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6 Contents The EconomistNovember 7th 2020

Volume 437 Number 9219

Europe

45 Russia’s armed forces

46 Terrorism in Europe

47 Stalemate in Belarus

48 Happy Galicia

48 Sweden’s booze rules

49 CharlemagneBaldrick’s

Europe

Britain

50 Nigel Farage is back

51 Remembrance Day

52 BagehotLabour’s Captain

Foresight

International

53 Global hipsters

Business

55 USA Inc’s recovery

56 Xiaomi’s surging sales

57 The turkey glut

58 Clash of the video games

59 BartlebyPsychometric

tests

60 SchumpeterA Japanese

tech battle

Finance & economics

62 The Treasury market

63 Buttonwood The sturdy

dollar

64 Ant’s IPO, interrupted

65 The cost of lockdowns

65 Lebanon’s Ponzi scheme

67 Free exchangeImport

substitution

Science & technology

68 Making superbatteries

70 T-cells and covid-

72 Remote magnetism

72 Women stone-age hunters

Books & arts

73 The colour black

74 The Sistine frescoes

75 China and the second

world war

75 The Western mind

76 MartinAmis’snewbook

Economic & financial indicators

78 Statisticson 42 economies

Graphic detail

79 Covid-19super-spreading

Obituary

80 Sean Connery, actor and Scottish nationalist