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| 26-Mar-2025
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When to sell your stocks
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| 26-Mar-2025
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Is America’s economy heading for a consumer crunch?
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| 26-Mar-2025
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Should you buy expensive stocks?
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| 26-Mar-2025
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Why global GDP might be $7trn bigger than everyone thought
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| 26-Mar-2025
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European banks are making heady profits in Russia
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| 26-Mar-2025
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| 26-Mar-2025
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China is distorting its stockmarket by trying to prop it up
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| 26-Mar-2025
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Donald Trump’s trade hawk is plotting behind bars
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Peter Navarro’s dark vision of the global economy could shape Trump 2
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| 26-Mar-2025
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| 26-Mar-2025
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Does motherhood hurt women’s pay?
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| 26-Mar-2025
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Rumours of the trade deal’s death are greatly exaggerated
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| 26-Mar-2025
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The cracks in America’s ultra-strong labour market
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| 26-Mar-2025
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China’s currency is not as influential as once imagined
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| 26-Mar-2025
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Why house prices are surging once again
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| 26-Mar-2025
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How bad could things get in France?
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| 26-Mar-2025
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| 26-Mar-2025
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Europe faces an unusual problem: ultra-cheap energy
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| 26-Mar-2025
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Indian state capitalism looks to be in trouble
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| 26-Mar-2025
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America’s rich never sell their assets. How should they be taxed?
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| 26-Mar-2025
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| 26-Mar-2025
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Will services make the world rich?
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American fried chicken can now be served from the Philippines
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| 26-Mar-2025
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McDonald’s v Burger King: what a price war means for inflation
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| 26-Mar-2025
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American stocks are consuming global markets
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| 26-Mar-2025
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How Chinese goods dodge American tariffs
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| 26-Mar-2025
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| 26-Mar-2025
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The economics of the tennis v pickleball contest
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Don’t hate the new players—or the new game
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| 26-Mar-2025
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Ukraine has a month to avoid default
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| 26-Mar-2025
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What happened to the artificial-intelligence revolution?
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| 26-Mar-2025
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America’s banks are more exposed to a downturn than they appear
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| 26-Mar-2025
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How much cash should be removed from the financial system?
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| 26-Mar-2025
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How Starbucks caffeinates local economies
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| 26-Mar-2025
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Why Chinese banks are now vanishing
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| 26-Mar-2025
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How strongmen abuse tools for fighting financial crime
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| 26-Mar-2025
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Trumponomics would not be as bad as most expect
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| 26-Mar-2025
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Betting markets are useful when politics is chaotic
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| 26-Mar-2025
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Europe prepares for a mighty trade war
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| 26-Mar-2025
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The dangerous rise of pension nationalism
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| 26-Mar-2025
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Xi Jinping really is unshakeably committed to the private sector
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| 26-Mar-2025
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China’s leaders face miserable economic-growth figures
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Reality intruded at the “third plenum”, intended to discuss long-term reforms
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| 26-Mar-2025
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Stocks are on an astonishing run. Yet threats lurk
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| 26-Mar-2025
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YIMBY cities show how to build homes and contain rents
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| 26-Mar-2025
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Why investors have fallen in love with small American firms
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The Russell 2000 puts in a historic performance
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| 26-Mar-2025
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Americans are wrong to wish for an era of stable bipartisanship
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| 26-Mar-2025
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At last, Wall Street has something to cheer
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| 26-Mar-2025
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Japan’s strength produces a weak yen
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| 26-Mar-2025
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The rich world revolts against sky-high immigration
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| 26-Mar-2025
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How Vladimir Putin created a housing bubble
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| 26-Mar-2025
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Why is Xi Jinping building secret commodity stockpiles?
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| 26-Mar-2025
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Donald Trump wants a weaker dollar. What are his options?
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| 26-Mar-2025
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Revisiting the work of Donald Harris, father of Kamala
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| 26-Mar-2025
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Why investors are unwise to bet on elections
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| 26-Mar-2025
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What the war on tourism gets wrong
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| 26-Mar-2025
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China’s last boomtowns show rapid growth is still possible
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| 26-Mar-2025
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Investors beware: summer madness is here
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| 26-Mar-2025
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EU handouts have long been wasteful. Now they must be fixed
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New research highlights their failures
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| 26-Mar-2025
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Gary Gensler is the most controversial man in American finance
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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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| 26-Mar-2025
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Which cities have the worst overtourism problem?
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| 26-Mar-2025
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Wanted: new business, finance and economics interns
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| 26-Mar-2025
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India’s economic policy will not make it rich
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A new World Bank report takes aim at emerging-market growth plans
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| 26-Mar-2025
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Why fear is sweeping markets everywhere
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American and Japanese indices have taken a battering. So have banks and gold
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| 26-Mar-2025
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Why Japanese markets have plummeted
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The global rout continues, with the Topix experiencing its worst day since 1987
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| 26-Mar-2025
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Why Japanese stocks are on a rollercoaster ride
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| 26-Mar-2025
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The stockmarket rout may not be over
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| 26-Mar-2025
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The Big Mac index: where to buy a cheap hamburger
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Meat-eaters may want to avoid Argentina
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| 26-Mar-2025
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A global recession is not in prospect
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| 26-Mar-2025
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How Chinese shoppers downgraded their ambition
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| 26-Mar-2025
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Why Warren Buffett has built a mighty cash mountain
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Berkshire Hathaway’s boss is an impressive investor, not an economic oracle
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| 26-Mar-2025
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Should central bankers argue in public?
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Division is not always a weakness
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| 26-Mar-2025
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Africa’s two most populous economies brave tough reforms
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| 26-Mar-2025
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Vladimir Putin spends big—and sends Russia’s economy soaring
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| 26-Mar-2025
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How to invest in chaotic markets
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Contrary to popular wisdom, even retail investors should pay attention to volatility
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| 26-Mar-2025
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What is behind China’s perplexing bond-market intervention?
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| 26-Mar-2025
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Why companies get inflation wrong
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| 26-Mar-2025
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How vulnerable is Israel to sanctions?
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| 26-Mar-2025
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Europe’s economic growth is extremely fragile
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Risk is concentrated in one country: Germany
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| 26-Mar-2025
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Artificial intelligence is losing hype
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For some, that is proof the tech will in time succeed. Are they right?
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| 26-Mar-2025
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Kamala Harris’s cost-of-living plan will end in failure
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She is the latest presidential candidate to embrace self-defeating economics
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| 26-Mar-2025
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Why don’t women use artificial intelligence?
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| 26-Mar-2025
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America’s anti-price-gouging laws are too minor to be communist
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No matter what critics of Kamala Harris allege
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| 26-Mar-2025
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America’s recession signals are flashing red. Don’t believe them
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| 26-Mar-2025
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Why investors are not buying Europe’s revival
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| 26-Mar-2025
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Investors should avoid a new generation of rip-off ETFs
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| 26-Mar-2025
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Jerome Powell (almost) declares victory over inflation
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The Federal Reserve chairman strikes a notably doveish tone
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| 26-Mar-2025
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Vast government debts are riskier than they appear
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A provocative new paper gets central bankers talking at Jackson Hole
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| 26-Mar-2025
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How Vladimir Putin hopes to transform Russian trade
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| 26-Mar-2025
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Inflation is down and a recession is unlikely. What went right?
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A few years ago, nobody thought that a soft landing was possible
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| 26-Mar-2025
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Are American rents rigged by algorithms?
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That is what Department of Justice prosecutors allege
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| 26-Mar-2025
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The plasma trade is becoming ever-more hypocritical
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Reliance on America grows, as other countries clutch their pearls
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| 26-Mar-2025
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Can Japan’s zombie bond market be brought back to life?
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Ueda Kazuo begins on a dangerous mission
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| 26-Mar-2025
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Will interest-rate cuts turbocharge oil prices?
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| 26-Mar-2025
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As stock prices fall, investors prepare for an autumn chill
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| 26-Mar-2025
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Why Oasis fans should welcome price-gouging
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| 26-Mar-2025
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America has a huge deficit. Which candidate would make it worse?
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| 26-Mar-2025
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China is suffering from a crisis of confidence
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Can anything perk up its economy?
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| 26-Mar-2025
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American office delinquencies are shooting up
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How worried should investors be?
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| 26-Mar-2025
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Has social media broken the stockmarket?
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That is the contention of Cliff Asness, one of the great quant investors
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| 26-Mar-2025
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Can anything spark Europe’s economy back to life?
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Mario Draghi, the continent’s unofficial chief technocrat, has a plan
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| 26-Mar-2025
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Strangely, America’s companies will soon face higher interest rates
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Even though the Federal Reserve is about to loosen monetary policy
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| 26-Mar-2025
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China’s government is surprisingly redistributive
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| 26-Mar-2025
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The IMF has a protest problem
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| 26-Mar-2025
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Why orange juice has never been more expensive
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Pity those who rely on the breakfast staple
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| 26-Mar-2025
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Can bonds keep beating stocks?
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After a terrible couple of months for shareholders, lenders are feeling smug
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| 26-Mar-2025
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An American sovereign-wealth fund is a risky idea
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Donald Trump’s latest proposal has worryingly broad support
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| 26-Mar-2025
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Norway’s weak currency presents a mystery
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The country’s economy is thriving yet the krone is becoming less and less valuable. What’s going on?
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| 26-Mar-2025
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How China’s communists fell in love with privatisation
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| 26-Mar-2025
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The Federal Reserve’s interest-rate cuts may disappoint investors
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Jerome Powell could still surprise on the hawkish side
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| 26-Mar-2025
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Why the Federal Reserve has gambled on a big interest-rate cut
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The bold move carries economic and political risks
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| 26-Mar-2025
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What the history of money tells you about crypto’s future
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The thread from shipwrecks and sheep flocks to digital currencies
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| 26-Mar-2025
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European regulators are about to become more political
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| 26-Mar-2025
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The world’s poorest countries have experienced a brutal decade
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| 26-Mar-2025
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Governments are bigger than ever. They are also more useless
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Why voters across the rich world are miserable
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| 26-Mar-2025
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China’s central bank tries to save the economy—and the stockmarket
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| 26-Mar-2025
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Can Israel’s economy survive an all-out war with Hizbullah?
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The country’s banks are experiencing capital flight
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| 26-Mar-2025
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How lower American interest rates will boost Africa
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One of the world’s worst-named financial instruments is newly relevant
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| 26-Mar-2025
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Is the world sleepwalking into another gas crisis?
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Prices could once again spike this winter
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| 26-Mar-2025
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A Wall Street state of mind has captured America
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Downtown New York is quieter than ever. Finance has never been louder
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| 26-Mar-2025
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Why the Federal Reserve is split on the future of interest rates
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Jerome Powell began with a big cut. What comes next?
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| 26-Mar-2025
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At last, China pulls the trigger on a bold stimulus package
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“Buy everything,” says an American hedge fund
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| 26-Mar-2025
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Why is Canada’s economy falling behind America’s?
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The country was slightly richer than Montana in 2019. Now it is just poorer than Alabama
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| 26-Mar-2025
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The house-price supercycle is just getting going
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Why property prices could keep rising for years
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| 26-Mar-2025
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Xi Jinping’s belated stimulus has reset the mood in Chinese markets
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But can the buying frenzy last?
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| 26-Mar-2025
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A tonne of public debt is never made public
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New research suggests governments routinely hide their borrowing
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| 26-Mar-2025
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Why economic warfare nearly always misses its target
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There is no such thing as a strategic commodity
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| 26-Mar-2025
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Can Andrea Orcel, Europe’s star banker, create a super-bank?
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An interview with the boss of UniCredit
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| 26-Mar-2025
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How bond investors soured on France
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They now regard the euro zone’s second-largest economy as riskier than Spain
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| 26-Mar-2025
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Could war in the Gulf push oil to $100 a barrel?
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Missiles are flying over a region that supplies a third of the world’s crude
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| 26-Mar-2025
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Can markets reduce pollution in India?
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An experiment in Gujarat yields impressive results
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| 26-Mar-2025
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Can the world’s most influential business index be fixed?
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Two cheers for the World Bank’s new global business survey
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| 26-Mar-2025
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Why have markets grown more captivated by data releases?
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Especially when the quality of statistics is deteriorating
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| 26-Mar-2025
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How America learned to love tariffs
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Protectionism hasn’t been this respectable for decades
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| 26-Mar-2025
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Europe’s green trade restrictions are infuriating poor countries
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Only the poorest can expect help to cushion the blow
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| 26-Mar-2025
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China’s property crisis claims more victims: companies
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Unsold homes are contributing to a balance-sheet recession
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| 26-Mar-2025
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Why investors should still avoid Chinese stocks
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The debate about “uninvestability” obscures something important
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| 7-Feb-2025
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An economics Nobel for work on why nations succeed and fail
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Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson and James Robinson tackled the most important question of all
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| 26-Mar-2025
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Germany’s economy goes from bad to worse
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Things may look brighter next year, but the relief will be short-lived
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| 26-Mar-2025
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Inside the secret oil trade that funds Iran’s wars
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An investigation by The Economist uncovers a multi-billion-dollar, America-defying network
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| 26-Mar-2025
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Trump’s trillion-dollar tax cuts are spiralling out of control
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His zany promises would blow up the deficit
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| 26-Mar-2025
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The West faces new inflation fears
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Having moved in lockstep, America and Europe now have very different concerns
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| 26-Mar-2025
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Hizbullah’s sprawling financial empire looks newly vulnerable
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Why Israel is now bombing Lebanese banks
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| 26-Mar-2025
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What the surging price of gold says about a dangerous world
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Financial fears and geopolitical tremors combine to great effect
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| 26-Mar-2025
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How bad are video games for your grades?
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Chinese students provide an answer
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| 26-Mar-2025
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Investors should not fear a stockmarket crash
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| 18-Feb-2025
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The economics of thinness (Ozempic edition)
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| 26-Mar-2025
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America’s glorious economy should help Kamala Harris
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Voters are starting to notice the good news just in time for the election
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| 26-Mar-2025
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Donald Trump would leave Asia with only bad options
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The continent’s policymakers are too relaxed about the risks
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| 26-Mar-2025
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Will bond vigilantes come for America’s next president?
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Treasury yields are rising ominously
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| 26-Mar-2025
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Sin taxes are suffering from a shortage of sinners
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Governments across the rich world are looking for alternatives
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| 26-Mar-2025
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Why China needs to fill its empty homes
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The country’s economy is broken. A recovery requires a healthier property market
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| 26-Mar-2025
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American men are getting back to work
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The ultra-gloomy picture painted by politicians is no longer accurate
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| 26-Mar-2025
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Ireland’s government has an unusual problem: too much money
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| 26-Mar-2025
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Greenland faces one of history’s great resource rushes—and curses
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The territory sits on an astounding number of critical minerals
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| 26-Mar-2025
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The return of Trumponomics excites markets but frightens the world
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It may bring stronger growth, higher inflation and a global trade war
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| 26-Mar-2025
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Sanctions are sinking Russia’s flagship gas project
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Whether that lasts is up to Donald Trump
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| 26-Mar-2025
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Barbarians on the porch
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Private markets are going mainstream
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| 26-Mar-2025
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India is undergoing an astonishing stockmarket revolution
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| 26-Mar-2025
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Big Macs, strawberry jam and the wealth of nations
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Alan Heston, a pioneer in comparing economies, died on October 25th
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| 26-Mar-2025
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What betting markets got right and wrong about Trump’s victory
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| 26-Mar-2025
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America’s strengthening dollar will rattle the rest of the world
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Donald Trump’s policies could send the greenback soaring
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| 26-Mar-2025
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Why crypto mania is reaching new heights
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Are bitcoin bros right to be so thrilled by Donald Trump’s victory?
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| 26-Mar-2025
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What does America’s next treasury secretary believe?
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| 26-Mar-2025
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The biggest losers from Trumponomics
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America’s president-elect wants to reshape trade, capital and labour flows
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| 26-Mar-2025
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How to pay for the poor world to go green
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Rich countries need not reinvent the wheel
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| 26-Mar-2025
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Why financial markets are so oddly calm
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| 26-Mar-2025
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Economists need new indicators of economic misery
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Existing measures of discomfort are failing to predict elections
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| 26-Mar-2025
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How to make Elon Musk’s budget-slashing dreams come true
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| 26-Mar-2025
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Vladimir Putin is in a painful economic bind
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Russia’s reliance on China is becoming a problem
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| 26-Mar-2025
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Our Big Mac index shows how burger prices differ across borders
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Using patty-power parity to think about exchange rates
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| 26-Mar-2025
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Donald Trump’s gas war is about to begin
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It could annoy some of his most loyal supporters
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| 26-Mar-2025
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Is China really a nation of slackers?
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A new survey raises the question
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| 26-Mar-2025
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Should investors just give up on stocks outside America?
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| 26-Mar-2025
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Computers unleashed economic growth. Will artificial intelligence?
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Two years after ChatGPT-3.5 arrived, progress has been slower than expected
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| 26-Mar-2025
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What Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders get wrong about credit cards
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| 26-Mar-2025
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What Scott Bessent’s appointment means for the Trump administration
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The president-elect’s nominee for treasury secretary faces a gruelling job
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| 26-Mar-2025
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How Trump, Starmer and Macron can avoid a debt crunch
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| 26-Mar-2025
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Trump wastes no time in reigniting trade wars
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Canada and Mexico look likely to suffer
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| 26-Mar-2025
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Why Black Friday sales grow more annoying every year
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| 26-Mar-2025
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American veterans now receive absurdly generous benefits
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An enormous rise in disability payments may complicate debt-reduction efforts
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| 26-Mar-2025
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Why everyone wants to lend to weak companies
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An unanticipated side-effect of Donald Trump’s election victory
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| 7-Feb-2025
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Hong Kong’s property slump may be terminal
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Demographics and geopolitics will make a recovery harder
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| 26-Mar-2025
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The great-man theory of Wall Street
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Why finance is still dominated by bold individuals
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| 26-Mar-2025
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Russia’s plunging currency spells trouble for its war effort
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Supplies from China are about to become more expensive
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| 26-Mar-2025
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How China will strike back at Trump
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Xi Jinping has set out his tariff red lines. What if America crosses them?
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| 26-Mar-2025
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MAGA types have a point on debanking
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A booming compliance industry is causing problems
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| 26-Mar-2025
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France is not alone in its fiscal woes
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Deficits look worryingly wide across Europe
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| 26-Mar-2025
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Cronyism is a problem. But not always an economic one
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Research on the topic is surprisingly nuanced
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| 26-Mar-2025
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How sports gambling became ubiquitous
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Europe is at the centre of the industry’s growth
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| 26-Mar-2025
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Xi Jinping’s campaign against gambling is a failure
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Chinese citizens go to great lengths to bet
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| 26-Mar-2025
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The hidden cost of Chinese loans
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Governments that borrow from China must pay more to borrow from others
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| 26-Mar-2025
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How much oil can Trump pump?
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The president-elect wants to be the ultimate energy baron
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| 26-Mar-2025
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Are adults forgetting how to read?
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A survey by the OECD suggests so
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| 26-Mar-2025
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Which economy did best in 2024?
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We rank countries on five measures
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| 26-Mar-2025
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Bitcoin is up by 138% this year. It is a nonsense-free rally
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The link between digital assets and mainstream finance is strengthening
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| 26-Mar-2025
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What a censored speech says about China’s economy
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If growth is on target, why is inflation so low?
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| 26-Mar-2025
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The Federal Reserve takes on Trump—and stubborn inflation
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Time for Jerome Powell to enter the octagon
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| 26-Mar-2025
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The World Bank is struggling to serve all 78 poor countries
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Bangladesh and Niger are very different places
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| 26-Mar-2025
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Ukraine is winning the economic war against Russia
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Whether that lasts depends on its ability to overcome acute shortages of power, men and money
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| 26-Mar-2025
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Conflict is remaking the Middle East’s economic order
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Iran is boxed in as Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Turkey look to capitalise
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| 7-Feb-2025
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The search for the world’s most efficient charities
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What the data say about doing good well
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| 26-Mar-2025
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Why Brazil’s currency is plunging
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Fiscal and monetary policy are now pitted against one another
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| 26-Mar-2025
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Don’t count on monetary policy to make housing affordable
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Unless housebuilding picks up, neither cheap nor dear money will bring relief
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| 26-Mar-2025
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Just how frothy is America’s stockmarket?
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We crunch the numbers to assess just how euphoric investors became in 2024
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| 7-Feb-2025
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Why fine wine and fancy art have slumped this year
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Investing in luxury goods was a bad move in 2024
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| 26-Mar-2025
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Manmohan Singh was India’s economic freedom fighter
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India’s most consequential finance minister, who later became PM, has died aged 92
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| 7-Feb-2025
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China’s firms are taking flight, worrying its rulers
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Policymakers at home and abroad are anxious about offshoring
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| 24-Mar-2025
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What investors expect from President Trump
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Shareholders are over the moon; bondholders are readying the whip hand
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| 24-Mar-2025
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Will Elon Musk dominate President Trump’s economic policy?
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He will face challenges from both America firsters and conservative mainstreamers
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| 26-Mar-2025
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Would an artificial-intelligence bubble be so bad?
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A new book by Byrne Hobart and Tobias Huber argues there are advantages to financial mania
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| 24-Mar-2025
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Can America’s economy cope with mass deportations?
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Production slowdowns, more imports and pricier housing could follow
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| 24-Mar-2025
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China’s markets take a fresh beating
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Authorities have responded by bossing around investors
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| 24-Mar-2025
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An American purchase of Greenland could be the deal of the century
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The economics of buying new territory
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| 24-Mar-2025
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How corporate bonds fell out of fashion
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The market is at its hottest in years—and a shadow of its former self
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| 24-Mar-2025
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Europe could be torn apart by new divisions
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The continent is at its most vulnerable in decades
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| 24-Mar-2025
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The Los Angeles fires will be extraordinarily expensive
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They will also expose California’s faulty insurance market
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| 24-Mar-2025
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Why global bond markets are convulsing
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Pity anyone taking out a mortgage
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| 24-Mar-2025
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Iran is vulnerable to a Trumpian all-out economic assault
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Oil prices are already at a five-month high
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| 24-Mar-2025
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Will Donald Trump unleash Wall Street?
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Bankers have plenty of reason to be hopeful
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| 24-Mar-2025
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“The Traitors”, a reality TV show, offers a useful economics lesson
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It is a finite, sequential, incomplete information game
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| 24-Mar-2025
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Why catastrophe bonds are failing to cover disaster damage
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The innovative form of insurance is reaching its limits
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| 24-Mar-2025
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Are big cities overrated?
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New economic research suggests so
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| 24-Mar-2025
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Ethiopia gets a stockmarket. Now it just needs some firms to list
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The country is no longer the most populous without a bourse
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| 24-Mar-2025
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China meets its official growth target. Not everyone is convinced
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For one thing, 2024 saw the second-weakest rise in nominal GDP since the 1970s
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| 24-Mar-2025
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Donald Trump issues fresh tariff threats
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But it may be a while before he unleashes a universal levy
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| 24-Mar-2025
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The Arctic: climate change’s great economic opportunity
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An enormous prize is on offer. When might it be grasped?
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| 24-Mar-2025
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China’s financial system is under brutal pressure
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When will something break?
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| 24-Mar-2025
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How American bankers dodged the MAGA carnage
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The masters of the universe have escaped an anti-globalist revolt
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| 24-Mar-2025
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Has Japan truly escaped low inflation?
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Its central bankers are increasingly hopeful
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| 24-Mar-2025
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Saba Capital wages war on underperforming British investment trusts
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How many will end up in Boaz Weinstein’s sights?
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| 24-Mar-2025
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European governments struggle to stop rich people from fleeing
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Exit taxes are popular, and counter-productive
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| 24-Mar-2025
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Do tariffs raise inflation?
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Usually. But the bigger problem is that they harm economic growth and innovation
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| 24-Mar-2025
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Will America’s crypto frenzy end in disaster?
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Donald Trump’s team is about to bring digital finance into the mainstream
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| 24-Mar-2025
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Don’t let Donald Trump see our Big Mac index
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America’s tariff-loving president could learn the wrong lessons from international burger prices
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| 24-Mar-2025
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Donald Trump’s economic warfare has a new front
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The president has threatened to blow up the global tax system. Will allies be able to stop him?
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| 24-Mar-2025
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Tech tycoons have got the economics of AI wrong
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Following DeepSeek’s breakthrough, the Jevons paradox provides less comfort than they imagine
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| 24-Mar-2025
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Giorgia Meloni has grand banking ambitions
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Will Italy’s nationalist prime minister manage to concentrate financial power?
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| 24-Mar-2025
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Can Germany’s economy stage an unexpected recovery?
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The situation is dire, but there are glimmers of hope
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| 24-Mar-2025
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Why your portfolio is less diversified than you might think
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The most important idea in modern finance has become maddeningly hard to implement
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| 24-Mar-2025
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Trump’s brutal tariffs far outstrip any he has imposed before
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Canada, Mexico and China are going to be made to suffer
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| 24-Mar-2025
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How Trump’s tariff turbulence will cause economic pain
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Mexico and Canada win a reprieve, but firms remain rattled
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| 24-Mar-2025
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Xi Jinping shows how he will return American fire
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China’s trade retaliation carries a warning of worse to come
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| 24-Mar-2025
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How to invest like a MAGA bigwig
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Cannabis, crypto or half of North Dakota?
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| 24-Mar-2025
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Don’t propose with a diamond
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Lab-grown gems may destroy both their own value and that of natural rocks, too
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| 24-Mar-2025
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Tariff uncertainty can be as ruinous as tariffs themselves
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Whatever its geopolitical merits, the “madman theory” transfers badly to economics
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| 24-Mar-2025
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When will remote workers see their pay cut?
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Logging on at home is a perk, yet so far it has not been treated as such
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| 24-Mar-2025
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Europe has no escape from stagnation
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Things look increasingly dark for the continent
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| 24-Mar-2025
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Narendra Modi is struggling to boost Indian growth
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Tax cuts may lift short-term output, but deeper reform is required
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| 24-Mar-2025
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Why Donald Trump’s protectionist zeal has only grown
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Lessons from a week of chaos
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| 24-Mar-2025
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Donald Trump’s Super Bowl tariffs are an act of self-harm
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Duties on aluminium and steel will throttle American industry and fragment global markets
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| 24-Mar-2025
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Elon Musk is failing to cut American spending
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DOGE has so far disrupted everything in government bar the deficit
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| 24-Mar-2025
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The danger of relying on OpenAI’s Deep Research
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Economists are in raptures, but they should be careful
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| 24-Mar-2025
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How AI will divide the best from the rest
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Optimists hope the technology will be a great equaliser. Instead, it looks likely to widen social divides
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| 24-Mar-2025
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Why you should repay your mortgage early
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For the first time in decades, the arithmetic suggests settling housing loans
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| 24-Mar-2025
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Russian inflation is too high. Does that matter?
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In a strong economy, price pressure can endure for a long time
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| 24-Mar-2025
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Cheap solar power is sending electrical grids into a death spiral
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Pakistan and South Africa provide a warning for other countries
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| 24-Mar-2025
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Will Europe return to Putin’s gas?
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A deal with the devil would boost the continent’s miserable economy
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| 24-Mar-2025
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American inflation looks increasingly worrying
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Trump’s tariffs are fuelling consumer concerns, which may prove self-fulfilling
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| 24-Mar-2025
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Investors fear inflation is coming back. They may be right
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Is the world about to repeat the mistakes of the 1970s?
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| 24-Mar-2025
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To spend big, Germany’s next government may need EU help
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How self-imposed constraints could lead to a bizarre outcome
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| 24-Mar-2025
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Donald Trump’s reciprocal tariffs are absurd
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At first glance, they are a bureaucratic nightmare. On a closer look, they are even worse
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| 24-Mar-2025
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China’s leaders look to have blinked in their property face-off
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They did not want to bail out indebted firms. Now they are on the verge of doing so
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| 24-Mar-2025
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Why American credit-card delinquencies have suddenly shot up
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They are now at a 13-year high. How concerned should you be?
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| 27-Feb-2025
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Stablecoins: the real crypto craze
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Policymakers are racing to catch up with their rapid rise
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| 27-Feb-2025
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Meet Trump’s fiercest opponent: the bond market
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Treasury yields are falling sharply. But not for the president’s desired reasons
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| 27-Feb-2025
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How cheap can investing get?
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The answer depends on whether speculators resist zany ETFs
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| 27-Feb-2025
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How to get rich in 2025
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Forget about your career. Today an inheritance is what matters
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| 27-Feb-2025
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India has undermined a popular myth about development
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Extreme poverty in the country has dropped to negligible levels
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| 6-Mar-2025
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El Salvador’s wild crypto experiment ends in failure
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Its curtailment is the price of an IMF bail-out. And one worth paying
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| 4-Mar-2025
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Trump’s new tariffs are his most extreme ever
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America targets its three biggest trading partners: Canada, Mexico and China
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| 6-Mar-2025
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Why silver is the new gold
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Safe-haven demand and solar panels have sent its price soaring
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| 10-Mar-2025
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Trump’s tariff turbulence is worse than anyone imagined
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Even his concessions are less generous than expected
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| 10-Mar-2025
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It is not the economic impact of tariffs that is most worrying
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What are the lessons of the 1930s?
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| 6-Mar-2025
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Aid cannot make poor countries rich
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For decades, officials have promised to raise economic growth. For decades, they have failed
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| 19-Mar-2025
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Donald Trump’s tariffs are a throwback to the 1930s
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“Economic nationalism”, our predecessors wrote, “is almost an American invention”
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| 13-Mar-2025
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Investors think the Russia-Ukraine war will end soon
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The prospect of peace is reshaping markets, in ways both ominous and promising
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| 13-Mar-2025
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Does Trump really want a weaker dollar?
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Overturning three decades of American policy will not be painless
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| 13-Mar-2025
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How Trump provoked a stockmarket sell-off
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Will the president win back investors? Does he even want to?
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| 14-Mar-2025
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What sparks an investing revolution?
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Ideas that emerged from the University of Chicago in the 1960s changed the world. But as a new film shows, they almost didn’t
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| 17-Mar-2025
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Your guide to the new anti-immigration argument
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Nativists say that migrants raise house prices, cost money and undermine economic growth. Do they have a point?
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| 14-Mar-2025
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Why “labour shortages” don’t really exist
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Use the term, and you are almost always a bad economist or a special pleader
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| 13-Mar-2025
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More testosterone means higher pay—for some men
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A changing appetite for status games could play a role
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| 13-Mar-2025
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Can Europe cope with a free-spending Germany?
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Pity the continent’s exporters
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| 21-Mar-2025
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Why rents are rising too fast
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Rich-world tenants are angry, and have reason to be
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| 20-Mar-2025
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Can anything get China’s shoppers to spend?
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An economic recovery depends on it. Yet a new action plan may not do the job
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| 21-Mar-2025
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Where will be the next electric-vehicle superpower?
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Three Asian countries make their pitch
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| 20-Mar-2025
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America’s Democrats should embrace “abundance liberalism”
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Two new books contain much to commend them
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| 20-Mar-2025
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The Trump administration is playing a dangerous stockmarket game
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| 20-Mar-2025
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Beneath investors’ feet, the ground is shifting
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| 20-Mar-2025
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Even the Trumpiest stocks are suffering
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| 27-Mar-2025
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Live music seems recession-proof. Thank ticket scalpers
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| 27-Mar-2025
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How Europe can hurt Russia’s economy
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| 27-Mar-2025
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Trump’s tariff pain: the growing evidence
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As “liberation day” nears, American businesses suffer
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| 27-Mar-2025
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Nubank has conquered Brazil. Now it is expanding overseas
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| 27-Mar-2025
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The surging gold price is boosting Central Asia’s economies
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| 27-Mar-2025
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Can foreign investors learn to love China again?
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Wall Street still needs more to coax it back. But non-American firms may be ready to return
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| 27-Mar-2025
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Even priests need the free market
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What clergymen can learn from economists
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| 23-Mar-2025
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Live music seems recession-proof. Thank ticket scalpers |
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| 27-Mar-2025
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Nubank has conquered Brazil. Now it is expanding overseas |
The country’s struggling economy provides a push
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| 27-Mar-2025
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The surging gold price is boosting Central Asia’s economies |
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| 27-Mar-2025
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Can foreign investors learn to love China again? |
Wall Street still needs more to coax it back. But non-American firms may be ready to return
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| 27-Mar-2025
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Even priests need the free market |
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| 25-Mar-2025
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Trump’s tariff pain: the growing evidence |
As “liberation day” nears, American businesses suffer
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| 25-Mar-2025
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Trump’s endless trade threats come at a growing cost |
As “liberation day” nears, evidence of economic harm builds
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| 24-Mar-2025
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How Europe can hurt Russia’s economy |
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| 23-Mar-2025
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Live music seems recession-proof. Thank the ticket scalpers |
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| 20-Mar-2025
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Even the Trumpiest stocks are suffering |
Investors may have misjudged which firms would thrive under the new administration
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| 19-Mar-2025
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Beneath investors’ feet, the ground is shifting |
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| 19-Mar-2025
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The Trump administration is playing a dangerous stockmarket game |
American investors are extremely exposed to a sell-off—and so is the economy
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| 18-Mar-2025
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America’s Democrats should embrace “abundance liberalism” |
Two new books contain much to commend them
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| 18-Mar-2025
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America’s Democrats would be wise to embrace “abundance liberalism” |
Despite reasons for caution, there is much to commend in the work of Ezra Klein, Derek Thompson and Marc Dunkelman
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| 18-Mar-2025
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Where will be the next electric-vehicle superpower? |
Three Asian countries make their pitch
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| 17-Mar-2025
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Can anything get China’s shoppers to spend? |
An economic recovery depends on it. Yet a new action plan may not do the job
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| 16-Mar-2025
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Why rents are rising too fast |
Rich-world tenants are angry, and have reason to be
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| 16-Mar-2025
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Why rents are still rising too fast |
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| 16-Mar-2025
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Why rents are out of control |
Rich-world tenants are angry, and have reason to be
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| 13-Mar-2025
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More testosterone means higher pay—for some men |
A changing appetite for status games could play a role
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| 13-Mar-2025
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Can Europe cope with a free-spending Germany? |
Pity the continent’s exporters
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| 13-Mar-2025
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Your guide to the new anti-immigration argument |
Nativists say that migrants raise house prices, cost money and undermine economic growth. Do they have a point?
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| 13-Mar-2025
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Why “labour shortages” don’t really exist |
Use the term, and you are almost always a bad economist or a special pleader
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| 12-Mar-2025
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What sparks an investing revolution? |
Ideas that emerged from the University of Chicago in the 1960s changed the world. But as a new film shows, they almost didn’t
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| 11-Mar-2025
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Will America’s stockmarket convulsions spread? |
Investors are hurrying to find alternatives—but all face difficulties of their own
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| 10-Mar-2025
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How Trump provoked a stockmarket sell-off |
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| 9-Mar-2025
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Investors think the Russia-Ukraine war will end soon |
The prospect of peace is reshaping markets, in ways both ominous and promising
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| 9-Mar-2025
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Does Trump really want a weaker dollar? |
Overturning three decades of American policy will not be painless
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| 6-Mar-2025
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Donald Trump’s tariffs are a throwback to the 1930s |
“Economic nationalism”, our predecessors wrote, “is almost an American invention”
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| 6-Mar-2025
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It is not the economic impact of tariffs that is most worrying |
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| 6-Mar-2025
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Aid cannot make poor countries rich |
For decades, officials have promised to raise economic growth. For decades, they have failed
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| 5-Mar-2025
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Trump’s tariff turbulence is worse than anyone imagined |
Even his concessions are less generous than expected
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| 5-Mar-2025
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Trump’s tariffs are worse than anyone imagined |
Even his concessions are less generous than expected
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| 5-Mar-2025
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Why silver is the new gold |
Safe-haven demand and solar panels have sent its price soaring
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| 3-Mar-2025
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Trump’s new tariffs are his most extreme ever |
America targets its three biggest trading partners: Canada, Mexico and China
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| 3-Mar-2025
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Trump’s new tariffs are set to be his most extreme ever |
America targets its three biggest trading partners: Canada, Mexico and China
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| 2-Mar-2025
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America is at risk of a Trumpian economic slowdown |
Protectionist threats and erratic policies are combining to hurt growth
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| 2-Mar-2025
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America faces a Trumpian economic slowdown |
Protectionist threats and erratic policies are combining to hurt growth
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| 2-Mar-2025
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El Salvador’s wild crypto experiment ends in failure |
Its curtailment is the price of an IMF bail-out. And one worth paying
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| 27-Feb-2025
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India has undermined a popular myth about development |
Extreme poverty in the country has dropped to negligible levels
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| 27-Feb-2025
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How to get rich in 2025 |
Forget about your career. Today an inheritance is what matters
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| 27-Feb-2025
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How India escaped extreme poverty without an industrial miracle |
And, in doing so, undermined a popular myth about development
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| 26-Feb-2025
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How cheap can investing get? |
The answer depends on whether speculators resist zany ETFs
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| 25-Feb-2025
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Meet Trump’s fiercest opponent: the bond market |
Treasury yields are falling sharply. But not for the president’s desired reasons
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| 23-Feb-2025
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Stablecoins: the real crypto craze |
Policymakers are racing to catch up with their rapid rise
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| 20-Feb-2025
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Donald Trump’s reciprocal tariffs are absurd |
At first glance, they are a bureaucratic nightmare. On a closer look, they are even worse
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| 20-Feb-2025
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China’s leaders look to have blinked in their property face-off |
They did not want to bail out indebted firms. Now they are on the verge of doing so
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| 20-Feb-2025
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Why American credit-card delinquencies have suddenly shot up |
They are now at a 13-year high. How concerned should you be?
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| 20-Feb-2025
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Investors fear inflation is coming back. They may be right |
Is the world in for a repeat of the 1970s?
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| 20-Feb-2025
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To spend big, Germany’s next government may need EU help |
How self-imposed constraints could lead to a bizarre outcome
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| 18-Feb-2025
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American inflation looks increasingly worrying |
Trump’s tariffs are fuelling consumer concerns, which may prove self-fulfilling
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| 16-Feb-2025
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Will Europe return to Putin’s gas? |
A deal with the devil would boost the continent’s miserable economy
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| 13-Feb-2025
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Cheap solar power is sending electrical grids into a death spiral |
Pakistan and South Africa provide a warning for other countries
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| 13-Feb-2025
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The danger of relying on OpenAI’s Deep Research |
Economists are in raptures, but they should be careful
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| 13-Feb-2025
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How AI will divide the best from the rest |
Tech bosses say the tech will be a great equaliser. Instead, it looks likely to widen social divides
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| 13-Feb-2025
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Why you should repay your mortgage early |
For the first time in decades, the arithmetic suggests settling housing loans
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| 13-Feb-2025
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Russian inflation is too high. Does that matter? |
In a strong economy, price pressure can endure for a long time
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| 12-Feb-2025
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Elon Musk is failing to cut American spending |
DOGE has so far disrupted everything in government bar the deficit
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| 10-Feb-2025
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Donald Trump’s Super Bowl tariffs are an act of self-harm |
Duties on aluminium and steel will throttle American industry and fragment global markets
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| 6-Feb-2025
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Tariff uncertainty can be as ruinous as tariffs themselves |
Whatever its geopolitical merits, the “madman theory” transfers badly to economics
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| 6-Feb-2025
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When will remote workers see their pay cut? |
Logging on at home is a perk, yet so far it has not been treated as such
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| 6-Feb-2025
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Europe has no escape from stagnation |
Things look increasingly dark for the continent
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| 6-Feb-2025
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Narendra Modi is struggling to boost Indian growth |
Tax cuts may lift short-term output, but deeper reform is required
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| 6-Feb-2025
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Why Donald Trump’s protectionist zeal has only grown |
Lessons from a week of chaos
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| 6-Feb-2025
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Don’t propose with a diamond |
Lab-grown gems may destroy both their own value and that of natural rocks, too
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| 5-Feb-2025
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How to invest like a MAGA bigwig |
Cannabis, crypto or half of North Dakota?
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| 4-Feb-2025
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Xi Jinping shows how he will return American fire |
China’s trade retaliation carries a warning of worse to come
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| 3-Feb-2025
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How Trump’s tariff turbulence will cause economic pain |
Mexico and Canada win a reprieve, but firms remain rattled
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| 2-Feb-2025
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Trump’s brutal tariffs far outstrip any he has imposed before |
Canada, Mexico and China are going to be made to suffer
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| 30-Jan-2025
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Giorgia Meloni has grand banking ambitions |
Will Italy’s nationalist prime minister manage to concentrate financial power?
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| 30-Jan-2025
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Tech tycoons have got the economics of AI wrong |
Following DeepSeek’s breakthrough, the Jevons paradox provides less comfort than they imagine
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| 30-Jan-2025
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Donald Trump’s economic warfare has a new front |
The president has threatened to blow-up the global tax system. Will allies be able to stop him?
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| 30-Jan-2025
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Tech tycoons have got the Jevons paradox wrong |
Following DeepSeek’s breakthrough, the Victorian idea provides less comfort than they imagine
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| 30-Jan-2025
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Georgia Meloni has grand banking ambitions |
Will Italy’s nationalist prime minister manage to concentrate financial power?
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| 30-Jan-2025
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Can Germany’s economy stage an unexpected recovery? |
The situation is dire, but there are glimmers of hope
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| 30-Jan-2025
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Why your portfolio is less diversified than you might think |
The most important idea in modern finance has become maddeningly hard to implement
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| 29-Jan-2025
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Don’t let Donald Trump see our Big Mac index |
America’s tariff-loving president could learn the wrong lessons from international burger prices
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| 26-Jan-2025
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Will America’s crypto frenzy end in disaster? |
Donald Trump’s team is about to bring digital finance into the mainstream
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| 23-Jan-2025
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Has Japan truly escaped low inflation? |
Its central bankers are increasingly hopeful
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| 23-Jan-2025
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Saba Capital wages war on underperforming British investment trusts |
How many will end up in Boaz Weinstein’s sights?
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| 23-Jan-2025
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European governments struggle to stop rich people from fleeing |
Exit taxes are popular, and counter-productive
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| 23-Jan-2025
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Do tariffs raise inflation? |
Usually. But the bigger problem is that they harm economic growth and innovation
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| 23-Jan-2025
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The Arctic: climate change’s great economic opportunity |
An enormous prize is on offer. When might it be grasped?
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| 23-Jan-2025
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China’s financial system is under brutal pressure |
When will something break?
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| 23-Jan-2025
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How American bankers dodged the MAGA carnage |
The masters of the universe have escaped an anti-globalist revolt
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| 20-Jan-2025
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Donald Trump issues fresh tariff threats |
But it may be a while before he unleashes a universal levy
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| 20-Jan-2025
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Donald Trump fires his starting pistol on tariffs |
But it may be a while before he unleashes a universal levy
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| 20-Jan-2025
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Why has Donald Trump held fire on tariffs? |
The president had promised hefty levies immediately
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| 17-Jan-2025
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China meets its official growth target. Not everyone is convinced |
For one thing, 2024 saw the second-weakest rise in nominal GDP since the 1970s
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| 16-Jan-2025
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Why catastrophe bonds are failing to cover disaster damage |
The innovative form of insurance is reaching its limits
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| 16-Jan-2025
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Are big cities overrated? |
New economic research suggests so
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| 16-Jan-2025
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Ethiopia gets a stockmarket. Now it just needs some firms to list |
The country is no longer the most populous without a bourse
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| 16-Jan-2025
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“The Traitors”, a reality TV show, offers a useful economics lesson |
It is a finite, sequential, incomplete information game
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| 15-Jan-2025
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Will Donald Trump unleash Wall Street? |
Bankers have plenty of reason to be hopeful
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| 13-Jan-2025
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Iran is vulnerable to a Trumpian all-out economic assault |
Oil prices are already at a five-month high. How might they respond?
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| 12-Jan-2025
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Why global bond markets are convulsing |
Pity anyone taking out a mortgage
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| 10-Jan-2025
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The Los Angeles fires will be extraordinarily expensive |
They will also expose California’s faulty insurance market
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| 9-Jan-2025
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How corporate bonds fell out of fashion |
The market is at its hottest in years—and a shadow of its former self
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| 9-Jan-2025
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Europe could be torn apart by new divisions |
The continent is at its most vulnerable in decades
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| 8-Jan-2025
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An American purchase of Greenland could be the deal of the century |
Donald Trump’s threat of force is unwise. Instead, he should come up with a price
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| 7-Jan-2025
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China’s markets take a fresh beating |
Authorities have responded by bossing around investors
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| 7-Jan-2025
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Chinese markets suffer a dismal start to the year |
Authorities have responded by bossing around investors
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| 6-Jan-2025
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Can America’s economy cope with mass deportations? |
Production slowdowns, more imports and pricier housing could follow
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| 2-Jan-2025
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Will Elon Musk dominate President Trump’s economic policy? |
He will face challenges from both America firsters and conservative mainstreamers
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| 2-Jan-2025
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Would an artificial-intelligence bubble be so bad? |
A new book by Byrne Hobart and Tobias Huber argues there are advantages to financial mania
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| 1-Jan-2025
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What investors expect from President Trump |
Shareholders are over the moon; bondholders are readying the whip hand
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| 29-Dec-2024
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China’s firms are taking flight, worrying its rulers |
Policymakers at home and abroad are anxious about offshoring
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| 28-Dec-2024
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Manmohan Singh was India’s economic freedom fighter |
India’s most consequential finance minister, who later rose to PM, has died aged 92
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| 27-Dec-2024
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Why fine wine and fancy art have slumped this year |
Investing in luxury goods was a bad move in 2024
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| 22-Dec-2024
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Just how frothy is America’s stockmarket? |
We crunch the numbers to assess just how euphoric investors became in 2024
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| 19-Dec-2024
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Conflict is remaking the Middle East’s economic order |
Iran is boxed in as Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Turkey look to capitalise
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| 19-Dec-2024
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The search for the world’s most efficient charities |
What the data say about doing good well
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| 19-Dec-2024
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Why Brazil’s currency is plunging |
Fiscal and monetary policy are now pitted against one another
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| 19-Dec-2024
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Don’t count on monetary policy to make housing affordable |
Unless housebuilding picks up, neither cheap nor dear money will bring relief
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| 18-Dec-2024
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Ukraine is winning the economic war against Russia |
Whether that lasts depends on its ability to overcome acute shortages of power, men and money
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| 12-Dec-2024
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What a censored speech says about China’s economy |
If growth is on target, why is inflation so low?
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| 12-Dec-2024
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The Federal Reserve takes on Trump—and stubborn inflation |
Time for Jerome Powell to enter the octagon
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| 12-Dec-2024
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The World Bank is struggling to serve all 78 poor countries |
Bangladesh and Niger are very different places
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| 12-Dec-2024
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Bitcoin is up by 138% this year. It is a nonsense-free rally |
The link between digital assets and mainstream finance is strengthening
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| 10-Dec-2024
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Which economy did best in 2024? |
We rank countries on five measures
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| 10-Dec-2024
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Are adults forgetting how to read? |
A survey by the OECD suggests a worrying decline in literacy
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| 10-Dec-2024
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Are adults becoming less intelligent? |
A survey by the OECD suggests so
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| 9-Dec-2024
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How much oil can Trump pump? |
The president-elect wants to be the ultimate energy baron
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| 5-Dec-2024
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The hidden cost of Chinese loans |
Governments that borrow from China must pay more to borrow from others
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| 5-Dec-2024
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MAGA types have a point on debanking |
A booming compliance industry is causing problems
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| 5-Dec-2024
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France is not alone in its fiscal woes |
Deficits look worryingly wide across Europe
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| 5-Dec-2024
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Cronyism is a problem. But not always an economic one |
Research on the topic is surprisingly nuanced
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| 5-Dec-2024
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How sports gambling became ubiquitous |
Europe is at the centre of the industry’s growth
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| 5-Dec-2024
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Xi Jinping’s campaign against gambling is a failure |
Chinese citizens go to great lengths to bet
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| 5-Dec-2024
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The hidden costs of Chinese loans |
Governments that borrow from China must pay more to borrow from others
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| 1-Dec-2024
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How China will strike back at Trump |
Xi Jinping has set out his tariff red lines. What if America crosses them?
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| 1-Dec-2024
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Russia’s plunging currency spells trouble for its war effort |
Supplies from China are about to become more expensive
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| 28-Nov-2024
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Why everyone wants to lend to weak companies |
An unanticipated side-effect of Donald Trump’s election victory
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| 28-Nov-2024
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Hong Kong’s property slump may be terminal |
Demographics and geopolitics will make a recovery harder
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| 28-Nov-2024
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The great-man theory of Wall Street |
Why finance is still dominated by bold individuals
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| 28-Nov-2024
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Why Black Friday sales grow more annoying every year |
Nobody is to blame. Everyone suffers
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| 28-Nov-2024
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American veterans now receive absurdly generous benefits |
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| 26-Nov-2024
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Trump wastes no time in reigniting trade wars |
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| 24-Nov-2024
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| 23-Nov-2024
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| 21-Nov-2024
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Should investors just give up on stocks outside America? |
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| 21-Nov-2024
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Computers unleashed economic growth. Will artificial intelligence? |
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| 21-Nov-2024
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| 21-Nov-2024
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Donald Trump’s gas war is about to begin |
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| 21-Nov-2024
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| 20-Nov-2024
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Our Big Mac index shows how burger prices differ across borders |
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| 18-Nov-2024
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Vladimir Putin is in a painful economic bind |
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| 17-Nov-2024
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| 14-Nov-2024
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The biggest losers from Trumponomics |
America’s president-elect wants to reshape trade, capital and labour flows
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| 14-Nov-2024
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China, Europe, Mexico: the biggest losers from Trumponomics |
America’s president-elect wants to reshape trade, capital and labour flows
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| 14-Nov-2024
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| 14-Nov-2024
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| 14-Nov-2024
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| 12-Nov-2024
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| 12-Nov-2024
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| 10-Nov-2024
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America’s strengthening dollar will rattle the rest of the world |
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| 7-Nov-2024
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Sanctions are sinking Russia’s flagship gas project |
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| 7-Nov-2024
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| 7-Nov-2024
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India is undergoing an astonishing stockmarket revolution |
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| 7-Nov-2024
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Big Macs, strawberry jam and the wealth of nations |
Alan Heston, a pioneer in comparing economies, died on October 25th
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| 7-Nov-2024
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What betting markets got right and wrong about Trump’s victory |
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| 6-Nov-2024
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The return of Trumponomics excites markets but frightens the world |
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| 3-Nov-2024
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| 3-Nov-2024
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Investors are betting that Donald Trump will boost the dollar |
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| 3-Nov-2024
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Why the Trump trade might be flawed |
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| 31-Oct-2024
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Sin taxes are suffering from a shortage of sinners |
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| 31-Oct-2024
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Why China needs to fill its empty homes |
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| 31-Oct-2024
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American men are getting back to work |
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| 31-Oct-2024
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Ireland’s government has an unusual problem: too much money |
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| 31-Oct-2024
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Greenland faces one of history’s great resource rushes—and curses |
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| 30-Oct-2024
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| 30-Oct-2024
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Donald Trump would leave Asia with only bad options |
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| 27-Oct-2024
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America’s glorious economy should help Kamala Harris |
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| 22-Oct-2024
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What the surging price of gold says about a dangerous world |
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| 24-Oct-2024
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| 24-Oct-2024
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Investors should not fear a stockmarket crash |
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| 24-Oct-2024
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| 22-Oct-2024
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What the surging gold price says about a dangerous world |
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| 20-Oct-2024
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The West faces new inflation fears |
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| 22-Oct-2024
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Why gold is dazzling investors |
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| 22-Oct-2024
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A dazzling new gold rush is under way. Why? |
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| 21-Oct-2024
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Hizbullah’s sprawling financial empire looks newly vulnerable |
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| 7-Dec-2023
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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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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 |
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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? |
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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 |
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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? |
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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? |
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| 11-Jan-2024
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A guide to the Chinese Communist Party’s economic jargon |
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| 11-Jan-2024
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Will spiking shipping costs cause inflation to surge? |
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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? |
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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 |
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| 17-Jan-2024
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What economists have learnt from the post-pandemic business cycle |
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| 18-Jan-2024
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Wall Street is praying firms will start going public again |
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| 18-Jan-2024
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The countries which raised rates first are now cutting them |
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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? |
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| 23-Jan-2024
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Wall Street titans are betting big on insurers. What could go wrong? |
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| 24-Jan-2024
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Investors may be getting the Federal Reserve wrong, again |
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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) |
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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 |
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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 |
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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? |
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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 |
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| 12-Feb-2024
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How San Francisco staged a surprising comeback |
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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 |
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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? |
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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? |
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| 22-Feb-2024
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Europe faces a painful adjustment to higher defence spending |
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| 22-Feb-2024
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Gucci, Prada and Tiffany’s bet big on property |
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| 25-Feb-2024
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Stockmarkets are booming. But the good times are unlikely to last |
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| 27-Feb-2024
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How Trump and Biden have failed to cut ties with China |
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| 28-Feb-2024
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What do you do with 191bn frozen euros owned by Russia? |
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| 29-Feb-2024
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Uranium prices are soaring. Investors should be careful |
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| 29-Feb-2024
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Are passive funds to blame for market mania? |
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| 29-Feb-2024
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Activist investing is no longer the preserve of hedge-fund sharks |
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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? |
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| 6-Mar-2024
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Bitcoin’s price is surging. What happens next? |
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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? |
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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 |
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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 |
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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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The Federal Reserve cleans up its money-printing mess |
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| 4-Apr-2024
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How to build a global currency |
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| 9-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? |
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| 11-Apr-2024
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China’s state is eating the private property market |
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Ukrainian drone strikes are hurting Russia’s oil industry |
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| 11-Apr-2024
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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 |
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| 16-Apr-2024
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Generation Z is unprecedentedly rich |
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| 17-Apr-2024
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Even without war in the Gulf, pricier petrol is here to stay |
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| 18-Apr-2024
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Why the stockmarket is disappearing |
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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 |
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| 18-Apr-2024
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| 21-Apr-2024
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| 23-Apr-2024
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Why a stronger dollar is dangerous |
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| 25-Apr-2024
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| 25-Apr-2024
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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 |
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| 25-Apr-2024
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| 25-Apr-2024
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The UAE is using a wealth fund to gain diplomatic sway |
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| 29-Apr-2024
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Japan will struggle to rescue its plummeting currency |
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| 30-Apr-2024
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| 1-May-2024
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Working from home and the US-Europe divide |
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| 2-May-2024
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Russia’s gas business will never recover from the war in Ukraine |
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| 2-May-2024
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| 2-May-2024
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What campus protesters get wrong about divestment |
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| 7-May-2024
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| 9-May-2024
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What would get China’s consumers spending? |
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| 9-May-2024
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What Xi Jinping gets wrong about China’s economy |
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| 9-May-2024
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Why the global cocoa market is melting down |
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| 9-May-2024
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| 9-May-2024
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Banks, at least, are making money from a turbulent world |
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| 9-May-2024
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Could America and its allies club together to weaken the dollar? |
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| 12-May-2024
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America is in the midst of an extraordinary startup boom |
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| 14-May-2024
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Biden outdoes Trump with ultra-high China tariffs |
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| 16-May-2024
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How Jim Simons revolutionised investing |
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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 |
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| 16-May-2024
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Narendra Modi’s flagship growth scheme is off to a sluggish start |
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| 16-May-2024
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The property firm that could break China’s back |
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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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| 21-May-2024
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| 23-May-2024
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| 23-May-2024
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Brazil, India and Mexico are taking on China’s exports |
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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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Shrinking populations mean less growth and a more fractious world |
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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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Why any estimate of the cost of climate change will be flawed |
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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 |
What China’s leader may learn from a pair of reform-minded academics
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| 30-May-2024
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Young collectors are fuelling a boom in Basquiat-backed loans |
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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 |
Despite the country’s current struggles, autocrats elsewhere see a lot to admire
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| 4-Jun-2024
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Is America’s economy heading for a consumer crunch? |
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| 5-Jun-2024
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Should you buy expensive stocks? |
A new paper suggests the answer is “yes”
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| 6-Jun-2024
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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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The Lone Star State is ready to take on New York
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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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Has private credit’s golden age already ended? |
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| 13-Jun-2024
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Does motherhood hurt women’s pay? |
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| 20-Oct-2024
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Why the West faces new inflation fears |
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| 17-Oct-2024
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Trump’s trillion-dollar tax cuts are spiralling out of control |
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| 17-Oct-2024
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Inside the secret oil trade that funds Iran’s wars |
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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? |
Two cheers for the World Bank’s new global business survey
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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 |
New research suggests governments routinely hide their borrowing
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| 3-Oct-2024
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Why economic warfare nearly always misses its target |
There is no such thing as a strategic commodity
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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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| 23-Sep-2024
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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 |
Its share of international reserves has stalled
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| 16-Jun-2024
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Why house prices are surging once again |
In America, Australia and parts of Europe, property markets have shrugged off higher interest rates
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| 18-Jun-2024
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How bad could things get in France? |
The country’s next prime minister faces a brutal fiscal crunch
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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 |
Policymakers are unsure what to do about a tricky loophole
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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 |
Lending to a borrower at war entails an additional gamble: that it will win
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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 |
Call it the frappuccino effect
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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 |
Opposition would come from all angles
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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 |
We assess what could bring the bull market to an end
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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 |
Moderates want to limit numbers. Radicals want mass deportations. What will be the economic consequence?
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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? |
Vast new holdings of grain, natural gas and oil suggest trouble ahead
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| 25-Jul-2024
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Donald Trump wants a weaker dollar. What are his options? |
All come with their own drawbacks
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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 |
Turning a profit from political news is a lot harder than it looks
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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 |
All it takes is for the state to work with the market
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| 1-Aug-2024
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Investors beware: summer madness is here |
This year’s hottest months are shaping up to be especially wild
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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? |
We rank popular destinations on two measures
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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 |
American and Japanese indices have taken a battering. So have banks and gold
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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 |
As investors pause for breath, we assess what could turn a correction into a crash
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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 |
That will be a relief to investors everywhere
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| 8-Aug-2024
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How Chinese shoppers downgraded their ambition |
The trend will dismay the country’s policymakers
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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 |
Will Ethiopia and Nigeria be able to stick to them?
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| 11-Aug-2024
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Vladimir Putin spends big—and sends Russia’s economy soaring |
How long can the party last?
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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 |
Can anything perk up its economy?
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| 5-Sep-2024
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American office delinquencies are shooting up |
How worried should investors be?
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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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