The Economist: Finance and economics

How Europe can hurt Russia’s economy

Even if America lifts sanctions, the old continent has its own weapons

Live music seems recession-proof. Thank the ticket scal...

When demand softens, the secondary market absorbs the pain

Even the Trumpiest stocks are suffering

Investors may have misjudged which firms would thrive under the new administration

Beneath investors’ feet, the ground is shifting

More remarkable than slumping share prices are the forces behind them

The Trump administration is playing a dangerous stockma...

American investors are extremely exposed to a sell-off—and so is the economy

America’s Democrats should embrace “abundance liberalism”

Despite reasons for caution, there is much to commend in the work of Ezra Klein,...

America’s democrats would be wise to embrace “abundance...

Despite reasons for caution, there is much to commend in the work of Ezra Klein,...

Where will be the next electric-vehicle superpower?

Three Asian countries make their pitch

Can anything get China’s shoppers to spend?

An economic recovery depends on it. Yet a new action plan may not do the job

Why rents are rising too fast

Rich-world tenants are angry, and have reason to be

Why rents are still rising too fast

Rich-world tenants are angry, and have reason to be

Why rents are out of control

Rich-world tenants are angry, and have reason to be

Can Europe cope with a free-spending Germany?

Pity the continent’s exporters

More testosterone means higher pay—for some men

A changing appetite for status games could play a role

Why “labour shortages” don’t really exist

Use the term, and you are almost always a bad economist or a special pleader

Your guide to the new anti-immigration argument

Nativists say that migrants raise house prices, cost money and undermine economi...

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