Economics

Pearls, it is said, represent purity. They may soon stand for something else: business dynamism. In Greenville, South Carolina, two

The Plaza Hotel has New York glamour in spades. Sitting at a corner of Central Park, it was the setting

Working on a trading desk is perhaps the closest an office job can get to a sport. Focus and reflexes

The EU is no stranger to overcapacity. Its economic landscape once featured butter mountains, milk lakes and other landmarks of

On a regular Tuesday morning, a large crowd has gathered outside a grocery store in Xuchang, a city of 4m

Trade unions rarely look to corporate raiders for inspiration. Yet the Strategic Organising Centre (SOC), a coalition of North American

The year is 2034. America’s “magnificent seven” firms comprise almost the entirety of the country’s stockmarket. For Jensen Huang, the

It is, by now, a familiar story. A metal previously only traded in a sleepy corner of commodity markets becomes

In economic terms, an asset has value because an owner might derive future benefits from it. Some assets, like cryptocurrencies,

Donald Trump and Joe Biden do not agree on much, but they are of a similar mind when it comes