America is escaping its office crisis
For most people the covid-19 pandemic ended years ago. But not for commercial-property investors and their lenders. Working…
Trump’s interest-rate crusade will be self-defeating
There are two ways, the world’s central bankers learned at this year’s Jackson Hole conference, to tame a…
Trump’s trade victims are shrugging off his attacks
The “Trump Round” of trade negotiations, as Jamieson Greer, America’s trade representative, calls it, was meant to reassert…
How America’s AI boom is squeezing the rest of the economy – The Economist
How America’s AI boom is squeezing the rest of the economy The Economist AI spending added 0.5% to GDP…
Why America can’t shake off inflation
The Yiddish phrase “farshlepteh krenk”, untranslatable into English, describes an illness that just won’t go away. That is…
If America goes after India’s oil trade, China will benefit
WHEN WESTERN countries began boycotting Russian oil in 2022, India saw an opportunity. Some 2.6m barrels a day…
A fresh retail-trading frenzy is reshaping financial markets
Investors love an acronym. In recent months they have embraced the TACO (Trump Always Chickens Out) trade. They…
Why 24/7 trading is a bad idea
Stock exchanges are the quaintest corners of modern finance. At other financial institutions, the typical trading floor features…
Our Big Mac index will sadden America’s burger-lovers
America’s import duties just keep rising. On August 1st levies on more than 20 countries, plus the European…
India’s Licence Raj offers America important lessons
Jawaharlal Nehru, India’s first prime minister, and Donald Trump, America’s president, do not share many similarities. Nehru was…