The Economist: Finance and economics

Why American credit-card delinquencies have suddenly sh...

They are now at a 13-year high. How concerned should you be?

China’s leaders look to have blinked in their property ...

They did not want to bail out indebted firms. Now they are on the verge of doing so

Donald Trump’s reciprocal tariffs are absurd

At first glance, they are a bureaucratic nightmare. On a closer look, they are e...

More testosterone means higher pay—for some men

A changing appetite for status games could play a role

Why “labour shortages” don’t really exist

Use the term, and you are almost always a bad economist or a special pleader

Your guide to the new anti-immigration argument

Nativists say that migrants raise house prices, cost money and undermine economi...

What sparks an investing revolution?

Ideas that emerged from the University of Chicago in the 1960s changed the world...

Will America’s stockmarket convulsions spread?

Investors are hurrying to find alternatives—but all face difficulties of their own

How Trump provoked a stockmarket sell-off

Will the president win back investors? Does he even want to?

Does Trump really want a weaker dollar?

Overturning three decades of American policy will not be painless

Investors think the Russia-Ukraine war will end soon

The prospect of peace is reshaping markets, in ways both ominous and promising

Donald Trump’s tariffs are a throwback to the 1930s

“Economic nationalism”, our predecessors wrote, “is almost an American invention”

Aid cannot make poor countries rich

For decades, officials have promised to raise economic growth. For decades, they...

It is not the economic impact of tariffs that is most w...

What are the lessons of the 1930s?

Trump’s tariff turbulence is worse than anyone imagined

Even his concessions are less generous than expected

Trump’s tariff pain: the growing evidence

As “liberation day” nears, American businesses suffer 

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