2019-08-03_The_Economist

The EconomistAugust 3rd 2019 3

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Contents

The world this week

5 A summary of political

andbusinessnews

Leaders

7 The future of the Amazon

Deathwatch

8 The Federal Reserve and

emerging markets

An opportunity

8 Baltimore

Saving Charm City

9 Digitalpayments

Thedashfromcash

10 Congo

Ifitbleeds,payheed

Letters

12 Oninsurance,Tommy

Flowers,Colombia,the

future,flatmates

Briefing

14 TheAmazon

Onthebrink

United States

17 Baltimore’s murder rate

19 Donald Trump’s

intelligence chief

19 The last man of Mount

Rushmore

20 Puerto Rico’s political

crisis

22 LexingtonThe mighty

Dolphins

The Americas

23 The humbling of

Honduras’s strongman

24 Uber in Vancouver

26 Early elections in Peru?

26 Art that moves

Asia

27 Politics in Singapore

28 Aboriginal rights in

Australia

29 Japan’s disabled MPs

29 Smoking in Indonesia

30 BanyanA federal

Philippines

China

31 Jobless graduates

32 Hong Kong’s protests

34 ChaguanThe semiotics

of meeting rooms

Middle East & Africa

35 The challenge of Congo

40 Tyranny in Tanzania

40 An exodus from Gaza

41 The death of Beji Caid

CharlemagneEurope is Essebsi

edging towards the

post-car city, page 46

On the cover

Brazil has the power to save
Earth’s greatest rainforest—or
destroy it: leader, page 7.
The Amazon is approaching
the point of its irreversible
destruction:briefing,page 14

• The Fed makes its move
  America’s central bank cuts
  rates for the first time in over a
  decade,page 57. Lower rates
  may help emerging markets
  more than anyone: leader,
  page 8. Emerging-market
  dreams of rich-world incomes
  meet reality: Free exchange,
  page 62


• Congo: fighting Ebola in a war
  zoneDisease is not the only
  enemy in Congo: leader,page 10.
  How do you reform a country
  where gunmen torch clinics?
  Page 35


• Foodoo economics—meals on
  wheelsDelivering food is
  anything but a tasty business:
  Schumpeter,page 56


• Big armchairs and Chinese
  diplomacyWhy is China so fond
  of meetings in over-stuffed
  furniture? Chaguan,page 34