Economics

Are adults forgetting how to read?

A survey by the OECD suggests so

How much oil can Trump pump?

The president-elect wants to be the ultimate energy baron

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

The link between digital assets and mainstream finance is strengthening

Ukraine is winning the economic war against Russia

Whether that lasts depends on its ability to overcome acute shortages of power, ...

The World Bank is struggling to serve all 78 poor count...

Bangladesh and Niger are very different places

Don’t count on monetary policy to make housing affordable

Unless housebuilding picks up, neither cheap nor dear money will bring relief

Conflict is remaking the Middle East’s economic order

Iran is boxed in as Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Turkey look to capitalise

Manmohan Singh was India’s economic freedom fighter

India’s most consequential finance minister, who later became PM, has died aged 92

Just how frothy is America’s stockmarket?

We crunch the numbers to assess just how euphoric investors became in 2024

An American purchase of Greenland could be the deal of ...

The economics of buying new territory

China’s markets take a fresh beating

Authorities have responded by bossing around investors

The Los Angeles fires will be extraordinarily expensive

They will also expose California’s faulty insurance market

Europe could be torn apart by new divisions

The continent is at its most vulnerable in decades

Iran is vulnerable to a Trumpian all-out economic assault

Oil prices are already at a five-month high

Why global bond markets are convulsing

Pity anyone taking out a mortgage

“The Traitors”, a reality TV show, offers a useful econ...

It is a finite, sequential, incomplete information game

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