How piecemeal carbon pricing affects cross-border lending
IN JUNE THE IMF made the latest of many calls from economists for a market-oriented policy to tackle climate change. “Carbon…
Three threats to growth in emerging markets
Dec 1st 2021WASHINGTON, DCTHE NEWS, as the second anniversary of the pandemic nears, could be better. The emergence of a covid-19…
Have SPACs been cleaned up?
Dec 4th 2021GREAT FLOODS are supposed to wash away the world’s ills. Facing a divine deluge, Noah built an ark in which to escape….
India inches towards inclusion in big bond indices
A WAVE OF passive capital flows is the handsome prize for countries that secure a place in major bond indices. That prospect seems…
The explosion in stablecoins revives a debate around “free banking”
Dec 4th 2021THE FAST-MOVING frontier of financial innovation can seem an intimidating place. Concepts such as decentralisation,…
Managing the world’s biggest sovereign-wealth fund is about to get complicated
NICOLAI TANGEN brings an unusual set of skills to the task of leading the world’s largest sovereign-wealth fund. In addition…
China’s economy looks especially vulnerable to the spread of Omicron
JACK MA, THE founder of China’s giant e-commerce platform, Alibaba, started his first web company after a visit to America in…
Three threats to the global economic recovery
Nov 28th 2021WASHINGTON, DCTHE NEWS, as the second anniversary of the pandemic nears, could be better. The emergence of a covid-19…
What Jerome Powell must do next as Fed chairman
Nov 27th 2021WASHINGTON, DCOF ALL AMERICA’S many job openings, this was the most important. On November 22nd President Joe Biden…
Measuring the universe’s most important sector
Nov 27th 2021TEN YEARS ago Chinese property was described as “the most important sector in the universe” by Jonathan Anderson,…