This week’s covers

WE HAD TWO covers this week. In most of our editions, we wrote about the breakdown of the economic order. At first glance, the world economy looks reassuringly resilient, yet we fear that it is flirting with collapse. A worrying number of triggers could set off a descent into anarchy, where might is right and war is once again the resort of great powers. Even if it never comes to conflict, the degradation of the economy could be fast and brutal.