Finance & economics
Remedial classes required
Are adults forgetting how to read?
A survey by the OECD suggests a worrying decline in literacy
Dream, baby, dream
How much oil can Trump pump?
The president-elect wants to be the ultimate energy baron
Buttonwood
The hidden cost of Chinese loans
Governments that borrow from China must pay more to borrow from others
Another hand
Xi Jinping’s campaign against gambling is a failure
Chinese citizens go to great lengths to bet
Hitting the jackpot
How sports gambling became ubiquitous
Europe is at the centre of the industry’s growth
Free exchange
Cronyism is a problem. But not always an economic one
Research on the topic is surprisingly nuanced
Blow-for-blow
How China will strike back at Trump
Xi Jinping has set out his tariff red lines. What if America crosses them?
Rouble worries
Russia’s plunging currency spells trouble for its war effort
Supplies from China are about to become more expensive
