Finance & Economics

Xi Jinping’s campaign against gambling is a failure

Chinese citizens go to great lengths to bet

How sports gambling became ubiquitous

Europe is at the centre of the industry’s growth

The hidden cost of Chinese loans

Governments that borrow from China must pay more to borrow from others

How much oil can Trump pump?

The president-elect wants to be the ultimate energy baron

Which economy did best in 2024?

We rank countries on five measures

Are adults forgetting how to read?

A survey by the OECD suggests so

Bitcoin is up by 138% this year. It is a nonsense-free ...

The link between digital assets and mainstream finance is strengthening

The Federal Reserve takes on Trump—and stubborn inflation

Time for Jerome Powell to enter the octagon

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

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