The Economist USA - 29.02.2020

FEBRUARY 29TH–MARCH 6TH 2020 Covid-19 goes global Meet the EU’s trade bruiser Woking nine to five Digital twin of the heart Amer ...

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The EconomistFebruary 29th 2020 3 1 Contents continues overleaf Contents The world this week 5 A summary of political and busine ...

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The EconomistFebruary 29th 2020 5 The world this week Politics The whosaid that most new cases of covid-19, a novel type of coro ...

6 The EconomistFebruary 29th 2020 The world this week Business Global marketshad a turbu- lent week amid heightened concern abou ...

Leaders 7 S ometimes peoplewake from a bad dream only to discover that they are still asleep and that the nightmare goes on. Thi ...

8 Leaders The EconomistFebruary 29th 2020 I n public health, honesty is worth a lot more than hope. It has become clear in the p ...

The EconomistFebruary 29th 2020 Leaders 9 1 A fghanistan hasbeen at war for more than 40 years—lon- ger than most of the world’s ...

10 Leaders The EconomistFebruary 29th 2020 2 crats. In 2017, for example, they piled into newly issued 100-year Argentine sovere ...

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12 The EconomistFebruary 29th 2020 Letters are welcome and should be addressed to the Editor at The Economist, The Adelphi Build ...

The EconomistFebruary 29th 2020 13 1 I n the early scenes of Michelangelo Ant- onioni’s “The Eclipse”, eerily empty Ital- ian st ...

14 BriefingCovid-19 The EconomistFebruary 29th 2020 2 1 chains wind through it. The spread of the disease to South Korea, Iran a ...

The EconomistFebruary 29th 2020 BriefingCovid-19 15 2 1 many died and test a large random sample for antibodies against the path ...

16 BriefingCovid-19 The EconomistFebruary 29th 2020 2 even mass protests in another. There will also be scapegoating and fear. I ...

The EconomistFebruary 29th 2020 17 1 A mbitious, exhilaratedand a little nervous, a freshly elected Democratic congressman was b ...

18 United States The EconomistFebruary 29th 2020 2 1 Promises are expensive. Our account- ing shows Mr Sanders proposing $52trn ...

The EconomistFebruary 29th 2020 United States 19 2 would put up enough cash to counteract this onslaught of digital and televisi ...