The Economist: Finance and economics

How Europe can hurt Russia’s economy

Even if America lifts sanctions, the old continent has its own weapons

Live music seems recession-proof. Thank ticket scalpers

When demand softens, the secondary market absorbs the pain

Even the Trumpiest stocks are suffering

Investors may have misjudged which firms would thrive under the new administration

Beneath investors’ feet, the ground is shifting

More remarkable than slumping share prices are the forces behind them

The Trump administration is playing a dangerous stockma...

American investors are extremely exposed to a sell-off—and so is the economy

America’s Democrats should embrace “abundance liberalism”

Two new books contain much to commend them

Where will be the next electric-vehicle superpower?

Three Asian countries make their pitch

Can anything get China’s shoppers to spend?

An economic recovery depends on it. Yet a new action plan may not do the job

Why rents are rising too fast

Rich-world tenants are angry, and have reason to be

Can Europe cope with a free-spending Germany?

Pity the continent’s exporters

Financial markets flail in the face of America’s tariffs

Asia is hit hardest, but nowhere looks good

What a refugee camp reveals about economics

In Dzaleka, Malawi, everyone receives $9 a month

Tin, an overlooked critical metal, is enjoying a boom

Prized and in short supply, its price is very volatile

How Milei made Argentina deserving of an IMF bail-out

He offers the only way out of a supremely difficult situation

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

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

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

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

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