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Will America manage a soft landing in 2024?
Could 2024 be a year unlike any in America’s post-war economic history? Never since 1945 has annual inflation, measured by the consumer-price index,...
The five biggest market surprises of 2023
Financial markets will always produce surprises. After all, by the time a consensus has formed, people will have bought or sold accordingly. The...
Where does the modern state come from?
It is part metaphor, part myth and part history. Thomas Hobbes thought life there was nasty, brutish and short. John Locke disagreed, proclaiming...
Hong Kong’s problems trace back to China. And also America
Sevva, a swanky bar and restaurant with electrifying views, has been serving bankers and sightseers for more than 15 years. From its terrace,...
Can the carbon-offset market be saved?
“As soon as a coin in the coffer rings, the soul from purgatory springs,” ran an early advertising jingle attributed to Johann Tetzel,...
The mystery of Britain’s dirt-cheap stockmarket
It is hard to get a man to understand something, wrote Upton Sinclair, an American novelist, when his salary depends on not understanding...
Is China understating its own export success?
China’s current-account surplus was once one of the most controversial statistics in economics. The figure, which peaked at almost 10% of gdp in...
How to sneak billions of dollars out of China
It has been a terrible year to be bullish on China. The CSI 300 index of Chinese stocks has dropped by 13% so...
