The Economist 1d ago

The myth of the petrodollar

America’s currency supremacy runs deeper than oil

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The Economist 1d ago

DeepSeek and Alibaba rescue China’s office landlords

Technology firms are reviving (a few) Chinese commercial-property markets

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The Economist 1d ago

UniCredit’s lowball bid for Commerzbank causes consternation

A bad-tempered battle for a big German bank

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The Economist 1d ago

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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The Economist 3d ago

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 4d ago

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 4d ago

Bad government statistics can cost the economy billions

A new study tries to put a number on the value of reliable numbers

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The Economist Apr 30

Can countries grow richer by exporting people, not goods?

That depends where those people end up

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The Economist Apr 30

India’s weak currency reflects deeper problems than the Iran war

It highlights a persistent inability to draw in foreign investors

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The Economist Apr 30

How Kalshi can help the Federal Reserve

Prediction markets may be a win for central banking

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The Economist Apr 28

A global fight over banking rules is just getting started

Co-operation on the financial system will be the casualty

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The Economist Apr 26

San Francisco, AI capital of the world, is an economic laggard

Artificial intelligence is booming. Its heartland is not

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