Economy

Our coverage of global economics, from inflation-fighting central banks to apprehensive financial markets


Finance & economics

At last, China pulls the trigger on a bold stimulus package

“Buy everything,” says an American hedge fund

China

Xi Jinping wants to stifle thinking at a top Chinese think-tank

No more gloomy thoughts about the economy

The Americas

Digital nomads are a force for good in Latin America

It is unfair to blame remote workers for gentrifying neighbourhoods and raising rents

Europe

A banking raid in Europe kicks up an unseemly nationalist defence

Der Italian banking job goes down badly in Germany

Europe

Turkey and Central Asia are riding together again

The Organisation of Turkic States is a counterweight to Russia

Finance & economics

Why the Federal Reserve is split on the future of interest rates

Jerome Powell began with a big cut. What comes next?

Finance & economics

A Wall Street state of mind has captured America

Downtown New York is quieter than ever. Finance has never been louder

Finance & economics

How lower American interest rates will boost Africa

One of the world’s worst-named financial instruments is newly relevant

Leaders

If you must raise taxes, raise VAT

Taxing consumption is economically efficient and politically possible

Finance & economics

Can Israel’s economy survive an all-out war with Hizbullah?

The country’s banks are experiencing capital flight

Finance & economics

China’s central bank tries to save the economy—and the stockmarket

But it will need more help from the government

Britain

Britain’s budget choices are not as bad as the government says

It has more room for manoeuvre than it lets on

Finance & economics

Governments are bigger than ever. They are also more useless

Why voters across the rich world are miserable

China

A typhoon hits Shanghai and the Chinese economy groans

Consumers are stuck inside during a three-day holiday

Asia

The private sector won’t save America’s Indo-Pacific policy

More needs to be done to repair the economic relationship with South-East Asia

Finance & economics

The world’s poorest countries have experienced a brutal decade

Why has development ground to a halt?

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