E ach Christmas The Economist names a country of the year. Not the happiest: that would nearly always be Scandinavian, making ...

In some of the remaining cases, luck more than skill was to thank for lofty shareholder returns. This year the price of gold ...

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, ...

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

Pete Hegseth, the secretary of war, came under growing pressure from Democratic and Republican lawmakers who said that a second strike on the wreck of an alleged drug-smuggling vessel may have been a ...

Donald Trump said he had decided who to nominate to succeed Jerome Powell as chair of the Federal Reserve, though he declined to name his pick. Kevin Hassett, a senior economic adviser to Mr Trump, ...

Everyone is gloomy about America’s jobs market. Investors talk of a “K-shaped” economy, in which growth is buoyed by an exuberant stockmarket and artificial-intelligence investment, while ordinary ...

ISABEL WAS 25 when she left Medellín, in Colombia, for what she thought was a job at a nightclub in the Dominican Republic. The advert on Facebook had promised good pay and said recruiters would cover ...

CHINESE-BORN brainiacs have been at the forefront of innovation in America. Yang Chen-Ning, a Nobel-prizewinning physicist who died in October, was one such. But a mixture of pushes (such as the ...

An economist at one of China’s biggest investment banks said the time has come for authorities to allow for more appreciation in the yuan, a decision that would give consumers greater spending power ...

Ray Dalio spied the dotcom bubble early. “We’re approaching a blow-off phase of the US stockmarket,” said the founder of Bridgewater, one of the world’s biggest hedge funds. Peter Lynch, the ...

A FEW MONTHS ago Western governments were sunk in gloom because America no longer sounded or acted like a reliable friend. Today American flakiness is the least of their worries. A growing fear among ...