Three weeks till budget day – and now Rachel Reeves is ‘being honest’ about tax

The chancellor is levelling with us about the pain to come. Is there anyone outside Planet Rachel who couldn’t see that truth two years ago, asks Guardian columnist Marina Hyde

Reeves aims to prepare voters and markets for possible budget tax rises

Speech attempts to take back narrative with talk of ‘years of economic mismanagement’, Brexit and tariffs

Rachel Reeves refuses to rule out tax rises as autumn budget looms

Chancellor says she needs to respond to challenges in speech intended to frame tough choices UK faces

More than $70tn of inherited wealth over next decade will widen inequality, economists warn

Expert panel says report on gap in global wealth between rich and poor highlights need for intervention by G20

The Guardian view on Britain’s new class divide: the professional middle is being hollowed out

Editorial: A micro-elite in finance and tech hoovers up talent while-white collar jobs lose their lustre. A society that rewards proximity to capital over contribution risks rupture

UK factories return to growth after JLR restarts operations; US manufacturing exports hit by tariffs – as it happened

Rolling coverage of the latest economic and financial news, as Opec+ pauses oil output hikes beyond December amid fears of a crude glut

Jaguar Land Rover restart helps UK factories return to growth

S&P Global purchasing managers’ index rises to one-year high amid pick-up in consumer spending

Tax rises and drop in investment predicted to limit UK growth

EY Item Club downgrades forecast for next year, with Office for Budget Responsibility expected to follow suit

Top 10 US billionaires’ collective wealth grew by $698bn in past year – report

Oxfam warns Trump policies risk driving inequality to new heights – but Democrats have also exacerbated wealth gap

The president who cried tariffs: will the US supreme court challenge Trump’s trade war?

The US high court will hear arguments on whether Trump’s erratic imposition of global tariffs is legally valid

The London consensus is a timely challenge to Trump’s isolationism

A debate on how to achieve fairer, greener growth could point the way to a successor for neoliberal capitalism

‘The money machine is misfiring’: City blames Brexit for UK’s £20bn productivity headache

Poor output since the leave vote has landed Rachel Reeves with a bigger-than-forecast budget spending gap

Era of free trade and investment is over, Canada’s PM tells Apec summit

Mark Carney warns Asia-Pacific leaders global economy undergoing profound change, as China’s president mounts defence of free trade

Want to know what’s really up with Britain? Take a look at our no-longer-chocolatey biscuits

Talk of ‘small boats’ may dominate politics and the media, but the cost of living crisis is what most adults spend their time worrying about, says Guardian columnist Zoe Williams

ECB keeps interest rates on hold despite eurozone inflation fears

Key deposit rate kept at 2% even as recovery starts to drive up price growth across bloc