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What America’s stockmarket plunge means
Farewell to 15 years of exceptionalism?
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Financial markets flail in the face of America’s tariffs
Asia is hit hardest, but nowhere looks good
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What a refugee camp reveals about economics
In Dzaleka, Malawi, everyone receives $9 a month
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Tin, an overlooked critical metal, is enjoying a boom
Prized and in short supply, its price is very volatile
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How Milei made Argentina deserving of an IMF bail-out
He offers the only way out of a supremely difficult situation
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Trump takes America’s trade policies back to the 19th century
The president jacks up tariffs on all countries, with particularly sharp rises for much of Asia
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The American government’s accidental private-credit subsidy
How a Depression-era lending scheme became a trillion-dollar wheeze
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Can the world’s free-traders withstand Trump’s attack?
Much will depend on the courage of Europe
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Trump’s “Liberation Day” is set to whack America’s economy
A rush of new tariffs will hurt growth, raise prices and worsen inequality
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Donald Trump’s plan for American carmaking is full of potholes
Taxing imported motors may not create many new jobs at home
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Why investors’ “Trump trade” might be flawed
Markets are betting Trump 2.0 would boost the dollar. It could fall instead
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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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Will America’s stockmarket convulsions spread?
Investors are hurrying to find alternatives—but all face difficulties of their own
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Trump’s “Liberation Day” is set to whack America’s economy
A rush of new tariffs will hurt growth, raise prices and worsen inequality
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Even priests need the free market
What clergymen can learn from economists
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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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Nubank has conquered Brazil. Now it is expanding overseas
The country’s struggling economy provides a push
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Trump’s tariff pain: the growing evidence
As “liberation day” nears, American businesses suffer
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How Europe can hurt Russia’s economy
Even if America lifts sanctions, the old continent has its own weapons
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Live music seems recession-proof. Thank ticket scalpers
When demand softens, the secondary market absorbs the pain
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The surging gold price is boosting Central Asia’s economies
But foreign investors might want to tread carefully
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Even priests need the free market
What clergymen can learn from economists
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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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The surging gold price is boosting Central Asia’s economies
But foreign investors might want to tread carefully
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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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Want to avoid woke stockmarket rules? List in Texas
The Lone Star State is ready to take on New York
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European banks are making heady profits in Russia
But for how much longer?
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Should you buy expensive stocks?
A new paper suggests the answer is “yes”
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Is America’s economy heading for a consumer crunch?
Warning signs have started to appear. But there are reasons for optimism
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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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When to sell your stocks
Poker provides investors with helpful guidance
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Young collectors are fuelling a boom in Basquiat-backed loans
Auction houses are on a lending spree
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How Chinese goods dodge American tariffs
Policymakers are unsure what to do about a tricky loophole
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American stocks are consuming global markets
That does not necessarily spell trouble
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Will services make the world rich?
American fried chicken can now be served from the Philippines
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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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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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Is coal the new gold?
The world’s dirtiest fuel is a disturbingly safe investment
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McDonald’s v Burger King: what a price war means for inflation
American consumers will be licking their lips. So will Federal Reserve officials
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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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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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Europe faces an unusual problem: ultra-cheap energy
The continent is failing to adapt to a renewables boom
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Think Nvidia looks dear? American shares could get pricier still
Investors are willing to follow whichever narrative paints the rosiest picture
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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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China’s currency is not as influential as once imagined
Its share of international reserves has stalled
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The cracks in America’s ultra-strong labour market
With a big discrepancy in jobs data, the economy may be weaker than it seems
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Rumours of the trade deal’s death are greatly exaggerated
Plenty of countries are in a dealmaking rush
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Does motherhood hurt women’s pay?
Two new studies suggest not—at least in the long run, and in Scandinavia
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Has private credit’s golden age already ended?
A more competitive market is a less profitable one
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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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China is distorting its stockmarket by trying to prop it up
State purchases of shares are bad enough, but other measures are far more destructive
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Why global GDP might be $7trn bigger than everyone thought
The discovery has perturbed Chinese officials
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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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Americans are wrong to wish for an era of stable bipartisanship
Even though political instability is an economic threat
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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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Stocks are on an astonishing run. Yet threats lurk
We assess what could bring the bull market to an end
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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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Xi Jinping really is unshakeably committed to the private sector
He balances that with being unshakeably committed to state-owned enterprises, too
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The dangerous rise of pension nationalism
Pursuing domestic investment at the expense of returns is reckless
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Europe prepares for a mighty trade war
Will it be able to stick to its rule-abiding principles?
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Betting markets are useful when politics is chaotic
Why, then, are they largely outlawed in America?
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Trumponomics would not be as bad as most expect
Opposition would come from all angles
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How strongmen abuse tools for fighting financial crime
They can get Western governments and banks to crack down on exiled dissidents
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Why Chinese banks are now vanishing
The state is struggling to deal with troubled institutions
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How Starbucks caffeinates local economies
Call it the frappuccino effect
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How much cash should be removed from the financial system?
Undoing quantitative easing provokes fierce debate
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America’s banks are more exposed to a downturn than they appear
To understand why, consider the ouroboros theory of financial risk
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What happened to the artificial-intelligence revolution?
So far the technology has had almost no economic impact
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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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At last, Wall Street has something to cheer
Consumer banks, on the other hand, are starting to suffer
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YIMBY cities show how to build homes and contain rents
But to take full advantage of deregulation, Austin and Auckland need other changes
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Should central bankers argue in public?
Division is not always a weakness
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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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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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Why Japanese stocks are on a rollercoaster ride
Volatility in global markets continues
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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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Why fear is sweeping markets everywhere
American and Japanese indices have taken a battering. So have banks and gold
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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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Which cities have the worst overtourism problem?
We rank popular destinations on two measures
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EU handouts have long been wasteful. Now they must be fixed
New research highlights their failures
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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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What the war on tourism gets wrong
Visitors are a boon, if managed wisely
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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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Why is Xi Jinping building secret commodity stockpiles?
Vast new holdings of grain, natural gas and oil suggest trouble ahead
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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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Japan’s strength produces a weak yen
Currency meddling will prove futile
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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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Investors beware: summer madness is here
This year’s hottest months are shaping up to be especially wild
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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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Donald Trump wants a weaker dollar. What are his options?
All come with their own drawbacks
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How Chinese shoppers downgraded their ambition
The trend will dismay the country’s policymakers
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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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Vast government debts are riskier than they appear
A provocative new paper gets central bankers talking at Jackson Hole
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Jerome Powell (almost) declares victory over inflation
The Federal Reserve chairman strikes a notably doveish tone
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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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Why investors are not buying Europe’s revival
Even though the continent’s stocks are in a “sweet spot”
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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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America’s anti-price-gouging laws are too minor to be communist
No matter what critics of Kamala Harris allege
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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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Kamala Harris’s cost-of-living plan will end in failure
She is the latest presidential candidate to embrace self-defeating economics
