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Hormuz is (apparently) unblocked. Energy markets remain a mess


Date : Friday April 17, 2026 Mines, mistrust and missing ships will keep markets tight for months ...

Global imbalances are back. Who’s to blame?


Date : Thursday April 16, 2026 The suspects look familiar ...

Pakistan’s deft diplomacy is an economic blessing. And a curse


Date : Thursday April 16, 2026 It allows the country’s rulers to put off necessary reforms ...

War will drain the Gulf’s $6trn treasure chest


Date : Wednesday April 15, 2026 The conflict complicates life for the custodians of Middle Eastern oil fortunes ...

How to build a portfolio when bonds fail to buffer stocks


Date : Tuesday April 14, 2026 The classic hedge has fallen apart, but don’t dump it just yet ...

The tech jobs bust is real. Don’t blame AI (yet)


Date : Monday April 13, 2026 Why technology firms are shedding workers ...

America’s next Fed chair is caught in a vice


Date : Sunday April 12, 2026 Inflation was heating up even before the war in Iran ...

One neat trick to end extreme poverty


Date : Thursday April 09, 2026 An age-old problem might have a surprisingly simple solution ...

Can the secondary market allay private-credit fears?


Date : Thursday April 09, 2026 In the short run, a bit. In the long run, a lot more ...

The latest Italian banking whodunnit has it all


Date : Thursday April 09, 2026 A a coup, a conspiracy and even a (possibly unrelated) corpse ...

South Korea’s AI industrial policy meets the energy shock


Date : Thursday April 09, 2026 The collision will not be pretty ...

The third Gulf war will scar energy markets for a long time yet


Date : Wednesday April 08, 2026 Residual risks and ruined infrastructure will keep prices high ...

Bye, bye to the Trump trades


Date : Tuesday April 07, 2026 Markets are calling time on many Donald-adjacent bets ...

How the Iran war has sowed panic among farmers


Date : Tuesday April 07, 2026 Soaring prices for fertiliser and fuel could cause a global food shock ...

As Iran’s civilian economy crumbles, its military economy grows stronger


Date : Monday April 06, 2026 War has split the country in two  ...

Inflation or recession? The tug of war in bond markets


Date : Sunday April 05, 2026 Governments’ borrowing costs are being pulled in opposite directions ...

“Liberation Day” has reshaped trade—but not as Donald Trump hoped


Date : Wednesday April 01, 2026 In many ways, global commerce has strengthened ...

Can a country get too rich?


Date : Wednesday April 01, 2026 Norway shows the potential pitfalls of uncommon prosperity ...

Coal is back in fashion


Date : Tuesday March 31, 2026 An LNG crunch is good news for the world’s dirtiest fuel ...

After Iran, gold is looking less glittery


Date : Monday March 30, 2026 Is the yellow metal the new crypto? ...

How Iran is making a mint from Donald Trump’s war


Date : Sunday March 29, 2026 China is helping the Revolutionary Guards profit from Iranian crude ...

The decline and fall of the Roman currency empire


Date : Thursday March 26, 2026 The fate of ancient coins offers uncomfortable lessons about dollar dominance ...

Christine Lagarde’s sober tone on the Gulf war energy shock


Date : Thursday March 26, 2026 Our interview with the ECB’s president ...

Markets are gripped by an alarming cognitive dissonance


Date : Tuesday March 24, 2026 Investors all seem to think everyone else is wrong ...

China’s new masterplan for its tech economy in 2030 and beyond


Date : Tuesday March 24, 2026 The Communist Party’s technological ambition is breathtaking ...

How high could global inflation go?


Date : Monday March 23, 2026 With luck, the Iran war won’t cause a recession. But the surge in energy prices will push up the cost of living ...

Westerners are fleeing their countries in record numbers


Date : Sunday March 22, 2026 This will have economic consequences for the places they flee and their destinations ...

Even the best-case scenario for energy markets is disastrous


Date : Sunday March 22, 2026 Whatever happens, high prices will outlive the Iran war ...

America may be a petrostate. But the energy shock still hurts


Date : Thursday March 19, 2026 And further angers economically frustrated citizens ...

Which country is the biggest loser from the energy shock?


Date : Thursday March 19, 2026 We rank the poor world’s exposure and buffers ...

The new economics of sex work


Date : Thursday March 19, 2026 As the sex economy grows, it deserves serious analysis ...

What if Donald Trump decided to ban oil exports?


Date : Wednesday March 18, 2026 Trying to keep prices low that way could backfire spectacularly ...

Will South Korea’s epic bull market survive the energy shock?


Date : Tuesday March 17, 2026 Probably, but investors should brace for more volatility ...

China cannot escape the energy shock


Date : Tuesday March 17, 2026 Despite renewables and reserves, it will suffer ...

The Iran war is roiling commodities far beyond oil


Date : Monday March 16, 2026 Shortages of fuels and chemicals threaten industries from farming to pharmaceuticals ...

Why investors won’t know what to make of AI for a while


Date : Thursday March 12, 2026 Markets always struggle to price technological revolutions ...

Liquefied natural gas: the overlooked economic chokepoint


Date : Wednesday March 11, 2026 Alternatives to Gulf supplies are scarce ...

Donald Trump’s options to cool oil prices are sorely limited


Date : Tuesday March 10, 2026 He says he has a plan. It would need to be very cunning ...

Time to buy the most rubbish stocks you can find


Date : Tuesday March 10, 2026 The dash for trash ...

The Iran energy shock reverberates across financial markets


Date : Monday March 09, 2026 For investors, the war is like the invasion of Ukraine all over again ...

The Iran war puts Asia in an energy panic


Date : Sunday March 08, 2026 Stranded Gulf supplies are choking off the region’s economies ...

Would America be in recession without the super-rich?


Date : Sunday March 08, 2026 American anxieties are K-shaped. The economy is more like a slash-mark ...

To understand why countries grow, look at their firms


Date : Thursday March 05, 2026 The third way in development economics ...

India’s economy is not as big as economists thought


Date : Thursday March 05, 2026 But it is growing faster ...

Americans’ electricity bills are up. Don’t blame AI


Date : Thursday March 05, 2026 Were it not for data centres, prices might be even higher ...

European pensions are a $30trn missed opportunity


Date : Wednesday March 04, 2026 If only more countries went Dutch ...

Why war isn’t always good for defence stocks


Date : Tuesday March 03, 2026 They win only if governments want just enough weapons—but not too many ...

The nightmare war scenario is becoming reality in energy markets


Date : Tuesday March 03, 2026 The longer the war in the Gulf, the harsher the global economic fallout ...

War in Iran could cause the biggest oil shock in years


Date : Sunday March 01, 2026 Prices have surged—and may stay high for a while ...

America’s trade chaos is just beginning


Date : Thursday February 26, 2026 Tariff wrangling will stretch through the rest of Donald Trump’s term, and beyond ...

Protectionists dislike trade and migration. And capital flows?


Date : Thursday February 26, 2026 The amount of money crossing borders has flattened off—but not because of capital controls ...

Why Chinese people spend so much on food


Date : Thursday February 26, 2026 A 21st-century test of a 19th-century observation ...

America’s welfare state is more European than you think


Date : Wednesday February 25, 2026 State-level policies are making up for stingy federal provision ...

A viral research note on AI gets its economics wrong


Date : Wednesday February 25, 2026 Too much of a good thing ...

The AI productivity boom is not here (yet)


Date : Sunday February 22, 2026 Artificial intelligence is improving fast. Its effect on output, not so much ...

Markets are churning furiously beneath the surface


Date : Sunday February 22, 2026 AI is prompting investors to reassess every business model under the sun ...

Donald Trump answers a Supreme Court rebuke with new tariff threats


Date : Friday February 20, 2026 The immediate economic impact will be more uncertainty ...

The EU is thrashing out a more muscular set of economic policies


Date : Thursday February 19, 2026 The bloc is done playing nicely ...

Did America’s war on poverty fail?


Date : Thursday February 19, 2026 Deprivation has fallen dramatically—but not necessarily because of the welfare state ...

Prediction markets are rife with insider betting


Date : Thursday February 19, 2026 That does not mean regulators should stamp it out ...

How big is the prize of reopening Russia?


Date : Tuesday February 17, 2026 The Kremlin is promising $12trn-worth of deals to Donald Trump’s administration ...

The financialisation of AI is just beginning


Date : Tuesday February 17, 2026 Get ready for a new wave of securities, hedges and collateral ...

Donald Trump’s schemes to juice the economy


Date : Sunday February 15, 2026 Watch out for sneaky stimulus ...

Ethnic minorities are driving America’s startup boom


Date : Thursday February 12, 2026 The covid-19 pandemic set entrepreneurial spirits surging—for some ...

Why China’s central bank won’t save the country from deflation


Date : Thursday February 12, 2026 It’s not about the exchange rate any more ...

Chinese homebuyers are enraged by shoddy building standards


Date : Thursday February 12, 2026 Crooked walls and broken promises are harming China’s property market ...

How to put a price on a human life


Date : Thursday February 12, 2026 As ghoulish as it sounds, it is far better than the alternative ...

What drives the wage gap between men and women?


Date : Wednesday February 11, 2026 Surprise: it’s still motherhood ...

Who wrangled the best trade deal from Donald Trump?


Date : Tuesday February 10, 2026 The agreements look one-sided. Their consequences may not be ...

The coldest crypto winter yet


Date : Tuesday February 10, 2026 An asset class that is all about vibes suddenly has awful vibes ...

How to hedge a bubble, AI edition


Date : Sunday February 08, 2026 Protecting your portfolio from a crash looks harder than ever ...

Hong Kong is getting its financial mojo back


Date : Thursday February 05, 2026 The hub is attracting more deals. And more Beijing-style politics ...

Untangling the ideas of Donald Trump’s Fed nominee


Date : Thursday February 05, 2026 What is Warshonomics? ...

Why the dollar may have much further to fall


Date : Thursday February 05, 2026 It is hard to be a safe haven when trouble starts at home ...

Can emerging markets’ stellar run continue?


Date : Wednesday February 04, 2026 There is a lot more going for them than “sell America” ...

America and India strike a long-awaited trade truce


Date : Monday February 02, 2026 Will it last? ...

AI is not the only threat menacing big tech


Date : Monday February 02, 2026 Are Meta and Google ads really recession-proof? ...

Has America hit “peak tariff”? 


Date : Sunday February 01, 2026 Uncle Sam’s take may go downhill from here ...

What will Kevin Warsh’s Federal Reserve look like?


Date : Friday January 30, 2026 Donald Trump’s nominee was an inflation hawk—until he wasn’t ...

The fate of Japan’s $6trn foreign portfolio rattles global markets


Date : Thursday January 29, 2026 The knock-on effects of a sell-off in Japanese-held foreign investments would be far-reaching ...

Why is the yen still so weak?


Date : Thursday January 29, 2026 Newly alluring yields on Japanese bonds have not propped up the currency ...

Our Big Mac index carries an Asian warning


Date : Thursday January 29, 2026 It isn’t just Japan: other currencies also look cheap ...

Just how debased is the dollar?


Date : Wednesday January 28, 2026 Not nearly as much as it could be ...

The West and Ukraine are capsizing Russia’s shadow fleet


Date : Tuesday January 27, 2026 And sinking its oil revenues in the process ...

What is driving gold’s relentless rally?


Date : Tuesday January 27, 2026 The ancient asset is attracting new investors ...

Why AI won’t wipe out white-collar jobs


Date : Monday January 26, 2026 The technology will expand their scope and raise their value ...

Can America’s bond market keep defying the vigilantes?


Date : Thursday January 22, 2026 Donald Trump’s threats over Greenland are the latest test ...

An audacious new book about a “precocious” country


Date : Thursday January 22, 2026 There is no such thing as “the” Indian growth model ...

National job stereotypes need updating


Date : Thursday January 22, 2026 Unemployment rates in rich countries are becoming topsy-turvy ...

The ascent of India’s economy


Date : Thursday January 22, 2026 It has benefited from a slice of luck, a commitment to economic reform and a shove from Donald Trump ...

American decay versus American dynamism


Date : Wednesday January 21, 2026 Only a decline in corporate America’s vigour will dent the country’s dominance of financial markets ...

Japan’s bond-market tremble reflects a fiscal-monetary clash


Date : Wednesday January 21, 2026 As investors worry about budgetary laxity, the central bank prepares for more rate hikes ...

Denmark braces for Donald Trump’s Greenland tariffs


Date : Tuesday January 20, 2026 The economy is well prepared, but more exposed than it used to be ...

Donald Trump’s Greenland tariffs are no great blow to Europe


Date : Monday January 19, 2026 An escalating trade war would be another matter, however ...

China hits its GDP target—in a weird way


Date : Monday January 19, 2026 Strong exports make up for weak investment ...

Why America’s bond market just keeps winning


Date : Sunday January 18, 2026 Vigilantes have shrugged off ballooning debt and attacks on the Fed ...

The economics of regime change


Date : Thursday January 15, 2026 Lessons from history for Venezuela and Iran ...

Jerome Powell punches back


Date : Wednesday January 14, 2026 The administration’s latest attack on America’s central bank has not gone well ...

Donald Trump’s crusade against usury reaches Wall Street


Date : Wednesday January 14, 2026 His fight against high interest rates could get messy ...

Is passive investment inflating a stockmarket bubble?


Date : Wednesday January 14, 2026 A widely circulated working paper suggests so ...

It’s not just the Fed. Politics looms over central banks everywhere


Date : Wednesday January 14, 2026 But can the public stomach higher inflation? ...

The Trump administration threatens the Fed with a criminal cudgel


Date : Monday January 12, 2026 The president denies all knowledge. A bizarre fight could get nasty ...

Pessimism is the world’s main economic problem


Date : Sunday January 11, 2026 Gloomy expectations are starting to matter more than the data ...

What “Pluribus” reveals about economics


Date : Thursday January 08, 2026 A hit Apple TV show offers useful lessons ...

Vietnam’s growth is fast—but fragile


Date : Thursday January 08, 2026 The economy is unduly reliant on a handful of conglomerates ...

Why Europe’s biggest pension funds are dumping government bonds


Date : Thursday January 08, 2026 Dutch reforms will push up borrowing costs across the continent ...

Venezuela’s astoundingly messy debts are about to get messier


Date : Wednesday January 07, 2026 Oil majors, hedge funds, Chinese lenders—all have a stake ...

Is it better to rent or buy?


Date : Wednesday January 07, 2026 Much depends on long-term interest rates ...

America’s missing manufacturing renaissance 


Date : Tuesday January 06, 2026 Donald Trump’s tariffs have hurt the factories they were meant to protect ...

An American oil empire is a deeply flawed idea


Date : Sunday January 04, 2026 Donald Trump’s ambitions are expansive. His plans are limited ...

Investors head into 2026 remarkably optimistic


Date : Tuesday December 30, 2025 Few expect a crash in the year to come ...

China’s property woes could last until 2030


Date : Tuesday December 30, 2025 Despite the best efforts of its social-media censors ...

RedBird, a small firm doing big media deals


Date : Tuesday December 30, 2025 Its wingspan stretches from Hollywood to AC Milan ...

America’s economy looks set to accelerate


Date : Tuesday December 30, 2025 A monetary-fiscal loosening is coming  ...

Forget affordability. Europe has an availability crisis


Date : Tuesday December 30, 2025 Tight regulation is largely to blame ...

Why fewer Americans are giving than before


Date : Tuesday December 23, 2025 The decline of philanthropy is not just about Donald Trump  ...

The five biggest market developments of 2025


Date : Sunday December 21, 2025 Looking back on a rollercoaster year for investors ...

How to interpret the pain at the edge of America’s labour market


Date : Sunday December 21, 2025 In the past it has foretold wider weakness. This time may be different ...

Watch who you’re calling childless


Date : Thursday December 18, 2025 Women in America are having as many babies over their lifetimes as they did two decades ago ...

Meet the American investors rushing into Congo


Date : Thursday December 18, 2025 They are taking on war, corruption and China ...

This Christmas, raise a glass to concentrated market returns


Date : Wednesday December 17, 2025 A surprisingly large share of companies lag far behind their former greatness ...

Where America’s most prominent short-sellers are placing their bets


Date : Tuesday December 16, 2025 We interview three financial sleuths ...

Crypto’s real threat to banks


Date : Monday December 15, 2025 The industry is supplanting Wall Street’s privileged position on the American right ...

Germany has a lawyer problem


Date : Thursday December 11, 2025 Its endless bureaucratic rules trap would-be reformers ...

What a stiff drink says about China’s economy


Date : Thursday December 11, 2025 The baijiu business is the latest to be struck by “involution” ...

America’s bond market is quiet—almost too quiet


Date : Thursday December 11, 2025 Scott Bessent has a cunning plan ...

Wall Street is drooling over bank mergers


Date : Thursday December 11, 2025 The world’s most fragmented financial industry faces dramatic change ...

Asia’s inexpensive AI stocks should worry American investors


Date : Wednesday December 10, 2025 Tech mania looks very different in Japan, South Korea and Taiwan ...

Which economy did best in 2025?


Date : Sunday December 07, 2025 Our annual ranking returns ...

AI misinformation may have paradoxical consequences


Date : Thursday December 04, 2025 To understand why, consider the side-blotched lizard ...

Can golden toilets fix China’s economy?


Date : Thursday December 04, 2025 Communist Party officials think so ...

Bitcoin has plunged. Strategy Inc is an early victim


Date : Thursday December 04, 2025 It holds 3% of the world’s total supply ...

American sanctions are putting Russia under pressure


Date : Thursday December 04, 2025 In time, though, its tankers will find new routes ...

Stockholm is Europe’s new capital of capital


Date : Wednesday December 03, 2025 And with Sweden embarking on a borrowing spree, it is a bond trader’s paradise ...

Which Kevin Hassett would lead the Federal Reserve?


Date : Wednesday December 03, 2025 He was once a right-of-centre tax expert. He has become a partisan hack ...

How to spot a bubble bursting


Date : Monday December 01, 2025 Forget valuations. Look out for search-engine hits and fund managers getting fired ...

Why worries about American job losses are overstated


Date : Sunday November 30, 2025 Bosses, investors, policymakers—all are fearful of a jobs-pocalypse ...

Self-driving cars will transform urban economies


Date : Thursday November 27, 2025 A robotaxi boom is coming. The impacts might be broader than you expect ...

China’s property market is (somehow) worsening


Date : Thursday November 27, 2025 Government remedies are not up to the job ...

Narendra Modi plans to free up India’s giant labour force


Date : Thursday November 27, 2025 Socialist employment restrictions will be swept away ...

One weird trick to solve the affordability crisis


Date : Thursday November 27, 2025 If voters dislike big numbers, there is a purely nominal fix ...

How to short the bubbliest firms


Date : Wednesday November 26, 2025 Private markets present fearsome challenges ...

Investors expect AI use to soar. That’s not happening


Date : Wednesday November 26, 2025 Recent surveys point to flatlining business adoption ...

Why investors are increasingly fatalistic


Date : Sunday November 23, 2025 Everyone knows share prices have a long way to fall. Even so, getting out now might be a mistake ...

Visa restrictions are bad for Indians—but maybe not for India


Date : Thursday November 20, 2025 Remittances may fall, but opportunities are opening up ...

Economists get cold feet about high minimum wages


Date : Thursday November 20, 2025 Governments are pushing the policy to its limits ...

Can the Chinese economy match Aruba’s?


Date : Thursday November 20, 2025 Xi Jinping has lofty goals for 2035. But China faces a real problem ...

America’s huge mortgage market is slowly dying


Date : Wednesday November 19, 2025 Donald Trump’s remedies threaten to inflame a housing crisis ...

Crypto got everything it wanted. Now it’s sinking


Date : Tuesday November 18, 2025 The slump could spread across financial markets ...

Is this the end of the scorching gold rally?


Date : Sunday November 16, 2025 As bullish stories get tested, investors should worry ...

Tree murders and the economics of crime


Date : Thursday November 13, 2025 Rich people can’t stop cutting down each other’s woodland ...

How AI is breaking cover letters


Date : Thursday November 13, 2025 And leading to lower pay ...

In defence of personal finance


Date : Wednesday November 12, 2025 It may widen inequality. But it has many advantages ...

Old folk are seized by stockmarket mania


Date : Tuesday November 11, 2025 Investing in equities may make sense for individuals—but it could also exacerbate a crash ...

Recessions have become ultra-rare. That is storing up trouble


Date : Monday November 10, 2025 Continuous growth can make economies fat and slow ...

The problem with America’s shutdown economy


Date : Sunday November 09, 2025 Gridlock in Washington has prevented official data releases. And unofficial ones disagree ...

What explains India’s peculiar stability?


Date : Thursday November 06, 2025 In a tricky neighbourhood the country remains calm ...

Don’t blame AI for your job woes


Date : Thursday November 06, 2025 The white-collar chill has more to do with the economy than with tech ...

Universal child care can harm children


Date : Wednesday November 05, 2025 Its growing popularity in America is a concern ...

Investors are telling Britain to cheer up a bit


Date : Wednesday November 05, 2025 The country’s economic problems are real, but its assets are doing surprisingly well ...

How Donald Trump can dodge a Supreme Court tariff block


Date : Tuesday November 04, 2025 No matter its ruling, the president has back-up powers ...

The mystery of China’s slumping investment


Date : Monday November 03, 2025 Its leaders don’t seem concerned. Should they be? ...

Why Wall Street won’t see the next crash coming


Date : Sunday November 02, 2025 Even the best traders struggle to predict sudden jumps in volatility ...

Investors will help Jamaica recover from Hurricane Melissa


Date : Thursday October 30, 2025 The country is in line for a pay-out from catastrophe bonds ...

The new globalisation paradox


Date : Thursday October 30, 2025 In the age of Donald Trump, national autonomy requires deeper integration. Brazil shows why ...

India’s IPO boom is good news for its economy


Date : Wednesday October 29, 2025 Stockmarkets appear to be fuelling investment ...

A letter to investors from the White House Opportunities Fund 


Date : Wednesday October 29, 2025 How the shift to state capitalism is panning out for America LLC  ...

The end of the rip-off economy


Date : Monday October 27, 2025 From finance and medicine to used cars, artificial intelligence is radically improving market efficiency ...

China’s secret stockpiles have been a great success—so far


Date : Sunday October 26, 2025 Xi Jinping is desperate for Trump-proof access to food, fuels and metals ...

The counterintuitive economics of smoking


Date : Sunday October 26, 2025 How cigarette manufacturers profit from quitters ...

Will America’s new sanctions on Russian oil force a peace deal?


Date : Thursday October 23, 2025 Donald Trump raises the pressure—but he may have to go further ...

China is being fuelled by inspiration, not perspiration


Date : Thursday October 23, 2025 So long as its leaders are not lying ...

Can AI make the poor world richer?


Date : Thursday October 23, 2025 It promises a level playing field. So have past technologies ...

Trumponomics is warping the world’s copper markets


Date : Thursday October 23, 2025 It may not end well ...

Why investors still don’t believe in Argentina


Date : Wednesday October 22, 2025 Despite the best efforts of Donald Trump and Scott Bessent ...

How to make immigration palatable in a populist age


Date : Wednesday October 22, 2025 Guest-worker schemes are booming. They offer vast benefits to both host countries and the workers themselves ...

Wanted: a new finance writer


Date : Wednesday October 22, 2025 An opportunity to join the staff of The Economist ...

Why are American women leaving the labour force?


Date : Tuesday October 21, 2025 Maybe they are becoming tradwives. Or maybe there is a more straightforward explanation ...

The world economy shrugs off both the trade war and AI fears


Date : Monday October 20, 2025 Can anything bring it down? ...

Why Wall Street is fearful of more lending blow-ups


Date : Sunday October 19, 2025 Both banks and private-markets giants are on cockroach-watch ...

Indian microfinance is in trouble


Date : Thursday October 16, 2025 A model that has lifted millions out of poverty is threatened by rising defaults ...

The new economics of babymaking


Date : Thursday October 16, 2025 A postcard from one of America’s youngest towns ...

America’s bankers are riding high. Why are they so worried?


Date : Wednesday October 15, 2025 Their latest earnings do not represent unalloyed good news ...

Donald Trump and Xi Jinping: both weaker than they think


Date : Wednesday October 15, 2025 As America and China clash over trade, cracks emerge in each side’s position ...

Would inflation-linked bonds survive an inflationary default?


Date : Wednesday October 15, 2025 A thought experiment on the nearest thing to a safe asset ...

The Economist is hiring a Senior Producer


Date : Wednesday October 15, 2025 Our Money Talks podcast team is recruiting an experienced producer to help launch a video spin-off ...

Joel Mokyr deserves his Nobel prize


Date : Monday October 13, 2025 The Nobel committee is belatedly recognising economic history ...

Why the ultra-rich are giving up on luxury assets


Date : Sunday October 12, 2025 Forget fine wine, great art and glitzy mansions. There are finer things in life ...

America and China return to fierce trade conflict


Date : Saturday October 11, 2025 Donald Trump threatens an extra 100% levy as rare-earth minerals prompt a fresh spat ...

The stockmarket is fuelling America’s economy


Date : Thursday October 09, 2025 What happens in the event of a slump? ...

Front-line economics: lessons from Russia’s neighbours


Date : Thursday October 09, 2025 How to survive on the border of war ...

Narendra Modi’s paltry target for India’s growth


Date : Thursday October 09, 2025 The prime minister wants a $10trn economy by 2047. He should be bolder ...

The most dangerous corner of a balance-sheet


Date : Wednesday October 08, 2025 Forget debt. Here is something to villainise ...

Why Donald Trump’s tariffs are failing to break global trade


Date : Wednesday October 08, 2025 Six months on from “Liberation Day”, things look surprisingly rosy ...

Welcome to Zero Migration America


Date : Tuesday October 07, 2025 Closed borders will make the country smaller, poorer and less innovative ...

Don’t tax wealth


Date : Thursday October 02, 2025 Even the most sophisticated arguments in favour of doing so make no sense ...

Credit markets look increasingly dangerous


Date : Thursday October 02, 2025 A pair of bankruptcies highlight the risks ...

How the Trump administration learned to love foreign aid


Date : Thursday October 02, 2025 America’s international assistance has not been destroyed—it has been transformed ...

The eccentric investment strategy that beats the rest


Date : Wednesday October 01, 2025 Introducing the 25/25/25/25 portfolio ...

China’s stockmarket rally may hurt the economy


Date : Monday September 29, 2025 The “wealth effect” is not the only way it has an impact ...

The economics of self-driving taxis


Date : Sunday September 28, 2025 Waymo is a case study in automation ...

The AI talent war is becoming fiercer


Date : Thursday September 25, 2025 How other countries hope to challenge America ...

Investing like the ultra-rich is easier than ever


Date : Wednesday September 24, 2025 And that worries regulators ...

Will Dubai’s super-hot property market avoid a crash?


Date : Wednesday September 24, 2025 Despite fears of a reckoning, its fundamentals look solid ...

How to spot a genius


Date : Tuesday September 23, 2025 In an age of artificial intelligence, the human kind is increasingly important ...

Russia’s besieged economy is clinging on


Date : Sunday September 21, 2025 The good times have firmly come to an end, but wage growth remains strong ...

Would an all-out trade war be better?


Date : Thursday September 18, 2025 Donald Trump has so far avoided retaliation, which might carry a cost of its own ...

Why European workers need to switch jobs


Date : Thursday September 18, 2025 The continent’s labour market is ill-suited to an age of disruption ...

China’s future rests on 200m precarious workers


Date : Thursday September 18, 2025 They may work in factories or for delivery apps, but are united by common struggles ...

Ukraine faces a $19bn budget black hole


Date : Wednesday September 17, 2025 Without funding, the country will be left vulnerable ...

Europe’s great stockmarket inversion


Date : Wednesday September 17, 2025 The hottest places to invest are on the continent’s periphery ...

America’s economy defies gloomy expectations


Date : Sunday September 14, 2025 As the Federal Reserve cuts interest rates, growth is holding up ...

Can you make it to the end of this column? 


Date : Thursday September 11, 2025 Understanding the new economics of attention ...

How grain has gone from famine to feast


Date : Thursday September 11, 2025 Prices are close to a five-year low ...

Meet Donald Trump’s aid agency


Date : Thursday September 11, 2025 Or is it a sovereign-wealth fund in disguise? ...

Why American bondholders are jumpy about inflation


Date : Wednesday September 10, 2025 The Federal Reserve prepares to cut interest rates in tricky circumstances ...

Europe’s economy at last shows signs of a recovery


Date : Wednesday September 10, 2025 Even if there is plenty that could yet kill it ...

Chinese trade is thriving despite America’s attacks


Date : Tuesday September 09, 2025 The rest of the world is willing to be “ripped off” ...

What if the AI stockmarket blows up?


Date : Sunday September 07, 2025 We find that the potential cost has risen alarmingly high ...

What if artificial intelligence is just a “normal” technology?


Date : Thursday September 04, 2025 Its rise might yet follow the path of previous technological revolutions ...

Bond vigilantes take aim at France


Date : Thursday September 04, 2025 With any luck, the stand-off might focus politicians’ minds ...

The hard right’s plans for Europe’s economy


Date : Thursday September 04, 2025 It has moderated, but offers little hope of growth-boosting reform ...

Why supply shocks are a trap for commodity investors


Date : Wednesday September 03, 2025 Lessons from lithium’s fake rally ...

China turns crypto-curious


Date : Tuesday September 02, 2025 But would the country’s leaders really want stablecoins to succeed? ...

America is escaping its office crisis


Date : Monday September 01, 2025 The torment caused by covid-19 and high interest rates appears to be over ...

The threat of deflation stalks Asia’s economies


Date : Monday September 01, 2025 Blame China, slumping commodities and creaky growth ...

Trump’s interest-rate crusade will be self-defeating


Date : Thursday August 28, 2025 New research shows the importance of central-bank credibility ...

Gambling or investing? In America, the line is increasingly blurred


Date : Thursday August 28, 2025 Bet on stocks in a prediction market run by a sports-betting firm and a futures exchange ...

How Trump’s war on the Federal Reserve could do serious damage


Date : Thursday August 28, 2025 Just consider what happens if inflation starts to rise again ...

Assessing the case against Lisa Cook


Date : Wednesday August 27, 2025 How strong is the evidence, and how bad would it be if the claims were true? ...

Why you should buy your employer’s shares


Date : Wednesday August 27, 2025 Even though doing so flies in the face of most financial advice ...

The Economist’s finance and economics internship


Date : Wednesday August 27, 2025 We invite applications for our Marjorie Deane scheme ...

Even as China’s economy suffers, stocks soar. What’s going on?


Date : Wednesday August 27, 2025 The Shanghai composite is defying gravity ...

Trump “fires” Lisa Cook, escalating his war on the Federal Reserve


Date : Tuesday August 26, 2025 There is little precedent: no Fed governor has been dismissed for cause before ...

Trump’s interest-rate crusade will be self-defeating


Date : Monday August 25, 2025 The president’s threats loomed over this year’s Jackson Hole conference ...

Fear the deficit-populism doom loop


Date : Sunday August 24, 2025 Politicians, particularly in Europe, are in a terrible bind ...

Economists disagree about everything. Don’t they?


Date : Thursday August 21, 2025 Their discipline is famous for its fissiparousness ...

The green transition has a surprising new home


Date : Thursday August 21, 2025 Forget about northern Europeans, with their coalition governments and love of cycling ...

Can China cope with a deindustrialised future?


Date : Thursday August 21, 2025 Communist Party officials face a difficult ideological turn ...

Trump’s trade victims are shrugging off his attacks


Date : Wednesday August 20, 2025 And China is gaining in the process ...

In praise of complicated investing strategies


Date : Monday August 18, 2025 To understand markets, forget Occam’s razor ...

How America’s AI boom is squeezing the rest of the economy


Date : Monday August 18, 2025 Beware the data-centre takeover ...

Where has the worst inflation problem?


Date : Sunday August 17, 2025 We update our entrenchment measure ...

Growth-loving authoritarians are failing on their own terms


Date : Thursday August 14, 2025 In Asia, East Africa and the Gulf leaders now face an unpleasant choice ...

What 630,000 paintings say about the world economy


Date : Thursday August 14, 2025 Kandinsky, Monet and Rembrandt were economists as well as artists ...

Who will win from Trump’s tariffs?


Date : Thursday August 14, 2025 New rates mean new “China plus one” locations ...

To sell Fannie and Freddie, Trump must answer a $7trn question


Date : Thursday August 14, 2025 Investor optimism means the duo are outperforming Nvidia ...

Ivy League universities are on a debt binge


Date : Wednesday August 13, 2025 The borrowers, including Harvard, Princeton and Yale, benefit from a “prestige premium” ...

Palantir might be the most overvalued firm of all time


Date : Tuesday August 12, 2025 What would make it worth buying? ...

America’s housing market is shuddering


Date : Sunday August 10, 2025 For the country’s homeowners, the good times are coming to an end ...

Xi Jinping’s city of the future is coming to life


Date : Thursday August 07, 2025 It is both impressive and worrying ...

An economist’s guide to big life decisions


Date : Thursday August 07, 2025 Forget your trip to the dentist. A new check-up is required ...

Want better returns? Forget risk. Focus on fear


Date : Wednesday August 06, 2025 A recent study suggests a new paradigm for asset pricing ...

If America goes after India’s oil trade, China will benefit


Date : Wednesday August 06, 2025 A crackdown on Russian crude would have knock-on consequences ...

America’s fertility crash reaches a new low


Date : Tuesday August 05, 2025 Even once-fecund states are having fewer children ...

Buy now, pay later is taking over the world. Good


Date : Monday August 04, 2025 Buy that burrito, and don’t let anyone judge you ...

Trump will not let the world move on from tariffs


Date : Friday August 01, 2025 Six charts show the damage to America, its trading partners and its consumers ...

Uncovering the secret food trade that corrupts Iran’s neighbours


Date : Thursday July 31, 2025 Oil and terrorism are not the country’s only exports ...

The trade deal with America shows the limits of the EU’s power


Date : Thursday July 31, 2025 The bloc opts for prudence over defiance ...

Japan’s dealmaking machine revs up


Date : Thursday July 31, 2025 Private equity is enjoying a renaissance in an unlikely place ...

The deeper reason for banking’s retreat


Date : Thursday July 31, 2025 Why bankers no longer play golf at 3pm ...

Despite double dissent, Jerome Powell retains his hold on markets


Date : Wednesday July 30, 2025 A hawkish tilt changes rate-cut expectations ...

A fresh retail-trading frenzy is reshaping financial markets


Date : Tuesday July 29, 2025 Blame apps and DORKs, not stimmies ...

Europe averts its Trumpian trade nightmare


Date : Monday July 28, 2025 A deal with America chooses certain tariffs over risky retaliation ...

Who’s feeling the pain of Trump’s tariffs?


Date : Sunday July 27, 2025 Foreign companies are sharing the load. For now ...

What economics can teach foreign-policy types


Date : Thursday July 24, 2025 Hegemons should care about even puny countries ...

Where will be the Detroit of electric vehicles?


Date : Thursday July 24, 2025 A fierce battle is under way in China ...

Crypto’s big bang will revolutionise finance


Date : Wednesday July 23, 2025 The more useful stablecoins and tokens prove to be, the greater the risk ...

Why 24/7 trading is a bad idea


Date : Wednesday July 23, 2025 There are advantages to the old-fashioned working day ...

Want higher pay? Stay in your job


Date : Tuesday July 22, 2025 America’s cooling labour market is bad news for those who move about ...

Has Trump damaged the dollar?


Date : Sunday July 20, 2025 Yes. How badly will become clear in the next crisis ...

Why is AI so slow to spread? Economics can explain


Date : Thursday July 17, 2025 Businesses are ignoring the street of hundred-dollar bills ...

Trump’s real threat: industry-specific tariffs


Date : Thursday July 17, 2025 Which countries would be hit hardest by levies on electronics and pharmaceuticals? ...

Americans can still get a 2% mortgage


Date : Thursday July 17, 2025 At a time of high interest rates, there are bargains to be found ...

Stablecoins might cut America’s debt payments. But at what cost?


Date : Wednesday July 16, 2025 The Trump administration will take any help it can get ...

Our Big Mac index will sadden America’s burger-lovers


Date : Wednesday July 16, 2025 Trump’s tariffs have brought a double serving of pain ...

War, geopolitics, energy crisis: how the economy evades every disaster


Date : Tuesday July 15, 2025 A new form of capitalism may explain its success ...

Want to be a good explorer? Study economics


Date : Thursday July 10, 2025 The battle to reduce risk has shaped centuries of ventures ...

Jane Street is chucked out of India. Other firms should be nervous


Date : Thursday July 10, 2025 Around the world, marketmakers now face extra scrutiny ...

Japan has been hit by investing fever


Date : Thursday July 10, 2025 Will old folk catch the bug? ...

Don’t invest through the rearview mirror


Date : Wednesday July 09, 2025 Markets are supposed to look forward; plenty of investors look back instead ...

Trump’s trade deals try a creative way to hobble China


Date : Tuesday July 08, 2025 To appease the world’s biggest market, countries must anger the world’s biggest trader ...

The great dealmaker is conspicuously short of trade deals


Date : Monday July 07, 2025 Donald Trump issues threats—and grants deadline extensions ...

Struggling with the trade war? Amateur football might help


Date : Sunday July 06, 2025 Jiangsu’s party cadres find success with a bizarre idea ...

How America’s economy is dodging disaster


Date : Sunday July 06, 2025 It is astonishingly dynamic, even under the weight of tariffs ...

Inside Iran’s war economy


Date : Thursday July 03, 2025 Airstrikes and sanctions leave the country poor. They do little to halt its nuclear development ...

Vanguard will soon crush fees for even more investors


Date : Thursday July 03, 2025 Pity the firm’s rivals ...

How to strike a trade deal with Donald Trump


Date : Thursday July 03, 2025 Vietnam is the latest country to secure concessions ...

India’s Licence Raj offers America important lessons


Date : Wednesday July 02, 2025 Even when a protectionist system is dismantled, its problems can endure ...

Can Trump end America’s $1.8trn student-debt nightmare?


Date : Tuesday July 01, 2025 The Biden administration added to the problem. Now the “Big, Beautiful Bill” could help solve it ...

Xi Jinping wages war on price wars


Date : Monday June 30, 2025 Unfortunately for China’s leader, his own policies are often to blame for them ...

Big, beautiful budgets: not just an American problem


Date : Sunday June 29, 2025 Across the rich world, governments are splashing the cash. What could go wrong? ...

Why commodities are on a rollercoaster ride


Date : Thursday June 26, 2025 Pity Tommy Norris. And his real-world equivalents ...

Jane Street’s sneaky retention tactic


Date : Thursday June 26, 2025 It involves the use of an obscure, French programming language ...

How to escape taxes on your stocks


Date : Thursday June 26, 2025 Not that American investors need a guide—a booming industry is doing the job for them ...

The dream scenario for prediction markets


Date : Wednesday June 25, 2025 Polymarket and Kalshi are soaring in popularity. With a few tweaks, they could really take off ...

Politicians slashed migration. Now they face the consequences


Date : Sunday June 22, 2025 Across the West the number of new arrivals is plummeting ...

Who are the world’s best investors?


Date : Thursday June 19, 2025 The answer is not hedge funds or quant shops or short-sellers ...

Japan is obsessed with rice. And prices have gone ballistic


Date : Thursday June 19, 2025 Politicians are reaching for increasingly extreme measures ...

Japan’s debts are shrinking. Its troubles may be only starting


Date : Thursday June 19, 2025 Politicians have a yen for handouts ...