The Economist: Finance and economics

How AI will divide the best from the rest

Tech bosses say the tech will be a great equaliser. Instead, it looks likely to ...

The danger of relying on OpenAI’s Deep Research

Economists are in raptures, but they should be careful

India is undergoing an astonishing stockmarket revolution

Small investors, rejoice—and beware

Why investors’ “Trump trade” might be flawed

Markets are betting Trump 2.0 would boost the dollar. It could fall instead

What betting markets got right and wrong about Trump’s ...

They might have simply been lucky, or biased

Big Macs, strawberry jam and the wealth of nations

Alan Heston, a pioneer in comparing economies, died on October 25th

Why crypto mania is reaching new heights

Are bitcoin bros right to be so thrilled by Donald Trump’s victory?

How to pay for the poor world to go green

Rich countries need not reinvent the wheel

Greenland faces one of history’s great resource rushes—...

The territory sits on an astounding number of critical minerals

Barbarians on the porch

Private markets are going mainstream

The return of Trumponomics excites markets but frighten...

It may bring stronger growth, higher inflation and a global trade war

America’s strengthening dollar will rattle the rest of ...

Donald Trump’s policies could send the greenback soaring

The biggest losers from Trumponomics

America’s president-elect wants to reshape trade, capital and labour flows

Why financial markets are so oddly calm

Indicators of market volatility have plunged

Our Big Mac index shows how burger prices differ across...

Using patty-power parity to think about exchange rates

Vladimir Putin is in a painful economic bind

Russia’s reliance on China is becoming a problem

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