Economy (Page 13)

How the shift to state capitalism is panning out for America LLC 

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From finance and medicine to used cars, artificial intelligence is radically improving market efficiency

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Xi Jinping is desperate for Trump-proof access to food, fuels and metals

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How cigarette manufacturers profit from quitters

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Donald Trump raises the pressure—but he may have to go further

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So long as its leaders are not lying

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It promises a level playing field. So have past technologies

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It may not end well

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Despite the best efforts of Donald Trump and Scott Bessent

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Guest-worker schemes are booming. They offer vast benefits to both host countries and the workers themselves

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An opportunity to join the staff of The Economist

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Maybe they are becoming tradwives. Or maybe there is a more straightforward explanation

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Can anything bring it down?

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Both banks and private-markets giants are on cockroach-watch

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A model that has lifted millions out of poverty is threatened by rising defaults

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A postcard from one of America’s youngest towns

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Their latest earnings do not represent unalloyed good news

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As America and China clash over trade, cracks emerge in each side’s position

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A thought experiment on the nearest thing to a safe asset

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Our Money Talks podcast team is recruiting an experienced producer to help launch a video spin-off

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The Nobel committee is belatedly recognising economic history

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Forget fine wine, great art and glitzy mansions. There are finer things in life

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Donald Trump threatens an extra 100% levy as rare-earth minerals prompt a fresh spat

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What happens in the event of a slump?

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How to survive on the border of war

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The prime minister wants a $10trn economy by 2047. He should be bolder

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Forget debt. Here is something to villainise

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Six months on from “Liberation Day”, things look surprisingly rosy

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Closed borders will make the country smaller, poorer and less innovative

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Even the most sophisticated arguments in favour of doing so make no sense

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A pair of bankruptcies highlight the risks

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America’s international assistance has not been destroyed—it has been transformed

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Introducing the 25/25/25/25 portfolio

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The “wealth effect” is not the only way it has an impact

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Waymo is a case study in automation

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How other countries hope to challenge America

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And that worries regulators

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Despite fears of a reckoning, its fundamentals look solid

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In an age of artificial intelligence, the human kind is increasingly important

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The good times have firmly come to an end, but wage growth remains strong

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Donald Trump has so far avoided retaliation, which might carry a cost of its own

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The continent’s labour market is ill-suited to an age of disruption

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They may work in factories or for delivery apps, but are united by common struggles

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Without funding, the country will be left vulnerable

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The hottest places to invest are on the continent’s periphery

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As the Federal Reserve cuts interest rates, growth is holding up

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Understanding the new economics of attention

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Prices are close to a five-year low

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Or is it a sovereign-wealth fund in disguise?

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The Federal Reserve prepares to cut interest rates in tricky circumstances

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Even if there is plenty that could yet kill it

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The rest of the world is willing to be “ripped off”

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We find that the potential cost has risen alarmingly high

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Its rise might yet follow the path of previous technological revolutions

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With any luck, the stand-off might focus politicians’ minds

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It has moderated, but offers little hope of growth-boosting reform

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Lessons from lithium’s fake rally

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The torment caused by covid-19 and high interest rates appears to be over

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Blame China, slumping commodities and creaky growth

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New research shows the importance of central-bank credibility

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Bet on stocks in a prediction market run by a sports-betting firm and a futures exchange

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Just consider what happens if inflation starts to rise again

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How strong is the evidence, and how bad would it be if the claims were true?

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Even though doing so flies in the face of most financial advice

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We invite applications for our Marjorie Deane scheme

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The Shanghai composite is defying gravity

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There is little precedent: no Fed governor has been dismissed for cause before

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Politicians, particularly in Europe, are in a terrible bind

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Their discipline is famous for its fissiparousness

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Forget about northern Europeans, with their coalition governments and love of cycling

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Communist Party officials face a difficult ideological turn

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And China is gaining in the process

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To understand markets, forget Occam’s razor

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Beware the data-centre takeover

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We update our entrenchment measure

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In Asia, East Africa and the Gulf leaders now face an unpleasant choice

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Kandinsky, Monet and Rembrandt were economists as well as artists

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New rates mean new “China plus one” locations

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Investor optimism means the duo are outperforming Nvidia

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The borrowers, including Harvard, Princeton and Yale, benefit from a “prestige premium”

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What would make it worth buying?

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For the country’s homeowners, the good times are coming to an end

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It is both impressive and worrying

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Forget your trip to the dentist. A new check-up is required

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A recent study suggests a new paradigm for asset pricing

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A crackdown on Russian crude would have knock-on consequences

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Even once-fecund states are having fewer children

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Buy that burrito, and don’t let anyone judge you

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Six charts show the damage to America, its trading partners and its consumers

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Oil and terrorism are not the country’s only exports

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The bloc opts for prudence over defiance

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Private equity is enjoying a renaissance in an unlikely place

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Why bankers no longer play golf at 3pm

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A hawkish tilt changes rate-cut expectations

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Blame apps and DORKs, not stimmies

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A deal with America chooses certain tariffs over risky retaliation

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Foreign companies are sharing the load. For now

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Hegemons should care about even puny countries

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A fierce battle is under way in China

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There are advantages to the old-fashioned working day

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America’s cooling labour market is bad news for those who move about

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Yes. How badly will become clear in the next crisis

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Businesses are ignoring the street of hundred-dollar bills

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Which countries would be hit hardest by levies on electronics and pharmaceuticals?

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At a time of high interest rates, there are bargains to be found

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The Trump administration will take any help it can get

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Trump’s tariffs have brought a double serving of pain

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A new form of capitalism may explain its success

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The battle to reduce risk has shaped centuries of ventures

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Around the world, marketmakers now face extra scrutiny

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Will old folk catch the bug?

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Markets are supposed to look forward; plenty of investors look back instead

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To appease the world’s biggest market, countries must anger the world’s biggest trader

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Donald Trump issues threats—and grants deadline extensions

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Jiangsu’s party cadres find success with a bizarre idea

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It is astonishingly dynamic, even under the weight of tariffs

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Airstrikes and sanctions leave the country poor. They do little to halt its nuclear development

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Pity the firm’s rivals

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Vietnam is the latest country to secure concessions

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Even when a protectionist system is dismantled, its problems can endure

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The Biden administration added to the problem. Now the “Big, Beautiful Bill” could help solve it

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Unfortunately for China’s leader, his own policies are often to blame for them

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Across the rich world, governments are splashing the cash. What could go wrong?

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Pity Tommy Norris. And his real-world equivalents

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It involves the use of an obscure, French programming language

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Not that American investors need a guide—a booming industry is doing the job for them

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Polymarket and Kalshi are soaring in popularity. With a few tweaks, they could really take off

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Across the West the number of new arrivals is plummeting

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The answer is not hedge funds or quant shops or short-sellers

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Politicians are reaching for increasingly extreme measures

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Politicians have a yen for handouts

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The Nothing Ever Happens Market

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The bottom has fallen out of the job market

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Hong Kong is hot. The mainland very much is not

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We investigate possible scenarios

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Do not make the mistakes of the first Gilded Age

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National security is a weak argument for battery subsidies

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Another star prepares to move from London to New York

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America is trapped by its industrial fantasies

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With the costs of the trade war abundantly clear, officials seek to restore their truce

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Solo spenders are a new economic force

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Our estimate of their impact will update every month

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The former IMF, Bank of Israel and Federal Reserve official died on May 31st

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He will not like the remedy, however

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Overseas investors at first—then Americans

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Markets have no fundamental laws, which is why they are so interesting

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We find that the Emiratis are flouting the cartel’s rules on a grand scale

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The regulatory pendulum swings violently

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Global trade turmoil presents a rare opportunity

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The country’s sprawling industrial policy is beyond mere human comprehension

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American trade policy is in chaos

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Analysing it is more important than ever. Mitigating it is a nightmare

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And any jobs-pocalypse seems a long way off

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Long-term debt is getting costlier, and not just in America

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America’s tech giants are a point of vulnerability

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David Webb was an exemplary shareholder

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Aidan Toner-Rodgers was enjoying a meteoric rise at MIT. Then questions started to be asked about his work

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The president prompted a similar divide last time round

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We interview JPMorgan Chase’s boss, and his lieutenants

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And it is now under threat

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He should expect billions, not trillions

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Forget technocracy. The top rate is set by gut instinct

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Retail investing suffers from partisanship

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Progress in trade talks has so far been slow

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