The Economist USA - 26.10.2019

The EconomistOctober 26th 2019 Europe 49 A fter dyingin his bed in 1975 General Francisco Franco, Spain’s dictator for 36 years, ...

50 Europe The EconomistOctober 26th 2019 W alter bagehot wrote that a constitution needed both “dignified” (ceremonial and rever ...

The EconomistOctober 26th 2019 51 1 A nother week, another missed Brexit deadline. Yet Boris Johnson came tan- talisingly close. ...

52 Britain The EconomistOctober 26th 2019 2 says, this means that the eu, nervous of be- ing undercut, will offer Britain only a ...

The EconomistOctober 26th 2019 Britain 53 B efore thereferendum in 2016 European Union flags were as rare as golden eagles in Br ...

54 The EconomistOctober 26th 2019 1 A s the sunsets over Nazareth, a village on the banks of the Amazon river in the Colombian r ...

The EconomistOctober 26th 2019 International 55 2 boldened by Brazil’s far-right president, Jair Bolsonaro. His government has s ...

56 The EconomistOctober 26th 2019 1 “F ather lennon, have you some mon- ey? Buy Standard Oil.” That’s what John D. Rockefeller i ...

The EconomistOctober 26th 2019 Business 57 2 1 stagram. In June Bloomberg Intelligence reckoned that Instagram would fetch $100b ...

58 Business The EconomistOctober 26th 2019 2 line-of-business prohibition seems a rela- tively easy sell politically. The most l ...

The EconomistOctober 26th 2019 Business 59 Warning signs Sources: Goldman Sachs Global Investment Research; Conference Board Uni ...

60 Business The EconomistOctober 26th 2019 T he thick, humid air of Cancún caused many attending this year’s Mexico Business Sum ...

The EconomistOctober 26th 2019 Business 61 M argaret thatcher, a grocer’s daughter from Grantham, knew a thing or two about sell ...

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The EconomistOctober 26th 2019 63 1 W ells fargo has reinvented itself be- fore. In a vault beneath the bank’s headquarters in S ...

64 Finance & economics The EconomistOctober 26th 2019 2 1 such as Denver in Colorado. It has become a “tech giant”, says Bet ...

The EconomistOctober 26th 2019 Finance & economics 65 2 1 more than half a billion internet users, have been unenthusiastic ...

66 Finance & economics The EconomistOctober 26th 2019 2 Buttonwood Away from the crowd People-pleaser Source: Datastream fro ...

The EconomistOctober 26th 2019 Finance & economics 67 1 E very dayof the week thousands of visi- tors flow through Istanbul’ ...

68 Finance & economics The EconomistOctober 26th 2019 2 And they are safe. Annual default rates on letters of credit average ...