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Category: Economy and finances

Live music seems recession-proof. Thank the ticket scalpers

When demand softens, the secondary market absorbs the pain


The Trump administration is playing a dangerous stockmarket game

American investors are extremely exposed to a sell-off—and so is the economy


America’s Democrats would be wise to embrace “abundance liberalism”

Despite reasons for caution, there is much to commend in the work of Ezra Klein, Derek Thompson and Marc Dunkelman


Where will be the next electric-vehicle superpower?

Three Asian countries make their pitch


Can anything get China’s shoppers to spend?

An economic recovery depends on it. Yet a new action plan may not do the job


Why rents are out of control

Rich-world tenants are angry, and have reason to be


Can Europe cope with a free-spending Germany?

Pity the continent’s exporters


More testosterone means higher pay—for some men

A changing appetite for status games could play a role


Why “labour shortages” don’t really exist

Use the term, and you are almost always a bad economist or a special pleader


Your guide to the new anti-immigration argument

Nativists say that migrants raise house prices, cost money and undermine economic growth. Do they have a point?