Musical chairs for the global economy

Wednesday 25 March 2026 Australia signs a free trade deal with the EU. Bosses and workers at loggerheads over the next minimum wage increase The prudential regulator warns that rising premiums is going to make insurance too expensive for many households The competition watchdog k ...  Show more

With public markets increasingly concentrated — and dominated by a handful of mega-cap names — investors are looking elsewhere for diversification, growth, and access to the real economy.According to Hamilton Lane co-CEO Juan Delgado-Moreira, that shift has been building for year ...  Show more

It’s a widely held assumption that US President Donald Trump has put globalisation into reverse. But Neil Shearing, group chief economist at Capital Economics and author of The Fractured Age: How the Return of Geopolitics Will Splinter the Global Economy, tells the FT’s world tra ...  Show more

“A bank and a steel company can walk into a bar and not have much to do with each other. But once one of the arena companies walks in, we’re all involved.” That’s McKinsey Global Institute director Chris Bradley. On the latest episode of The McKinsey Podcast, Chris spoke with glo ...  Show more

The US housing crunch is bad—and it’s getting worse. Wider access to safe, affordable homes is vital to enabling economic mobility for all Americans—and to harnessing what McKinsey Partner JP Julien, a leader of the McKinsey Institute for Economic Mobility, calls a “massive” unta ...  Show more

Banking has had a couple of very good years—the best, in fact, since the global financial crisis of 2007–09. Yet to some, the industry’s outlook seems less buoyant than recent profitability might suggest. On this episode of The McKinsey Podcast, McKinsey Senior Partners Klaus Dal ...  Show more