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The EconomistOctober 12th 2019 5

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Contents

The world this week

8 A summary of political

andbusinessnews

Leaders

13 The world economy

Strange new rules

14 The Middle East

The man without a plan

14 Autonomous cars

Traffic, jammed

16 India’s economy

A bigstinkonthebrink

18 Pilferingpotentates

Ill-gottenloot

Letters

20 Onourclimate-change

issue

Briefing

24 Ukraineand

impeachment

Thebackstory

Specialreport:

Theworldeconomy

Theendofinflation?

Afterpage 48

United States

27 Congress v POTUS

28 Offending China

30 Chicago’s red line

32 The meaning of sex

34 Atlantic City

36 Lexington Republicans

andimpeachment

The Americas

37 Canada’s election

38 BelloThe end of Peruvian

exceptionalism

39 Ecuador’s state of

emergency

Asia

41 Privilege in South Korea

42 Refugees in New Zealand

42 Thai teenage pregnancy

43 Singapore and Hong Kong

44 BanyanViolence against

women

China

46 Domestic violence

47 Emergency powers in

Hong Kong

48 ChaguanLessons from

Tiananmen Square

Middle East & Africa

49 Turkey’s push into Syria

50 Protests in Iraq

51 Elections in Mozambique

51 Money to burn in Kenya

52 Africa’s money-launderers

BagehotThe sad fate of

the ideology that has

animated the Conservative

Party since the 1980s,

page 59

On the cover

The way that economies work
has changed radically. So must
economic policy: leader,
page 13. Inflation is losing its
meaning as an economic
indicator, says Henry Curr.
See our special report, after
page 48. What to make of the
strife at the European Central
Bank:Freeexchange,page 79

• Trump and Ukraine—the
  backstoryThe telephone call
  that led Congress to investigate
  Donald Trump was the latest
  link in a long, sad and sordid
  chain: briefing,page 24.
  Assessing Congress’s options for
  dealing with an unco-operative
  White House, page 27.
  Institutional conservatives
  would condemn the president;
  Republicans probably will not:
  Lexington, page 36


• India’s tottering banks
  Arotten financial system could
  ruin the country ’s economic
  prospects: leader, page 16.
  Banks’ share prices are being
  hammered. Investors worry
  about what horror will be
  revealed next, page 73


• Where are all the self-driving
  cars?The arrival of autonomous
  vehicles is running late. Blame
  Silicon Valley hype—and the
  limits of AI: leader,page 14.The
  path to driverless vehicles is long
  and winding. China is taking an
  alternative route to the West’s,
  page 65


• Fake moos: the rise of
  plant-based meatThe potential
  for a radically different food
  chain,page 61