The Economist - USA (2019-11-02)

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62 BriefingSaudi Aramco The EconomistNovember 2nd 2019 2 1 mate change hit oil consumption. “If this ipowas 15 years ago, it wou ...

The EconomistNovember 2nd 2019 BriefingSaudi Aramco 63 2 listing—to raise money to diversify the economy—remains as urgent as ev ...

64 TheEconomistNovember 2nd 2019 1 S hortly after9am the neighbourhood care centre for the elderly shuffles to life. One man bel ...

The EconomistNovember 2nd 2019 Finance & economics 65 2 1 sion payouts to retired people overtook contributions by workers i ...

66 Finance & economics The EconomistNovember 2nd 2019 2 1 allocatedtoAmericaproduceonly$527m inannualprofit. Thebank’smanage ...

The EconomistNovember 2nd 2019 Finance & economics 67 2 Buttonwood VC after SoftBank D ealmakers aresmooth talkers. They nee ...

68 Finance & economics The EconomistNovember 2nd 2019 O n september 17th, for the first time in a decade, the Federal Reserv ...

The EconomistNovember 2nd 2019 Finance & economics 69 W hen communismfell, that was supposed to be that. History would conti ...

Imagine a nurse who blames herself for losing a patient. She questions her own self-worth and abuses painkillers to numb the con ...

TheEconomistNovember 2nd 2019 71 1 N orthern botswana is a land of strange contrast. Drive west from Fran- cistown, the country’ ...

72 Science & technology The EconomistNovember 2nd 2019 2 1 unleashed on the wider world. Mitogenomic ancestral trees are mad ...

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TheEconomistNovember 2nd 2019 75 1 A new trendswept through East Ger- many’s underground art scene in the 1980s: window blinds. ...

76 Books & arts The EconomistNovember 2nd 2019 2 1 adjust to the West’s competitive, individ- ualistic art market. “They tho ...

The EconomistNovember 2nd 2019 Books & arts 77 2 1 were controlled by the Catholic church or the aristocracy. The paintings ...

78 Books & arts The EconomistNovember 2nd 2019 2 Johnson Don’t fear the Writernator Computer-generated writing will never re ...

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80 The EconomistNovember 2nd 2019 Economic data Gross domestic product Consumer prices Unemployment Current-account Budget Inter ...