Finance & economics
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The UAE is using a wealth fund to gain diplomatic sway
And to build holiday resorts |
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How far could America’s stockmarket fall?
With the prospect of cheaper money receding, shares look unusually vulnerable |
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Chinese authorities are now addicted to traffic fines
What that tells you about the country’s economic woes |
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Don’t like your job? Quit for a rival firm
Lina Khan hopes to free the American worker |
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Is inflation morally wrong?
Workers think so. Economists disagree |
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Why a stronger dollar is dangerous
It sets the stage for a nasty new Trump-China clash, among other things |
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How American politics has infected investing
Beware: taking a stand can be expensive |
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Can the IMF solve the poor world’s debt crisis?
The fund will freeze out China if that is what it takes to offer relief |
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Frozen Russian assets will soon pay for Ukraine’s war
And America now hopes to convince others to make better use of the stash |
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Citigroup, Wall Street’s biggest loser, is at last on the up
Jane Fraser’s unexpected success |
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Why the stockmarket is disappearing
Large companies such as ByteDance, OpenAI and Stripe are staying private |
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Even without war in the Gulf, pricier petrol is here to stay
Expensive oil could put Donald Trump in the White House |
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Generation Z is unprecedentedly rich
Millennials were poorer at this stage in their lives. So were baby-boomers |
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China’s better economic growth hides reasons to worry
The country’s leaders are too complacent about deflation |
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What China’s central bank and Costco shoppers have in common
Hint: it is not a fondness for cryptocurrencies |
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How fast is India’s economy really growing?
Statisticians take the country’s figures with a pinch of salt |
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Ukrainian drone strikes are hurting Russia’s oil industry
The world’s third-largest producer is now an importer of petrol |
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China’s state is eating the private property market
Pity those soon to buy a home |
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When will Americans see those interest-rate cuts?
Following a nasty surprise, some now think they may come only after the presidential election |
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Would America dare to bring down a Chinese bank?
Janet Yellen promises sanctions for those supporting Vladimir Putin’s war |
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The rich world faces a brutal spending crunch
Countries including America, Britain and France are up against remorseless fiscal logic |
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What will humans do if technology solves everything?
Welcome to a high-tech utopia |
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How to build a global currency
India is the latest country to try. Painful reforms are required |
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Will FTX’s customers be repaid?
As Sam Bankman-Fried is locked up, his erstwhile depositors await their fate |
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The Federal Reserve cleans up its money-printing mess
It wants to avoid upsetting markets, and is so far succeeding |
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Daniel Kahneman was a master of teasing questions
How a psychologist transformed economics |
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Wanted: a new economics writer
An opportunity to join the staff of The Economist |
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How Xi Jinping plans to overtake America
Digital twins, nuclear fusion and the small matter of fixing China’s economy |
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China’s banks have a bad-debt problem
As is becoming increasingly obvious |
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Which country will be last to escape inflation?
A new dividing line in the global fight |
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How the “Magnificent Seven” misleads
Forget the supergroup of stockmarket darlings |
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How India could become an Asian tiger
The world’s most selective bureaucracy is struggling to make it happen |
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Europe’s economy is under attack from all sides
First Putin, now Xi. Next Trump? |
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As markets soar, should investors look beyond America?
The country’s stocks are extremely expensive |
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How to trade an election
It is becoming harder for investors to ignore politics |
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Why “Freakonomics” failed to transform economics
The approach was fun, but has fallen out of favour |
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America’s realtor racket is alive and kicking
Celebrations over a settlement between agents and homeowners are premature |
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First Steven Mnuchin bought into NYCB, now he wants TikTok
Is there any limit to his ambitions? |
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Why America can’t escape inflation worries
The Federal Reserve sticks to its plans, despite an uncertain situation |
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Japan ends the world’s greatest monetary-policy experiment
For the first time in 17 years, officials raise interest rates |
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How China, Russia and Iran are forging closer ties
Assessing the economic threat posed by the anti-Western axis |
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How NIMBYs increase carbon emissions
Opposition to new buildings has unfortunate consequences |
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The private-equity industry has a cash problem
Little wonder its investors are protesting |
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China’s economic bright spots provide a warning
What a visit to an optimistic port reveals |
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Saudi Arabia’s investment fund has been set an impossible task
It must earn eye-watering returns while speeding the shift to a post-oil economy |
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China is churning out solar panels—and upsetting sand markets
The hunt for grains with a silica concentration of more than 99.9% |
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Is the bull market about to turn into a bubble?
Share prices are surging. Investors are delighted—but also nervous |
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Russia’s economy once again defies the doomsayers
As an election nears, Vladimir Putin now looks to have inflation under control |
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An economist’s guide to the luxury-handbag market
It is plagued by counterfeits—and information asymmetries |
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How investors get risk wrong
Contrary to popular wisdom, more volatile stocks do not outperform |
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The world is in the midst of a city-building boom
Everyone, from Donald Trump and Peter Thiel to Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, is getting involved |
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America’s rental-market mystery
And why it may deter the Federal Reserve from cutting interest rates |
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Globalisation may not have increased income inequality, after all
A new study questions the received wisdom on trends within countries |
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Bitcoin’s price is surging. What happens next?
The cryptocurrency is up by 63% this year |
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Can Israel afford to wage war?
As the battle continues, costs are spiralling |
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The Economist’s finance and economics internship
We invite applications for the 2024 Marjorie Deane internship |
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Activist investing is no longer the preserve of hedge-fund sharks
ExxonMobil and Starbucks are victims of the latest trend |
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Are passive funds to blame for market mania?
They have killed off many of those willing to bet on a downturn |
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Uranium prices are soaring. Investors should be careful
The metal has a history of meltdowns |
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What do you do with 191bn frozen euros owned by Russia?
The question that now confronts Western policymakers |
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How Trump and Biden have failed to cut ties with China
It is hard to overcome economic incentives |
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Stockmarkets are booming. But the good times are unlikely to last
Although AI is propelling valuations, there are deeper forces at work |
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Gucci, Prada and Tiffany’s bet big on property
High-end fashion has some new houses |
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Europe faces a painful adjustment to higher defence spending
The choices: taxes, cuts elsewhere, more borrowing |
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Trump wants to whack Chinese firms. How badly could he hurt them?
History provides a guide |
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As the Nikkei 225 hits record highs, Japan’s young start investing
Will more now favour domestic stocks? |
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Russia outsmarts Western sanctions—and China is paying attention
How the rise of middle powers helps America’s enemies |
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Should you put all your savings into stocks?
As markets roar, an old argument returns |
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The Ukraine war offers energy arbitrage opportunities
It also provides a glimpse at the future of European gas supplies |
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In defence of a financial instrument that fails to do its job
Inflation-linked bonds are a poor inflation hedge, but that’s not the point |
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Investing in commodities has become nightmarishly difficult
What happened to that “supercycle”? |
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Is working from home about to spark a financial crisis?
That is the worry. But it is overblown |
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How San Francisco staged a surprising comeback
Forget the controversy. America’s tech capital is building the future |
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How the world economy learned to love chaos
War, high interest rates and financial strife are yet to bring down growth |
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The false promise of Indonesia’s economy
Presidential candidates vow to deliver 7% growth. Voters have heard it before |
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Bankers have reason to hope Trump triumphs
Will they now spend big on his campaign? |
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The dividend is back. Are investors right to be pleased?
Why cash payments are no longer the preserve of widows and orphans |
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Are NYCB’s troubles the start of another banking panic?
Probably not. But they do suggest broader problems |
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China’s stockmarket nightmare is nowhere near over
The situation ought to worry Xi Jinping |
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Universities are failing to boost economic growth
Too often they generate ideas that no one knows how to use |
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China’s leaders are flailing as markets drop
The government is not used to being bullied |
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Bitcoin ETFs are off to a bad start. Will things improve?
Lessons from similar exchange-traded funds |
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Biden’s chances of re-election are better than they appear
The economy is providing a headwind at present. That could soon change |
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What four more years of Joe Biden would mean for America’s economy
Bigger government, for a start |
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Evergrande’s liquidation is a new low in China’s property crisis
A judge in Hong Kong surprises the mainland |
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Your pay is still going up too fast
Why the last part of the inflation fight may be the hardest |
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The false promise of friendshoring
America, China and Europe appear to be trading less with their geopolitical rivals |
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How American states squeeze athletes (and remote workers)
The public loves jock taxes; baseball players do not |
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Why sweet treats are increasingly expensive
For the sake of your wallet, it might be time to rethink your diet |
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What Donald Trump can learn from the Big Mac index
Should the presidential candidate go on another crusade against the yuan? |
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Investors may be getting the Federal Reserve wrong, again
Why expectations of imminent interest-rate cuts could be misplaced |
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Wall Street titans are betting big on insurers. What could go wrong?
How private-markets giants are overhauling the financial system |
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As China’s markets suffer, what alternatives do investors have?
Optimism about the world’s second-largest stockmarket is a distant memory |
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The Middle East faces economic chaos
Escalating conflict threatens to tip several countries over the brink |
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Australian houses are less affordable than they have been in decades
In spite of rising borrowing costs, prices have stayed stubbornly resilient |
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The countries which raised rates first are now cutting them
Farewell to Hikelandia |
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Wall Street is praying firms will start going public again
The IPO market is on its longest cold streak since 1980 |
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What economists have learnt from the post-pandemic business cycle
The curious and furious recovery has brought some old ideas back to the fore |
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China’s population is shrinking and its economy is losing ground
The “peak China” narrative is proving difficult to shift |
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Ted Pick takes charge of Morgan Stanley
Can he keep the bank’s stellar run going? |