Finance & economics

Hide and seek

China’s banks have a bad-debt problem

As is becoming increasingly obvious

Curse of the Anglosphere

Which country will be last to escape inflation?

A new dividing line in the global fight

Buttonwood

How the “Magnificent Seven” misleads

Forget the supergroup of stockmarket darlings

Free exchange

How India could become an Asian tiger

The world’s most selective bureaucracy is struggling to make it happen

Battered and bruised

Europe’s economy is under attack from all sides

First Putin, now Xi. Next Trump?

Hunting for value

As markets soar, should investors look beyond America?

The country’s stocks are extremely expensive

Buttonwood

How to trade an election

It is becoming harder for investors to ignore politics

Free exchange

Why “Freakonomics” failed to transform economics

The approach was fun, but has fallen out of favour

The 6% problem

America’s realtor racket is alive and kicking

Celebrations over a settlement between agents and homeowners are premature

Hamilton’s heir

First Steven Mnuchin bought into NYCB, now he wants TikTok

Is there any limit to his ambitions?

The last mile

Why America can’t escape inflation worries

The Federal Reserve sticks to its plans, despite an uncertain situation

Interesting times

Japan ends the world’s greatest monetary-policy experiment

For the first time in 17 years, officials raise interest rates