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The Big Take
The Top Stories That Made Waves in 2025
From The Big Take, a look back at some of our most consequential journalism of the year
This year tested the assumptions that underpin global markets. From the lows of April’s stock market crash to the exuberance of the AI boom, our journalists chronicled the inflection points that reshaped economies, politics and lives around the world in 2025.
We tracked the global fallout from the largest US tariff hike since the 1930s and exposed how a trillion dollars’ of imports slipped through the cracks (by design).