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How to design paper money that represents Europe


Date : Monday July 27, 2026 The euro gets a makeover ...

Oil markets are on edge again


Date : Sunday July 26, 2026 The bombing may have paused, but energy supplies are precarious ...

The world’s balance-sheet is out of kilter with its economy


Date : Thursday July 23, 2026 Restoring balance could be painful ...

A brief history of Luddism


Date : Thursday July 23, 2026 States ultimately decide how fast technology is adopted ...

Can China dominate AI exports, too?


Date : Thursday July 23, 2026 Robotaxis offer an early test case ...

The rise of the deserving rich


Date : Thursday July 23, 2026 Today’s billionaires are more likely than yesterday’s to have made their own money ...

Can prediction markets win over Wall Street?


Date : Thursday July 23, 2026 Clearing the regulatory hurdles is only half the battle ...

How investors learned to live with inflation


Date : Tuesday July 21, 2026 Fewer than ever believe central bankers will bring it back to target ...

How to shrink the Fed’s $7trn balance-sheet


Date : Thursday July 16, 2026 Kevin Warsh will struggle to reverse the effects of bond-buying ...

Can Kevin Warsh’s Fed force 5 reimagine monetary policymaking?


Date : Thursday July 16, 2026 The new chairman enlists heavy-hitters to fight a handful of gnarly problems ...

China’s trade gap is narrowing. And other surprises


Date : Wednesday July 15, 2026 The world’s second-biggest economy is stumbling into fiscal austerity ...

America’s Hormuz brinkmanship is worsening a global fuel crunch


Date : Tuesday July 14, 2026 Rising oil prices are only part of the problem ...

What investment gurus get wrong


Date : Tuesday July 14, 2026 To see a country’s financial follies, look to its celebrity advisers ...

The stubborn scarcity of female breadwinners


Date : Monday July 13, 2026 Wives who out-earn their husbands remain rare in America ...

Storm clouds gather over America’s financial supremacy


Date : Sunday July 12, 2026 Its payments firms may be the first casualties ...

China may struggle to fund Xi Jinping’s tech dreams


Date : Thursday July 09, 2026 Even though capital markets are staging a comeback ...

An ageing society might not cost too much


Date : Thursday July 09, 2026 A dystopian vision of the future may not come to pass ...

Three ways the LNG market could crack before winter


Date : Wednesday July 08, 2026 War, weather and outages may still send gas prices soaring ...

AI has taken over the stock market. The bond market is next


Date : Tuesday July 07, 2026 Judging credit risk of the AI boom is difficult  ...

Europe’s economy is a mess. Its stock markets are a steal


Date : Tuesday July 07, 2026 International investors still aren’t interested ...

The World Bank has ditched its climate targets


Date : Monday July 06, 2026 The rise and fall of the institution’s love for green growth ...

Women’s progress at work is stalling


Date : Sunday July 05, 2026 Is the “Lean In” generation leaning out? ...

Is The Economist always wrong?


Date : Thursday July 02, 2026 We used artificial intelligence to test the accuracy of our forecasts ...

How much will a 4th of July cookout cost this year?


Date : Thursday July 02, 2026 We calculate the rising price of Americans’ summer staples ...

Are stablecoins money?


Date : Thursday July 02, 2026 Policymakers’ job is to make them safe as well as useful ...

Unpacking Venezuela’s peculiar debt restructuring


Date : Thursday July 02, 2026 Hazy numbers and the absence of the IMF make for an unusual negotiation ...

A new Plaza Accord for global currencies wouldn’t work


Date : Tuesday June 30, 2026 The conditions and will for a deal are not what they were in 1985 ...

Turkey’s economic plan to win from the Iran war


Date : Monday June 29, 2026 The country is a case study in the spillovers of conflict—both positive and negative ...

China cracks down on rule-bending offshore investments


Date : Sunday June 28, 2026 It wants mainland investors to bet on its own tech dreams, not America’s ...

Will AI lower interest rates?


Date : Thursday June 25, 2026 Kevin Warsh is drawing lessons about tech from Alan Greenspan—but selectively ...

Waiving sanctions on Iranian oil is a huge concession by America


Date : Tuesday June 23, 2026 It will enrich an adversary ...

Why macro trading is hard


Date : Tuesday June 23, 2026 More difficult than knowing what to buy is how much ...

Russia’s war economy has problems—but is not about to crash


Date : Monday June 22, 2026 Vladimir Putin is still able to fund his aggression ...

How to turn compute into a financial asset


Date : Monday June 22, 2026 Entrepreneurs, exchange operators and AI firms are creating tradable instruments backed by processing power ...

How stretched is the American consumer?


Date : Sunday June 21, 2026 The household saving rate has plunged—but don’t panic ...

A new golden age for Japanese banks comes with a catch


Date : Thursday June 18, 2026 Smaller lenders are saddled with low-return bonds they cannot sell ...

Europe buys the future, America builds it


Date : Thursday June 18, 2026 Does that matter? A high-stakes transatlantic spat has erupted over GDP figures ...

Deal or no deal, oil prices will stay volatile for months


Date : Tuesday June 16, 2026 The pre-war days of $60 crude are not coming back soon ...

America’s bull market has entered its manic phase


Date : Tuesday June 16, 2026 Options markets show optimism is giving way to euphoria ...

Meet the world’s top AI-pilled economists


Date : Monday June 15, 2026 Most of them are not found in ivory towers ...

Does Donald Trump make Latin America a good bet?


Date : Sunday June 14, 2026 Nowhere in the developing world has done so well out of the past year ...

How big are China’s emerging industries?


Date : Thursday June 11, 2026 Probably not big enough to offset the drag from the old ...

Stears wants to be Africa’s Bloomberg terminal


Date : Thursday June 11, 2026 As the continent’s markets mature, high-quality financial analysis is more essential than ever ...

The world’s strategic oil reserves are running out fast


Date : Thursday June 11, 2026 They cannot hold back the energy crunch for ever ...

How to share AI riches


Date : Thursday June 11, 2026 From Donald Trump to Sam Altman, the idea of redistributing them is catching on. Does it make sense? ...

Wall Street’s undignified SpaceX mania


Date : Tuesday June 09, 2026 Is that a rocket in your lobby, or are you just happy to see me?  ...

China is innovative. Its economy is a mess. Which matters more?


Date : Monday June 08, 2026 A question that will define the 21st century ...

A bidding war erupts for the world’s oldest bank


Date : Monday June 08, 2026 Monte dei Paschi di Siena is suddenly all the rage ...

How hot is America’s labour market? 


Date : Friday June 05, 2026 At the moment, balmy. But it wouldn’t take a lot to require some Fed air-conditioning ...

Indians can now bet on the monsoon


Date : Thursday June 04, 2026 Heatwaves may be more important ...

European electricity markets have too much power 


Date : Thursday June 04, 2026 They must learn to deal with it ...

Some billionaires pay too little tax


Date : Thursday June 04, 2026 But the case for levies on wealth is unconvincing ...

Gen-Z socialism, from Zohran to Zack and beyond


Date : Thursday June 04, 2026 The world’s leftists are embracing a new set of economic ideas ...

Want to know the future? Don’t trust the stockmarket


Date : Tuesday June 02, 2026 Share prices are buffeted by far more than just new information ...

Can the stockmarket swallow SpaceX, Anthropic and OpenAI?


Date : Monday June 01, 2026 Watch out for indigestion ...

Without fanfare, China is making rural migrants’ lives easier


Date : Thursday May 28, 2026 The notorious hukou system is being relaxed. Marx would approve ...

How to tax businesses in orbit and beyond


Date : Thursday May 28, 2026 As the space business grows, so will offplanet finance ...

Kevin Warsh’s troublesome inflation in-tray


Date : Wednesday May 27, 2026 The new Fed chair will struggle to appease his colleagues, the market and Donald Trump all at once ...

Japan, South Korea and Taiwan are suffering industrial rot


Date : Wednesday May 27, 2026 Artificial intelligence is concealing a China shock ...

Giga-IPOs are a symptom of public markets’ giga-problem


Date : Tuesday May 26, 2026 The incredible shrinking stockmarket ...

Crackdowns on financial secrecy aren’t hurting offshore finance


Date : Monday May 25, 2026 There is a lot more to havens than crystal-clear waters and a promise of opacity ...

How should economists treat morality?


Date : Thursday May 21, 2026 Sometimes it is more than merely an exogenous constraint ...

The other China shock


Date : Thursday May 21, 2026 Does the country’s manufacturing success leave space for anyone else? ...

The insurers on the hook for war in Iran


Date : Thursday May 21, 2026 Some have been hammered; even those who haven’t might be soon ...

Economics lessons from Home Depot


Date : Wednesday May 20, 2026 What the world’s biggest DIY store says about American housing ...

Investors fear another surge in inflation


Date : Tuesday May 19, 2026 So why aren’t more buying inflation-protected bonds? ...

Where expat escapees from Dubai end up


Date : Monday May 18, 2026 Will they ever return? ...

How much is Donald Trump costing America’s economy? 


Date : Monday May 18, 2026 We calculate the drag on growth from fitful presidential policymaking ...

How to share the AI windfall


Date : Thursday May 14, 2026 Are taxes enough? ...

The jobs apocalypse: a (very) short history


Date : Thursday May 14, 2026 Mass unemployment induced by AI would be unprecedented ...

Is AI putting graduates out of work already?


Date : Wednesday May 13, 2026 If you are studying coding, we might have some bad news ...

How the world has avoided an oil catastrophe so far


Date : Tuesday May 12, 2026 The great commodity-market mystery is deepening ...

Index rebalancing is now the biggest event in markets


Date : Tuesday May 12, 2026 But profiting from it is another matter ...

China wants more robots but not fewer workers


Date : Monday May 11, 2026 A human-first approach to automation ...

America is experiencing a productivity miracle


Date : Monday May 11, 2026 AI hasn’t—yet—got much to do with it ...

The myth of the petrodollar


Date : Thursday May 07, 2026 America’s currency supremacy runs deeper than oil ...

DeepSeek and Alibaba rescue China’s office landlords


Date : Thursday May 07, 2026 Technology firms are reviving (a few) Chinese commercial-property markets ...

UniCredit’s lowball bid for Commerzbank causes consternation


Date : Thursday May 07, 2026 A bad-tempered battle for a big German bank ...

Donald Trump’s foreign policy gets a muscular finance arm


Date : Thursday May 07, 2026 The Development Finance Corporation’s loan book may soon rival the World Bank’s ...

Can Bill Ackman save the closed-end fund?


Date : Tuesday May 05, 2026 An outspoken financier wants to build a modern-day Berkshire Hathaway ...

The EU wants to unshackle its economy. For real this time


Date : Monday May 04, 2026 Eurocrats are belatedly developing a healthy distaste for red tape ...

Bad government statistics can cost the economy billions


Date : Monday May 04, 2026 A new study tries to put a number on the value of reliable numbers ...

Can countries grow richer by exporting people, not goods?


Date : Thursday April 30, 2026 That depends where those people end up ...

India’s weak currency reflects deeper problems than the Iran war


Date : Thursday April 30, 2026 It highlights a persistent inability to draw in foreign investors ...

How Kalshi can help the Federal Reserve


Date : Thursday April 30, 2026 Prediction markets may be a win for central banking ...

A global fight over banking rules is just getting started


Date : Tuesday April 28, 2026 Co-operation on the financial system will be the casualty ...

San Francisco, AI capital of the world, is an economic laggard


Date : Sunday April 26, 2026 Artificial intelligence is booming. Its heartland is not ...

Will Kevin Warsh Trumpify the Federal Reserve?


Date : Sunday April 26, 2026 The incoming Fed chair says he wants regime change. But a revolution is unlikely ...

Wanted: a new finance writer


Date : Thursday April 23, 2026 An opportunity to join the staff of The Economist ...

Has the World Bank performed a U-turn on industrial policy?


Date : Thursday April 23, 2026 Interventionists who think so should read its new report more closely ...

Renewables are shining. The Iran war amplifies their appeal


Date : Thursday April 23, 2026 Two new reports are a must-read of energy-starved governments ...

Xi Jinping wants a powerful currency. America’s war has helped


Date : Thursday April 23, 2026 More countries are starting to use China’s payment infrastructure ...

Chinamaxxing is starting to catch on, in China


Date : Thursday April 23, 2026 It’s a boon for the tourist trade ...

Global energy markets are on the verge of a disaster


Date : Tuesday April 21, 2026 Scenarios now range from bad to awful ...

The stablecoin market has got too stable


Date : Tuesday April 21, 2026 Rapid growth in dollar-backed crypto has stalled ...

American corporate profits keep shrugging off global tumult


Date : Monday April 20, 2026 Earnings expectations are through the roof ...

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 ...