The Economist - USA (2020-08-08)

TheEconomistAugust 8th 2020 41 1 T he independencemarches which oc- casionally wind through grey Scottish cities are colourful a ...

42 Britain TheEconomistAugust 8th 2020 2 N icolasturgeonrecoilsfromthe suggestionthatcoronaviruscouldbe politicallyadvantageous. ...

The EconomistAugust 8th 2020 Britain 43 W alter bagehot, a Victorian editor of The Economist, cele- brated the House of Lords as ...

44 TheEconomistAugust 8th 2020 1 P ropped up byhis Union flag pillows, Tom Daley was at last ready to unburden himself. As the c ...

The EconomistAugust 8th 2020 International 45 2 1 geles (ucla), found that whereas inter- viewees in their 50s had tended to rev ...

ity.Repressionispopular.In 2019 only14% ofKenyansbelievedhomosexualityisac- ceptable,comparedwith72%ofAmericans and 86% of Brito ...

TheEconomistAugust 8th 2020 47 1 B ob chapek, Disney’s boss, sounded a cheerful note as he announced the en- tertainment giant’s ...

48 Business The EconomistAugust 8th 2020 2 1 chronised cyclical recovery from the co- vid-19 crash has started”, with manufactur ...

The EconomistAugust 8th 2020 Business 49 2 trant’s share price. Thereafter, one theory goes, increased common ownership of compa ...

50 Business The EconomistAugust 8th 2020 1 S ince theMiddle Ages, when the Hanse- atic League of merchant guilds domin- ated tra ...

TheEconomistAugust 8th 2020 Business 51 2 Bartleby Called to account N othing is more likely to sabotage a brand’s reputation th ...

52 Business The EconomistAugust 8th 2020 L ife on theroad has become a lot tougher since the 1980s, when Schumpeter spent a year ...

TheEconomistAugust 8th 2020 53 1 D onald turner, America’s top trust- buster in the mid-1960s, saw antitrust law as benefiting f ...

54 Economics brief The EconomistAugust 8th 2020 2 published paper by David Autor and John Van Reenen of mit, David Dorn of the U ...

TheEconomistAugust 8th 2020 55 1 S lowly butsurely the economic costs of the covid-19 pandemic are becoming clear. On July 30th ...

56 Finance & economics TheEconomistAugust 8th 2020 2 1 morerealisticestimateofglobalsupplyby theendofnextyearatnearer2bn. As ...

The EconomistAugust 8th 2020 Finance & economics 57 2 1 tition, not stifled it. As recently as a decade ago banking in China ...

58 Finance & economics The EconomistAugust 8th 2020 2 returnontangibleequityaveraged6%at thestartoftheyear,halfthatoftheirAm ...

TheEconomistAugust 8th 2020 Finance & economics 59 M ostpeople, whenpresentedwithbad news,tendtoplayitdown.Evenpro- fessiona ...

60 Finance & economics The EconomistAugust 8th 2020 I t has beenan ugly summer for America and the dollar. The greenback fel ...