The Economist - USA (2019-11-02)

The EconomistNovember 2nd 2019 5

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Contents

The world this week

8 A summary of political

andbusinessnews

Leaders

11 Saudi Aramco

To the last drop

12 British politics

The Brexit election

13 Latin America

Schadenfreude

13 The money markets

Dotherightthing

14 Managementeducation

TheMBA,disrupted

Letters

18 Onmoney-laundering,

hepatitis,economics,

Scotland,songchoruses

Briefing

19 Corbyn’sLabourParty

DowningStreetcalling

United States

23 America’s economy

24 Southern Democrats

26 Voting in Mississippi

26 The Justice Department

28 A vote on genocide

29 LexingtonPresidents

andbaseball

The Americas

30 The election in Argentina

31 The unrest in Chile

32 BelloVenezuela’s threat

to Colombia

Asia

33 Indonesia’s army

34 Bangladesh’s universities

35 Fighting groping in Japan

35 Central Asia’s borders

36 BanyanA boost for

Australia’sbelievers

China

37 Gentler, cheaper justice

38 Gathering laureates

39 ChaguanXi’s big

contradiction

Middle East & Africa

40 Islamic State after Abu

Bakr al-Baghdadi

41 Lebanon’s crisis

42 A bloody mess in Iraq

42 Africa’s narco-state

43 Ethnic killing in Ethiopia

BartlebyResearch

suggests that happy

employees are good for

companies and investors,

page 58

On the cover

The message from the world’s
biggest and wildest IPO is that
the oil industry may decline,
but it won’t go quietly: leader,
page 11. Aramco is both big
oil’s unrivalled giant and a
company vexed by challenges:
briefing,page 61

• Here comes the Brexit
  election But Britain’s
  unpredictable vote will be about
  a lot more than its relationship
  with Europe: leader, page 12.
  Labour is trying to woo British
  voters with a radical, left-wing
  agenda: briefing, page 19.
  Tacking to the centre will do the
  parties little good, page 49. The
  four faces of Boris Johnson:
  Bagehot, page 52


• German reunification at 30
  What did the fall of the Berlin
  Wall mean to Germans? Page 44.
  Central and eastern Europeans
  are mostly happy with their
  progress since 1989, page 47


• How to save the MBAA letter
  of warning to a business dean:
  leader,page 14. American
  business schools are reinventing
  the MBA. About time, page 55


• The Old-People’s Republic of
  China Demography may be the
  Chinese economy ’s biggest
  hurdle,page 64