Inequality

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)

Natural disasters

The rising cost of catastrophes

How to limit the damage that natural disasters do(47)

Why disasters are more expensive than ever (15)
Economist asks: Will the world suffer a year with $1 trillion or more in disaster costs before the end of the decade?(2)

Europe's economies

A false dawn

The recession has been mild so far. But things are likely to get much worse(82)

Banks in Europe scrape together the extra capital they need (6)

Executive pay

Bosses under fire

Britain is a case study in how politicians miss the point when they try to “fix” executive pay(72)

Executive pay levels rise because of globalisation, not poor oversight (14)

Heterodox economics

Marginal revolutionaries

The crisis and the blogosphere have opened mainstream economics up to new attack(235)

The euro crisis

Merkozy rides again

You can have a side order of growth with your serving of austerity, say the German and French leaders(153)

Financial Terrorism

The war on terabytes

Policymakers worry about attacks on America’s financial system(30)

China

Ten years of China in the WTO: Shades of grey

It was right to let China in. Now the world’s biggest trader needs to grow up(47)

Lessons from the 1930s

There could be trouble ahead

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)

Britain's economy

Into the storm

Another recession is on its way. Even so, the government’s policies are broadly right(96)

Banks

The dash for cash

Europe’s troubled banks are running out of money(35)

American regulation

Scratched by the FATCA

Congress creates a bureaucratic nightmare for fund managers(19)

India's currency

Rupee and the bears

What the mini-run on the rupee says about India(49)

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Japan’s trade balance
Seeing red
After half a century of trade surpluses, Japan is now in deficit (11)
China’s property market
Marriages and mergers
China’s housing downturn will benefit state-owned developers (60)
An über-review of the crisis
The Lo down
A finance professor turns to literary analysis (2)
Brazil’s trade policy
Seeking protection
China has become Brazil’s biggest economic partner—and its most difficult one (51)

Special report: State capitalism

The visible hand

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

The euro-area crisis