The yen is on a wild ride. As Asian markets opened on April 29th, the currency plunged to a 34-year...

Sovereign wealth funds seldom worry about foreign policy. Those that invest abroad typically do so in order to ensure stable...

The sound of alarm bells is becoming harder to ignore. America’s stockmarket finished the first quarter of 2024 on an...

Ma Yijiayi was locked up in November. She did not stand in a square demanding political rights. Nor did she...

A fifth of American workers have a non-compete clause in their contract, barring them from leaving to join a rival....

Where other historians saw a mob of hungry peasants, E.P. Thompson saw resistance to capitalism. Studying England’s 18th-century food riots,...

The dollar is looking formidable. As American growth has stayed strong and investors have scaled back bets that the Federal...

Beware: taking a stand can be expensive

It is now four years since the first poor countries were plunged into default because of spiralling costs from covid-19...

After Russia destroyed the Trypilska power plant on April 11th, Ukraine blamed a lack of anti-missile ammunition. The country’s leaders...