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Will Dubai’s super-hot property market avoid a crash?
Despite fears of a reckoning, its fundamentals look solid
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How to spot a genius
In an age of artificial intelligence, the human kind is increasingly important
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Russia’s besieged economy is clinging on
The good times have firmly come to an end, but wage growth remains strong
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Would an all-out trade war be better?
Donald Trump has so far avoided retaliation, which might carry a cost of its own
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Why European workers need to switch jobs
The continent’s labour market is ill-suited to an age of disruption
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China’s future rests on 200m precarious workers
They may work in factories or for delivery apps, but are united by common struggles
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Ukraine faces a $19bn budget black hole
Without funding, the country will be left vulnerable
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Europe’s great stockmarket inversion
The hottest places to invest are on the continent’s periphery
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America’s economy defies gloomy expectations
As the Federal Reserve cuts interest rates, growth is holding up
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Why American bondholders are jumpy about inflation
The Federal Reserve prepares to cut interest rates in tricky circumstances
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Europe’s economy at last shows signs of a recovery
Even if there is plenty that could yet kill it
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Chinese trade is thriving despite America’s attacks
The rest of the world is willing to be “ripped off”
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What if the AI stockmarket blows up?
We find that the potential cost has risen alarmingly high
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What the Unemployment Rate Isn’t Telling Us
The latest job report shows that unemployment remains steady, but it’s not telling the full story. Lydia DePillis, economy reporter for The New York Times, explains how low job growth…
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What if artificial intelligence is just a “normal” technology?
Its rise might yet follow the path of previous technological revolutions
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Bond vigilantes take aim at France
With any luck, the stand-off might focus politicians’ minds
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The hard right’s plans for Europe’s economy
It has moderated, but offers little hope of growth-boosting reform
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China turns crypto-curious
But would the country’s leaders really want stablecoins to succeed?
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America is escaping its office crisis
The torment caused by covid-19 and high interest rates appears to be over
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The threat of deflation stalks Asia’s economies
Blame China, slumping commodities and creaky growth
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Trump’s interest-rate crusade will be self-defeating
New research shows the importance of central-bank credibility
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Gambling or investing? In America, the line is increasingly blurred
Bet on stocks in a prediction market run by a sports-betting firm and a futures exchange
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How Trump’s war on the Federal Reserve could do serious damage
Just consider what happens if inflation starts to rise again
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Assessing the case against Lisa Cook
How strong is the evidence, and how bad would it be if the claims were true?
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Why you should buy your employer’s shares
Even though doing so flies in the face of most financial advice
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The Economist’s finance and economics internship
We invite applications for our Marjorie Deane scheme
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Even as China’s economy suffers, stocks soar. What’s going on?
The Shanghai composite is defying gravity
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Trump “fires” Lisa Cook, escalating his war on the Federal Reserve
There is little precedent: no Fed governor has been dismissed for cause before
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Trump’s interest-rate crusade will be self-defeating
The president’s threats loomed over this year’s Jackson Hole conference
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Fear the deficit-populism doom loop
Politicians, particularly in Europe, are in a terrible bind