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Want to know the future? Don’t trust the stockmarket
Share prices are buffeted by far more than just new information
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The Economist
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2
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Can the stockmarket swallow Anthropic, SpaceX and OpenAI?
Watch out for indigestion
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The Economist
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7
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China is quietly making rural migrants’ lives easier
The notorious hukou system is being relaxed. Marx would approve
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The Economist
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7
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Without fanfare, China is making rural migrants’ lives easier
The notorious hukou system is being relaxed. Marx would approve
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The Economist
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7
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How to tax businesses in orbit and beyond
As the space business grows, so will offplanet finance
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The Economist
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7
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Kevin Warsh’s troublesome inflation in-tray
The new Fed chair will struggle to appease his colleagues, the market and Donald Trump all at once
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The Economist
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7
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Japan, South Korea and Taiwan are suffering industrial rot
Artificial intelligence is concealing a China shock
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The Economist
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8
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Giga-IPOs are a symptom of public markets’ giga-problem
The incredible shrinking stockmarket
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The Economist
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9
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Crackdowns on financial secrecy aren’t hurting offshore finance
There is a lot more to havens than crystal-clear waters and a promise of opacity
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The Economist
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9
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Offshore finance is thriving despite crackdowns
There is a lot more to havens than crystal-clear waters and a promise of opacity
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The Economist
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14
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How should economists treat morality?
Sometimes it is more than merely an exogenous constraint
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The Economist
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14
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The other China shock
Does the country’s manufacturing success leave space for anyone else?
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The Economist
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14
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The insurers on the hook for war in Iran
Some have been hammered; even those who haven’t might be soon
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The Economist
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14
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Economics lessons from Home Depot
What the world’s biggest DIY store says about American housing
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The Economist
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15
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Investors fear another surge in inflation
So why aren’t more buying inflation-protected bonds?
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The Economist
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16
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Where expat escapees from Dubai end up
Will they ever return?
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The Economist
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16
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How much is Donald Trump costing America’s economy?
We calculate the drag on growth from fitful presidential policymaking
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The Economist
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21
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How to share the AI windfall
Are taxes enough?
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The Economist
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21
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The jobs apocalypse: a (very) short history
Mass unemployment induced by AI would be unprecedented
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The Economist
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21
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Is AI putting graduates out of work already?
If you are studying coding, we might have some bad news
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The Economist
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22
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America and China are shielding the world from an oil catastrophe
Will they lose their nerve before Hormuz reopens?
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The Economist
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22
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How the world has avoided an oil catastrophe so far
The great commodity-market mystery is deepening
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The Economist
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22
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Index rebalancing is now the biggest event in markets
But profiting from it is another matter
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The Economist
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23
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China wants more robots but not fewer workers
A human-first approach to automation
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The Economist
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23
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American productivity is going gangbusters
AI hasn’t—yet—got much to do with it
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The Economist
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23
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America is experiencing a productivity miracle
AI hasn’t—yet—got much to do with it
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The Economist
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27
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The myth of the petrodollar
The dominance of America’s currency runs deeper than oil
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The Economist
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27
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DeepSeek and Alibaba rescue China’s office landlords
Technology firms are reviving (a few) Chinese commercial-property markets
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The Economist
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27
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Unicredit’s lowball bid for Commerzbank causes consternation
A bad-tempered battle for a big German bank
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The Economist
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27
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UniCredit’s lowball bid for Commerzbank causes consternation
A bad-tempered battle for a big German bank
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The Economist
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27
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Donald Trump’s foreign policy gets a muscular finance arm
The Development Finance Corporation’s loan book may soon rival the World Bank’s
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29
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Can Bill Ackman save the closed-end fund?
An outspoken financier wants to build a modern-day Berkshire Hathaway
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The Economist
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30
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The EU wants to unshackle its economy. For real this time
Eurocrats are belatedly developing a healthy distaste for red tape
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The Economist
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30
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Bad government statistics can cost the economy billions
A new study tries to put a number on the value of reliable numbers
