The Economist - USA (2019-07-13)

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Contents

The world this week

8 A round-up of political

andbusinessnews

Leaders

13 America’s economy

Riding high

14 Citizenship in India

Show me your papers

14 Italy’s public finances

Ambition, please

16 Investment banking

A nightmareonWall

Street

17 Diplomaticleakage

Woodygate

Letters

18 Onbanks,GPs,othering,

HongKong,thepromotion

curse,Greenland,sausages

Briefing

21 Theworldeconomy

A strangelyelastic

expansion

Specialreport:Global

supplychains

A slowunravelling

Afterpage 42

United States

25 Nuclear diplomacy

26 Jeffrey Epstein

27 Cannabis use

28 Using facial recognition

28 Police training

30 LexingtonRossPerot

The Americas

31 Mexico’s finance minister

32 Venezuela’s stalemate

33 BelloJoão Gilberto

Asia

35 India’s hunt for

“foreigners”

36 Afghan peace talks

37 Migration in Myanmar

38 Bears v humans in Japan

China

39 A second Silicon Valley

42 ChaguanChinese

students in America

Middle East & Africa

43 Killings in Congo

44 Discontent in Eritrea

45 Syria’s oil crisis

46 Race relations in Israel

46 Anti-cementism in Beirut

BartlebyThe extravagant

language used in job

adverts, page 62

On the cover

America’s economic expansion
is now the longest on record.
What could bring it to an end?
Leader,page 13. The factors
that cause recessions are
strangely absent. For the time
being: briefing, page 21. Supply
chains are undergoing their
most dramatic transformation
in decades. See our special
report,afterpage 42

• The most dangerous man
  in EuropeMatteo Salvini could
  wreck the euro, page 47. How
  to defuse the threat: leader,
  page 14


• China’s Silicon ValleyIt is
  transforming the country, but not
  yet the world,page 39


• The IMF and the changing of
  LagardeA coronation for the
  organisation’s next boss will not
  prevent a fight over its future,
  page 67


• Scoop!! Leaks from a US
  ambassadorBritain’s man in
  Washington has resigned over
  cables that surprised no one. We
  have been passed the dispatches
  to President Donald Trump from
  Woody Johnson, America’s
  ambassador in London,page 17