Chinese-born boffins have long made up the largest group of foreign researchers in America. An exodus just now, as the ...

In the five years following a deal the median buyer’s revenue and operating profit grew at an annual rate of 6%, decent but ...

Even for the very best investors, in other words, identifying a bubble is a good deal easier than judging when it will burst.

Benin has joined a growing list of African countries where military officers have seized power since 2020. A group of ...

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Britain specializes in a couple of strategically important industries and is an innovator. Could it adopt the Mississippi ...

Soaring tech valuations and stock-market gains have boosted the number of billionaires and the wealth they hold.

The Economist ’s choice for 2025 is a single word. It is representative, if not of the whole year, at least of much of the ...

The world economy has proven surprisingly durable in the face of President Donald Trump’s trade wars, the Organization for ...

China is swallowing up a growing share of the world’s market for manufactured goods, revealing an uncomfortable truth: ...

Iceland tops the Global Peace Index as the safest country in the world for the 17th consecutive year, yet most people ...

What is happening to lower-income households doesn’t match popular theories about the economy, Alexis Crow writes in a guest ...