The Economist: Finance and economics

Why “labour shortages” don’t really exist

Use the term, and you are almost always a bad economist or a special pleader

Why rents are rising too fast

Rich-world tenants are angry, and have reason to be

America’s Democrats should embrace “abundance liberalism”

Two new books contain much to commend them

Where will be the next electric-vehicle superpower?

Three Asian countries make their pitch

The Trump administration is playing a dangerous stockma...

American investors are extremely exposed to a sell-off—and so is the economy

Even the Trumpiest stocks are suffering

Investors may have misjudged which firms would thrive under the new administration

Beneath investors’ feet, the ground is shifting

More remarkable than slumping share prices are the forces behind them

How Europe can hurt Russia’s economy

Even if America lifts sanctions, the old continent has its own weapons

Live music seems recession-proof. Thank ticket scalpers

When demand softens, the secondary market absorbs the pain

Nubank has conquered Brazil. Now it is expanding overseas

The country’s struggling economy provides a push

Trump’s tariff pain: the growing evidence

As “liberation day” nears, American businesses suffer 

Can foreign investors learn to love China again? 

Wall Street still needs more to coax it back. But non-American firms may be read...

The surging gold price is boosting Central Asia’s econo...

But foreign investors might want to tread carefully

Can the world’s free-traders withstand Trump’s attack?

Much will depend on the courage of Europe

Trump’s “Liberation Day” is set to whack America’s economy

A rush of new tariffs will hurt growth, raise prices and worsen inequality

Even priests need the free market

What clergymen can learn from economists

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