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Why fine wine and fancy art have slumped this year

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Investing in luxury goods was a bad move in 2024

Who was the best CEO of 2024?

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Our annual assessment of the world’s business bigwigs

Meet the most ruthless CEO in the trillion-dollar tech club

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Hock Tan of Broadcom is less Jensen Huang or Tim Cook and more Jack Welch on steroids

Can Lego remain the world’s coolest toymaker?

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And get greener too?

The business of nicknames

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When they help brands and employees. And when they hurt

A tie-up between Honda and Nissan will not fix their problems

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Speed, not scale, is what they require

Workers love Donald Trump. Unions should fear him

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The president-elect is no friend to organised labour

Why Louis Vuitton is struggling but Hermès is not

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Worries that the luxury business is peaking are overblown

Farewell, Don Draper: AI is coming for advertising

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Omnicom’s takeover of Interpublic signals an industry in trouble

What Trump’s new antitrust enforcers mean for business

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Expect easier dealmaking. Unless you are in Silicon Valley

The employee awards for 2024

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Least accurate website photo. Best AI-washer. Let’s celebrate our winners

Tesla, Intel and the fecklessness of corporate boards

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Too many directors at American companies aren’t doing their job

Why judges were wrong to block the Kroger-Albertsons merger

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Antitrust concerns rest on an outdated idea of how Americans shop

What do the gods of generative AI have in store for 2025?

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OpenAI and Google have unveiled their next generation of products

Which economy did best in 2024?

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We rank countries on five measures

The PayPal Mafia is taking over America’s government

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America’s right-wing tech bros are celebrating Donald Trump’s victory

From Apple to Starbucks, Western firms’ China dreams are dying

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Economic growth is slowing, competition is stiffening and geopolitical tensions loom

Can teenagers outwit Australia’s social-media ban?

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Enforcing the new law may prove tricky

Not all European business is a profitless wasteland

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How to spot a corporate star, old-world edition

How to inspire people

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The answer is not another video of Steve Jobs

Will Europe ease up on big tech?

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The clash between Silicon Valley and Brussels enters a new phase

The hidden costs of Chinese loans

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Governments that borrow from China must pay more to borrow from others

Xi Jinping’s campaign against gambling is a failure

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Chinese citizens go to great lengths to bet

Russian businesses are beginning to bear the cost of war

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Soaring interest rates, a plunging currency and labour shortages are biting harder

How painful will Trump’s tariffs be for American businesses?

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Their options range from hoarding goods and raising prices to rewiring supply chains

Intel’s troubles deepen, as its boss makes an abrupt exit

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Pat Gelsinger’s surprise departure poses a dilemma for Donald Trump

Has Sequoia Capital outgrown its business model?

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Venture capital’s hardiest perennial gets back to its roots

Audiobooks are booming, thanks to streaming subscriptions

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As Amazon opens access to Audible, expect demand to grow

TikTok wants Western consumers to shop like the Chinese

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It still has some convincing to do

On stupid rules and quick wins

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Why every boss can benefit from asking employees what most infuriates them

Will the trouble ever end for Volkswagen and its rivals?

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From strikes to Trump tariffs, calamities abound

Could seaweed replace plastic packaging?

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Companies are experimenting with new ways to reduce plastic waste

After Northvolt’s failure, who will make Europe’s EV batteries?

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The continent looks ever more reliant on Asian producers

Hong Kong’s property slump may be terminal

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Demographics and geopolitics will make a recovery harder

Elon Musk’s xAI goes after OpenAI

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The fight is turning nasty

How to behave in lifts: an office guide

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Life in an elevator

Donald Trump’s victory has boosted shares in private-prison companies

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A hard line means hard cash

Gautam Adani faces bribery charges in America

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Prosecutors allege one of India’s richest men paid off local officials

Nvidia’s boss dismisses fears that AI has hit a wall

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But it’s “urgent” to get to the next level, Jensen Huang tells The Economist

Dallas: Utopia for the Trump-curious CEO

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The Texan city embodies the allure of small government

What ChatGPT’s corporate victims have in common

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The first casualties of generative AI offer lessons for other businesses

Our Big Mac index shows how burger prices differ across borders

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Using patty-power parity to think about exchange rates

Spirit’s woes reveal the dismal state of America’s budget airlines

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Its bankruptcy shows how strained the low-cost model has become

How Chinese is Shein?

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For the fast-fashion giant, nationality has become a vexed question

Big oil may be softening its stance on climate-change regulation

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ExxonMobil’s boss wants America to stick with the Paris accord

America Inc is hoping for a tax bonanza. It may be disappointed

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Donald Trump’s promise of big tax cuts may not materialise

TSMC walks a geopolitical tightrope

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Taiwan’s giant chipmaker must balance demands from America, China and home

Is America’s last big industrial conglomerate about to break up?

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Elliott Management wants to split Honeywell in two

The magic and the minefield of confidence

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Self-doubt, hubris and everything in between

Nike and Adidas are losing their lead in running shoes

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On, Hoka and other challengers are catching up fast