The Economist: Finance and economics

What happens when a hegemon falls?

Why economists are turning to a 50-year-old book on the Depression

How Saudi Arabia is cranking up the pressure on its OPE...

Will oil prices fall much further?

Trump is a threat to Asia’s giant insurers

Not just its exporters

Why Gen X is the real loser generation

Don’t cry for millennials or Gen Z. Save your pity for those in their 50s

Global turmoil has at least one beneficiary: currency t...

The foreign-exchange market has been reinvigorated by recent events

Trump’s trade deal with Britain will worry allies and r...

Sir Keir Starmer will at least be pleased to have been first

How the Chinese Communist Party learnt to love villages

It wants people to move to cities. And the countryside

China has got lucky with Trump. Can the rest of the world?

Progress in trade talks has so far been slow

Economists are as confused as Trump about taxing the rich

Forget technocracy. The top rate is set by gut instinct

Is the market up or down? Republicans and Democrats dis...

Retail investing suffers from partisanship

Poland: the ignored stockmarket superstar

Why the country’s shares are going gangbusters

Buy the dip: the trend that keeps stocks from crashing

Retail investors now play a useful role at times of panic

America and China prepare for an Alpine trade clash

Might tariffs fall from their mountainous highs?

Why the MAGA economy is thriving

The world’s largest market is becoming two

America has given China a strangely good tariff deal

For the next 90 days, at least

How a mortgage transforms your investment portfolio

They turn retail savers into hedge-fund managers

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