Healey offers upbeat vision but sheds little light on how it will be paid for

With the budget only a month away, the chancellor gave little indication of where money will come from to reindustrialise Britain

Healey signals welfare reform push and new apprenticeships scheme

Chancellor sets out measures to support jobs and growth in Labour conference speech but vows fiscal discipline in budget

Gouged: why Americans are being ripped off – and what to do about it

How can we fix our pricing crisis? Economic sociologist Lindsay Owens urges tough new rules – and a consumer uprising

As the US midterms approach, Trump’s boasts on the economy fall flat with voters

Trump’s tariffs and his war against Iran caused prices to to rise, but the US president continues to claim it’s ‘the greatest economy in history’

Burnham’s plan for a radical reset collides with economic reality

Surging energy bills, higher borrowing costs and rising inflation have left the PM and his chancellor in a fiscal bind

Poland is racing ahead with military spending – but will it help or damage its economic growth story?

In the first article in a series on the Polish economy, we look at the country’s defence boom and its implications

The Guardian view on Trump and Xi: a show of friendship, but no real attempt to address the tensions

Editorial: The Chinese leader’s visit to Washington appears to have done nothing to shift the stalemate in bilateral relations

Healey appoints Labour manifesto writer, adding to election speculation

Economist Ravinder Athwal, who worked in Keir Starmer’s team, is poached from Flint Global

Iran war drives UK diesel price to near record high, and makes interest rate rise ‘hard to avoid’ – as it happened

Bank of England governor Andrew Bailey says persistently high oil and gas prices would make it hard to resist pressure to raise interest rates

US mortgage rates top 7% for first time in 20 months

Increase comes after Fed decision to raise interest rates, as Americans struggle with high prices and stagnant wages

UK interest rate rise ‘increasingly likely’ with high energy prices; inflation fears hit bonds – as it happened

BoE deputy governor cites risks from energy prices, as US 30-year bond yields hits highest since 2004

‘You can’t just bet everything on exports’: as its gas runs out, is Bolivia doomed to repeat history?

A fossil gas boom that lifted millions out of poverty has collapsed and inflation is rising – but not everyone believes gold and soya exports are the answer

Oil price rise creates more pressure on UK policymakers before budget

Treasury sources concede ‘less room’ for manoeuvre as global bond selloff also hikes government’s borrowing costs

UK ‘losing up to £6.5bn a year in EU trade’ without post-Brexit product deal

IPPR finds failure to align testing standards costing 0.18% of national income and has seen companies abandon exporting to EU

Australians ‘scrambling’ for second jobs to deal with rising mortgage repayments and cost of living

Latest data also shows unemployment at highest level since the pandemic, which analysts doubt will stop RBA hiking interest rates