This was supposed to be the year when initial public offerings (IPOs) came roaring back. Late in 2024 stockmarkets were hitting all-time highs and a cluster of privately owned superstars, with valuations in the tens or hundreds of billions of dollars, were preparing to go public. But now the market is frozen. As the world’s […]
As financial decisions go, borrowing several times your annual earnings to buy a risky asset is a pretty big one. Yet for many people, taking out a mortgage to buy a house is something of a no-brainer. It generally involves less agonising than, say, how much to save for retirement, or how to split your […]
Trade between China and America is already sinking Source link
Trade between China and America is already sinking Source link
After years of resilience, Russia’s economy is slowing down Source link
IN HIS LOVE of lucre Donald Trump can be crass. In their pursuit of efficiency, free-marketeers can be, too. Consider the sale of citizenship. Most people dislike the idea of treating national belonging as a commodity. Yet a dozen or so countries hawk passports and more than 60, including America, offer residency in exchange for […]
What is the price of cool? About $31 a month, according to new research by Leonardo Bursztyn of the University of Chicago and co-authors. That is how much college students had to be paid to have their iPhone messages appear to others in a (lame) green rather than a (fashionable) blue bubble for four weeks. […]
With $29trn in debt and a widening fiscal deficit, America hardly seems like a candidate for a sovereign-wealth fund. Such enormous, independently managed but state-directed pots of cash are, after all, normally established as a means of investing surpluses. That has not stopped President Donald Trump, however. By May 3rd his cabinet will have unveiled […]
Blame crumbling statistical offices Source link
Although recent months have seen fewer Asian tourists in America, for a certain type of visitor it is peak season. Trade negotiators from India, Indonesia, Japan, South Korea and Vietnam have been rushing to Washington in the hope of signing a trade deal that will avert President Donald Trump’s “reciprocal” tariffs, which are due to […]