The Economist: Finance and economics

What does America’s next treasury secretary believe?

We take a look at the leading contenders for the job

How to pay for the poor world to go green

Rich countries need not reinvent the wheel

Economists need new indicators of economic misery

Existing measures of discomfort are failing to predict elections

Our Big Mac index shows how burger prices differ across...

Using patty-power parity to think about exchange rates

Vladimir Putin is in a painful economic bind

Russia’s reliance on China is becoming a problem

How to make Elon Musk’s budget-slashing dreams come true

We offer some suggestions

Donald Trump’s gas war is about to begin

It could annoy some of his most loyal supporters

Is China really a nation of slackers?

A new survey raises the question

Should investors just give up on stocks outside America?

No, but it is getting a lot harder to keep the faith

Computers unleashed economic growth. Will artificial in...

Two years after ChatGPT-3.5 arrived, progress has been slower than expected

What Scott Bessent’s appointment means for the Trump ad...

The president-elect’s nominee for treasury secretary faces a gruelling job

What Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders get wrong about cr...

Forget interest rates. Rewards are the real problem

Trump wastes no time in reigniting trade wars

Canada and Mexico look likely to suffer

How Trump, Starmer and Macron can avoid a debt crunch

With deficits soaring, their finance ministers will have to be smart

Why everyone wants to lend to weak companies

An unanticipated side-effect of Donald Trump’s election victory

Why Black Friday sales grow more annoying every year

Nobody is to blame. Everyone suffers

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