Are rich countries facing a debt crisis?

2025-10-30

Zohran Mamdani says he will fix New York City’s problems by taxing the rich to fund a fairer city. But there’s a problem with that plan, as our Wall Street editor, Mike Bird, explains.

2025-10-22

Where are China’s missing moguls? Since the start of the year, 39 Chinese business leaders have vanished into Liuzhi—a detention system created as part of Xi Jinping’s anti-corruption crackdown. Don Weinland, our China business and finance editor and Rosie Blau, co-host of The Intelligence podcast, discuss the extent of these sinister disappearances.

00:00 – Chinese bosses are being detained
00:50 – What is the Liuzhi detention system
02:08 – How many CEOs have disappeared?
03:14 – Why is Xi Jinping’s anti-corruption campaign increasing
05:15 – How else are businessmen being persecuted?
06:43 – High suicide rates among Chinese businessmen

Listen to the full episode: https://econ.st/4osBCph
China’s disappearing bosses: https://econ.st/47uNWjf
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2025-10-17

Despite stark warnings from The Economist when Donald Trump unveiled his tariff regime on ‘Liberation Day’, America’s economy continues to grow.
Will that continue? Zanny Minton Beddoes, our editor-in-chief, Edward Carr, deputy editor and a panel of our journalists discuss whether they were wrong about the President’s trade policy–or if a reckoning awaits.

Subscribers can watch the full interview as part of our new video series “The Economist Insider”.

Watch the full interview: https://econ.st/3LgNkF9
Donald Trump’s fortress economy is starting to hurt America: https://econ.st/47bYe6n
Why Donald Trump’s tariffs are failing to break global trade: https://econ.st/42MRryS
The stock market is fuelling America’s economy: https://econ.st/4hm1dOC
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2025-10-11

The threat from Russia’s dark fleet is intensifying. The Economist examines how shadow ships help rogue states and criminal networks evade sanctions and conduct sabotage