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Business

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The envy of the world 

America’s economy is bigger and better than ever 

Leaders

Financial firepower

How the Biden administration botched America’s sanctions against Iran

Justin’s time

Canada’s Trudeau trap

Reeves’s first rodeo

Britain’s budget risks being a huge missed opportunity

Space travel

Starship will change what is possible beyond Earth

On VAT, Spain, UNRWA, electric cars, tuition fees, working lunches

Letters to the editor

Letters

The space industry

Europe must play to win—not just play nice—in a new space race, argues ESA’s boss

By Invitation

America’s election

Europe should not see a potential Trump return as a threat, says Nadia Schadlow

Filling up space

The rockets are nifty, but it is satellites that make SpaceX valuable

Briefing

Out of sight, out of mind?

Italy starts outsourcing its migrant crisis to Albania

Europe

Maia Sandu takes a stand

This tiny country is a laboratory for Russia’s dirty tricks

Digging for victory

Why Russia is trying to seize a vital Ukrainian coal mine

Between BRICS and a hard place

The limits of Turkey’s strategic autonomy

Reclaiming the centre

Poland’s new modern-art museum wants to give the capital a fresh look

Charlemagne

Hopes for religious harmony come to life in the Muslim Vatican

They will come and build it

Sir Keir Starmer’s elevator pitch for investment

Britain

The ticked-off well-off

Is Britain’s government at war with the wealthy?

Tech brothers

Trade unions have their eye on Britain’s tech sector

A shrunken giant

Alex Salmond went from the fringes to the mainstream and back again

Testing times

Could you pass the British citizenship test? 

The right to die

An assisted-dying bill is again introduced to Westminster

Bagehot

The war on prices: British edition

Once more, with feeling

Bad ideas are back on the menu in the Middle East

Middle East & Africa

Hell and horror, again

Does Israel’s new plan for Gaza include withholding food?

Above the fray

Lebanon’s army is less useless than its reputation suggests

A study in resilience

How Wagner survived Yevgeny Prigozhin’s death

Next-generation transportation

Africa’s EV revolution has two wheels not four

Getting the drift

Democrats struggle to limit the loss of black voters in Georgia

United States

Barnstorming

Republicans ramp up efforts to court Amish voters in Pennsylvania

Degrees of difference

Polarisation by education is remaking American politics

Campaign calculus: the customer is sometimes wrong

Voters won’t thank Kamala Harris for the state of the economy

Crying over split milk

Vital election races in Wisconsin are awfully close

Payback time

Brandon Johnson is giving Chicago’s teachers’ union everything

Lexington

One big thing Donald Trump and Elon Musk have in common

The dying of the light

Justin Trudeau is killing Canada’s liberal dream

The Americas

Running on empty

Bolivia’s slow-motion economic crisis is accelerating

India-Canada relations

The Mounties take on Modi. Who will win?

The fifth Five Eye

New Zealand’s biggest pivot since the 1980s

Asia

Big dreams in a small place

Bhutan prays it can be India’s Hong Kong

Stormy weather

Pakistan rolls out the red carpet for China’s prime minister

Banyan

Myanmar’s military junta has conjured up a crazy currency system 

The view from Beijing

Does China welcome—or dread—an Iran-Israel war?

China

Drill, baby, drill

China makes love and war with Taiwan

Buy, buy, buy…sell!

Do amateurs regret jumping into China’s frenzied stockmarkets?

Evil influencers

In China, fib online and find out

Going feral

Vladimir Putin’s spies are plotting global chaos

International

Special report

The American economy has left other rich countries in the dust

Economic output

American productivity still leads the world

For richer and poorer

Is higher inequality the price America pays for faster growth?

Energy

The shale revolution helped make America’s economy great

Stocks

Why the American stockmarket reigns supreme

The dollar

China’s yuan is nowhere close to displacing the greenback

Looking ahead

What can stop the American economy now?

The American economy

Sources and acknowledgments

Autonomous cars

The trouble with Elon Musk’s robotaxi dream

On the rack

Pity the superstar fashion designer

Little frog, bigger pond

Poland’s stockmarket has a hot new entrant

Mine your own business

BHP and Rio Tinto are heading in different directions

Reign of the spreadsheet

Why Microsoft Excel won’t die

Called out

Can artificial intelligence rescue customer service?

Bartleby

The horrors of the reply-all email thread

Schumpeter

What if carmaking went the way of consumer electronics?

Dark commerce

Inside the secret oil trade that funds Iran’s wars

Finance & economics

Buttonwood

Why investors should still avoid Chinese stocks

Mein Gott

Germany’s economy goes from bad to worse

Everyone wins

Trump’s trillion-dollar tax cuts are spiralling out of control

Free exchange

An economics Nobel for work on why nations succeed and fail

The new Moon race

SpaceX is NASA’s biggest lunar rival

Science & technology

Life finds a way

Tubeworms live beneath the planetary crust around deep-sea vents

Forget about Mars

Could life exist on one of Jupiter’s moons?

Who are you calling cute?

Why the world is so animated about anime

Culture

The aquatic underworld

Is the deep ocean more magnificent than outer space?

World in a dish

Food lovers the world over are tickled by pickles

Sexual politics

In the second world war, some diplomacy was done between the sheets

Known unknowns

How to analyse chance, ignorance and risk

Wall of worry

What don’t you know about your partner?

The Economist reads

What to read about grief and bereavement

Indicators

Economic data, commodities and markets

Economic & financial indicators

The boy who aged too fast

Sammy Basso led research into his own rare disease

Obituary

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The world this week October 19th 2024

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