The kaleidoscopic global economy: resilient, lucky and fragile
The contradictions in economic signals can still hold lessons for investors
The contradictions in economic signals can still hold lessons for investors

But more optimistic investors continue to bank on the cavalry arriving if things get really dicey

Experts are struggling in a less predictable world rife with simple and popular answers

Worn-out top-down approaches won’t help us build lasting shared prosperity

New priorities are needed to succeed amid unreliable and competing great powers

The real challenges are not fragmentation along national lines or competition between different types of trading

There are limits to extrapolating from last year’s economic resilience