Why American credit-card delinquencies have suddenly shot up
WHEN IT COMES to the finances of American consumers, the viral videos produced by Caleb Hammer, a personal-finance social-med...
Javier Milei’s crypto misadventure
Javier Milei is facing his presidency’s first big scandal. On February 14th he posted on X, a social-media service, in praise...
China’s leaders look to have blinked in their property face-off
If you are going to buy a flat in China, common advice goes, you should buy it from a “model student”. That is, a developer w...
An Oscar-nominated film sparks a reckoning with Brazil’s dictatorship
Towards the end of “I’m Still Here”, a Brazilian film set during the country’s military dictatorship, a photographer tells hi...
Donald Trump’s reciprocal tariffs are absurd
“He started it,” is playground justice. It may soon be America’s trade policy. On February 13th Donald Trump announced he had...
Shein attempts to mend its public image before its London debut
Haute couture and fast fashion are worlds apart. One showcases garments hand-stitched by the industry’s most skilled artisans...
India’s other, little-known infrastructure revolution
THE NEW road runs 1.85km (1.14 miles) to Khaira, a village of around 1,000 people in central India that seems straight out of...
For Donald Trump, the resignations are the point
When Emil Bove, the acting deputy attorney-general, set off an avalanche of resignations in the Department of Justice (DoJ) b...
To spend big, Germany’s next government may need EU help
When, in october 2017, Wolfgang Schäuble left the Detlev Rohwedder Building for the final time after his stint as German fina...
Investors fear inflation is coming back. They may be right
After peaking in 2022 at 11% year on year, inflation across the rich world has steadily fallen. Until now. As central banks b...