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Category: Economy and finances

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?


What sparks an investing revolution?

Ideas that emerged from the University of Chicago in the 1960s changed the world. But as a new film shows, they almost didn’t


Will America’s stockmarket convulsions spread?

Investors are hurrying to find alternatives—but all face difficulties of their own


How Trump provoked a stockmarket sell-off

Will the president win back investors? Does he even want to?


Does Trump really want a weaker dollar?

Overturning three decades of American policy will not be painless


Investors think the Russia-Ukraine war will end soon

The prospect of peace is reshaping markets, in ways both ominous and promising