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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