szeptember 3. 16:19 | Még mindig rosszabbul él a kelet-európai roma népesség az integrációs kezdeményezések ellenére, mint a kommunizmus idején – írja a The Economist pénteken megjelent elemzésében.

szeptember 2. 05:00 | Economists long ago put to rest the error that Adam Smith made when he argued that manufacturing should be given primacy in a country’s economy.

szeptember 1. 16:00 | A háború utáni legsúlyosabb világválság elmúlt. Hirtelen érkezett 2008-ban, és 18 hónap után ugyanolyan gyorsan múlt el, mint ahogyan jött.

szeptember 1. 05:00 | The world’s worst post-war financial crisis is over. It arrived suddenly in 2008, and, after roughly 18 months, vanished almost as quickly as it had come.

augusztus 26. 05:00 | In the past two years, two dangerous episodes of financial instability and sudden changes in market dynamics have hit the world economy. More are likely, because the global economy is out of balance in several respects as it emerges from the crisis, particularly in terms of sovereign debt and the structure of global demand.

augusztus 24. 05:00 | On a recent Saturday morning, several hundred pro-democracy activists congregated in a Moscow square to protest government restrictions on freedom of assembly. They held up signs reading “31,” in reference to Article 31 of the Russian constitution, which guarantees freedom of assembly. They were promptly surrounded by policemen, who tried to break up the demonstration. A leading critic of the Kremlin and several others were hastily dragged into a police car and driven away.

augusztus 19. 05:00 | The United States is locked in debate over immigration. The state of Arizona recently enacted legislation that encourages local police to check the immigration status of people who were stopped for other reasons – and requires immigrants to produce proof of their legal status on demand.

augusztus 12. 05:00 | The stress tests applied to American banks last year are widely credited with restoring financial stability in the United States and removing the fear that major financial institutions might fail. Europeans hope that the recent publication of the results of stress tests that were applied to their own banks will have the same effect.

augusztus 10. 05:00 | China’s national savings rate has been very high in recent years, amounting to 52% of GDP in 2008 (the most recent year for which statistics are available), and is often blamed for today’s global imbalances. Countries that save too much export too much, according to conventional wisdom, resulting in high trade surpluses and growing foreign-exchange reserves.

augusztus 4. 05:00 | It is an old debate, but tensions within the euro area have revived it: can a monetary union survive without some form of fiscal federalism?