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China’s markets take a fresh beating

Authorities have responded by bossing around investors

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Can America’s economy cope with mass deportations?

Production slowdowns, more imports and pricier housing could follow

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Would an artificial-intelligence bubble be so bad?

A new book by Byrne Hobart and Tobias Huber argues there are advantages to financial mania

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Will Elon Musk dominate President Trump’s economic policy?

He will face challenges from both America firsters and conservative mainstreamers

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What investors expect from President Trump

Shareholders are over the moon; bondholders are readying the whip hand

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China’s firms are taking flight, worrying its rulers

Policymakers at home and abroad are anxious about offshoring

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Manmohan Singh was India’s economic freedom fighter

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

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Why fine wine and fancy art have slumped this year

Investing in luxury goods was a bad move in 2024

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Just how frothy is America’s stockmarket?

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

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Don’t count on monetary policy to make housing affordable

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

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Why Brazil’s currency is plunging

Fiscal and monetary policy are now pitted against one another

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The search for the world’s most efficient charities

What the data say about doing good well

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Conflict is remaking the Middle East’s economic order

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

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Ukraine is winning the economic war against Russia

Whether that lasts depends on its ability to overcome acute shortages of power, men and money

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The World Bank is struggling to serve all 78 poor countries

Bangladesh and Niger are very different places

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The Federal Reserve takes on Trump—and stubborn inflation

Time for Jerome Powell to enter the octagon

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