The Economist USA 03.21.2020

The EconomistMarch 21st 2020 3

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Contents

The world this week

7 A summary of political

andbusinessnews

Leaders

9 The pandemic

Closed

10 The world economy

Fighting the slump

11 Free speech

Stop deporting reporters

11 Guyana

Petro power struggle

12 Professional sports

Thecostofcancelling

Letters

14 On coronavirus and

business, central banks,

HongKong,data

Briefing

15 The pandemic

The lockdown and the

long haul

19 The economic

emergency

Experimental treatment

United States

23 America’s covid-

24 The census

25 Joe Biden’s electoral

distancing

26 Gay rural Americans

27 Fake scrolls

28 LexingtonDeclinism

rampant

The Americas

29 Coca and refugees in

Colombia

30 BelloVenezuela’s

political quarantine

32 Canada and lichen

Asia

33 Covid-19 in India

34 Banyan The Pacific

self-isolates

35 Recession in Australia

36 Jihad in the Maldives

36 MakingwagyuJapanese

China

37 Sino-American rivalry

38 Worries about imported

infections

39 ChaguanSuffering teens

Middle East & Africa

41 Ethiopia’s hidden war

42 HIV and the disabled

43 Crocodile-hunting in

Congo

43 Prayer in a pandemic

44 Bibi and the virus

Free exchange

Economies can quickly

recover from huge

slumps in GDP—but not

always, page 65

On the cover

The struggle to save lives and
the economy is likely to
present agonising choices:
leader, page 9. Europe’s
lockdown, page 15.
Governments and central
banks are spending, page 19.
Business grinds to a halt,
page 55. The dash to cash,
page 61. The Fed acts, page 63.
The virus and schools, page 53.
Italy in peril, page 45.
American life transformed,
page 23. Covid-19 is exposing
America’s resilience as well as
its vulnerability: Lexington,
page 28. The grim prospects
for India,page 33. The virus
and Britain’s big state, page 50.
History is a valuable resource
in dark times: Bagehot, page 52.
How virus-testing works,
page 66

• US-China relations in crisis
  Amid the pandemic, Sino-
  American relations are rapidly
  worsening: leader, page 11and
  analysis, page 37


• Ethiopia’s hidden war
  A military crackdown threatens
  the country ’s fragile transition to
  democracy, page 41

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