The Economist [Fri, 15 Dec 2017] by calibre instant download
Articles in this issue:
Politics this week
Business this week
KAL's cartoon
China and the West: Sharp power
The American economy: Can the Trump boom last?
Bitcoin: A bit on the side
Energy subsidies in America: Abuse of power
Film remakes: Don’t take two
On populism, plutonium, Myanmar, transgender recognition, inheritance tax: Letters to the editor
China and the West: At the sharp end
Alabama: Where the skies are so blue
Deportation: Rhetoric and reality
Partisanship: The “fire Mueller” chorus
Coal: Holler promises
Lexington: Tinseltown dreams
Brazil’s new politicians: Taking on the dirty old men
Bello: The literature of fear
Sugar in the Caribbean: Nearly sweet nothing
Voting in Venezuela: Last man standing
Uzbekistan: From a low base
Bureaucracy in Myanmar: Overcommitteed
Elections in Nepal: The mountains of Mao
The Kuril Islands: Still cranky after all these years
Banyan: Peak patriotism
Pollution: Awry in the sky
Protests over wage arrears: High and dry
Electrification: Shock therapy
Not another fish in the sea: Nets akimbo
South Africa: Zuma loses again
Vladimir Putin’s victory lap: Mission accomplished
Tunisia’s economy: Labour pains
Aharon Yehudah Leib Shteinman: A rabbi without equal
Catalonia votes: Over and over again
France’s activist foreign policy: Hop, skip and jump
Russia: Beware siloviki bearing sausages
Ukraine’s double Christmas: So nice, they celebrate twice
Tirana: Europe’s new go-to city
Poland: Debeatified
Charlemagne: Banking on it
The housing market: Struggles of the landed gentry
The economics of crime: Lucrative loot
Tory Brexiteers: The dogs that didn’t bark
Grenfell Tower: Do they know it’s Christmas?
The Cameroon renaissance: Vote blue, go green (again)
Care homes: Infirm
Education and technology: No pupil is an island
Climate summitry: New life for the Paris deal
The Big Four: Custodians of capitalism
South Africa’s Steinhoff: Broken furniture
Retail property: Vacant spaces
Corporate tax in America: Let the games begin
Business and politics: Adéu to Catalonia
America’s box office: Blockbusted
Retailing: The brand played on
Schumpeter: The Santa clause
The American economy: The weight of expectations
Buttonwood: Swanning about
Energy disruptions in Europe: The cracking forties
The World Trade Organisation: The art of the impossible
Futures contracts in bitcoin: Blooming futures?
Investing in collectables: The passion index
China’s economists: Profits forecast
Bank capital: Arriving hopefully
Free exchange: A lost decade
Miniature robotics: Bot flies
Geology and tourism: Pillars of salt
First contact?: Greetings, Earthlings
How fish sustain forests: Size really matters
Air travel: When push comes to shove
Economics: Capital in the 21st century
The history of New York: Bigger and bigger
Fishing: The bounty below
American prisons: Lockup nation
Johnson: The conversation machine
Johnny Hallyday: A star for all seasons
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Trade, exchange rates, budget balances and interest rates
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