The Guardian view on Labour’s growth obsession: a different economics is possible

Editorial: The latest edition of Radical Thinking, the Guardian’s new podcast, should be required listening at a Treasury still stifled by outdated orthodoxies

‘In the trenches’: Wisconsin’s struggling small businesses could turn a Trump ally’s district blue

Affordability and small businesses’ economic woes feature heavily in the House race for Wisconsin’s third district

RBA interest rates: Bullock says ‘pain now’ will prevent worse later as Reserve Bank hikes rates for fifth time

Reserve Bank of Australia increases official cash rate to 4.85%, bringing it to highest level since 2008

UK job satisfaction at record low amid rising frustration over pay and flexible working

Resolution Foundation study finds workers are less willing to go ‘above and beyond for employers than a decade ago’

The RBA has hiked interest rates. Use our loan calculator to check how it could affect you

Reserve Bank of Australia has announced its fifth hike this year, adding to the cost of monthly mortgage repayments

‘Sharper, longer slowdown’ predicted for Australian economy as fifth interest rate hike looms

Australia’s central bank expected to hit mortgage holders again on Tuesday, as war in Middle East combines with collapsing house prices

Is the government really on an ‘out-of-control’ spending splurge? It’s complicated

Defence, the NDIS and health responsible for much of increased government outlays and treasurer Jim Chalmers has few levers to pull

How Rachel Reeves has mapped out the economic agenda for Andy Burnham’s government

On Brexit, devolution and investment, the former chancellor is eerily in tune with the man who sacked her

The measure slipped into UK budget that could protect spending on children, youth and rough sleeping

PDEL, which will ringfence money for preventive policies, marks a welcome and potentially consequential addition

The US-China trade war seems to have subsided – but the sense of calm is misleading

A truce has cooled the trade conflict, but neither country has done anything to limit the outbreak of new hostilities

Affordability top of mind for voters in final sprint to midterms: ‘I have to pick between medicine or groceries’

Cost of living has loomed over this election cycle as workers and unions champion candidates fighting for higher wages and tackling rising prices

Britain’s housing crisis won’t be fixed without a new tax landscape

We need policies that stop treating property as a store of wealth and that allow people to move home cheaply

How will the US midterms affect Australian markets?

Polling suggests Republicans’ chances of retaining both houses have waned. Here’s how the vote could steer demand for renewables, deflate AI stocks and spark volatility

Wall Street closes sharply lower as AI cash burn fears spark tech selloff – as it happened

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How do we make new economic ideas a reality? – Aditya Chakrabortty answered your questions

Guardian columnist, senior economics commentator and host of the new Radical Thinking podcast Aditya Chakrabortty answered your questions on the big ideas around economics, society and democracy, and his new podcast