The Economist 20180512 by The Economist instant download

The Economist 20180512 by The Economist instant download

Articles in this issue:
Politics this week
Business this week
KAL's cartoon
The Vision Fund: The $100 billion bet
The woes of Argentina: Tango tantrum
Compensating blood donors: Blood money
Iran and America: A new deal?
Malaysia’s elections: What the doctor ordered
On juries, economics, Enoch Powell, Guatemala, robots: Letters
SoftBank’s Vision Fund: The Son kingdom
Ride hailing: Steering group
Guaranteeing employment: Make work can’t work
Gina Haspel: The lady from Langley
Primary elections: The centre mostly holds
Truth and consequences: Cash flows
Child mental health: Attention deficit
Rent control: The wrong remedy
Lexington: Laughing with Diamond and Silk
Central America: A brief prosecutorial golden age
Canada: A tale of two tweets
Venezuela: Unfed and unwashed
Bello: A warning from Peru
Malaysia’s election: Um, no!
Media freedom in South-East Asia: Launder and press
Australia’s budget: Banking on tax cuts
Kashmir: Another bloody Sunday
Banyan: The president at play
The South China Sea: Making mischief
Disaster relief: Tectonic shift
Ditching the Iran deal: Nuclear fallout
Sanctions on Iran: The highest level
Elections in Iraq: Seeking someone with a vision
Turning a corner: Don’t expect miracles
Mozambique: A dangerous death
Madagascar: Ravalomanana mañana
Russia: Six more years
The Eurovision Song Contest: Warble games
Estonia: To Russophones with love
Social policy in Poland: Zlotys for tots
Spain: Writing the history of terror
Wolves in Germany: Huffing and puffing
Charlemagne: What do Europeans want?
The politics of Brexit: Cabinet splits and party twists
London’s gangs: Exit the matrix
Major League Baseball: Pitching to the Brits
Independent education: easySchool
Housing supply: A new storey
The Liberal Democrats: Comeback of the Cockroach Party
Bagehot: The forgotten citizen
Paying for blood (1): Thicker than water
Paying for blood (2): American exceptionalism
America’s shale-oil producers: In the light, sweet spot
Walmart buys Flipkart: Bentonville, meet Bangalore
Xiaomi to go public: Little rice, lots of dough
Drug pricing in America: The payers’ revolt
Air France-KLM: Struck down
Video games: It’s been a hard day’s Fortnite
The coach industry: Fifty shades of Greyhound
Argentina’s economic woes: The crisis of Macrinomics
India’s economy: The great Indian trade-off
China’s stockmarket: IT, phone home
Student accommodation: Higher earning
Islamic banks in Indonesia: Act of faith
Overbond: Unbounded
Tariffs: Steeling for battle
Buttonwood: Thinking outside the police box
Free exchange: Barriers to entry
Internship
Autonomous vehicles: Robotic rules of the road
Evolutionary psychology: Facing reality
Oceanography: Small is beautiful
A cautionary tale: Facing reality
Markets and society: Sale of the century
How to impeach a president: High crimes
Experimental fiction: The talking cure
The secret life of fish: A salmon’s lament
Slavery in America: No ears for cryin’
Johnson: Out of the mouths of babes
Bassam Ghraoui: Of war and chocolate
Output, prices and jobs
Trade, exchange rates, budget balances and interest rates
The Economist commodity-price index
The Economist poll of forecasters, May averages
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