President Gustavo Petro’s leftist government recently failed to get congressional approval for a tax bill that would have boosted the government’s budget by $4 billion in 2026, a year featuring ...

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A feared recession didn’t materialize, but unemployment rose, wage growth slowed and affordability challenges are mounting.

On November 30TH President Donald Trump said he had decided whom to nominate as the next chair of the Federal Reserve. He has since said he will reveal his choice early next year. In betting markets, ...

In the second episode of Inside Geopolitics, David Rennie, The Economist’s geopolitics editor, talks to John Bolton. Subscribers can watch it on our app and on the Insider hub. Donald trump’s second ...

A study of the economics of conflict, from the Vikings to Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, by a former writer for and occasional contributor to The Economist. Time and again, Duncan Weldon spots ...

FIVE MONTHS after American and Israeli bombs struck several Iranian nuclear installations, could talks over managing the country’s nuclear-enrichment programme be back on? Iran’s foreign minister, ...

The woman Larry Summers asked for advice on how to get “horizontal” with in emails to Jeffrey Epstein is a high-flying economist, The Post can reveal. The ex-Treasury secretary was referring to ...

The question “at first struck me as too open-ended to be usefully addressed by standard economics,” said Charles Jones of Stanford. He took a shot anyway. By Peter Coy The world is plowing trillions ...

Amitrajeet A. Batabyal does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations ...

“They used to steal your phone—now they cut off your arm for it,” says Nur Faride, a young Chilean in Santiago, the capital. Crime and violence is the top concern for her compatriots, with a whopping ...

India will accomplish a remarkable feat in early 2026. By the close of the financial year in March it will overtake Japan to become the world’s fourth-largest economy—and within striking distance of ...