2023-02-02-Economist Graphs
1. The world this week
1.1 Politics
1.2 Business
1.3 KAL’s cartoon
1.4 This week’s cover
2. Leaders
2.1 Joe Biden’s effort to remake the economy is ambitious, risky—and selfish
2.2 Nagging questions over the Adani empire won’t go away
2.3 The Bank of Japan should stop defending its cap on bond yields
2.4 Why the West’s oil sanctions on Russia are proving to be underwhelming
2.5 Peru needs an early election and outside support, not interference
3. Letters
3.1 Letters to the editor
4. By Invitation
4.1 Ukraine should—and, properly supported, can—seize Crimea, argues Ben Hodges
4.2 Talks between Russia and Ukraine would save lives, argues Christopher Chivvis
5. Briefing
5.1 America’s government is spending lavishly to revive manufacturing
6. Britain
6.1 For Britain to grow faster it needs better managers
6.2 The BBC World Service shuts several foreign-language radio services
6.3 The BBC assesses its coverage of the dismal science
6.4 The murder of a king makes for a most jolly day out
6.5 Where should trans prisoners serve their sentences?
6.6 Britain’s newest islets are made of wet wipes
6.7 Meet Ms Heeves, the face of Britain’s new political consensus
7. Europe
7.1 Ukraine’s troops in the east are quietly confident
7.2 Georgia is drifting into the Kremlin’s orbit
7.3 A campaign to “de-Russify” Ukraine is under way
7.4 A burnt Koran holds back Sweden and Finland from joining NATO
7.5 Pragmatism paints a paler shade of Green
7.6 At last, populism in Europe is losing its mojo
8. United States
8.1 America needs a new environmentalism
8.2 Why holding bad police officers to account is so difficult
8.3 The sport of ice fishing is being transformed by technology
8.4 Why it was so easy for crooks to steal money meant for pandemic relief
8.5 Medication for opioid addiction is getting easier to access
8.6 Republicans are right that federal budgeting is a joke
9. Middle East & Africa
9.1 Nigeria’s presidential race goes down to the wire
9.2 Can Kenya bring peace to eastern Congo?
9.3 South Africa’s blackouts hurt the economy in unexpected ways
9.4 Lebanon’s judges battle over their probe of Beirut’s port blast
9.5 Israel’s government is facing anger from new and unexpected quarters
9.6 France dumps Morocco in favour of Algeria
10. The Americas
10.1 Political turmoil is tearing Peru apart
10.2 The United States says corruption in Paraguay starts at the top
11. Asia
11.1 America’s hoped-for Asian semiconductor pact looks tricky
11.2 South Korea still refuses to send arms to Ukraine
11.3 Shah Rukh Khan faces down India’s Hindu right
11.4 China’s put-upon maritime neighbours are pushing back
11.5 Myanmar’s civil war has moved to its heartlands
12. China
12.1 A new challenge to relations between America and China
12.2 Will we ever know how many people died of covid-19 in China?
12.3 A geopolitical setback for China in the Pacific
12.4 Why Vladimir Putin is not a pariah in China
13. Business
13.1 What next for Gautam Adani’s embattled empire?
13.2 Hindenburg Research, attacker of the Adani empire
13.3 The race of the AI labs heats up
13.4 The relationship between AI and humans
13.5 Things are looking up for Meta
13.6 An alliance between Renault and Nissan gets a reboot
13.7 China’s BYD is overtaking Tesla as the carmaker extraordinaire
14. Finance & economics
14.1 How Russia dodges oil sanctions on an industrial scale
14.2 Is there a fix for Japan’s markets mess?
14.3 The last gasp of the meme-stock era
14.4 China is paralysing global debt-forgiveness efforts
14.5 Rallying markets suffer from a doveish illusion
14.6 Super-tight policy is still struggling to control inflation
14.7 The AI boom: lessons from history
15. Science & technology
15.1 The touchy-feely world of the metaverse and future gadgets
15.2 People of different opinions process political data differently
15.3 Birds are just as fashion-conscious as people
15.4 Researchers find a way to make VR headsets more realistic
16. Culture
16.1 Martin Wolf’s new book analyses the West’s malaise
16.2 Explaining Chinese amnesia over the Cultural Revolution
16.3 Released 50 years ago, “Soylent Green” is an eerie prophecy
16.4 As Europeans went west, indigenous people travelled the other way
16.5 Look closely at Peter Doig’s paintings. Then look again
16.6 Some well-known etymologies are too good to be true
17. Economic & financial indicators
17.1 Economic data, commodities and markets
