Income inequality: Who exactly are the 1%?
The very rich in America increasingly work in finance, marry each other and care passionately about politics(139)
The very rich in America increasingly work in finance, marry each other and care passionately about politics(139)
How to limit the damage that natural disasters do(47)
The recession has been mild so far. But things are likely to get much worse(82)
Britain is a case study in how politicians miss the point when they try to “fix” executive pay(72)
The crisis and the blogosphere have opened mainstream economics up to new attack(235)
You can have a side order of growth with your serving of austerity, say the German and French leaders(153)
Policymakers worry about attacks on America’s financial system(30)
It was right to let China in. Now the world’s biggest trader needs to grow up(47)
In 2008 the world dodged a second Depression by avoiding the mistakes that led to the first. But there are further lessons to be learned for both Europe and America(122)
Another recession is on its way. Even so, the government’s policies are broadly right(96)
Europe’s troubled banks are running out of money(35)
Congress creates a bureaucratic nightmare for fund managers(19)
What the mini-run on the rupee says about India(49)
After half a century of trade surpluses, Japan is now in deficit (11)
China’s housing downturn will benefit state-owned developers (60)
A finance professor turns to literary analysis (2)
China has become Brazil’s biggest economic partner—and its most difficult one (51)
The crisis of Western liberal capitalism has coincided with the rise of a powerful new form of state capitalism in emerging markets, says Adrian Wooldridge
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In this blog, our correspondents consider the fluctuations in the world economy and the policies intended to produce more booms than busts
How a trade deficit is financed matters
(Paul Seabright)
A deficit driven by consumption can't last
(Michael Pettis)
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A look at the euro zone's troubled economies
The correlation of laughter at FOMC meetings
(Daily Stag Hunt)
Is higher income inequality associated with lower mobility?
(Freakonomics)
It's probably a good thing, but it's at least a little scary
(Tom Lee)
Blogs and academic research
(Digitopoly)
Japan, revisited
(Tim Duy)
What explains trends in labor supply among U.S. undergraduates?
(Judith Scott-Clayton)
The Nixon Shock after forty years
(Douglas Irwin)
International capital flows and house prices
(Jack Favilukis, David Kohn, Sydney C. Ludvigson, and Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh)
America is recovering from the debt bust faster than European countries. Why?
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