The Economist: Finance and economics

Trump has exposed America’s world-leading firms to reta...

At companies from Alphabet to Goldman Sachs, bosses will be holding their breath

Five crazy Trump tariffs you wouldn’t believe 

Saint Pierre and Miquelon earns a dubious honour 

China hits back hard against Trump’s tariffs

Stockmarkets plunge further in response

China’s retaliation against Trump’s tariffs is an act o...

Stockmarkets plunge further in response

How worrying is the weakening dollar?

In times of trouble, the greenback normally strengthens

China hits back at Trump with self-harming tariffs of i...

Stockmarkets plunge further in response

What America’s stockmarket plunge means

Farewell to 15 years of exceptionalism?

How Milei made Argentina deserving of an IMF bail-out

He offers the only way out of a supremely difficult situation

Tin, an overlooked critical metal, is enjoying a boom

Prized and in short supply, its price is very volatile

What a refugee camp reveals about economics

In Dzaleka, Malawi, everyone receives $9 a month

Financial markets flail in the face of America’s tariffs

Asia is hit hardest, but nowhere looks good

Why catastrophe bonds are failing to cover disaster dam...

The innovative form of insurance is reaching its limits

El Salvador’s wild crypto experiment ends in failure 

Its curtailment is the price of an IMF bail-out. And one worth paying 

Can the world’s free-traders withstand Trump’s attack?

Much will depend on the courage of Europe

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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