The Economist - USA (2022-05-14)

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The Economist May 14th 2022 7
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On the cover


The world this week
10 A summary of political
and business news

Leaders
13 India
The next decade
14 Financial markets
Grisly reality
14 Surveillance at work
Professional panopticon
15 Sri Lanka’s crisis
Gota go
16 Genetic screening
Rules, please

Letters
17 On central banks and
inflation, China, Ronald
Fisher, ketamine, granny
flats, email sign­offs

Briefing
18 India’s economy
A new formula

United States
21 Primary battles in
Georgia
22 Forced assimilation
23 Saving mountain lions
23 Educating the
undocumented
26 Wrongful convictions
27 California’s cannabis
28 Lexington Mark Esper’s
memoir

The Americas
29 The evangelical vote
30 Brazilian gangs
32 Bello Political violence

Asia
33 India’s Hindu state
35 Sri Lanka’s crisis
35 Australian elections
36 Covid­19 in North Korea
37 BanyanDealing with
Afghanistan
38 Okinawa and Japan

China
39 Hong Kong’s
bureaucracy
40 Shanghai tightens up
41 Water problems
41 Covid­19 and the homeless
42 Chaguan A self­repressing
society

Middle East & Africa
43 Zimbabwe’s slumping
dollar
44 Inflation­proof heifers
44 Jump­starting Zambia
45 A Palestinian journalist’s
death
46 Algeria beards Morocco

The Indian economy is being
rewired. The opportunity is
immense—and so are the
stakes: leader,page 13.Will
India’s formula for growth be
sustained? Briefing,page 18.
Narendra Modi and his party
are making a Hindu state,
page 33.Can India power the
global economy? Free
exchange,page 72


What markets fear Behind 
the plunge in America’s
stockmarkets: leader, page 14.
Tech bubbles are bursting, 
page 59.Inflation is starting to
look entrenched, page 68.Which
property markets are most
exposed to the interest­rate
storm? Page 65


How bosses snoop on workers
Some rules for watching
desk­jockeys: leader, page 14.
Welcome to the era of the
hyper­surveilled office, page 62


Sri Lanka in flames The country
is on the brink of collapse. The
president must resign: leader,
page 15,and analysis, page 35


Rock music’s world capital
A town in the Amish country of
Pennsylvania is rock’n’roll’s
unlikely nerve­centre,page 77


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SchumpeterActivist
investors are becoming
tamer. They must not
become extinct, page 64

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