The Economist (EU) - 19 Okt 2024
THE ENVY OF THE WORLD
Starship and the economics of space
Germany’s economy: bad to worse
Inside Iran’s sanctions-busting
Russia’s spies go feral
The car industry may go the way of consumer electronics,
America’s economy has had an extraordinary run. Will politics bring it back to Earth?
Black voters in Georgia
Starmer interviewed
Reviving bad ideas
Justin Trudeau’s decline
Offshoring migrants
Starship and the economics of space
Inside Iran’s sanctions-busting
Russia’s spies go feral
On VAT, Spain, UNRWA, fashion, electric cars, tuition fees, working lunches
Starship’s success is necessary for NASA to return to the Moon; it also puts the agency’s failings into sharp relief,
The envy of the world
The American economy has left other rich countries in the dust.
Europe’s laggard
Iran’s secret oil trade funds its wars. Our investigation uncovers its breadth,
A summary of political and business news
The envy of the world
Filling up space
Missed opportunity?
Justin’s time
Sanctions, squandered
Electric motorbikes in Africa
Campaign calculus: Irrational gloominess
Trusk and Mump
Catching the future
The Muslim Vatican
Turkey’s strategic autonomy
Educational polarisation
Wagner after Prigozhin
Chicago’s mad schools
Bolivia’s dud economy
More horror in Gaza
Beautifying Warsaw
Wisconsin’s Senate
Lebanon’s army
Prices
Canada v India
Taxing the rich
Ukraine’s coal
Moldova votes
Amish voters
Trade unions
Anime goes global
The new Moon race
Putin’s “feral” spies
Tesla’s robotaxi dream
Israel, Iran and Chinese interests
Defence in New Zealand
Iran’s secret oil trade
Sammy Basso, progeria sufferer and campaigner
Statistics on 42 economies
The case against Chinese stocks
Nobel prizewinners
Foxconn turns to carmaking
The search for life on Europa
AI comes for call centres
War games around Taiwan
Reply-all emails
Myanmar’s junta
The stockmarket frenzy
Fashion designers' woes
Sino-Pakistani relations
World in a dish: pickles
Online fibbers beware
Bhutan’s bet on India
Germany’s economy
Sex and diplomacy
Poland’s big IPO
BHP v Rio Tinto
In praise of Excel
Trump’s tax cuts
Subseafloor life
The deep ocean
German fiction
Uncertainty
The world this week
The world this week
The envy of the world
Sanctions, squandered
Justin’s time
A huge missed opportunity?
Catching the future
How it works in Spain
EVs will not rule the road
Wither UNRWA
The VAT trap
What colleges should learn
Don’t look so glum
Bon déjeuner
Filling up space
Out of sight, out of mind?
Charlemagne: The Muslim Vatican
The battle for Ukraine’s coal
Turkey’s strategic autonomy
Beautifying Warsaw
Moldova votes
Small boat, big waves
Digging for victory
Autocrats or democracies?
Reclaiming the centre
The Vatican, but make it Muslim
Elevator pitch
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Bagehot: The war on prices
Taxing the rich
Citizenship tests
Trade unions
Alex Salmond
The ticked-off well-off
Tech brothers
War on prices: British edition
Once more, with feeling
Africa’s motorcycles are going electric
The not-so-useless Lebanese army
How Wagner survived Prigozhin
Hell and horror in Gaza
Hell and horror, again
Not so useless
After Prigozhin
Two wheels green
Getting the drift
Chicago’s mad public schools
Wisconsin’s Senate squeaker
Lexington: Trusk and Mump
Educational polarisation
Irrational gloominess
Amish voters
Barnstorming
Degrees of separation
Irrational gloominess
Crying over split milk
Payback time
Battery flattery
The dying of the light
Bolivia’s dud economy
Canada v India
Running on empty
Mounties versus Modi
The envy of the world
The unsurpassable economy
The shale boom
Looking ahead
Stockmarkets
Productivity
The dollar
Inequality
The envy of the world
Getting more from more
The downsides of outperformance
Oil kings
Fully grown
Default status
How long can it go?
Kiwis come in from the cold
Banyan: The junta v the FX market
China’s relationship with Pakistan
Bhutan’s big bet on India
Bhutan prays it can be India’s Hong Kong
Stormy weather
Picking up pennies
An interested party
Amateurs and the stockmarket
War games around Taiwan
Online fibbers beware
Love, war and drills
Buy, buy, buy…sell!
Fib online and find out
Going feral
The robotaxi fantasy
The world’s favourite spreadsheet
Schumpeter: How to make cars
The woes of fashion designers
Bartleby: Reply-all emails
AI comes for call centres
Poland’s big IPO
BHP v Rio Tinto
On the rack
Little frog, bigger pond
Mine your own business
Reign of the spreadsheet
Called out
The reply-all email thread
Foxconnification
How to defy America
Germany goes from bad to worse
Free exchange: Nobel winners
Trump’s lavish tax giveaways
Buttonwood: Chinese stocks
Uninvestment advice
Mein Gott
Blue-sky thinking
Nations fail, academics succeed
Team of rivals
Tubeworms beneath deep-sea vents
The search for life on Europa
Hunting tubeworms
Waterworld
Who are you calling cute?
Exploring the deep ocean
A great addition to maths
World in a dish: pickles
Timely German fiction
Sex and diplomacy
The aquatic underworld
It’s crunch time
Sheets to the wind
Known unknowns
Wall of worry
Economic & financial indicators
Sammy Basso
Decode drama
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