Finance & economics
Macho money
More testosterone means higher pay—for some men
A changing appetite for status games could play a role
Free exchange
Why “labour shortages” don’t really exist
Use the term, and you are almost always a bad economist or a special pleader
Insular politics
Your guide to the new anti-immigration argument
Nativists say that migrants raise house prices, cost money and undermine economic growth. Do they have a point?
Buttonwood
What sparks an investing revolution?
Ideas that emerged from the University of Chicago in the 1960s changed the world. But as a new film shows, they almost didn’t
A place of greater safety
Will America’s stockmarket convulsions spread?
Investors are hurrying to find alternatives—but all face difficulties of their own
The ides of March
How Trump provoked a stockmarket sell-off
Will the president win back investors? Does he even want to?
Looking green
Does Trump really want a weaker dollar?
Overturning three decades of American policy will not be painless
Sinews of war
Investors think the Russia-Ukraine war will end soon
The prospect of peace is reshaping markets, in ways both ominous and promising
From the archive
Donald Trump’s tariffs are a throwback to the 1930s
“Economic nationalism”, our predecessors wrote, “is almost an American invention”
International finance
Aid cannot make poor countries rich
For decades, officials have promised to raise economic growth. For decades, they have failed
Free exchange
It is not the economic impact of tariffs that is most worrying
What are the lessons of the 1930s?