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How to sell free trade to green types |
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| 7-Dec-2023
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Why it might be time to buy banks |
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| 7-Dec-2023
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Will China leave behind its economic woes in 2024? |
Xi Jinping must decide whether to set an ambitious growth target
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| 10-Dec-2023
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Vladimir Putin is running Russia’s economy dangerously hot |
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| 12-Dec-2023
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Europe’s economy is in a bad way. Policymakers need to react |
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| 14-Dec-2023
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How to put boosters under India’s economy |
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| 14-Dec-2023
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Why stockpickers should get out more |
The importance of having an opinion about Baku’s kebabs
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| 14-Dec-2023
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How to sneak billions of dollars out of China |
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| 14-Dec-2023
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Is China understating its own export success? |
The $230bn puzzle at the heart of the country’s trade figures
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| 14-Dec-2023
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The mystery of Britain’s dirt-cheap stockmarket |
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| 17-Dec-2023
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Which economy did best in 2023? |
Another unlikely triumph
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| 18-Dec-2023
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Why bitcoin is up by almost 150% this year |
Introducing the cockroach theory of crypto
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| 20-Dec-2023
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Where does the modern state come from? |
Economists attempt to answer a profound political question
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| 20-Dec-2023
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Can the carbon-offset market be saved? |
Market prices have crashed
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| 20-Dec-2023
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Hong Kong’s problems trace back to China. And also America |
The “superconnector” suffers the worst of both worlds
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| 27-Dec-2023
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The five biggest market surprises of 2023 |
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| 29-Dec-2023
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Will America manage a soft landing in 2024? |
Policymakers rarely bring down inflation without a recession. This time they might
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| 2-Jan-2024
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How to get rich in the 21st century |
The race to become the next economic superpower
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| 3-Jan-2024
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Has America really escaped inflation? |
The country’s extraordinary economic vigour keeps the threat alive
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| 4-Jan-2024
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Robert Solow was an intellectual giant |
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| 4-Jan-2024
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American stocks loiter near an all-time high |
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| 4-Jan-2024
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Three surprises that could inflame commodity markets in 2024 |
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| 7-Jan-2024
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What happened to the artificial-intelligence investment boom? |
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| 9-Jan-2024
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Xi Jinping risks setting off another trade war |
Why Western politicians should prepare for a second “China shock”
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| 10-Jan-2024
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Has Team Transitory really won America’s inflation debate? |
As prices cool, the battle heats up
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| 11-Jan-2024
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A guide to the Chinese Communist Party’s economic jargon |
It is incomprehensible, and increasingly important
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| 11-Jan-2024
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Will spiking shipping costs cause inflation to surge? |
Disruption in the Suez and Panama canals is prompting concern
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| 11-Jan-2024
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Bill Ackman provides a lesson in activist investing |
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| 15-Jan-2024
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How strong is India’s economy under Narendra Modi? |
It has neither boomed nor slumped. But growth may be taking off
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| 16-Jan-2024
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Ted Pick takes charge of Morgan Stanley |
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| 17-Jan-2024
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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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| 17-Jan-2024
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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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| 18-Jan-2024
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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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| 18-Jan-2024
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The countries which raised rates first are now cutting them |
Farewell to Hikelandia
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| 18-Jan-2024
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Australian houses are less affordable than they have been in decades |
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| 18-Jan-2024
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The Middle East faces economic chaos |
Escalating conflict threatens to tip several countries over the brink
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| 22-Jan-2024
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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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| 23-Jan-2024
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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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| 24-Jan-2024
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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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| 25-Jan-2024
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What Donald Trump can learn from the Big Mac index |
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| 25-Jan-2024
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Why sweet treats are increasingly expensive |
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| 25-Jan-2024
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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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| 25-Jan-2024
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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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| 28-Jan-2024
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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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| 29-Jan-2024
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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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| 30-Jan-2024
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What four more years of Joe Biden would mean for America’s economy |
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| 1-Feb-2024
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Biden’s chances of re-election are better than they appear |
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| 1-Feb-2024
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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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| 1-Feb-2024
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China’s leaders are flailing as markets drop |
The government is not used to being bullied
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| 5-Feb-2024
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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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| 7-Feb-2024
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China’s stockmarket nightmare is nowhere near over |
The situation ought to worry Xi Jinping
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| 8-Feb-2024
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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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| 8-Feb-2024
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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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| 8-Feb-2024
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Bankers have reason to hope Trump triumphs |
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| 8-Feb-2024
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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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| 11-Feb-2024
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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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| 12-Feb-2024
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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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| 14-Feb-2024
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Is working from home about to spark a financial crisis? |
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| 15-Feb-2024
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Investing in commodities has become nightmarishly difficult |
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| 15-Feb-2024
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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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| 15-Feb-2024
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The Ukraine war offers energy arbitrage opportunities |
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| 19-Feb-2024
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Should you put all your savings into stocks? |
As markets roar, an old argument returns
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| 21-Feb-2024
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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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| 22-Feb-2024
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As the Nikkei 225 hits record highs, Japan’s young start investing |
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| 22-Feb-2024
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Trump wants to whack Chinese firms. How badly could he hurt them? |
History provides a guide
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| 22-Feb-2024
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Europe faces a painful adjustment to higher defence spending |
The choices: taxes, cuts elsewhere, more borrowing
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| 22-Feb-2024
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Gucci, Prada and Tiffany’s bet big on property |
High-end fashion has some new houses
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| 25-Feb-2024
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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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| 27-Feb-2024
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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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| 28-Feb-2024
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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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| 29-Feb-2024
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Uranium prices are soaring. Investors should be careful |
The metal has a history of meltdowns
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| 29-Feb-2024
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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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| 29-Feb-2024
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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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| 5-Mar-2024
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The Economist’s finance and economics internship |
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| 5-Mar-2024
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Can Israel afford to wage war? |
As the battle continues, costs are spiralling
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| 6-Mar-2024
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Bitcoin’s price is surging. What happens next? |
The cryptocurrency is up by 63% this year
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| 7-Mar-2024
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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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| 7-Mar-2024
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America’s rental-market mystery |
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| 7-Mar-2024
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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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| 7-Mar-2024
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How investors get risk wrong |
Contrary to popular wisdom, more volatile stocks do not outperform
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| 7-Mar-2024
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An economist’s guide to the luxury-handbag market |
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| 10-Mar-2024
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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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| 11-Mar-2024
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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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| 14-Mar-2024
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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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| 14-Mar-2024
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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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| 14-Mar-2024
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China’s economic bright spots provide a warning |
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| 14-Mar-2024
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The private-equity industry has a cash problem |
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| 14-Mar-2024
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How NIMBYs increase carbon emissions |
Opposition to new buildings has unfortunate consequences
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| 18-Mar-2024
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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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| 19-Mar-2024
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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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| 20-Mar-2024
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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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| 21-Mar-2024
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First Steven Mnuchin bought into NYCB, now he wants TikTok |
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| 21-Mar-2024
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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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| 21-Mar-2024
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Why “Freakonomics” failed to transform economics |
The approach was fun, but has fallen out of favour
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| 21-Mar-2024
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How to trade an election |
It is becoming harder for investors to ignore politics
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| 24-Mar-2024
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As markets soar, should investors look beyond America? |
The country’s stocks are extremely expensive
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| 26-Mar-2024
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Europe’s economy is under attack from all sides |
First Putin, now Xi. Next Trump?
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| 27-Mar-2024
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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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| 27-Mar-2024
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How the “Magnificent Seven” misleads |
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| 27-Mar-2024
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Which country will be last to escape inflation? |
A new dividing line in the global fight
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| 27-Mar-2024
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China’s banks have a bad-debt problem |
As is becoming increasingly obvious
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| 31-Mar-2024
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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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| 3-Apr-2024
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Wanted: a new economics writer |
An opportunity to join the staff of The Economist
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| 4-Apr-2024
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Daniel Kahneman was a master of teasing questions |
How a psychologist transformed economics
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| 4-Apr-2024
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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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| 4-Apr-2024
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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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| 4-Apr-2024
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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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| 9-Apr-2024
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What will humans do if technology solves everything? |
Welcome to a high-tech utopia
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| 9-Apr-2024
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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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| 10-Apr-2024
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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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| 10-Apr-2024
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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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| 11-Apr-2024
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China’s state is eating the private property market |
Pity those soon to buy a home
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| 11-Apr-2024
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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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| 11-Apr-2024
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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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| 11-Apr-2024
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What China’s central bank and Costco shoppers have in common |
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| 16-Apr-2024
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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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| 16-Apr-2024
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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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| 17-Apr-2024
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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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| 18-Apr-2024
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Why the stockmarket is disappearing |
Large companies such as ByteDance, OpenAI and Stripe are staying private
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| 18-Apr-2024
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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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| 18-Apr-2024
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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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| 18-Apr-2024
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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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| 21-Apr-2024
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How American politics has infected investing |
Beware: taking a stand can be expensive
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| 23-Apr-2024
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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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| 25-Apr-2024
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Is inflation morally wrong? |
Workers think so. Economists disagree
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| 25-Apr-2024
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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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| 25-Apr-2024
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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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| 25-Apr-2024
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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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| 25-Apr-2024
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The UAE is using a wealth fund to gain diplomatic sway |
And to build holiday resorts
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| 29-Apr-2024
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Japan will struggle to rescue its plummeting currency |
Expensive government intervention looks likely to provide only brief respite
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| 30-Apr-2024
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Immigration is surging, with big economic consequences |
The West faces an unprecedented number of new arrivals
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| 1-May-2024
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Working from home and the US-Europe divide |
Americans are no longer the rich world’s great office drones
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| 2-May-2024
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Russia’s gas business will never recover from the war in Ukraine |
Hopes of a Chinese rescue look increasingly vain
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| 2-May-2024
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Hedge funds make billions as India’s options market goes ballistic |
The country’s retail investors are doing less well
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| 2-May-2024
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What campus protesters get wrong about divestment |
Will withdrawing money hurt Israel?
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| 7-May-2024
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How Ukrainian farmers are using the cover of war to escape taxes |
“Black grain” infuriates exporters playing by the rules
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| 9-May-2024
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What would get China’s consumers spending? |
Clues from a grocer in a fourth-tier city
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| 9-May-2024
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What Xi Jinping gets wrong about China’s economy |
Despite his protestations, the country does have an overcapacity problem
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| 9-May-2024
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Why the global cocoa market is melting down |
Toblerones could soon become luxury goods
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| 9-May-2024
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Against expectations, European banks are thriving |
Many are now ripe for a takeover
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| 9-May-2024
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Banks, at least, are making money from a turbulent world |
It is once again a good time to work on a trading desk
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| 9-May-2024
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Could America and its allies club together to weaken the dollar? |
China would not be happy
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| 12-May-2024
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America is in the midst of an extraordinary startup boom |
How the country revived its go-getting spirit
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| 14-May-2024
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Biden outdoes Trump with ultra-high China tariffs |
The move, which hits electric vehicles, carries an environmental cost
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| 16-May-2024
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How Jim Simons revolutionised investing |
The “quant king” pioneered an approach that has become a pillar of finance
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| 16-May-2024
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Joe Biden, master oil trader |
The president has turned volatility into profit
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| 16-May-2024
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Diego Maradona offers central bankers enduring lessons |
Recent years ought to have reduced the importance of a skilful feint. They have not
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| 16-May-2024
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Narendra Modi’s flagship growth scheme is off to a sluggish start |
Without improvements, it risks wasting trillions of rupees
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| 16-May-2024
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The property firm that could break China’s back |
If Vanke collapses, so might confidence in the state’s management of the economy
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| 20-May-2024
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At long last, Europe’s economy is starting to grow |
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| 23-May-2024
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| 23-May-2024
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| 23-May-2024
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Boaz v BlackRock: Whoever wins, closed-end funds lose |
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| 23-May-2024
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| 26-May-2024
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Baby-boomers are loaded. Why are they so stingy? |
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| 27-May-2024
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OPEC heavyweights are cheating on their targets |
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| 30-May-2024
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| 30-May-2024
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Foreign investors are rejecting Indian stocks |
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| 30-May-2024
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Xi Jinping’s surprising new source of economic advice |
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| 30-May-2024
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| 30-May-2024
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When to sell your stocks |
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| 3-Jun-2024
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China’s economic model retains a dangerous allure |
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| 4-Jun-2024
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| 5-Jun-2024
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Should you buy expensive stocks? |
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Why global GDP might be $7trn bigger than everyone thought |
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| 6-Jun-2024
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European banks are making heady profits in Russia |
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| 6-Jun-2024
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| 10-Jun-2024
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China is distorting its stockmarket by trying to prop it up |
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| 11-Jun-2024
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Donald Trump’s trade hawk is plotting behind bars |
Peter Navarro’s dark vision of the global economy could shape Trump 2
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| 13-Jun-2024
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| 13-Jun-2024
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Does motherhood hurt women’s pay? |
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| 15-Oct-2024
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Germany’s economy goes from bad to worse |
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| 15-Oct-2024
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How the German economy went from bad to worse |
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| 14-Oct-2024
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An economics Nobel for work on why nations succeed and fail |
Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson and James Robinson tackled the most important question of all
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| 14-Oct-2024
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Why investors should still avoid Chinese stocks |
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| 10-Oct-2024
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Can the world’s most influential business index be fixed? |
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| 10-Oct-2024
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| 10-Oct-2024
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How America learned to love tariffs |
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| 10-Oct-2024
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Europe’s green trade restrictions are infuriating poor countries |
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| 10-Oct-2024
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China’s property crisis claims more victims: companies |
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| 10-Oct-2024
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Can markets reduce pollution in India? |
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| 7-Oct-2024
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Could war in the Gulf push oil to $100 a barrel? |
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| 6-Oct-2024
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How bond investors soured on France |
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| 3-Oct-2024
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A tonne of public debt is never made public |
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| 3-Oct-2024
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Why economic warfare nearly always misses its target |
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| 3-Oct-2024
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Can Andrea Orcel, Europe’s star banker, create a super-bank? |
An interview with the boss of UniCredit
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| 2-Oct-2024
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Xi Jinping’s belated stimulus has reset the mood in Chinese markets |
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| 1-Oct-2024
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The house-price supercycle is just getting going |
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| 30-Sep-2024
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Why is Canada’s economy falling behind America’s? |
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| 27-Sep-2024
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At last, China pulls the trigger on a bold stimulus package |
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| 26-Sep-2024
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Is the world sleepwalking into another gas crisis? |
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| 26-Sep-2024
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A Wall Street state of mind has captured America |
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| 26-Sep-2024
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Why the Federal Reserve is split on the future of interest rates |
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| 26-Sep-2024
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How lower American interest rates will boost Africa |
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| 24-Sep-2024
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China’s central bank tries to save the economy |
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| 24-Sep-2024
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Can Israel’s economy survive an all-out war with Hizbullah? |
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| 24-Sep-2024
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Can Israel’s economy take the strain of an all-out war with Hizbullah? |
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| 24-Sep-2024
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China’s central bank tries to save the economy—and the stockmarket |
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Governments are bigger than ever. They are also more useless |
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| 13-Jun-2024
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Rumours of the trade deal’s death are greatly exaggerated |
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| 13-Jun-2024
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The cracks in America’s ultra-strong labour market |
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| 13-Jun-2024
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China’s currency is not as influential as once imagined |
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| 16-Jun-2024
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Why house prices are surging once again |
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| 18-Jun-2024
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How bad could things get in France? |
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| 19-Jun-2024
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Think Nvidia looks dear? American shares could get pricier still |
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| 20-Jun-2024
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Europe faces an unusual problem: ultra-cheap energy |
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| 20-Jun-2024
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Indian state capitalism looks to be in trouble |
A weakened Narendra Modi is bad news for investors in government-controlled firms
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| 20-Jun-2024
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America’s rich never sell their assets. How should they be taxed? |
It is tempting to tax them during their lives. It is wiser to do so after their deaths
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| 20-Jun-2024
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Is America approaching peak tip? |
The country’s gratuity madness may soon calm, so long as Donald Trump does not get his way
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| 24-Jun-2024
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Will services make the world rich? |
American fried chicken can now be served from the Philippines
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| 26-Jun-2024
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McDonald’s v Burger King: what a price war means for inflation |
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| 27-Jun-2024
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American stocks are consuming global markets |
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| 27-Jun-2024
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How Chinese goods dodge American tariffs |
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| 27-Jun-2024
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Is coal the new gold? |
The world’s dirtiest fuel is a disturbingly safe investment
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| 27-Jun-2024
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The economics of the tennis v pickleball contest |
Don’t hate the new players—or the new game
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| 30-Jun-2024
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Ukraine has a month to avoid default |
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| 2-Jul-2024
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What happened to the artificial-intelligence revolution? |
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| 4-Jul-2024
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America’s banks are more exposed to a downturn than they appear |
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| 4-Jul-2024
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How much cash should be removed from the financial system? |
Undoing quantitative easing provokes fierce debate
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| 4-Jul-2024
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How Starbucks caffeinates local economies |
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| 4-Jul-2024
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Why Chinese banks are now vanishing |
The state is struggling to deal with troubled institutions
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| 9-Jul-2024
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How strongmen abuse tools for fighting financial crime |
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| 11-Jul-2024
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Trumponomics would not be as bad as most expect |
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| 11-Jul-2024
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Betting markets are useful when politics is chaotic |
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| 11-Jul-2024
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Europe prepares for a mighty trade war |
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| 11-Jul-2024
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The dangerous rise of pension nationalism |
Pursuing domestic investment at the expense of returns is reckless
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| 11-Jul-2024
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Xi Jinping really is unshakeably committed to the private sector |
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| 15-Jul-2024
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China’s leaders face miserable economic-growth figures |
Reality intruded at the “third plenum”, intended to discuss long-term reforms
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| 16-Jul-2024
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Stocks are on an astonishing run. Yet threats lurk |
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| 17-Jul-2024
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YIMBY cities show how to build homes and contain rents |
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| 18-Jul-2024
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Why investors have fallen in love with small American firms |
The Russell 2000 puts in a historic performance
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| 18-Jul-2024
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Americans are wrong to wish for an era of stable bipartisanship |
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| 18-Jul-2024
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At last, Wall Street has something to cheer |
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| 18-Jul-2024
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Japan’s strength produces a weak yen |
Currency meddling will prove futile
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| 21-Jul-2024
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The rich world revolts against sky-high immigration |
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| 22-Jul-2024
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How Vladimir Putin created a housing bubble |
Prices have risen by 172% in Russia’s biggest cities over the past three years
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| 23-Jul-2024
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Why is Xi Jinping building secret commodity stockpiles? |
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| 25-Jul-2024
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Donald Trump wants a weaker dollar. What are his options? |
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| 25-Jul-2024
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Revisiting the work of Donald Harris, father of Kamala |
The combative Marxist economist focused on questions related to growth
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| 25-Jul-2024
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Why investors are unwise to bet on elections |
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| 29-Jul-2024
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What the war on tourism gets wrong |
Visitors are a boon, if managed wisely
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| 30-Jul-2024
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China’s last boomtowns show rapid growth is still possible |
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| 1-Aug-2024
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Investors beware: summer madness is here |
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| 1-Aug-2024
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EU handouts have long been wasteful. Now they must be fixed |
New research highlights their failures
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| 1-Aug-2024
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Gary Gensler is the most controversial man in American finance |
Donald Trump is just the latest to take a swing. In an interview with The Economist, the SEC chair defends his record
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| 1-Aug-2024
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Which cities have the worst overtourism problem? |
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| 1-Aug-2024
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Wanted: new business, finance and economics interns |
The Economist invites applications for the 2024-25 Marjorie Deane internship
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| 1-Aug-2024
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India’s economic policy will not make it rich |
A new World Bank report takes aim at emerging-market growth plans
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| 2-Aug-2024
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Why fear is sweeping markets everywhere |
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| 5-Aug-2024
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Why Japanese markets have plummeted |
The global rout continues, with the Topix experiencing its worst day since 1987
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| 6-Aug-2024
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Why Japanese stocks are on a rollercoaster ride |
Volatility in global markets continues
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| 6-Aug-2024
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The stockmarket rout may not be over |
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| 7-Aug-2024
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The Big Mac index: where to buy a cheap hamburger |
Meat-eaters may want to avoid Argentina
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| 7-Aug-2024
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A global recession is not in prospect |
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| 8-Aug-2024
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How Chinese shoppers downgraded their ambition |
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| 8-Aug-2024
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Why Warren Buffett has built a mighty cash mountain |
Berkshire Hathaway’s boss is an impressive investor, not an economic oracle
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| 8-Aug-2024
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Should central bankers argue in public? |
Division is not always a weakness
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| 8-Aug-2024
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Africa’s two most populous economies brave tough reforms |
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| 11-Aug-2024
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Vladimir Putin spends big—and sends Russia’s economy soaring |
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| 13-Aug-2024
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How to invest in chaotic markets |
Contrary to popular wisdom, even retail investors should pay attention to volatility
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| 14-Aug-2024
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What is behind China’s perplexing bond-market intervention? |
The central bank seems to think the government’s debt is too popular
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| 15-Aug-2024
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Why companies get inflation wrong |
Bosses should pay less attention to the media
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| 15-Aug-2024
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How vulnerable is Israel to sanctions? |
So far, measures have had little effect. That could change
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| 15-Aug-2024
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Europe’s economic growth is extremely fragile |
Risk is concentrated in one country: Germany
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| 19-Aug-2024
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Artificial intelligence is losing hype |
For some, that is proof the tech will in time succeed. Are they right?
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| 20-Aug-2024
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Kamala Harris’s cost-of-living plan will end in failure |
She is the latest presidential candidate to embrace self-defeating economics
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| 21-Aug-2024
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Why don’t women use artificial intelligence? |
Even when in the same jobs, men are much more likely to turn to the tech
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| 22-Aug-2024
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America’s anti-price-gouging laws are too minor to be communist |
No matter what critics of Kamala Harris allege
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| 22-Aug-2024
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America’s recession signals are flashing red. Don’t believe them |
We assess a range of measures
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| 22-Aug-2024
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Why investors are not buying Europe’s revival |
Even though the continent’s stocks are in a “sweet spot”
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| 22-Aug-2024
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Investors should avoid a new generation of rip-off ETFs |
Some proposals may even be a risk to financial stability
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| 23-Aug-2024
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Jerome Powell (almost) declares victory over inflation |
The Federal Reserve chairman strikes a notably doveish tone
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| 27-Aug-2024
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Vast government debts are riskier than they appear |
A provocative new paper gets central bankers talking at Jackson Hole
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| 28-Aug-2024
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How Vladimir Putin hopes to transform Russian trade |
He believes the country’s future lies with China and India. What could go wrong?
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| 29-Aug-2024
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Inflation is down and a recession is unlikely. What went right? |
A few years ago, nobody thought that a soft landing was possible
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| 29-Aug-2024
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Are American rents rigged by algorithms? |
That is what Department of Justice prosecutors allege
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| 29-Aug-2024
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The plasma trade is becoming ever-more hypocritical |
Reliance on America grows, as other countries clutch their pearls
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| 29-Aug-2024
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Can Japan’s zombie bond market be brought back to life? |
Ueda Kazuo begins on a dangerous mission
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| 2-Sep-2024
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Will interest-rate cuts turbocharge oil prices? |
As policymakers prepare to ease policy, traders (and presidential candidates) hold their breath
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| 4-Sep-2024
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As stock prices fall, investors prepare for an autumn chill |
Markets are in a very different place from earlier in the year
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| 5-Sep-2024
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Why Oasis fans should welcome price-gouging |
There are worse things in life than paying a fair price
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| 5-Sep-2024
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America has a huge deficit. Which candidate would make it worse? |
Enough policies have been proposed to make a call
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| 5-Sep-2024
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China is suffering from a crisis of confidence |
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| 5-Sep-2024
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American office delinquencies are shooting up |
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| 5-Sep-2024
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Has social media broken the stockmarket? |
That is the contention of Cliff Asness, one of the great quant investors
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| 9-Sep-2024
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Can anything spark Europe’s economy back to life? |
Mario Draghi, the continent’s unofficial chief technocrat, has a plan
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| 11-Sep-2024
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Strangely, America’s companies will soon face higher interest rates |
Even though the Federal Reserve is about to loosen monetary policy
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| 12-Sep-2024
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China’s government is surprisingly redistributive |
That is despite a stingy tax-and-transfer system
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| 12-Sep-2024
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The IMF has a protest problem |
Does it give up—or insist on painful reforms?
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| 12-Sep-2024
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Why orange juice has never been more expensive |
Pity those who rely on the breakfast staple
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| 12-Sep-2024
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Can bonds keep beating stocks? |
After a terrible couple of months for shareholders, lenders are feeling smug
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| 12-Sep-2024
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An American sovereign-wealth fund is a risky idea |
Donald Trump’s latest proposal has worryingly broad support
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| 12-Sep-2024
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Norway’s weak currency presents a mystery |
The country’s economy is thriving yet the krone is becoming less and less valuable. What’s going on?
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| 15-Sep-2024
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How China’s communists fell in love with privatisation |
Even though they are not very good at it
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| 16-Sep-2024
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The Federal Reserve’s interest-rate cuts may disappoint investors |
Jerome Powell could still surprise on the hawkish side
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| 18-Sep-2024
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Why the Federal Reserve has gambled on a big interest-rate cut |
The bold move carries economic and political risks
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| 19-Sep-2024
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What the history of money tells you about crypto’s future |
The thread from shipwrecks and sheep flocks to digital currencies
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| 19-Sep-2024
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European regulators are about to become more political |
That will worry many in Silicon Valley
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| 19-Sep-2024
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The world’s poorest countries have experienced a brutal decade |
Why has development ground to a halt?
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