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Wholesale egg prices have ‘declined’ from their peak in December
Egg shelves in New York on January 21, 2023 with a note apologizing to customers for the price increase.Fatih Aktas / Anadolu Group via Getty ImagesWholesale…
China may return to ‘lower trend growth’ after 2023, economist says
Societe Generale's Wei Yao says housing demand in China is unlikely to return to pre-pandemic levels.
Economic data, commodities and markets
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As mass testing ends, how will covid waves be monitored?
To read more about The Economist's data journalism visit our Graphic Details page.NOT LAODHI academic papers start as a joke. But Nick Beauchamp, from…
Lester Piggott had only one goal in mind
The's the cutest Lester Piggott's greatest achievement in racing happened at the Grand Prix de Deauville in 1979. A little further from the end he put down his…
An ancient rice bowl makes the story of civilization in India more complex
R THE MUSIC MAN a spoonful of rice has caused such a movement. When MK Stalin, the chief minister of Tamil Nadu, addressed the southern Indian state's…
A drug for Alzheimer’s disease that seems to work
Editor's note: On January 6, the US Food and Drug Administration approved lecanemab, to be marketed as Leqembi.meit is easy to be cynical about naming drugs…
Bullish stocks undermine a dedicated investment rule
mef you are one of the many buyers of US stocks or Treasury bonds in the past four months, or indeed the buyer of most financial assets over this period, this…
Can technology tackle the global crisis of depression and anxiety?
DPRAY the early weeks of the pandemic in 2020, as China imposed strict control on the movement of its citizens, technology became the main way to deal with…
The lessons from the Chinese spy-balloon
cHINA AND America is moving towards a cold war. Mistrust turns into something much more disturbing: a competition between two irreconcilable powers, each…