Finance & economics
Finance & economics
Don’t invest through the rearview mirror
Markets are supposed to look forward; plenty of investors look back instead
Finance & economics
Trump’s trade deals try a creative way to hobble China
To appease the world’s biggest market, countries must anger the world’s biggest trader
Finance & economics
The great dealmaker is conspicuously short of trade deals
Donald Trump issues threats—and grants deadline extensions
Finance & economics
Struggling with the trade war? Amateur football might help
Jiangsu’s party cadres find success with a bizarre idea
Finance & economics
How America’s economy is dodging disaster
It is astonishingly dynamic, even under the weight of tariffs
Finance & economics
Inside Iran’s war economy
Airstrikes and sanctions leave the country poor. They do little to halt its nuclear development
Finance & economics
How to strike a trade deal with Donald Trump
Vietnam is the latest country to secure concessions
Finance & economics
India’s Licence Raj offers America important lessons
Even when a protectionist system is dismantled, its problems can endure
Finance & economics
Can Trump end America’s $1.8trn student-debt nightmare?
The Biden administration added to the problem. Now the “Big, Beautiful Bill” could help solve it
Finance & economics
Xi Jinping wages war on price wars
Unfortunately for China’s leader, his own policies are often to blame for them
Finance & economics
Big, beautiful budgets: not just an American problem
Across the rich world, governments are splashing the cash. What could go wrong?