The Economist: Finance and economics

How AI will divide the best from the rest

Tech bosses say the tech will be a great equaliser. Instead, it looks likely to ...

The danger of relying on OpenAI’s Deep Research

Economists are in raptures, but they should be careful

Elon Musk is failing to cut American spending

DOGE has so far disrupted everything in government bar the deficit

Donald Trump’s Super Bowl tariffs are an act of self-harm

Duties on aluminium and steel will throttle American industry and fragment globa...

Why China needs to fill its empty homes

The country’s economy is broken. A recovery requires a healthier property market

America’s strengthening dollar will rattle the rest of ...

Donald Trump’s policies could send the greenback soaring

What betting markets got right and wrong about Trump’s ...

They might have simply been lucky, or biased

Big Macs, strawberry jam and the wealth of nations

Alan Heston, a pioneer in comparing economies, died on October 25th

India is undergoing an astonishing stockmarket revolution

Small investors, rejoice—and beware

Barbarians on the porch

Private markets are going mainstream

Sanctions are sinking Russia’s flagship gas project

Whether that lasts is up to Donald Trump

The return of Trumponomics excites markets but frighten...

It may bring stronger growth, higher inflation and a global trade war

Why investors’ “Trump trade” might be flawed

Markets are betting Trump 2.0 would boost the dollar. It could fall instead

Greenland faces one of history’s great resource rushes—...

The territory sits on an astounding number of critical minerals

Ireland’s government has an unusual problem: too much m...

A tax windfall has added to already overflowing coffers

American men are getting back to work

The ultra-gloomy picture painted by politicians is no longer accurate

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