How risk-parity investment strategies unravelled
Apr 25th 2020Editor’s note: The Economist is making some of its most important coverage of the covid-19 pandemic freely available to readers of The Economist Today, our daily newsletter. To receive it, register here. For our coronavirus tracker and more coverage, see our hub“THE PANDEMIC was a strange beast that I didn’t have an edge…
How to think about moral hazard during a pandemic
Apr 25th 2020Editor’s note: The Economist is making some of its most important coverage of the covid-19 pandemic freely available to readers of The Economist Today, our daily newsletter. To receive it, register here. For our coronavirus tracker and more coverage, see our hubCOVID-19 CONFRONTS humanity with a host of testing moral decisions. When hospital…
Hedge funds hope the slump will make them relevant again
Editor’s note: The Economist is making some of its most important coverage of the covid-19 pandemic freely available to readers of The Economist Today, our daily newsletter. To receive it, register here. For our coronavirus tracker and more coverage, see our hubHEDGE FUNDS have had a rotten decade. Star managers were once perceived to be…
A peculiarity of Spanish flu may shed light on covid-19
Apr 25th 2020Editor’s note: The Economist is making some of its most important coverage of the covid-19 pandemic freely available to readers of The Economist Today, our daily newsletter. To receive it, register here. For our coronavirus tracker and more coverage, see our hubIT IS NOW well established that developing the symptoms of covid-19 when…
How to build and deploy testing systems at unprecedented scale
Apr 23rd 2020Editor’s note: The Economist is making some of its most important coverage of the covid-19 pandemic freely available to readers of The Economist Today, our daily newsletter. To receive it, register here. For our coronavirus tracker and more coverage, see our hubSARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes covid-19, is an unobtrusive piece of biological…
How to think about moralhazard during a pandemic
Apr 25th 2020Editor’s note: The Economist is making some of its most important coverage of the covid-19 pandemic freely available to readers of The Economist Today, our daily newsletter. To receive it, register here. For our coronavirus tracker and more coverage, see our hubCOVID-19 CONFRONTS humanity with a host of testing moral decisions. When hospital…
Why the euro is more durable than it looks
Apr 25th 2020Editor’s note: The Economist is making some of its most important coverage of the covid-19 pandemic freely available to readers of The Economist Today, our daily newsletter. To receive it, register here. For our coronavirus tracker and more coverage, see our hubIN THE WEEKS following the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers in 2008, there…
Oil markets have a timing problem
Editor’s note: The Economist is making some of its most important coverage of the covid-19 pandemic freely available to readers of The Economist Today, our daily newsletter. To receive it, register here. For our coronavirus tracker and more coverage, see our hubFOR MORE than a century, oil has been among the world’s most vital commodities.…
China aims to launch the world’s first official digital currency
CENTRAL BANKS have had a busy pandemic. Along with injecting vast amounts of money into the financial system, they have cleaned vast amounts of it—literally. From America to South Korea, central banks have quarantined and disinfected potentially contaminated banknotes. This hassle should make them all the more interested in a digital-currency pilot now under way…
Japan wants to catch whales. But who will eat them?
Apr 25th 2020FROM BEHIND the counter of their tiny restaurant in Shimonoseki, Kojima Junko and her octogenarian mother place before Banyan some of the very last bits of the very last fin whale mankind is ever likely to catch. In the background, Billie Holiday is singing “No Regrets”. The four thin slices look and taste…