The Economist - USA (2020-04-04)

The EconomistApril 4th 2020 3

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Contents

The world this week

5 A summary of political

andbusinessnews

Leaders

7 Covid-

A grim calculus

8 Corporate bail-outs

Bottomless Pit, Inc

9 The technology industry

Don’t waste a good crisis

9 Mozambique

Gas,gunsandguerrillas

10 Oilandgeopolitics

TheRosneftriddle

Letters

12 Oncovid-19,Bolivia,

sports,rivers,lichen

Briefing

13 Pandemictrade-offs

Hardchoices

17 Medicalethical

dilemmas

Triageundertrial

United States

18 Uniting the states

19 Movement Republicans

20 Peak unemployment

20 A mess in Wisconsin

21 Joe Biden

22 The marines go back to sea

23 LexingtonRonDeSantis

The Americas

24 Nicolás Maduro indicted

25 Cuban doctors abroad

26 BelloLeadership in

pandemic times

Asia

27 The vast rush home

28 Magic in Myanmar

29 Thailand’s economy

29 South Korea and America

30 Indonesians ditch dating

31 BanyanJapan and

covid-

China

32 The gig economy

34 ChaguanThe China test

Middle East & Africa

35 Mayhem in Mozambique

36 Chocolate in Congo

37 Stay home or be whipped

37 Saudi Arabia’s lost year

38 Israel’s ultra-Orthodox

and the virus

CharlemagneHow

Hungary’s leader gets

away with it, page 43

On the cover

Covid-19 presents stark
choices between life, death
and the economy. They will
probably get harder: leader,
page 7. The models that inform
difficult decisions, page 13.
When the concept of
trade-offs becomes all too
real, page 17. How will a
decentralised country like
America fight covid-19? Page 18.
The right and wrong uses of an
anti-bodytest,page 64

• The best way to do bail-outs
  Rescues will be inevitable—and
  toxic. They must be designed to
  limit taxpayers’ losses and
  preserve dynamism: leader,
  page 8 and analysis, page 50


• Exit unicorns, pursued by
  bearsThe pandemic rams home
  what markets already felt:
  technology unicorns are headed
  for a fall. The consequences will
  notallbebad:briefing,page 55

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• Mayhem in Mozambique
  The government’s response to a
  jihadist revolt is cruel and
  ineffective: leader,page 9. A little
  known and poorly understood
  conflict is intensifying, page 35