Economics

Situations vacantCan refugees help to plug Europe’s skilled-labour gaps?

Employing migrants in Germany and Sweden

What tariffs?How open is America?

Not as much as President Donald Trump thinks

ButtonwoodHow to play Argentina

Lessons from maverick footballers and a maverick economy

Light on the shadowsChina’s tighter regulation of shadow banks begins to bite

Non-banks’ share of new credit has dropped by more than half

Under the rugOther American banks may have misbehaved as Wells Fargo did. Which ones?

A regulator finds fault, but is loth to publish its findings

Free exchangeRate rises affect global markets—and may feed back to America

The Fed should think harder about reverberations from rate increases

Making wavesAs Western lenders retreat, African banks see an opportunity

Their pan-continental plans have not paid off. Yet

Significant figureThe hounding of Greece’s former statistics chief is disturbing

Andreas Georgiou loses an appeal, and faces more charges

Buttonwood: Ignore your instinctsA case for owning euro-zone shares

The contrarian wisdom of George Costanza

The luxury of unemploymentIn developing countries, many people cannot afford not to work

Measuring joblessness in Asia

How to lend itA referendum on the way money is created

Switzerland votes on Vollgeld

Whose price is it anyway?Two Asian stock exchanges tussle over market data

An intellectual-property battle between India and Singapore

Free exchangeThe market for driverless cars will head towards monopoly

Economies of scale mean today’s fierce competition will probably be short-lived

Returning fireAmerican firms will be hit hard by retaliatory tariffs

America’s trade partners fight back

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