Finance & economics
Free exchange
Working from home and the US-Europe divide
Americans are no longer the rich world’s great office drones
Thousands are flying
Immigration is surging, with big economic consequences
The West faces an unprecedented number of new arrivals
A slip of the yen
Japan will struggle to rescue its plummeting currency
Expensive government intervention looks likely to provide only brief respite
Buttonwood
How far could America’s stockmarket fall?
With the prospect of cheaper money receding, shares look unusually vulnerable
Fiscal fiasco
Chinese authorities are now addicted to traffic fines
What that tells you about the country’s economic woes
Battles to come
Why a stronger dollar is dangerous
It sets the stage for a nasty new Trump-China clash, among other things
Free exchange
Can the IMF solve the poor world’s debt crisis?
The fund will freeze out China if that is what it takes to offer relief
Conflict finance
Frozen Russian assets will soon pay for Ukraine’s war
And America now hopes to convince others to make better use of the stash