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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
America’s scientific prowess is a huge global subsidy
And it is now under threat
📢 Published on 📅 22 May 2025 🕒 9:36 am
Trump will be unpleasantly surprised by America’s tariff revenues
He should expect billions, not trillions
📢 Published on 📅 18 May 2025 🕒 12:44 pm
Economists are as confused as Trump about taxing the rich
Forget technocracy. The top rate is set by gut instinct
📢 Published on 📅 15 May 2025 🕒 10:07 am
Is the market up or down? Republicans and Democrats disagree
Retail investing suffers from partisanship
📢 Published on 📅 15 May 2025 🕒 9:56 am
China has got lucky with Trump. Can the rest of the world?
Progress in trade talks has so far been slow
📢 Published on 📅 15 May 2025 🕒 9:54 am
How the Chinese Communist Party learnt to love villages
It wants people to move to cities. And the countryside
📢 Published on 📅 15 May 2025 🕒 9:49 am
Poland: the ignored stockmarket superstar
Why the country’s shares are going gangbusters
📢 Published on 📅 14 May 2025 🕒 7:31 pm
Why the MAGA economy is thriving
The world’s largest market is becoming two
📢 Published on 📅 13 May 2025 🕒 7:24 pm
America has given China a strangely good tariff deal
For the next 90 days, at least
📢 Published on 📅 12 May 2025 🕒 3:08 pm
Trump’s trade deal with Britain will worry allies and rivals alike
Sir Keir Starmer will at least be pleased to have been first
📢 Published on 📅 8 May 2025 🕒 6:54 pm
Why Gen X is the real loser generation
Don’t cry for millennials or Gen Z. Save your pity for those in their 50s
📢 Published on 📅 8 May 2025 🕒 9:57 am
Global turmoil has at least one beneficiary: currency traders
The foreign-exchange market has been reinvigorated by recent events
📢 Published on 📅 8 May 2025 🕒 9:37 am
How Saudi Arabia is cranking up the pressure on its OPEC allies
Will oil prices fall much further?
📢 Published on 📅 8 May 2025 🕒 9:11 am
Trump is a threat to Asia’s giant insurers
Not just its exporters
📢 Published on 📅 8 May 2025 🕒 9:08 am
What happens when a hegemon falls?
Why economists are turning to a 50-year-old book on the Depression
📢 Published on 📅 8 May 2025 🕒 9:02 am
America and China prepare for an Alpine trade clash
Might tariffs fall from their mountainous highs?
📢 Published on 📅 7 May 2025 🕒 5:11 pm
Buy the dip: the trend that keeps stocks from crashing
Retail investors now play a useful role at times of panic
📢 Published on 📅 6 May 2025 🕒 6:39 pm
Warren Buffett has created a $348bn question for his successor
Berkshire Hathaway’s next CEO has huge shoes to fill—and a mountain of cash to invest
📢 Published on 📅 4 May 2025 🕒 1:10 am
Don’t blame imports for the fall in America’s GDP
Why what you’ve read about the trade deficit hurting growth is wrong
📢 Published on 📅 1 May 2025 🕒 12:49 pm
Why economists should like booze
A martini doesn’t just steady the nerves after a rollercoaster week
📢 Published on 📅 1 May 2025 🕒 9:48 am
The risky world of private assets opens up to retail investors
Fund managers smell an opportunity to get even bigger
📢 Published on 📅 1 May 2025 🕒 9:16 am
A takeover bid promises consolidation in Italian finance
But more complication, too
📢 Published on 📅 1 May 2025 🕒 9:14 am
Why China has the upper hand in its trade war with America
A truce is still possible, but no one wants to be first to pick up the phone
📢 Published on 📅 1 May 2025 🕒 9:11 am
How a mortgage transforms your investment portfolio
They turn retail savers into hedge-fund managers
📢 Published on 📅 30 April 2025 🕒 8:24 pm
America may be just weeks away from a mighty economic shock
Trade between China and America is already sinking
📢 Published on 📅 29 April 2025 🕒 8:23 pm
Vladimir Putin’s money machine is sputtering
After years of resilience, Russia’s economy is slowing down
📢 Published on 📅 27 April 2025 🕒 1:46 pm
Economists don’t know what’s going on
Blame crumbling statistical offices
📢 Published on 📅 24 April 2025 🕒 11:18 am
Not just Trump: Asia has a trade problem of its own making
A “noodle bowl” of agreements gets in the way of regional commerce
📢 Published on 📅 24 April 2025 🕒 10:38 am
Trump’s sovereign-wealth fund won’t make America richer
It will just make the country riskier
📢 Published on 📅 24 April 2025 🕒 10:15 am
What price cool? $31 a month, according to students
The value of having the right text-message bubbles
📢 Published on 📅 24 April 2025 🕒 10:10 am
Will China’s shoppers cushion the Trumpian blow?
Perhaps. But nastier outcomes are also imaginable
📢 Published on 📅 24 April 2025 🕒 9:45 am
Should investors spend the trade war in India?
Mumbai may be a haven, but it is not a safe one
📢 Published on 📅 23 April 2025 🕒 6:30 pm
Why American tech stocks are newly vulnerable
Recent market turbulence has exposed uncomfortable weaknesses
📢 Published on 📅 23 April 2025 🕒 2:57 pm
Trump fires at the Fed. America’s economy is collateral damage
The president may test legal bounds as he tries to sway Jerome Powell
📢 Published on 📅 22 April 2025 🕒 1:30 pm
Unlike everyone else, Americans and Britons still shun the office
What is their love of working from home doing to their economies?
📢 Published on 📅 21 April 2025 🕒 3:34 pm
Trump wants a certain kind of immigrant: the uber-rich
He is right that America’s current “golden visa” is under-priced
📢 Published on 📅 20 April 2025 🕒 4:02 pm
America is turning away China’s goods. Where will they go instead?
South-East Asia is exposed to both Chinese import competition and American ire
📢 Published on 📅 16 April 2025 🕒 1:20 pm
Stockmarkets do not reward firms for investing in Trump’s America
The perils of reshoring
📢 Published on 📅 16 April 2025 🕒 1:20 pm
Can the euro go global?
With the dollar faltering, European policymakers have an opportunity
📢 Published on 📅 16 April 2025 🕒 12:06 pm
Poor countries would miss King Dollar
Even though they normally like a weaker greenback
📢 Published on 📅 16 April 2025 🕒 12:05 pm
Hell is other people’s currencies
As the Trump administration may soon find out
📢 Published on 📅 16 April 2025 🕒 12:03 pm
How Trump might topple the dollar
For the first time in many decades, the greenback looks vulnerable
📢 Published on 📅 16 April 2025 🕒 12:02 pm
Short-term pain, long-term gain, says Trump. Really?
America will be a country with shabbier roads, older airports and more dated factories
📢 Published on 📅 14 April 2025 🕒 6:23 pm
A flight from the dollar could wreck America’s finances
The currency’s dominance enables very high debts and deficits, meaning a plunge might spell disaster
📢 Published on 📅 13 April 2025 🕒 1:55 pm
Investors realise Trump’s pause was not the salvation it appeared
As China strikes back, reality sets in
📢 Published on 📅 11 April 2025 🕒 2:03 pm
Can China fight America alone?
The world’s two biggest economies begin an almighty trade clash
📢 Published on 📅 10 April 2025 🕒 10:16 am
The tariff madness of King Donald, explained
As his policy turns on a dime, pity those tasked with justifying his actions
📢 Published on 📅 10 April 2025 🕒 10:13 am
China has a weapon that could hurt America: rare-earth exports
It has only just begun to use it
📢 Published on 📅 10 April 2025 🕒 10:11 am
America’s financial system came close to the brink
Chaotic markets threatened to trigger a full-blown crisis
📢 Published on 📅 10 April 2025 🕒 9:35 am
Trump’s tariff pause brings investors relief—but worries remain
Amid market panic, he backs off his most extreme “reciprocal” tariffs
📢 Published on 📅 9 April 2025 🕒 7:31 pm
Bond-market convulsions look extremely dangerous
Treasury yields and other signs of stress are flashing red
📢 Published on 📅 9 April 2025 🕒 12:23 pm
Despite the pause, America’s tariffs are the worst ever trade shock
Reed Smoot, eat your heart out
📢 Published on 📅 9 April 2025 🕒 9:14 am
How to charm Donald Trump
Over the next 90 days, countries must work out what America’s president wants
📢 Published on 📅 8 April 2025 🕒 7:15 pm
Why China thinks it might win a trade war with Trump
The country’s officials vow to “fight to the end”
📢 Published on 📅 8 April 2025 🕒 2:43 pm
Where real danger might lurk in chaotic markets
The worry is that wild swings could cause their own damage
📢 Published on 📅 7 April 2025 🕒 8:05 pm
Market carnage goes global
As stockmarkets plunge, Donald Trump seems untroubled. That is scary
📢 Published on 📅 7 April 2025 🕒 12:05 pm
Trump’s trade war threatens a global recession
Investors are worried. At least the economy is starting from a position of strength
📢 Published on 📅 6 April 2025 🕒 3:51 pm
Trump has exposed America’s world-leading firms to retaliation
At companies from Alphabet to Goldman Sachs, bosses will be holding their breath
📢 Published on 📅 5 April 2025 🕒 6:17 pm
Five crazy Trump tariffs you wouldn’t believe
Saint Pierre and Miquelon earns a dubious honour
📢 Published on 📅 5 April 2025 🕒 2:16 pm
China hits back hard against Trump’s tariffs
Stockmarkets plunge further in response
📢 Published on 📅 4 April 2025 🕒 4:55 pm
How worrying is the weakening dollar?
In times of trouble, the greenback normally strengthens
📢 Published on 📅 4 April 2025 🕒 4:05 pm
What America’s stockmarket plunge means
Farewell to 15 years of exceptionalism?
📢 Published on 📅 3 April 2025 🕒 8:49 pm
Financial markets flail in the face of America’s tariffs
Asia is hit hardest, but nowhere looks good
📢 Published on 📅 3 April 2025 🕒 10:35 am
What a refugee camp reveals about economics
In Dzaleka, Malawi, everyone receives $9 a month
📢 Published on 📅 3 April 2025 🕒 9:50 am
Tin, an overlooked critical metal, is enjoying a boom
Prized and in short supply, its price is very volatile
📢 Published on 📅 3 April 2025 🕒 9:50 am
How Milei made Argentina deserving of an IMF bail-out
He offers the only way out of a supremely difficult situation
📢 Published on 📅 3 April 2025 🕒 9:31 am
Trump takes America’s trade policies back to the 19th century
The president jacks up tariffs on all countries, with particularly sharp rises for much of Asia
📢 Published on 📅 3 April 2025 🕒 12:06 am
The American government’s accidental private-credit subsidy
How a Depression-era lending scheme became a trillion-dollar wheeze
📢 Published on 📅 2 April 2025 🕒 9:53 pm
Can the world’s free-traders withstand Trump’s attack?
Much will depend on the courage of Europe
📢 Published on 📅 2 April 2025 🕒 3:48 pm
Trump’s “Liberation Day” is set to whack America’s economy
A rush of new tariffs will hurt growth, raise prices and worsen inequality
📢 Published on 📅 30 March 2025 🕒 1:56 pm
Even priests need the free market
What clergymen can learn from economists
📢 Published on 📅 27 March 2025 🕒 11:08 am
Can foreign investors learn to love China again?
Wall Street still needs more to coax it back. But non-American firms may be ready to return
📢 Published on 📅 27 March 2025 🕒 11:07 am
The surging gold price is boosting Central Asia’s economies
But foreign investors might want to tread carefully
📢 Published on 📅 27 March 2025 🕒 11:06 am
Nubank has conquered Brazil. Now it is expanding overseas
The country’s struggling economy provides a push
📢 Published on 📅 27 March 2025 🕒 11:05 am
Trump’s tariff pain: the growing evidence
As “liberation day” nears, American businesses suffer
📢 Published on 📅 25 March 2025 🕒 9:43 pm
How Europe can hurt Russia’s economy
Even if America lifts sanctions, the old continent has its own weapons
📢 Published on 📅 24 March 2025 🕒 8:01 pm
Live music seems recession-proof. Thank ticket scalpers
When demand softens, the secondary market absorbs the pain
📢 Published on 📅 23 March 2025 🕒 3:16 pm
Even the Trumpiest stocks are suffering
Investors may have misjudged which firms would thrive under the new administration
📢 Published on 📅 20 March 2025 🕒 10:37 am
Beneath investors’ feet, the ground is shifting
More remarkable than slumping share prices are the forces behind them
📢 Published on 📅 19 March 2025 🕒 6:57 pm
The Trump administration is playing a dangerous stockmarket game
American investors are extremely exposed to a sell-off—and so is the economy
📢 Published on 📅 19 March 2025 🕒 4:53 pm
America’s Democrats should embrace “abundance liberalism”
Two new books contain much to commend them
📢 Published on 📅 18 March 2025 🕒 6:16 pm
Where will be the next electric-vehicle superpower?
Three Asian countries make their pitch
📢 Published on 📅 18 March 2025 🕒 4:01 pm
Can anything get China’s shoppers to spend?
An economic recovery depends on it. Yet a new action plan may not do the job
📢 Published on 📅 17 March 2025 🕒 7:25 pm
Why rents are rising too fast
Rich-world tenants are angry, and have reason to be
📢 Published on 📅 16 March 2025 🕒 11:20 am
Can Europe cope with a free-spending Germany?
Pity the continent’s exporters
📢 Published on 📅 13 March 2025 🕒 11:37 am
More testosterone means higher pay—for some men
A changing appetite for status games could play a role
📢 Published on 📅 13 March 2025 🕒 11:15 am
Why “labour shortages” don’t really exist
Use the term, and you are almost always a bad economist or a special pleader
📢 Published on 📅 13 March 2025 🕒 10:51 am
Your guide to the new anti-immigration argument
Nativists say that migrants raise house prices, cost money and undermine economic growth. Do they have a point?
📢 Published on 📅 13 March 2025 🕒 10:47 am
What sparks an investing revolution?
Ideas that emerged from the University of Chicago in the 1960s changed the world. But as a new film shows, they almost didn’t
📢 Published on 📅 12 March 2025 🕒 7:25 pm
Will America’s stockmarket convulsions spread?
Investors are hurrying to find alternatives—but all face difficulties of their own
📢 Published on 📅 11 March 2025 🕒 6:50 pm
How Trump provoked a stockmarket sell-off
Will the president win back investors? Does he even want to?
📢 Published on 📅 10 March 2025 🕒 10:08 pm
Does Trump really want a weaker dollar?
Overturning three decades of American policy will not be painless
📢 Published on 📅 9 March 2025 🕒 3:41 pm
Investors think the Russia-Ukraine war will end soon
The prospect of peace is reshaping markets, in ways both ominous and promising
📢 Published on 📅 9 March 2025 🕒 3:36 pm
Donald Trump’s tariffs are a throwback to the 1930s
“Economic nationalism”, our predecessors wrote, “is almost an American invention”
📢 Published on 📅 6 March 2025 🕒 2:35 pm
Aid cannot make poor countries rich
For decades, officials have promised to raise economic growth. For decades, they have failed
📢 Published on 📅 6 March 2025 🕒 10:37 am
It is not the economic impact of tariffs that is most worrying
What are the lessons of the 1930s?
📢 Published on 📅 6 March 2025 🕒 10:34 am
Trump’s tariff turbulence is worse than anyone imagined
Even his concessions are less generous than expected
📢 Published on 📅 5 March 2025 🕒 9:37 pm
Why silver is the new gold
Safe-haven demand and solar panels have sent its price soaring
📢 Published on 📅 5 March 2025 🕒 7:34 pm
Trump’s new tariffs are his most extreme ever
America targets its three biggest trading partners: Canada, Mexico and China
📢 Published on 📅 3 March 2025 🕒 11:16 pm
El Salvador’s wild crypto experiment ends in failure
Its curtailment is the price of an IMF bail-out. And one worth paying
📢 Published on 📅 2 March 2025 🕒 2:26 pm
America is at risk of a Trumpian economic slowdown
Protectionist threats and erratic policies are combining to hurt growth
📢 Published on 📅 2 March 2025 🕒 2:20 pm
