Finance & economics
Free exchange
How to put boosters under India’s economy
With the right policies, growth could be astonishing
Recession response
Europe’s economy is in a bad way. Policymakers need to react
Wage growth now appears to be fizzling out
Sticking to his guns
Vladimir Putin is running Russia’s economy dangerously hot
Extravagant war spending is fuelling inflation
The 5% question
Will China leave behind its economic woes in 2024?
Xi Jinping must decide whether to set an ambitious growth target
Making friends
How to sell free trade to green types
This year’s COP offers an opportunity to make the case
Tax and pretend
Will a fiscal mess thwart Japan’s nascent economic growth?
Fears first raised a quarter of a century ago may be about to come true
Free exchange
At last, a convincing explanation for America’s drug-death crisis
There is a more plausible cause than despair
Caught short
Who made millions trading the October 7th attacks?
Researchers highlight suspicious activity
Fixing finance
Is the world’s most important asset market broken?
Regulators have proposed radical changes to how Treasuries are traded, to the dismay of investors
Free exchange
Why economists are at war over inequality
Income gaps are growing inexorably—aren’t they?
Buttonwood
Short-sellers are endangered. That is bad news for markets
Nobody likes shorts, but they provide an invaluable service