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Economists are as confused as Trump about taxing the rich

May 15 2025

Forget technocracy. The top rate is set by gut instinct
Is the market up or down? Republicans and Democrats disagree

May 15 2025

Retail investing suffers from partisanship
China has got lucky with Trump. Can the rest of the world?

May 15 2025

Progress in trade talks has so far been slow
How the Chinese Communist Party learnt to love villages

May 15 2025

It wants people to move to cities. And the countryside
Poland: the ignored stockmarket superstar

May 14 2025

Why the country’s shares are going gangbusters
Why the MAGA economy is thriving

May 13 2025

The world’s largest market is becoming two
America has given China a strangely good tariff deal

May 12 2025

For the next 90 days, at least
Trump’s trade deal with Britain will worry allies and rivals alike

May 8 2025

Sir Keir Starmer will at least be pleased to have been first
Why Gen X is the real loser generation

May 8 2025

Don’t cry for millennials or Gen Z. Save your pity for those in their 50s
Global turmoil has at least one beneficiary: currency traders

May 8 2025

The foreign-exchange market has been reinvigorated by recent events