The Economist UK - 03.08.2019

The EconomistAugust 3rd 2019 3

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Contents

The world this week

5 A summary of political

and business news

Leaders

7 The future of the Amazon

Deathwatch

8 The Federal Reserve and

emerging markets

An opportunity

8 Baltimore

Saving Charm City

9 Digital payments

The dash from cash

10 Congo

If it bleeds, pay heed

Letters

12 On insurance, Tommy

Flowers, Colombia, the

future, flatmates

Briefing

14 The Amazon

On the brink

Britain

17 Boris’s game of chicken

18 No-deal’s threat to

Northern Ireland

19 Bed-blocking in decline

19 The Brexiteers’ favourite

economist

20 The world’s shortest flight

21 Private prisons

22 BagehotThe Tory

revolutionaries

Europe

23 Russian subversion in the

Baltics

24 Greece’s tricky budget

26 The rise of rosé

26 The Kaiser’s property

27 Fire in the Arctic

28 CharlemagneCarless

cities

United States

29 Baltimore’s murder rate

31 Donald Trump’s

intelligence chief

31 The last man of Mount

Rushmore

32 Puerto Rico’s political

crisis

33 LexingtonThe mighty

Dolphins

The Americas

36 The humbling of

Honduras’s strongman

37 Uber in Vancouver

38 Early elections in Peru?

38 Art that moves

Middle East & Africa

39 The challenge of Congo

42 Tyranny in Tanzania

42 An exodus from Gaza

43 The death of Beji Caid

Essebsi

CharlemagneEurope is

edging towards the

post-car city, page 28

On the cover

Brazil has the power to save
Earth’s greatest rainforest—or
destroy it: leader, page 7.
The Amazon is approaching
the point of its irreversible
destruction: briefing,page 14

• The Fed makes its move
  America’s central bank cuts
  rates for the first time in over a
  decade,page 58. Lower rates
  may help emerging markets
  more than anyone: leader,
  page 8. Emerging-market
  dreams of rich-world incomes
  meet reality: Free exchange,
  page 63


• Congo: fighting Ebola in a war
  zoneDisease is not the only
  enemy in Congo: leader,page 10.
  How do you reform a country
  where gunmen torch clinics?
  Page 39


• Foodoo economics—meals on
  wheelsDelivering food is
  anything but a tasty business:
  Schumpeter,page 57


• Big armchairs and Chinese
  diplomacyWhy is China so fond
  of meetings in over-stuffed
  furniture? Chaguan,page 50