The house-price supercycle is just getting going - The Economist
WEB4 days ago — Oct 1st 2024 | San Francisco. A fter THE financial crisis of 2007-09, global house prices fell by 6% in real terms. But, before long, they picked up again, and sailed past their pre-crisis peak ...
Israel and Hizbullah conflict tracker: mapping the war in Lebanon
WEB1 day ago — F or a year Israel has been fighting a defensive war with Hizbullah, a Shia militia in Lebanon, on its northern border.On September 30th Israeli troops crossed the border, conducting what an ...
The year that shattered the Middle East | Oct 5th 2024 - The …
WEB21 hours ago — The year that shattered the Middle East – Weekly edition of The Economist for Oct 5th 2024. You've seen the news, now discover the story.
Pedro Sánchez clings to office at a cost to Spain’s democracy
WEB2 days ago — Mr Sánchez’s abrupt U -turns on matters of state purely in order to remain in office have contributed to entrenched public cynicism about Spanish democracy. He claims to have ended separatist ...
Letters to the editor - The Economist
WEB2 days ago — My friends at school boast about the quality of their private tutors. We have a popular phrase in Chinese to describe this: nei juan, which means internal stress. I fear the biggest challenge for ...
Who won the vice-presidential debate? - The Economist
WEB3 days ago — A fter JD Vance and Tim Walz squared off against each in last night’s vice-presidential debate, our correspondent assesses their performance – and its effect on the US election. In Britain the ...
Israeli troops enter Lebanon and strike Damascus. Now what?
WEB4 days ago — A s Israeli troops move into Lebanon and missiles strike Damascus in Syria, can Israel’s next offensive really stay “limited, localised and targeted”? Japan’s new prime minister loves ...
Has the war in Gaza radicalised young Palestinians? - The Economist
WEB2 days ago — Nearly 42,000 have been killed in Gaza. Around 70% of Gaza’s housing stock has been destroyed. Many feel that the shock is already as awful as the nakba (catastrophe) of 1948, when Israel was ...
Don’t celebrate China’s stimulus just yet - The Economist
WEB2 days ago — The mood shift began with the central bank. On September 24th, a week after America’s Federal Reserve had eased policy and given it more room for manoeuvre, the People’s Bank of China cut ...
India’s consumers are changing how they buy - The Economist
WEB2 days ago — Investors may be seduced by Swiggy’s growth to date. In three years revenues have nearly doubled to $1.4bn, as the number of users has swollen from 35m to 47m. The number of riders, paid a mere ...