It’s defend yourself,or get crushed by China’s export tsunami
Opinion
Opinion

It’s defend yourself,or get crushed by China’s export tsunami

An open world economy cannot exist with a deformed Chinese economy that accounts for 13 per cent of global consumption but produces 31 per cent of all manufactured goods.

  • byAmbrose Evans-Pritchard

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China just unveiled a ‘ground-breaking’ fix for its property crisis. It’s not enough

China just unveiled a ‘ground-breaking’ fix for its property crisis. It’s not enough

Three years after China’s property sector started imploding,Xi Jinping is finally doing something meaningful to fix it. He needs to do more.

  • byStephen Bartholomeusz
The West is about to make a major error in its economic war against Putin
Opinion
Opinion

The West is about to make a major error in its economic war against Putin

Lack of attention to the “Global South” has come back to haunt now that Western interests are threatened by an axis of Russian,Chinese and Iranian authoritarianism.

  • byJeremy Warner
Why Joe Biden’s real enemy is the price of oil
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Energy

Why Joe Biden’s real enemy is the price of oil

Joe Biden’s battle for re-election as president of the United States now faces a surprise new threat – the surging price of petrol.

  • byJonathan Leake
US and China’s mounting debts could hurt us all
Opinion
IMF

US and China’s mounting debts could hurt us all

Rising government debt and deficits in the world’s two largest economies could have spillover effects on the rest of the global economy.

  • byStephen Bartholomeusz
China’s Xi Jinping might have to revise his five-year plan

China’s Xi Jinping might have to revise his five-year plan

China’s latest economic data highlights a glut of excess capacity and a flood of cheap exports,which is generating a growing backlash from a number of its trading partners.

  • byStephen Bartholomeusz
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How Sicily’s mafia is tightening its grip on the economy

How Sicily’s mafia is tightening its grip on the economy

Sicily’s tourist hot spots are living an economic boom thanks to shows like The White Lotus. But behind the beauty,its underbelly is spreading its wings.

  • byRachel Sanderson
Can Miranda Kerr and a chimp make economics more interesting? Turns out,yes

Can Miranda Kerr and a chimp make economics more interesting? Turns out,yes

Andrew Leigh,a federal minister who is also a long-distance runner,races readers through the history of economics in his latest book.

  • byShane Wright
The chief of America’s biggest bank is worried. That’s bad news for all of us

The chief of America’s biggest bank is worried. That’s bad news for all of us

Jamie Dimon is one of the most powerful people in the world. His annual letter to shareholders contains an alarming scenario. Australia would not be immune.

  • byStephen Bartholomeusz
Stuck ships and supply chain inflation
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Shipping

Stuck ships and supply chain inflation

Global supply chains don’t have as much slack as they did,say,last summer,after pandemic disruptions were mostly a thing of the past,because Baltimore isn’t the only problem.

  • byPaul Krugman
How China got its claws into the West’s green transition
Opinion
Opinion

How China got its claws into the West’s green transition

The price of copper has long been the barometer for how well the global economy is travelling. But this time it tells a different story.

  • byEir Nolsoe