There are now a billion fewer people subsisting on less than $2.15 a day than in 2000. Each year since the turn of the millennium, a cast of aid workers, bureaucrats and philanthropists, who often ...

This resilience, a Teflon-like superpower, is cause for celebration. It means that the twin scourges of recession and unemployment have been kept at bay. The trouble is that threats are now mounting.

Artificial intelligence (AI) has already made many people very rich. Anyone who in 2021 bought shares in Nvidia, which makes ai chips, has by now octupled their money. The firm’s founder, Jensen Huang ...