Finance & economicsПн, 27 янв

 
 
1. Even priests need the free marketЧт, 27 мар[-/+]
What clergymen can learn from economists

2. Can foreign investors learn to love China again?Чт, 27 мар[-/+]
Wall Street still needs more to coax it back. But non-American firms may be ready to return

3. The surging gold price is boosting Central Asia’s economiesЧт, 27 мар[-/+]
But foreign investors might want to tread carefully

4. Nubank has conquered Brazil. Now it is expanding overseasЧт, 27 мар[-/+]
The country’s struggling economy provides a push

5. Trump’s tariff pain: the growing evidenceСр, 26 мар[-/+]
As “liberation day” nears, American businesses suffer

6. How Europe can hurt Russia’s economyПн, 24 мар[-/+]
Even if America lifts sanctions, the old continent has its own weapons

7. Live music seems recession-proof. Thank ticket scalpersВс, 23 мар[-/+]
When demand softens, the secondary market absorbs the pain

8. Even the Trumpiest stocks are sufferingЧт, 20 мар[-/+]
Investors may have misjudged which firms would thrive under the new administration

9. Beneath investors’ feet, the ground is shiftingСр, 19 мар[-/+]
More remarkable than slumping share prices are the forces behind them

10. The Trump administration is playing a dangerous stockmarket gameСр, 19 мар[-/+]
American investors are extremely exposed to a sell-off—and so is the economy

11. America’s Democrats should embrace “abundance liberalism”Вт, 18 мар[-/+]
Two new books contain much to commend them

12. Where will be the next electric-vehicle superpower?Вт, 18 мар[-/+]
Three Asian countries make their pitch

13. Can anything get China’s shoppers to spend?Пн, 17 мар[-/+]
An economic recovery depends on it. Yet a new action plan may not do the job

14. Why rents are rising too fastВс, 16 мар[-/+]
Rich-world tenants are angry, and have reason to be

15. Can Europe cope with a free-spending Germany?Чт, 13 мар[-/+]
Pity the continent’s exporters

16. More testosterone means higher pay—for some menЧт, 13 мар[-/+]
A changing appetite for status games could play a role

17. Why “labour shortages” don’t really existЧт, 13 мар[-/+]
Use the term, and you are almost always a bad economist or a special pleader

18. Your guide to the new anti-immigration argumentЧт, 13 мар[-/+]
Nativists say that migrants raise house prices, cost money and undermine economic growth. Do they have a point?

19. What sparks an investing revolution?Ср, 12 мар[-/+]
Ideas that emerged from the University of Chicago in the 1960s changed the world. But as a new film shows, they almost didn’t

20. Will America’s stockmarket convulsions spread?Вт, 11 мар[-/+]
Investors are hurrying to find alternatives—but all face difficulties of their own

21. How Trump provoked a stockmarket sell-offВт, 11 мар[-/+]
Will the president win back investors? Does he even want to?

22. Does Trump really want a weaker dollar?Вс, 09 мар[-/+]
Overturning three decades of American policy will not be painless

23. Investors think the Russia-Ukraine war will end soonВс, 09 мар[-/+]
The prospect of peace is reshaping markets, in ways both ominous and promising

24. Donald Trump’s tariffs are a throwback to the 1930sЧт, 06 мар[-/+]
“Economic nationalism”, our predecessors wrote, “is almost an American invention”

25. Aid cannot make poor countries richЧт, 06 мар[-/+]
For decades, officials have promised to raise economic growth. For decades, they have failed

26. It is not the economic impact of tariffs that is most worryingЧт, 06 мар[-/+]
What are the lessons of the 1930s?

27. Trump’s tariff turbulence is worse than anyone imaginedЧт, 06 мар[-/+]
Even his concessions are less generous than expected

28. Why silver is the new goldСр, 05 мар[-/+]
Safe-haven demand and solar panels have sent its price soaring

29. Trump’s new tariffs are his most extreme everВт, 04 мар[-/+]
America targets its three biggest trading partners: Canada, Mexico and China

30. El Salvador’s wild crypto experiment ends in failureВс, 02 мар[-/+]
Its curtailment is the price of an IMF bail-out. And one worth paying

31. America is at risk of a Trumpian economic slowdownВс, 02 мар[-/+]
Protectionist threats and erratic policies are combining to hurt growth

32. India has undermined a popular myth about developmentЧт, 27 фев[-/+]
Extreme poverty in the country has dropped to negligible levels

33. How to get rich in 2025Чт, 27 фев[-/+]
Forget about your career. Today an inheritance is what matters

34. How cheap can investing get?Ср, 26 фев[-/+]
The answer depends on whether speculators resist zany ETFs

35. Meet Trump’s fiercest opponent: the bond marketВт, 25 фев[-/+]
Treasury yields are falling sharply. But not for the president’s desired reasons

36. Stablecoins: the real crypto crazeВс, 23 фев[-/+]
Policymakers are racing to catch up with their rapid rise

37. Why American credit-card delinquencies have suddenly shot upЧт, 20 фев[-/+]
They are now at a 13-year high. How concerned should you be?

38. China’s leaders look to have blinked in their property face-offЧт, 20 фев[-/+]
They did not want to bail out indebted firms. Now they are on the verge of doing so

39. Donald Trump’s reciprocal tariffs are absurdЧт, 20 фев[-/+]
At first glance, they are a bureaucratic nightmare. On a closer look, they are even worse

40. To spend big, Germany’s next government may need EU helpЧт, 20 фев[-/+]
How self-imposed constraints could lead to a bizarre outcome

41. Investors fear inflation is coming back. They may be rightЧт, 20 фев[-/+]
Is the world about to repeat the mistakes of the 1970s?

42. American inflation looks increasingly worryingВт, 18 фев[-/+]
Trump’s tariffs are fuelling consumer concerns, which may prove self-fulfilling

43. Will Europe return to Putin’s gas?Вс, 16 фев[-/+]
A deal with the devil would boost the continent’s miserable economy

44. Cheap solar power is sending electrical grids into a death spiralЧт, 13 фев[-/+]
Pakistan and South Africa provide a warning for other countries

45. Russian inflation is too high. Does that matter?Чт, 13 фев[-/+]
In a strong economy, price pressure can endure for a long time

46. Why you should repay your mortgage earlyЧт, 13 фев[-/+]
For the first time in decades, the arithmetic suggests settling housing loans

47. How AI will divide the best from the restЧт, 13 фев[-/+]
Optimists hope the technology will be a great equaliser. Instead, it looks likely to widen social divides

48. The danger of relying on OpenAI’s Deep ResearchЧт, 13 фев[-/+]
Economists are in raptures, but they should be careful

49. Elon Musk is failing to cut American spendingСр, 12 фев[-/+]
DOGE has so far disrupted everything in government bar the deficit

50. Donald Trump’s Super Bowl tariffs are an act of self-harmВт, 11 фев[-/+]
Duties on aluminium and steel will throttle American industry and fragment global markets

51. Why Donald Trump’s protectionist zeal has only grownЧт, 06 фев[-/+]
Lessons from a week of chaos

52. Narendra Modi is struggling to boost Indian growthЧт, 06 фев[-/+]
Tax cuts may lift short-term output, but deeper reform is required

53. Europe has no escape from stagnationЧт, 06 фев[-/+]
Things look increasingly dark for the continent

54. When will remote workers see their pay cut?Чт, 06 фев[-/+]
Logging on at home is a perk, yet so far it has not been treated as such

55. Tariff uncertainty can be as ruinous as tariffs themselvesЧт, 06 фев[-/+]
Whatever its geopolitical merits, the “madman theory” transfers badly to economics

56. Don’t propose with a diamondЧт, 06 фев[-/+]
Lab-grown gems may destroy both their own value and that of natural rocks, too

57. How to invest like a MAGA bigwigСр, 05 фев[-/+]
Cannabis, crypto or half of North Dakota?

58. Xi Jinping shows how he will return American fireВт, 04 фев[-/+]
China’s trade retaliation carries a warning of worse to come

59. How Trump’s tariff turbulence will cause economic painВт, 04 фев[-/+]
Mexico and Canada win a reprieve, but firms remain rattled

60. Trump’s brutal tariffs far outstrip any he has imposed beforeВс, 02 фев[-/+]
Canada, Mexico and China are going to be made to suffer

61. Why your portfolio is less diversified than you might thinkЧт, 30 янв[-/+]
The most important idea in modern finance has become maddeningly hard to implement

62. Can Germany’s economy stage an unexpected recovery?Чт, 30 янв[-/+]
The situation is dire, but there are glimmers of hope

63. Giorgia Meloni has grand banking ambitionsЧт, 30 янв[-/+]
Will Italy’s nationalist prime minister manage to concentrate financial power?

64. Tech tycoons have got the economics of AI wrongЧт, 30 янв[-/+]
Following DeepSeek’s breakthrough, the Jevons paradox provides less comfort than they imagine

65. Donald Trump’s economic warfare has a new frontЧт, 30 янв[-/+]
The president has threatened to blow up the global tax system. Will allies be able to stop him?

66. Don’t let Donald Trump see our Big Mac indexСр, 29 янв[-/+]
America’s tariff-loving president could learn the wrong lessons from international burger prices

67. Will America’s crypto frenzy end in disaster?Вс, 26 янв[-/+]
Donald Trump’s team is about to bring digital finance into the mainstream

68. Do tariffs raise inflation?Чт, 23 янв[-/+]
Usually. But the bigger problem is that they harm economic growth and innovation

69. European governments struggle to stop rich people from fleeingЧт, 23 янв[-/+]
Exit taxes are popular, and counter-productive

70. Saba Capital wages war on underperforming British investment trustsЧт, 23 янв[-/+]
How many will end up in Boaz Weinstein’s sights?

71. Has Japan truly escaped low inflation?Чт, 23 янв[-/+]
Its central bankers are increasingly hopeful

72. How American bankers dodged the MAGA carnageЧт, 23 янв[-/+]
The masters of the universe have escaped an anti-globalist revolt

73. China’s financial system is under brutal pressureЧт, 23 янв[-/+]
When will something break?

74. The Arctic: climate change’s great economic opportunityЧт, 23 янв[-/+]
An enormous prize is on offer. When might it be grasped?

75. Donald Trump issues fresh tariff threatsВт, 21 янв[-/+]
But it may be a while before he unleashes a universal levy

76. China meets its official growth target. Not everyone is convincedПт, 17 янв[-/+]
For one thing, 2024 saw the second-weakest rise in nominal GDP since the 1970s

77. Ethiopia gets a stockmarket. Now it just needs some firms to listЧт, 16 янв[-/+]
The country is no longer the most populous without a bourse

78. Are big cities overrated?Чт, 16 янв[-/+]
New economic research suggests so

79. Why catastrophe bonds are failing to cover disaster damageЧт, 16 янв[-/+]
The innovative form of insurance is reaching its limits

80. “The Traitors”, a reality TV show, offers a useful economics lessonЧт, 16 янв[-/+]
It is a finite, sequential, incomplete information game

81. Will Donald Trump unleash Wall Street?Ср, 15 янв[-/+]
Bankers have plenty of reason to be hopeful

82. Iran is vulnerable to a Trumpian all-out economic assaultПн, 13 янв[-/+]
Oil prices are already at a five-month high

83. Why global bond markets are convulsingВс, 12 янв[-/+]
Pity anyone taking out a mortgage

84. The Los Angeles fires will be extraordinarily expensiveСб, 11 янв[-/+]
They will also expose California’s faulty insurance market

85. Europe could be torn apart by new divisionsЧт, 09 янв[-/+]
The continent is at its most vulnerable in decades

86. How corporate bonds fell out of fashionЧт, 09 янв[-/+]
The market is at its hottest in years—and a shadow of its former self

87. An American purchase of Greenland could be the deal of the centuryСр, 08 янв[-/+]
The economics of buying new territory

88. China’s markets take a fresh beatingВт, 07 янв[-/+]
Authorities have responded by bossing around investors

89. Can America’s economy cope with mass deportations?Пн, 06 янв[-/+]
Production slowdowns, more imports and pricier housing could follow

90. Would an artificial-intelligence bubble be so bad?Чт, 02 янв[-/+]
A new book by Byrne Hobart and Tobias Huber argues there are advantages to financial mania

91. Will Elon Musk dominate President Trump’s economic policy?Чт, 02 янв[-/+]
He will face challenges from both America firsters and conservative mainstreamers

92. What investors expect from President TrumpСр, 01 янв[-/+]
Shareholders are over the moon; bondholders are readying the whip hand

93. China’s firms are taking flight, worrying its rulersВс, 29 дек 2024[-/+]
Policymakers at home and abroad are anxious about offshoring

94. Manmohan Singh was India’s economic freedom fighterСб, 28 дек 2024[-/+]
India’s most consequential finance minister, who later became PM, has died aged 92

95. Why fine wine and fancy art have slumped this yearПт, 27 дек 2024[-/+]
Investing in luxury goods was a bad move in 2024

96. Just how frothy is America’s stockmarket?Вс, 22 дек 2024[-/+]
We crunch the numbers to assess just how euphoric investors became in 2024

97. Don’t count on monetary policy to make housing affordableЧт, 19 дек 2024[-/+]
Unless housebuilding picks up, neither cheap nor dear money will bring relief

98. Why Brazil’s currency is plungingЧт, 19 дек 2024[-/+]
Fiscal and monetary policy are now pitted against one another

99. The search for the world’s most efficient charitiesЧт, 19 дек 2024[-/+]
What the data say about doing good well

100. Conflict is remaking the Middle East’s economic orderЧт, 19 дек 2024[-/+]
Iran is boxed in as Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Turkey look to capitalise

101. Ukraine is winning the economic war against RussiaСр, 18 дек 2024[-/+]
Whether that lasts depends on its ability to overcome acute shortages of power, men and money

102. The World Bank is struggling to serve all 78 poor countriesЧт, 12 дек 2024[-/+]
Bangladesh and Niger are very different places

103. The Federal Reserve takes on Trump—and stubborn inflationЧт, 12 дек 2024[-/+]
Time for Jerome Powell to enter the octagon

104. What a censored speech says about China’s economyЧт, 12 дек 2024[-/+]
If growth is on target, why is inflation so low?

105. Bitcoin is up by 138% this year. It is a nonsense-free rallyЧт, 12 дек 2024[-/+]
The link between digital assets and mainstream finance is strengthening

106. Which economy did best in 2024?Вт, 10 дек 2024[-/+]
We rank countries on five measures

107. Are adults forgetting how to read?Вт, 10 дек 2024[-/+]
A survey by the OECD suggests so

108. How much oil can Trump pump?Пн, 09 дек 2024[-/+]
The president-elect wants to be the ultimate energy baron

109. The hidden cost of Chinese loansЧт, 05 дек 2024[-/+]
Governments that borrow from China must pay more to borrow from others

110. Xi Jinping’s campaign against gambling is a failureЧт, 05 дек 2024[-/+]
Chinese citizens go to great lengths to bet

111. How sports gambling became ubiquitousЧт, 05 дек 2024[-/+]
Europe is at the centre of the industry’s growth

112. Cronyism is a problem. But not always an economic oneЧт, 05 дек 2024[-/+]
Research on the topic is surprisingly nuanced

113. France is not alone in its fiscal woesЧт, 05 дек 2024[-/+]
Deficits look worryingly wide across Europe

114. MAGA types have a point on debankingЧт, 05 дек 2024[-/+]
A booming compliance industry is causing problems

115. How China will strike back at TrumpВс, 01 дек 2024[-/+]
Xi Jinping has set out his tariff red lines. What if America crosses them?

116. Russia’s plunging currency spells trouble for its war effortВс, 01 дек 2024[-/+]
Supplies from China are about to become more expensive

117. The great-man theory of Wall StreetЧт, 28 ноя 2024[-/+]
Why finance is still dominated by bold individuals

118. Hong Kong’s property slump may be terminalЧт, 28 ноя 2024[-/+]
Demographics and geopolitics will make a recovery harder

119. Why everyone wants to lend to weak companiesЧт, 28 ноя 2024[-/+]
An unanticipated side-effect of Donald Trump’s election victory

120. American veterans now receive absurdly generous benefitsЧт, 28 ноя 2024[-/+]
An enormous rise in disability payments may complicate debt-reduction efforts

121. Why Black Friday sales grow more annoying every yearЧт, 28 ноя 2024[-/+]
Nobody is to blame. Everyone suffers

122. Trump wastes no time in reigniting trade warsВт, 26 ноя 2024[-/+]
Canada and Mexico look likely to suffer

123. How Trump, Starmer and Macron can avoid a debt crunchВс, 24 ноя 2024[-/+]
With deficits soaring, their finance ministers will have to be smart

124. What Scott Bessent’s appointment means for the Trump administrationСб, 23 ноя 2024[-/+]
The president-elect’s nominee for treasury secretary faces a gruelling job

125. What Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders get wrong about credit cardsЧт, 21 ноя 2024[-/+]
Forget interest rates. Rewards are the real problem

126. Computers unleashed economic growth. Will artificial intelligence?Чт, 21 ноя 2024[-/+]
Two years after ChatGPT-3.5 arrived, progress has been slower than expected

127. Should investors just give up on stocks outside America?Чт, 21 ноя 2024[-/+]
No, but it is getting a lot harder to keep the faith

128. Is China really a nation of slackers?Чт, 21 ноя 2024[-/+]
A new survey raises the question

129. Donald Trump’s gas war is about to beginЧт, 21 ноя 2024[-/+]
It could annoy some of his most loyal supporters

130. Our Big Mac index shows how burger prices differ across bordersСр, 20 ноя 2024[-/+]
Using patty-power parity to think about exchange rates

131. Vladimir Putin is in a painful economic bindПн, 18 ноя 2024[-/+]
Russia’s reliance on China is becoming a problem

132. How to make Elon Musk’s budget-slashing dreams come trueВс, 17 ноя 2024[-/+]
We offer some suggestions

133. Economists need new indicators of economic miseryЧт, 14 ноя 2024[-/+]
Existing measures of discomfort are failing to predict elections

134. Why financial markets are so oddly calmЧт, 14 ноя 2024[-/+]
Indicators of market volatility have plunged

135. How to pay for the poor world to go greenЧт, 14 ноя 2024[-/+]
Rich countries need not reinvent the wheel

136. The biggest losers from TrumponomicsЧт, 14 ноя 2024[-/+]
America’s president-elect wants to reshape trade, capital and labour flows

137. What does America’s next treasury secretary believe?Вт, 12 ноя 2024[-/+]
We take a look at the leading contenders for the job

138. Why crypto mania is reaching new heightsВт, 12 ноя 2024[-/+]
Are bitcoin bros right to be so thrilled by Donald Trump’s victory?

139. America’s strengthening dollar will rattle the rest of the worldВс, 10 ноя 2024[-/+]
Donald Trump’s policies could send the greenback soaring

140. What betting markets got right and wrong about Trump’s victoryЧт, 07 ноя 2024[-/+]
They might have simply been lucky, or biased

141. Big Macs, strawberry jam and the wealth of nationsЧт, 07 ноя 2024[-/+]
Alan Heston, a pioneer in comparing economies, died on October 25th

142. India is undergoing an astonishing stockmarket revolutionЧт, 07 ноя 2024[-/+]
Small investors, rejoice—and beware

143. Barbarians on the porchЧт, 07 ноя 2024[-/+]
Private markets are going mainstream

144. Sanctions are sinking Russia’s flagship gas projectЧт, 07 ноя 2024[-/+]
Whether that lasts is up to Donald Trump

145. The return of Trumponomics excites markets but frightens the worldСр, 06 ноя 2024[-/+]
It may bring stronger growth, higher inflation and a global trade war

146. Why investors’ “Trump trade” might be flawedВс, 03 ноя 2024[-/+]
Markets are betting Trump 2.0 would boost the dollar. It could fall instead

147. Greenland faces one of history’s great resource rushes—and cursesЧт, 31 окт 2024[-/+]
The territory sits on an astounding number of critical minerals

148. Ireland’s government has an unusual problem: too much moneyЧт, 31 окт 2024[-/+]
A tax windfall has added to already overflowing coffers

149. American men are getting back to workЧт, 31 окт 2024[-/+]
The ultra-gloomy picture painted by politicians is no longer accurate

150. Why China needs to fill its empty homesЧт, 31 окт 2024[-/+]
The country’s economy is broken. A recovery requires a healthier property market

151. Sin taxes are suffering from a shortage of sinnersЧт, 31 окт 2024[-/+]
Governments across the rich world are looking for alternatives

152. Will bond vigilantes come for America’s next president?Ср, 30 окт 2024[-/+]
Treasury yields are rising ominously

153. Donald Trump would leave Asia with only bad optionsСр, 30 окт 2024[-/+]
The continent’s policymakers are too relaxed about the risks

154. America’s glorious economy should help Kamala HarrisВс, 27 окт 2024[-/+]
Voters are starting to notice the good news just in time for the election

155. The economics of thinness (Ozempic edition)Чт, 24 окт 2024[-/+]
Will skinny still be desirable when it is more easily achieved by the masses?

156. Investors should not fear a stockmarket crashЧт, 24 окт 2024[-/+]
Take a long view, and shares are a lot less risky than many realise

157. How bad are video games for your grades?Чт, 24 окт 2024[-/+]
Chinese students provide an answer

158. What the surging price of gold says about a dangerous worldВт, 22 окт 2024[-/+]
Financial fears and geopolitical tremors combine to great effect

159. Hizbullah’s sprawling financial empire looks newly vulnerableПн, 21 окт 2024[-/+]
Why Israel is now bombing Lebanese banks

160. The West faces new inflation fearsВс, 20 окт 2024[-/+]
Having moved in lockstep, America and Europe now have very different concerns

161. Trump’s trillion-dollar tax cuts are spiralling out of controlЧт, 17 окт 2024[-/+]
His zany promises would blow up the deficit

162. Inside the secret oil trade that funds Iran’s warsЧт, 17 окт 2024[-/+]
An investigation by The Economist uncovers a multi-billion-dollar, America-defying network

163. Germany’s economy goes from bad to worseВт, 15 окт 2024[-/+]
Things may look brighter next year, but the relief will be short-lived

164. An economics Nobel for work on why nations succeed and failПн, 14 окт 2024[-/+]
Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson and James Robinson tackled the most important question of all

165. Why investors should still avoid Chinese stocksПн, 14 окт 2024[-/+]
The debate about “uninvestability” obscures something important

166. China’s property crisis claims more victims: companiesЧт, 10 окт 2024[-/+]
Unsold homes are contributing to a balance-sheet recession

167. Europe’s green trade restrictions are infuriating poor countriesЧт, 10 окт 2024[-/+]
Only the poorest can expect help to cushion the blow

168. How America learned to love tariffsЧт, 10 окт 2024[-/+]
Protectionism hasn’t been this respectable for decades

169. Why have markets grown more captivated by data releases?Чт, 10 окт 2024[-/+]
Especially when the quality of statistics is deteriorating

170. Can the world’s most influential business index be fixed?Чт, 10 окт 2024[-/+]
Two cheers for the World Bank’s new global business survey

171. Can markets reduce pollution in India?Чт, 10 окт 2024[-/+]
An experiment in Gujarat yields impressive results

172. Could war in the Gulf push oil to $100 a barrel?Пн, 07 окт 2024[-/+]
Missiles are flying over a region that supplies a third of the world’s crude

173. How bond investors soured on FranceВс, 06 окт 2024[-/+]
They now regard the euro zone’s second-largest economy as riskier than Spain

174. Can Andrea Orcel, Europe’s star banker, create a super-bank?Чт, 03 окт 2024[-/+]
An interview with the boss of UniCredit

175. Why economic warfare nearly always misses its targetЧт, 03 окт 2024[-/+]
There is no such thing as a strategic commodity

176. A tonne of public debt is never made publicЧт, 03 окт 2024[-/+]
New research suggests governments routinely hide their borrowing

177. Xi Jinping’s belated stimulus has reset the mood in Chinese marketsСр, 02 окт 2024[-/+]
But can the buying frenzy last?

178. The house-price supercycle is just getting goingВт, 01 окт 2024[-/+]
Why property prices could keep rising for years

179. Why is Canada’s economy falling behind America’s?Пн, 30 сен 2024[-/+]
The country was slightly richer than Montana in 2019. Now it is just poorer than Alabama

180. At last, China pulls the trigger on a bold stimulus packageПт, 27 сен 2024[-/+]
“Buy everything,” says an American hedge fund

181. Why the Federal Reserve is split on the future of interest ratesЧт, 26 сен 2024[-/+]
Jerome Powell began with a big cut. What comes next?

182. A Wall Street state of mind has captured AmericaЧт, 26 сен 2024[-/+]
Downtown New York is quieter than ever. Finance has never been louder

183. Is the world sleepwalking into another gas crisis?Чт, 26 сен 2024[-/+]
Prices could once again spike this winter

184. How lower American interest rates will boost AfricaЧт, 26 сен 2024[-/+]
One of the world’s worst-named financial instruments is newly relevant

185. Can Israel’s economy survive an all-out war with Hizbullah?Вт, 24 сен 2024[-/+]
The country’s banks are experiencing capital flight

186. China’s central bank tries to save the economy—and the stockmarketВт, 24 сен 2024[-/+]
But it will need more help from the government

187. Governments are bigger than ever. They are also more uselessПн, 23 сен 2024[-/+]
Why voters across the rich world are miserable

188. The world’s poorest countries have experienced a brutal decadeЧт, 19 сен 2024[-/+]
Why has development ground to a halt?

189. European regulators are about to become more politicalЧт, 19 сен 2024[-/+]
That will worry many in Silicon Valley

190. What the history of money tells you about crypto’s futureЧт, 19 сен 2024[-/+]
The thread from shipwrecks and sheep flocks to digital currencies

191. Why the Federal Reserve has gambled on a big interest-rate cutСр, 18 сен 2024[-/+]
The bold move carries economic and political risks

192. The Federal Reserve’s interest-rate cuts may disappoint investorsПн, 16 сен 2024[-/+]
Jerome Powell could still surprise on the hawkish side

193. How China’s communists fell in love with privatisationВс, 15 сен 2024[-/+]
Even though they are not very good at it

194. Norway’s weak currency presents a mysteryЧт, 12 сен 2024[-/+]
The country’s economy is thriving yet the krone is becoming less and less valuable. What’s going on?

195. An American sovereign-wealth fund is a risky ideaЧт, 12 сен 2024[-/+]
Donald Trump’s latest proposal has worryingly broad support

196. Can bonds keep beating stocks?Чт, 12 сен 2024[-/+]
After a terrible couple of months for shareholders, lenders are feeling smug

197. Why orange juice has never been more expensiveЧт, 12 сен 2024[-/+]
Pity those who rely on the breakfast staple

198. The IMF has a protest problemЧт, 12 сен 2024[-/+]
Does it give up—or insist on painful reforms?

199. China’s government is surprisingly redistributiveЧт, 12 сен 2024[-/+]
That is despite a stingy tax-and-transfer system

200. Strangely, America’s companies will soon face higher interest ratesСр, 11 сен 2024[-/+]
Even though the Federal Reserve is about to loosen monetary policy

201. Can anything spark Europe’s economy back to life?Пн, 09 сен 2024[-/+]
Mario Draghi, the continent’s unofficial chief technocrat, has a plan

202. Has social media broken the stockmarket?Чт, 05 сен 2024[-/+]
That is the contention of Cliff Asness, one of the great quant investors

203. American office delinquencies are shooting upЧт, 05 сен 2024[-/+]
How worried should investors be?

204. China is suffering from a crisis of confidenceЧт, 05 сен 2024[-/+]
Can anything perk up its economy?

205. America has a huge deficit. Which candidate would make it worse?Чт, 05 сен 2024[-/+]
Enough policies have been proposed to make a call

206. Why Oasis fans should welcome price-gougingЧт, 05 сен 2024[-/+]
There are worse things in life than paying a fair price

207. As stock prices fall, investors prepare for an autumn chillСр, 04 сен 2024[-/+]
Markets are in a very different place from earlier in the year

208. Will interest-rate cuts turbocharge oil prices?Пн, 02 сен 2024[-/+]
As policymakers prepare to ease policy, traders (and presidential candidates) hold their breath

209. Can Japan’s zombie bond market be brought back to life?Чт, 29 авг 2024[-/+]
Ueda Kazuo begins on a dangerous mission

210. The plasma trade is becoming ever-more hypocriticalЧт, 29 авг 2024[-/+]
Reliance on America grows, as other countries clutch their pearls

211. Are American rents rigged by algorithms?Чт, 29 авг 2024[-/+]
That is what Department of Justice prosecutors allege

212. Inflation is down and a recession is unlikely. What went right?Чт, 29 авг 2024[-/+]
A few years ago, nobody thought that a soft landing was possible

213. How Vladimir Putin hopes to transform Russian tradeСр, 28 авг 2024[-/+]
He believes the country’s future lies with China and India. What could go wrong?

214. Vast government debts are riskier than they appearВт, 27 авг 2024[-/+]
A provocative new paper gets central bankers talking at Jackson Hole

215. Jerome Powell (almost) declares victory over inflationПт, 23 авг 2024[-/+]
The Federal Reserve chairman strikes a notably doveish tone

216. Investors should avoid a new generation of rip-off ETFsЧт, 22 авг 2024[-/+]
Some proposals may even be a risk to financial stability

217. Why investors are not buying Europe’s revivalЧт, 22 авг 2024[-/+]
Even though the continent’s stocks are in a “sweet spot”

218. America’s recession signals are flashing red. Don’t believe themЧт, 22 авг 2024[-/+]
We assess a range of measures

219. America’s anti-price-gouging laws are too minor to be communistЧт, 22 авг 2024[-/+]
No matter what critics of Kamala Harris allege

220. Why don’t women use artificial intelligence?Ср, 21 авг 2024[-/+]
Even when in the same jobs, men are much more likely to turn to the tech

221. Kamala Harris’s cost-of-living plan will end in failureВт, 20 авг 2024[-/+]
She is the latest presidential candidate to embrace self-defeating economics

222. Artificial intelligence is losing hypeПн, 19 авг 2024[-/+]
For some, that is proof the tech will in time succeed. Are they right?

223. Europe’s economic growth is extremely fragileЧт, 15 авг 2024[-/+]
Risk is concentrated in one country: Germany

224. How vulnerable is Israel to sanctions?Чт, 15 авг 2024[-/+]
So far, measures have had little effect. That could change

225. Why companies get inflation wrongЧт, 15 авг 2024[-/+]
Bosses should pay less attention to the media

226. What is behind China’s perplexing bond-market intervention?Ср, 14 авг 2024[-/+]
The central bank seems to think the government’s debt is too popular

227. How to invest in chaotic marketsВт, 13 авг 2024[-/+]
Contrary to popular wisdom, even retail investors should pay attention to volatility

228. Vladimir Putin spends big—and sends Russia’s economy soaringВс, 11 авг 2024[-/+]
How long can the party last?

229. Africa’s two most populous economies brave tough reformsЧт, 08 авг 2024[-/+]
Will Ethiopia and Nigeria be able to stick to them?

230. Should central bankers argue in public?Чт, 08 авг 2024[-/+]
Division is not always a weakness

231. Why Warren Buffett has built a mighty cash mountainЧт, 08 авг 2024[-/+]
Berkshire Hathaway’s boss is an impressive investor, not an economic oracle

232. How Chinese shoppers downgraded their ambitionЧт, 08 авг 2024[-/+]
The trend will dismay the country’s policymakers

233. A global recession is not in prospectСр, 07 авг 2024[-/+]
That will be a relief to investors everywhere

234. The Big Mac index: where to buy a cheap hamburgerСр, 07 авг 2024[-/+]
Meat-eaters may want to avoid Argentina

235. The stockmarket rout may not be overВт, 06 авг 2024[-/+]
As investors pause for breath, we assess what could turn a correction into a crash

236. Why Japanese stocks are on a rollercoaster rideВт, 06 авг 2024[-/+]
Volatility in global markets continues

237. Why Japanese markets have plummetedПн, 05 авг 2024[-/+]
The global rout continues, with the Topix experiencing its worst day since 1987

238. Why fear is sweeping markets everywhereПт, 02 авг 2024[-/+]
American and Japanese indices have taken a battering. So have banks and gold

239. India’s economic policy will not make it richЧт, 01 авг 2024[-/+]
A new World Bank report takes aim at emerging-market growth plans

240. Wanted: new business, finance and economics internsЧт, 01 авг 2024[-/+]
The Economist invites applications for the 2024-25 Marjorie Deane internship

241. Which cities have the worst overtourism problem?Чт, 01 авг 2024[-/+]
We rank popular destinations on two measures

242. Gary Gensler is the most controversial man in American financeЧт, 01 авг 2024[-/+]
Donald Trump is just the latest to take a swing. In an interview with The Economist, the SEC chair defends his record

243. EU handouts have long been wasteful. Now they must be fixedЧт, 01 авг 2024[-/+]
New research highlights their failures

244. Investors beware: summer madness is hereЧт, 01 авг 2024[-/+]
This year’s hottest months are shaping up to be especially wild

245. China’s last boomtowns show rapid growth is still possibleВт, 30 июл 2024[-/+]
All it takes is for the state to work with the market

246. What the war on tourism gets wrongПн, 29 июл 2024[-/+]
Visitors are a boon, if managed wisely

247. Why investors are unwise to bet on electionsЧт, 25 июл 2024[-/+]
Turning a profit from political news is a lot harder than it looks

248. Revisiting the work of Donald Harris, father of KamalaЧт, 25 июл 2024[-/+]
The combative Marxist economist focused on questions related to growth

249. Donald Trump wants a weaker dollar. What are his options?Чт, 25 июл 2024[-/+]
All come with their own drawbacks

250. Why is Xi Jinping building secret commodity stockpiles?Вт, 23 июл 2024[-/+]
Vast new holdings of grain, natural gas and oil suggest trouble ahead

251. How Vladimir Putin created a housing bubbleПн, 22 июл 2024[-/+]
Prices have risen by 172% in Russia’s biggest cities over the past three years

252. The rich world revolts against sky-high immigrationВс, 21 июл 2024[-/+]
Moderates want to limit numbers. Radicals want mass deportations. What will be the economic consequence?

253. Japan’s strength produces a weak yenЧт, 18 июл 2024[-/+]
Currency meddling will prove futile

254. At last, Wall Street has something to cheerЧт, 18 июл 2024[-/+]
Consumer banks, on the other hand, are starting to suffer

255. Americans are wrong to wish for an era of stable bipartisanshipЧт, 18 июл 2024[-/+]
Even though political instability is an economic threat

256. Why investors have fallen in love with small American firmsЧт, 18 июл 2024[-/+]
The Russell 2000 puts in a historic performance

257. YIMBY cities show how to build homes and contain rentsСр, 17 июл 2024[-/+]
But to take full advantage of deregulation, Austin and Auckland need other changes

258. Stocks are on an astonishing run. Yet threats lurkВт, 16 июл 2024[-/+]
We assess what could bring the bull market to an end

259. China’s leaders face miserable economic-growth figuresПн, 15 июл 2024[-/+]
Reality intruded at the “third plenum”, intended to discuss long-term reforms

260. Xi Jinping really is unshakeably committed to the private sectorЧт, 11 июл 2024[-/+]
He balances that with being unshakeably committed to state-owned enterprises, too

261. The dangerous rise of pension nationalismЧт, 11 июл 2024[-/+]
Pursuing domestic investment at the expense of returns is reckless

262. Europe prepares for a mighty trade warЧт, 11 июл 2024[-/+]
Will it be able to stick to its rule-abiding principles?

263. Betting markets are useful when politics is chaoticЧт, 11 июл 2024[-/+]
Why, then, are they largely outlawed in America?

264. Trumponomics would not be as bad as most expectЧт, 11 июл 2024[-/+]
Opposition would come from all angles

265. How strongmen abuse tools for fighting financial crimeВт, 09 июл 2024[-/+]
They can get Western governments and banks to crack down on exiled dissidents

266. Why Chinese banks are now vanishingЧт, 04 июл 2024[-/+]
The state is struggling to deal with troubled institutions

267. How Starbucks caffeinates local economiesЧт, 04 июл 2024[-/+]
Call it the frappuccino effect

268. How much cash should be removed from the financial system?Чт, 04 июл 2024[-/+]
Undoing quantitative easing provokes fierce debate

269. America’s banks are more exposed to a downturn than they appearЧт, 04 июл 2024[-/+]
To understand why, consider the ouroboros theory of financial risk

270. What happened to the artificial-intelligence revolution?Вт, 02 июл 2024[-/+]
So far the technology has had almost no economic impact

271. Ukraine has a month to avoid defaultВс, 30 июн 2024[-/+]
Lending to a borrower at war entails an additional gamble: that it will win

272. The economics of the tennis v pickleball contestЧт, 27 июн 2024[-/+]
Don’t hate the new players—or the new game

273. Is coal the new gold?Чт, 27 июн 2024[-/+]
The world’s dirtiest fuel is a disturbingly safe investment

274. How Chinese goods dodge American tariffsЧт, 27 июн 2024[-/+]
Policymakers are unsure what to do about a tricky loophole

275. American stocks are consuming global marketsЧт, 27 июн 2024[-/+]
That does not necessarily spell trouble

276. McDonald’s v Burger King: what a price war means for inflationСр, 26 июн 2024[-/+]
American consumers will be licking their lips. So will Federal Reserve officials

277. Will services make the world rich?Пн, 24 июн 2024[-/+]
American fried chicken can now be served from the Philippines

278. Is America approaching peak tip?Чт, 20 июн 2024[-/+]
The country’s gratuity madness may soon calm, so long as Donald Trump does not get his way

279. America’s rich never sell their assets. How should they be taxed?Чт, 20 июн 2024[-/+]
It is tempting to tax them during their lives. It is wiser to do so after their deaths

280. Indian state capitalism looks to be in troubleЧт, 20 июн 2024[-/+]
A weakened Narendra Modi is bad news for investors in government-controlled firms

281. Europe faces an unusual problem: ultra-cheap energyЧт, 20 июн 2024[-/+]
The continent is failing to adapt to a renewables boom

282. Think Nvidia looks dear? American shares could get pricier stillСр, 19 июн 2024[-/+]
Investors are willing to follow whichever narrative paints the rosiest picture

283. How bad could things get in France?Вт, 18 июн 2024[-/+]
The country’s next prime minister faces a brutal fiscal crunch

284. Why house prices are surging once againВс, 16 июн 2024[-/+]
In America, Australia and parts of Europe, property markets have shrugged off higher interest rates

285. China’s currency is not as influential as once imaginedЧт, 13 июн 2024[-/+]
Its share of international reserves has stalled

286. The cracks in America’s ultra-strong labour marketЧт, 13 июн 2024[-/+]
With a big discrepancy in jobs data, the economy may be weaker than it seems

287. Rumours of the trade deal’s death are greatly exaggeratedЧт, 13 июн 2024[-/+]
Plenty of countries are in a dealmaking rush

288. Does motherhood hurt women’s pay?Чт, 13 июн 2024[-/+]
Two new studies suggest not—at least in the long run, and in Scandinavia

289. Has private credit’s golden age already ended?Чт, 13 июн 2024[-/+]
A more competitive market is a less profitable one

290. Donald Trump’s trade hawk is plotting behind barsВт, 11 июн 2024[-/+]
Peter Navarro’s dark vision of the global economy could shape Trump 2

291. China is distorting its stockmarket by trying to prop it upПн, 10 июн 2024[-/+]
State purchases of shares are bad enough, but other measures are far more destructive

292. Want to avoid woke stockmarket rules? List in TexasЧт, 06 июн 2024[-/+]
The Lone Star State is ready to take on New York

293. European banks are making heady profits in RussiaЧт, 06 июн 2024[-/+]
But for how much longer?

294. Why global GDP might be $7trn bigger than everyone thoughtЧт, 06 июн 2024[-/+]
The discovery has perturbed Chinese officials

295. Should you buy expensive stocks?Ср, 05 июн 2024[-/+]
A new paper suggests the answer is “yes”

296. Is America’s economy heading for a consumer crunch?Вт, 04 июн 2024[-/+]
Warning signs have started to appear. But there are reasons for optimism

297. China’s economic model retains a dangerous allureПн, 03 июн 2024[-/+]
Despite the country’s current struggles, autocrats elsewhere see a lot to admire

298. When to sell your stocksЧт, 30 мая 2024[-/+]
Poker provides investors with helpful guidance

299. Young collectors are fuelling a boom in Basquiat-backed loansЧт, 30 мая 2024[-/+]
Auction houses are on a lending spree

300. Xi Jinping’s surprising new source of economic adviceЧт, 30 мая 2024[-/+]
What China’s leader may learn from a pair of reform-minded academics


 
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