The Economist: Finance and economics

Americans are wrong to wish for an era of stable bipart...

Even though political instability is an economic threat

Trumponomics would not be as bad as most expect

Opposition would come from all angles

How strongmen abuse tools for fighting financial crime

They can get Western governments and banks to crack down on exiled dissidents

What happened to the artificial-intelligence revolution?

So far the technology has had almost no economic impact

Ukraine has a month to avoid default

Lending to a borrower at war entails an additional gamble: that it will win

How Starbucks caffeinates local economies

Call it the frappuccino effect

America’s banks are more exposed to a downturn than the...

To understand why, consider the ouroboros theory of financial risk

How much cash should be removed from the financial system?

Undoing quantitative easing provokes fierce debate

Why Chinese banks are now vanishing

The state is struggling to deal with troubled institutions

How Vladimir Putin created a housing bubble

Prices have risen by 172% in Russia’s biggest cities over the past three years

Rumours of the trade deal’s death are greatly exaggerated

Plenty of countries are in a dealmaking rush

McDonald’s v Burger King: what a price war means for in...

American consumers will be licking their lips. So will Federal Reserve officials

Why global GDP might be $7trn bigger than everyone thought

The discovery has perturbed Chinese officials

Donald Trump’s trade hawk is plotting behind bars

Peter Navarro’s dark vision of the global economy could shape Trump 2

China is distorting its stockmarket by trying to prop i...

State purchases of shares are bad enough, but other measures are far more destru...

Is coal the new gold?

The world’s dirtiest fuel is a disturbingly safe investment

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