In 2026 a general sobering-up may prevail in commodity markets. Individual commodities will fall into one of three buckets ...

The Economist has launched The World Ahead, the annual special year-end issue from The Economist that examines important themes, trends and events that will shape the coming year. The World Ahead 2026 ...

The World Ahead 2026 is the 40th edition of The Economist’s future-gazing annual, published every November since 1986, to provide a guide to the trends, themes and people likely to shape the coming ...

If anything, 2024 taught us to expect the unbelievable, says Tom Standage, deputy editor of The Economist magazine, and we can expect more of the same this year. Every year, the magazine looked at ...

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The good news is that the first 20 years of the millennium saw overall increases in economic freedom around the world—with continuous improvement through the second decade. The bad news is that not ...

AS THE WORLD teeters on the brink of what could become the worst trade wars since the 1930s, with international capital flows falling and cross-border trade and investment stagnating, there is one ...