The Economist: Finance and economics

What a censored speech says about China’s economy

If growth is on target, why is inflation so low?

The World Bank is struggling to serve all 78 poor count...

Bangladesh and Niger are very different places

Conflict is remaking the Middle East’s economic order

Iran is boxed in as Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Turkey look to capitalise

Ukraine is winning the economic war against Russia

Whether that lasts depends on its ability to overcome acute shortages of power, ...

Why Brazil’s currency is plunging

Fiscal and monetary policy are now pitted against one another

The search for the world’s most efficient charities

What the data say about doing good well

Just how frothy is America’s stockmarket?

We crunch the numbers to assess just how euphoric investors became in 2024

Don’t count on monetary policy to make housing affordable

Unless housebuilding picks up, neither cheap nor dear money will bring relief

Manmohan Singh was India’s economic freedom fighter

India’s most consequential finance minister, who later became PM, has died aged 92

Why fine wine and fancy art have slumped this year

Investing in luxury goods was a bad move in 2024

China’s firms are taking flight, worrying its rulers

Policymakers at home and abroad are anxious about offshoring

Will Elon Musk dominate President Trump’s economic policy?

He will face challenges from both America firsters and conservative mainstreamers

What investors expect from President Trump

Shareholders are over the moon; bondholders are readying the whip hand

Can America’s economy cope with mass deportations?

Production slowdowns, more imports and pricier housing could follow

Would an artificial-intelligence bubble be so bad?

A new book by Byrne Hobart and Tobias Huber argues there are advantages to finan...

An American purchase of Greenland could be the deal of ...

The economics of buying new territory

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