The Economist: Finance and economics

How worrying is the weakening dollar?

In times of trouble, the greenback normally strengthens

China hits back at Trump with self-harming tariffs of i...

Stockmarkets plunge further in response

How Milei made Argentina deserving of an IMF bail-out

He offers the only way out of a supremely difficult situation

Tin, an overlooked critical metal, is enjoying a boom

Prized and in short supply, its price is very volatile

What a refugee camp reveals about economics

In Dzaleka, Malawi, everyone receives $9 a month

Financial markets flail in the face of America’s tariffs

Asia is hit hardest, but nowhere looks good

What America’s stockmarket plunge means

Farewell to 15 years of exceptionalism?

Why catastrophe bonds are failing to cover disaster dam...

The innovative form of insurance is reaching its limits

El Salvador’s wild crypto experiment ends in failure 

Its curtailment is the price of an IMF bail-out. And one worth paying 

Can the world’s free-traders withstand Trump’s attack?

Much will depend on the courage of Europe

The American government’s accidental private-credit sub...

How a Depression-era lending scheme became a trillion-dollar wheeze

Trump takes America’s trade policies back to the 19th c...

The president jacks up tariffs on all countries, with particularly sharp rises f...

Are American rents rigged by algorithms?

That is what Department of Justice prosecutors allege

Governments are bigger than ever. They are also more us...

Why voters across the rich world are miserable

How vulnerable is Israel to sanctions?

So far, measures have had little effect. That could change

Artificial intelligence is losing hype

For some, that is proof the tech will in time succeed. Are they right?

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