Finance
Editor’s Picks
The new playbook on tax avoidance
A handpicked article read aloud from the latest issue of The Economist
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Finance & economics
How to invest your enormous inheritance
Do not make the mistakes of the first Gilded Age
Leaders
America’s tax on foreign investors could do more damage than tariffs
Provisions in the Republican budget are a dangerous step
Middle East & Africa
A bitter race to elect the head of Africa’s pivotal bank
America has lost interest, but the rest of the world should not
Finance & economics
Will Jamie Dimon build the first trillion-dollar bank?
We interview JPMorgan Chase’s boss, and his lieutenants
Middle East & Africa
The chimera of private finance for development
A fashionable idea has yet to fulfil its promises
Leaders
Stop-gap deals do not mean Donald Trump’s trade war is over
Barriers between America and China are still far too high. So is uncertainty
Finance & economics
Global turmoil has at least one beneficiary: currency traders
The foreign-exchange market has been reinvigorated by recent events
Finance & economics
Warren Buffett has created a $348bn question for his successor
Berkshire Hathaway’s next CEO has huge shoes to fill—and a mountain of cash to invest
Finance & economics
A takeover bid promises consolidation in Italian finance
But more complication, too
Finance & economics
A flight from the dollar could wreck America’s finances
The currency’s dominance enables very high debts and deficits, meaning a plunge might spell disaster