The Economist 2019-05-04 by The Economist instant download

The Economist 2019-05-04 by The Economist instant download

Articles in this issue:
Politics this week
Business this week
KAL’s cartoon
Banking and technology: Tech’s raid on the banks
Venezuela: How to get rid of Maduro
India’s election: Agent Orange
Crisis in the Sahel: The West’s forgotten war
Drug resistance: Netflix and pills
Letters to the editor: On Notre Dame, South Africa, diplomacy, private education, YIMBYs
YouTube: Now playing, everywhere
Democrats and foreign policy: There’s something happening here
Remembering Richard Lugar: The right side
Congressional subpoenas: An oversight
All the president’s banks: Sue you
Conviction-review units: Case dismissed
The National Rifle Association: Wayne’s world
Urban violence: Monrovia on Lake Michigan
Lexington: No sex please, we’re millennials
Venezuela: A failed uprising
Education in Chile: Picking pupils
Brazilian funk: 100% feminista
Elections in India: Missiles maketh the man
Banyan: Kim Jong Un’s options
Democracy in Australia: Up and at ’em
Relocating Indonesia’s capital: An extraordinary move
The Solomon Islands: Solomons’ choice
Japan and Shinto: Through the looking glass
Political demonstrations: Tiananmen 1919
Space-themed tourism: Gobi a Martian
Chaguan: Weak tea doesn’t sell
The Sahel: The new war on jihadism
Gangs with guns: Malicious militias
Iran: Battle of the ayatollahs
Eurovision: BDS meets BDSM
Spain’s general election: Sánchez’s new day
Germany: The long goodbye
Poland: Family first
Spy whales: On His Majesty’s cetacean service
Charlemagne: Public ENAmy
Labour and the rich: The pips squeak again
A cabinet sacking: Leak, plugged
Climate change: Net-zero Britain
Energy: Bad vibrations
Funding social care: Who cares?
Politics in stasis: Brexit paralysis
Food and culture: Peas please me
Bagehot: The followership problem
Food: A meaty planet
Banking: A bank in your pocket
How to make banking fun: My branch manager is a radish
The mobile generation: Kids these days
Apps in South-East Asia: Grab and Gojek
Reforming the incumbents: Banker, disrupt thyself
Neobanks: For digital natives
Helping kids learn finance: Coin of the virtual realm
“Flanker” banks: Young at heart
The future: Crowning King Customer
Sources and acknowledgments
Facebook: Mark Zuckerberg’s WeChat moment
Never mind the buzz: American tech earnings
Deutschland AG: Cracks in the DAX
Bartleby: Struggling with style
Carmaking: Track mentality
Drugmaking: A tough sell
Chinese business: The billion-yuan bet
Schumpeter: How to rev up Unilever
Big Compliance: Rise of the No Men
Buttonwood: Trench fever
Turkey’s central bank: The cost of concision
America’s economy: False alarm
Cryptocurrencies: Tether tantrum
Foreign-exchange trading: Voice over
The John Bates Clark medal: A microeconomist’s macroeconomist
Free exchange: Neonatal economics
Business and finance correspondent
Fusion power: Doughnuts, apples, smoke rings and shrimps
How governments do fusion: Power politics
Art history: A brave new world
Millennials in China: Cracks in the wall
Lives of crime: Rough diamonds
Ethics and evolution: The kindness of strangers
Economic data, commodities and markets
North Korea’s economy: When the lights go out
Lyra McKee: A muckraker’s life
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