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Governments want to hold America’s shares more than its debts
When countries switch towards riskier assets, the global economy feels the consequences
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Research on grasping bureaucrats startles Singapore
It is more revealing about its academic culture than its civil service
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Financial astrology is a serious business in India
That is bad news for investors’ returns
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Investing for babies involves knotty trade-offs
Should new parents favour financial capital, human capital or something else?
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The AI boom meets a new kind of crypto scam
Payment cards linked to cryptocurrency accounts may enable Chinese purchases of American AI models
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How the AI boom could worsen the rich world’s fiscal crunch
Even with higher growth, taxes may be harder to find
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How the Fed should measure inflation
Pinning down the underlying rate may be harder than Kevin Warsh thinks
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Israel’s war economy is thriving
But conflict is worsening its industrial divide
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The battle between India’s stock exchanges is heating up again
Number two is trying harder
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Turkey’s investment-fund fiasco
The country could lose its status as an emerging market
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You can’t trade your way through the AI apocalypse
It’s hard to price the threats posed by a misaligned superintelligence
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Data centres are straining the insurance market
The premiums are juicy, but the financial stakes are hard to digest
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House prices survived the last rise in interest rates. Will they this time?
Supports that shored up the housing market when borrowing costs last rose are gone
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House prices survived the last interest-rate rise. Will they this time?
Supports that shored up the housing market when borrowing costs last rose are gone
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The GDP-per-person slowdown threatens global living standards
Brazil, China, Germany and Russia have recently joined an unfortunate club
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GDP per person no longer grows like it used to
In many countries, it is shrinking
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The trickle-down economics of the AI boom
How fast are AI investments translating into broader gains? Taiwan and South Korea offer hints
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Ricardo Reis was too frank for the IMF
It can still benefit from the economist’s ideas
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Soaring bond yields, gaping deficits and towering debts: what could go wrong?
The rich world is flirting with fiscal disaster
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What Africa’s biggest IPO can do for its stock markets
A new generation of investors is buying up African stocks
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16
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Scott Bessent should stop blaming the bond market
It is working just fine; his interventions, less so
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Wanted: new business, finance and economics interns
The Economist invites applications for the Marjorie Deane internship
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Surging bond yields presage pain—and not just for bond investors
Stubborn inflation, corporate demand for capital and big public debts are squeezing holders of government bonds
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Can Germany’s economic recovery outrun the AfD?
It is showing signs of life—but fragile ones
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The economic folly of free buses
There are better ways to fight climate change, immobility and inequality
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What is causing the global bond sell-off?
India hints at the answer
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China’s $54bn capital boost for banks falls far short
Old problems bedevil balance-sheets and hold back lending
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Inflation is back around the world—as is the fight against it
Central banks are raising interest rates again
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The jobs apocalypse is postponed. An AI jobs boom is here
Initial effects of the technology on employment look positive
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Mexico is struggling to win over bond markets
Investors are unconvinced by Claudia Sheinbaum’s policies
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China tries to look past the property slump
But its new policies could hurt construction and employment
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Indian regulators’ attempts to protect retail traders are backfiring
The unintended consequences of curbs on options trading
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Central banking has a forbidding future
But Kevin Warsh has bought himself time
