The Economist - USA (2019-11-30)

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Contents

The world this week

10 A summary of political

andbusinessnews

Leaders

13 Egalitarianism

Inequality illusions

14 Democracy and the web

Policing propaganda

15 Hong Kong

A clarion call

15 The twilight of the WTO

Theumpireexpires

16 Climateandenergy

A bidforbetterbatteries

Letters

18 Ondiversity,PalmBeach,

America’sarmy,AI

writers,Emmanuel

Macron

Briefing

21 Inequality

Measuringthe1%

23 Wealthinequalityin

Sweden

Intherichman’sworld

United States

25 Mr Trump and his generals

26 Michael Bloomberg’s run

27 Sanctions galore

29 Big tech and political ads

29 Black Friday dreams

30 LexingtonImpeachment

endgames

The Americas

31 Fighting corruption

32 Cuba and the dollar

33 BelloThe street and the

politicians

Asia

34 South Korea’s evangelicals

35 Farming tigers

36 Citizenship in Malaysia

36 A power struggle in India

38 Japan’s recluses

China

39 Elections in Hong Kong

40 Antarctic ambitions

41 ChaguanForgotten

industrial heroes

Middle East & Africa

42 Darfur’s peace prospects

43 Fight club in Ghana

44 Likud reconsiders Bibi

44 Repression in Egypt

45 Yemen’s food fight

ButtonwoodDo not write

off the macro hedge-fund

manager just yet, page 66

On the cover

Inequality could be lower than
you think. But there is still
plenty to do to make
economies fairer: leader,
page 13. As inequality rises
further up the political agenda,
some economists are
rethinking the numbers:
briefing, page 21. What would
millennial socialists do with
power?Page 72

• Brassed off with Donald
  TrumpAmerica’s president falls
  out with the military
  establishment he once wooed,
  page 25


• China’s forgotten migrant
  workersThe people who made
  this country an industrial giant
  face a bleak retirement:
  Chaguan,page 41


• Pushing the limits of luxury
  Europe’s richest man tests the
  limits of the conglomerate
  model,page 57


• Alibaba’s Amazon envy
  The thinking behind its Hong
  Kong listing: Schumpeter,
  page 62