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Investors will help Jamaica recover from Hurricane Melissa

The country is in line for a pay-out from catastrophe bonds

India’s IPO boom is good news for its economy

Stockmarkets appear to be fuelling investment

A letter to investors from the White House Opportunities Fund

How the shift to state capitalism is panning out for America LLC

The end of the rip-off economy

From finance and medicine to used cars, artificial intelligence is radically improving market efficiency

The counterintuitive economics of smoking

How cigarette manufacturers profit from quitters

Will America’s new sanctions on Russian oil force a peace deal?

Donald Trump raises the pressure—but he may have to go further

Can AI make the poor world richer?

It promises a level playing field. So have past technologies

Trumponomics is warping the world’s copper markets

It may not end well

Wanted: a new finance writer

An opportunity to join the staff of The Economist

Why are American women leaving the labour force?

Maybe they are becoming tradwives. Or maybe there is a more straightforward explanation

The world economy shrugs off both the trade war and AI fears

Can anything bring it down?

Indian microfinance is in trouble

A model that has lifted millions out of poverty is threatened by rising defaults

The new economics of babymaking

A postcard from one of America’s youngest towns

America’s bankers are riding high. Why are they so worried?

Their latest earnings do not represent unalloyed good news

Donald Trump and Xi Jinping: both weaker than they think

As America and China clash over trade, cracks emerge in each side’s position

Would inflation-linked bonds survive an inflationary default?

A thought experiment on the nearest thing to a safe asset

The Economist is hiring a Senior Producer

Our Money Talks podcast team is recruiting an experienced producer to help launch a video spin-off

Joel Mokyr deserves his Nobel prize

The Nobel committee is belatedly recognising economic history

America and China return to fierce trade conflict

Donald Trump threatens an extra 100% levy as rare-earth minerals prompt a fresh spat

Front-line economics: lessons from Russia’s neighbours

How to survive on the border of war

Narendra Modi’s paltry target for India’s growth

The prime minister wants a $10trn economy by 2047. He should be bolder

The most dangerous corner of a balance-sheet

Forget debt. Here is something to villainise

Why Donald Trump’s tariffs are failing to break global trade

Six months on from “Liberation Day”, things look surprisingly rosy

Welcome to Zero Migration America

Closed borders will make the country smaller, poorer and less innovative

Don’t tax wealth

Even the most sophisticated arguments in favour of doing so make no sense

Credit markets look increasingly dangerous

A pair of bankruptcies highlight the risks

The AI talent war is becoming fiercer

How other countries hope to challenge America

Investing like the ultra-rich is easier than ever

And that worries regulators

Will Dubai’s super-hot property market avoid a crash?

Despite fears of a reckoning, its fundamentals look solid

How to spot a genius

In an age of artificial intelligence, the human kind is increasingly important

Russia’s besieged economy is clinging on

The good times have firmly come to an end, but wage growth remains strong

Would an all-out trade war be better?

Donald Trump has so far avoided retaliation, which might carry a cost of its own

China’s future rests on 200m precarious workers

They may work in factories or for delivery apps, but are united by common struggles

Ukraine faces a $19bn budget black hole

Without funding, the country will be left vulnerable

Meet Donald Trump’s aid agency

Or is it a sovereign-wealth fund in disguise?

Why American bondholders are jumpy about inflation

The Federal Reserve prepares to cut interest rates in tricky circumstances

Chinese trade is thriving despite America’s attacks

The rest of the world is willing to be “ripped off”

What if the AI stockmarket blows up?

We find that the potential cost has risen alarmingly high

What if artificial intelligence is just a “normal” technology?

Its rise might yet follow the path of previous technological revolutions

The hard right’s plans for Europe’s economy

It has moderated, but offers little hope of growth-boosting reform

China turns crypto-curious

But would the country’s leaders really want stablecoins to succeed?

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

How Trump’s war on the Federal Reserve could do serious damage

Just consider what happens if inflation starts to rise again

The Economist’s finance and economics internship

We invite applications for our Marjorie Deane scheme

Even as China’s economy suffers, stocks soar. What’s going on?

The Shanghai composite is defying gravity

Trump “fires” Lisa Cook, escalating his war on the Federal Reserve

There is little precedent: no Fed governor has been dismissed for cause before

Trump’s interest-rate crusade will be self-defeating

The president’s threats loomed over this year’s Jackson Hole conference

Fear the deficit-populism doom loop

Politicians, particularly in Europe, are in a terrible bind

Economists disagree about everything. Don’t they?

Their discipline is famous for its fissiparousness

Can China cope with a deindustrialised future?

Communist Party officials face a difficult ideological turn