The Guardian view on the WTO talks: poor countries can’t be kept poor

Editorial: The trade liberalisation of the 1990s did not lead to higher economic growth rates. This should raise serious concerns for backers of globalisation

Can Labour position itself as the party of business?

Analysis: Keir Starmer’s recent CBI speech is part of sustained attempt to prove party can run tight economic ship

UK Covid scheme indirectly discriminated against maternity leave takers, court rules

But ruling will not allow self-employed women whose income support was hit during pandemic to claim rebates

Central banks have ‘King Canute’ theory of inflation, says former governor

Mervyn King questions theory that ‘inflation will remain low because we say it will’

Less cash to splash: despite the spin, there’s nothing transient about inflation

With debt rising and prices spiralling up, households are going to find it harder to fork out for the necessities, let alone any luxuries, and politicians are worried

UK businesses pushed to raise prices amid record jump in costs

Analysts say reports of high demand and jobs growth could give green light for interest rate increase

Government narrowly wins vote on social care cap with majority of 26 – as it happened

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The Guardian view on rail cuts: levelling down not up

Editorial: Boris Johnson is losing his nerve about capital infrastructure. It is a reality check about his airy promises

DfT says rail benefits to come 10 years early amid fury over cuts to HS2

Government vows faster train journeys to be delivered ahead of expected decision to axe key projects

UK economy begins to emerge from Covid but old problems remain

Analysis: End of furlough has not driven up unemployment, but issues such as low productivity still exist

Low taxes and levelling up: the great freeport experiment comes to Teesside

The Tories set great store by the special economic zone, but will it create thousands of jobs, or just be the economic damp squib experts predict?

If global finance can step up to the net-zero challenge, governments surely can

A new alliance of financial institutions is committed to funding the changes necessary to avert climate catastrophe, says Mark Carney, the former governor of the Bank of England

The Guardian view on Tory turmoil: never forget the economy

Editorial: The threat to Boris Johnson may not only come from sleaze, but from the impact of a winter convergence of lower growth and higher prices

We need to talk about the real reason behind US inflation

Corporate giants are raising prices even as they rake in record profits. How can this be? Because of their unchecked power

Sharp slowdown in UK growth lends Sunak’s plan a hollow ring

Analysis: The fact that figures for Q3 compare unfavourably with other large economies must worry the chancellor