The Economist [Fri, 06 Aug 2021] by calibre instant download

The Economist [Fri, 06 Aug 2021] by calibre instant download

本期文章:

Politics this week

Business this week

KAL’s cartoon

Open-source intelligence: The people’s panopticon

Chipmaking: A self-solving problem

Democracy in Africa: Zambia’s crucial election

Regulating cryptocurrencies: Unstablecoins

Developing vaccines: Vaxelerando

Letters to the editor: On life sentences, Syria, germs, eggcorns

Open-source intelligence: Trainspotting, with nukes

Homelessness: Gimme shelter

A political litmus test in Ohio: The party of Biden

Andrew Cuomo: Fall from grace

Ghost guns: Taking aim at phantom firearms

Lexington: The great American carnival

Bolivia’s woes: Fraud, coup or prologue?

The legacy of immigration: You say pirozhki, I say empanada

Climate change: Moving story

Human-animal conflict: Snakes in the city

The Tokyo Olympics: That 2021 feeling

Covid-19 in Myanmar: The second horseman

Banyan: Flagging enthusiasm

Xinjiang’s economy: Controlled growth

Lebanon: Into the abyss

Iran: Off to an interesting start

Elections in Zambia: Victory by default

Abandoned refugees: Rationed out

Spain’s economy: A doleful plight

Belarus: Forget the border

Turkey: Up in smoke

Chechnya: The wolf’s return

Charlemagne: The black-cod theory of integration

Britain’s boat people: Get back to where you once belonged

Olympic funding: Fortune and glory

Crime in the countryside: Crops and robbers

The labour market: Farewell to furlough

Scotland: Guid money after bad

Bagehot: The great reversal

The UN’s refugee convention at 70: Well-founded fears

Semiconductors: Veni, Nvidia, Vici

Carmakers and semiconductors: Pinned by chips

European industry: A green and level field

Bartleby: The new monarchs

Schumpeter: India’s other A-lister

A crypto stress test: The disaster scenario

Policing crypto: Here comes the sheriff

Perishable e-money: Temporary income hypothesis

China’s capital markets: Evergrave

Free exchange: Something ventured

Cells and how to run them: Layers of power

Combating future viruses: Predict and survive

A non-binary burial: Antiquated thinking

Ancient geometry: No need for a protractor

Automatic goods handling: Heave-ho!

Sport: The pursuit of greatness

The Berlin Wall: An underground operation

Horological history: A matter of time

Johnson: The terms that bind

Elif Shafak’s new novel: Star-crossed lovers

Economic data, commodities and markets

Tackling climate change: Green goals

Frenchy Cannoli: The weed of paradise

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