Is The Economist left- or right-wing?

> Neither. We consider ourselves to be in the "radical centre"

From [1]:

'According to the 2014 Pew Research Study, Where News Audiences Fit on the Political Spectrum, the majority of The Economist readers hold political values to the left-of-center. Seventeen percent of The Economist's audience is conservative (compared with 26% of all respondents to the survey).'

Interestingly, I've seen far worse online and printed 'news' which have an unashamedly leaned bias when they do their reporting. But looking at content from FT.com and The Economist, they show that they have highly factual content in their business section at least and both seem to be graded as 'least biased' with high evidence based reporting [0][1].

I'd pretty much rather subscribe to such content than to read clearly biased free online 'opinionated' news junk littered with ads on my browser.

[0] https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/the-economist/ [1] https://www.allsides.com/news-source/economist

I've been reading it a few decades. I would say it's socially liberal and financially conservative on balance. More than once I've seen two articles arguing opposite sides of the same topic in the same physical magazine. So they're not afraid of opposing views when things are not clear.

Right now, what The Economist hasn't twigged to yet is that Trump's specific task for Putin is to mess up the US-EU relationship as much as humanly possible.

The Economist is owned and financed by banking cartels. That means they're on the left.

If you read all their articles for the past 10 years they are clearly a pro-globalism left leaning entity