Can China’s economic miracle continue?
Sep 26th 2020FORECASTS CAN haunt their authors, especially when they appear in headlines or book titles. Most pundits play it…
Has the Vatican cleaned up its finances?
Sep 26th 2020VATICAN CITYSMALL EUROPEAN enclaves have given financial regulators big headaches in the past. Two of them, San Marino…
Who will buy Borsa Italiana?
IN AN AUCTION, the highest bidder usually walks away with the asset on sale. Yet considerations that are not purely commercial…
What is the point of green bonds?
Sep 19th 2020GREEN BONDS are the stars of climate finance. These instruments, which channel funds raised towards environmentally…
Can you make money from the Big Mac index?
Sep 19th 2020THIS WEEK Hong Kong’s monetary officials stepped into the foreign-exchange markets after dusk to defend the city’s…
How does today’s tech boom compare with the dotcom era?
Sep 19th 2020IN TROUBLED TIMES people take comfort in the familiar. Covid-19 has upended many things, but tech-stock prices have…
Phil Hogan, Europe’s trade commissioner, resigns
A controversy over quarantine forces him outAug 26th 2020WASHINGTON, DCTOP TRADE negotiators are renowned for being astute and…
Can Dubai enter the premier league of financial centres?
Aug 22nd 2020Editor’s note: Some of our covid-19 coverage is free for readers of The Economist Today, our daily newsletter….
America’s fiscal federalism is less superior than you might think
Aug 20th 2020QUICK: WOULD you rather face the worst economic crisis in history as a resident of America’s fiscal union, or Europe’s?…
China’s monetary stimulus is unusually restrained
YI GANG, THE head of China’s central bank, is fond of saying that he wants to run “normal” monetary policy. By that he means…