dollar bills
📢 Published on 📅 July 17, 2025 🕒 09:33
Trump’s real threat: industry-specific tariffs
Which countries would be hit hardest by levies on electronics and pharmaceuticals?
📢 Published on 📅 July 17, 2025 🕒 09:33
Americans can still get a 2% mortgage
At a time of high interest rates, there are bargains to be found
📢 Published on 📅 July 17, 2025 🕒 09:33
Stablecoins might cut America’s debt payments. But at what cost?
The Trump administration will take any help it can get
📢 Published on 📅 July 16, 2025 🕒 18:57
Our Big Mac index will sadden America’s burger-lovers
Trump’s tariffs have brought a double serving of pain
📢 Published on 📅 July 16, 2025 🕒 16:03
War, geopolitics, energy crisis: how the economy evades every disaster
A new form of capitalism may explain its success
📢 Published on 📅 July 15, 2025 🕒 16:40
Want to be a good explorer? Study economics
The battle to reduce risk has shaped centuries of ventures
📢 Published on 📅 July 10, 2025 🕒 09:57
Jane Street is chucked out of India. Other firms should be nervous
Around the world, marketmakers now face extra scrutiny
📢 Published on 📅 July 10, 2025 🕒 09:56
Japan has been hit by investing fever
Will old folk catch the bug?
📢 Published on 📅 July 10, 2025 🕒 09:42
Don’t invest through the rearview mirror
Markets are supposed to look forward; plenty of investors look back instead
📢 Published on 📅 July 9, 2025 🕒 18:43
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 📅 July 8, 2025 🕒 17:15
The great dealmaker is conspicuously short of trade deals
Donald Trump issues threats—and grants deadline extensions
📢 Published on 📅 July 7, 2025 🕒 22:52
Struggling with the trade war? Amateur football might help
Jiangsu’s party cadres find success with a bizarre idea
📢 Published on 📅 July 6, 2025 🕒 10:59
How America’s economy is dodging disaster
It is astonishingly dynamic, even under the weight of tariffs
📢 Published on 📅 July 6, 2025 🕒 10:55
Inside Iran’s war economy
Airstrikes and sanctions leave the country poor. They do little to halt its nuclear development
📢 Published on 📅 July 3, 2025 🕒 09:57
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