The Economist: Finance and economics

China has got lucky with Trump. Can the rest of the world?

Progress in trade talks has so far been slow

How the Chinese Communist Party learnt to love villages

It wants people to move to cities. And the countryside

Economists are as confused as Trump about taxing the rich

Forget technocracy. The top rate is set by gut instinct

Is the market up or down? Republicans and Democrats dis...

Retail investing suffers from partisanship

Poland: the ignored stockmarket superstar

Why the country’s shares are going gangbusters

Why the MAGA economy is thriving

The world’s largest market is becoming two

America has given China a strangely good tariff deal

For the next 90 days, at least

How to get rich in 2025

Forget about your career. Today an inheritance is what matters

China’s leaders look to have blinked in their property ...

They did not want to bail out indebted firms. Now they are on the verge of doing so

America is at risk of a Trumpian economic slowdown

Protectionist threats and erratic policies are combining to hurt growth

Why silver is the new gold

Safe-haven demand and solar panels have sent its price soaring

El Salvador’s wild crypto experiment ends in failure 

Its curtailment is the price of an IMF bail-out. And one worth paying 

Trump’s tariff turbulence is worse than anyone imagined

Even his concessions are less generous than expected

Investors think the Russia-Ukraine war will end soon

The prospect of peace is reshaping markets, in ways both ominous and promising

Donald Trump’s tariffs are a throwback to the 1930s

“Economic nationalism”, our predecessors wrote, “is almost an American invention”

Aid cannot make poor countries rich

For decades, officials have promised to raise economic growth. For decades, they...

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