The Economist February 10th 2024
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The world this week Britain
5 A summary of political 17 Drugs deaths
and business news 18 Monarchs and mortality
Leaders 19 Britain’s economy
7 Killer drones 19 Reform uk’s chance
Kalashnikovs in the sky 20 The Holocaust memorial
8 China’s economic woes 22 Iran and Britain
Who’s in control? 23 Bagehot Harold Wilson
9 America’s Congress
The arsenal of hypocrisy Europe
9 Governing Poland 24 The spd’s death spiral
How to escape capture 25 Madrid’s moment
10 Indonesia’s election 26 Silencing Putin’s critics
On the cover Jokowi’s inglorious exit
27 Poland after pis
Drones pioneered in Ukraine
are the weapons of the future: Letters 28 Charlemagne The solar
leader, page 7. They offer boom
12 On China and Taiwan,
precision warfare at scale and royalty, artificial
could one day become as intelligence, activist United States
dominant as artillery, page 70 investors, retirement 29 Reading the polls
30 The Congress omnimess
Can Xi win back the markets? Briefing
Why investors are losing faith in 31 Citizen Trump
14 Chinese investors
China’s president: leader, page 8. 31 Reducing child poverty
Dissipating dreams
The country’s stockmarket 32 Abortion in Florida
nightmare is not over, page 63. 34 State ags go rogue
Markets are pummelling the
well-to-do: briefing, page 14. Can 35 Lexington Not about
China’s consumers save the day? Taylor Swift
Page 51
The Americas
How Britain lost its war on 36 The “world’s coolest
drugs Why deaths have risen dictator”
every year since 2012, page 17 37 Corruption in Mexico
38 A pre-election bonanza
Trump’s lead: smaller than it
looks What the national polls do
not tell you, page 29
Our two cents on Taylor Swift Middle East & Africa
Hysteria reflects the overlap 39 Blinken’s diplomacy
of politics, conspiracy and 40 Why Iran is hard to deter
celebrity: Back Story, page 78.
The meltdown: Lexington, 41 Obstructive Israeli settlers
page 35 42 An African housing crisis
44 Senegal’s dying democracy
Schumpeter Guess who
has won the real-life
contest between Musk
and Zuckerberg, page 61
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Asia Science & technology
45 Indonesia’s election 70 Deadly new drones
46 South Korean creatives 72 Monitoring aerosols
47 Japan’s opposition 73 Tackling endometriosis
48 Australia and immigration 74 Ancient scrolls
48 India’s rule of law 74 Baby AI
50 Banyan Singapore and
China
Culture
China 75 History in a hurry
51 Saving the economy 76 The culture of cuteness
52 Workers and protests 77 Labour turns 100
53 A murky espionage case 78 Back Story The Swift
conspiracies
54 Chaguan Xi Jinping’s
chaos-loving friends 79 Chinese cartoons
Economic & financial indicators
Business 81 Statistics on 42 economies
55 America’s worried bosses
56 Samsung’s scion acquitted Obituary
57 A new sports-streamer 82 Rosemary Smith, first queen of rallying
58 Can Italy Inc grow again?
59 Bartleby Fairness at work
60 Putin’s Tsargpt
61 Schumpeter Musk v Zuck,
round two
Finance & economics
63 China’s dismal markets
65 Buttonwood Dividends
66 nycb’s troubles
67 Trump and banks
68 Indonesia’s economy
69 Free exchange Useless
ideas from universities
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