Why are rhodium prices on a roll?
Jan 23rd 2020WHEN ANNA SCOTT left her Honda Jazz in a commuters’ car park outside Oxford on January 10th, she had little reason…
India’s economy risks swapping stagnation for stagflation
MUMBAI’S CHEFS were quick to spot the latest threat facing India’s economy. As they foraged for ingredients in Crawford market,…
Economists explore the consequences of steering technological progress
Jan 16th 2020SINCE THE ancient Greeks, at least, people have recognised that civilisational progress tends to create havoc as…
Investors at home and abroad are piling into American government debt
Jan 25th 2020IN THE GOOD old days, America’s budget deficit yawned when the economy was weak and shrank when it was strong….
Competition, sanctions and the new geopolitics of Russian gas
Jan 23rd 2020IN JANUARY 2009 Gazprom, Russia’s state-owned energy giant, cut off gas supplies through Ukraine, one of several…
Why it can make sense to pay exorbitant asset-management fees
Jan 23rd 2020A SURE WAY to irritate a private-equity manager is to say the “T” words: two-and-twenty. Their eyes roll: this…
Airbus will help airlines hedge volatile ticket prices
Jan 23rd 2020THERE IS NOTHING that maddens online shoppers more than seeing air fares rocket just as they are about to click “buy”….
How digital financial services can prey upon the poor
Jan 30th 2020FOR THOSE seeking to help the worst-off in poor countries, the mobile phone has been a magic wand. Mobile-money accounts…
Goldman Sachs bets the firm on a new identity
DAVID SOLOMON, the boss of Goldman Sachs, plans to spin discs at a party for the Super Bowl. Ahead of that performance DJ D-Sol…