2021-12-04-Economist Graphs

Last updated on Dec 3, 2021

1. The world this week

2. The world this week

3. Leaders

3.1 Danger ahead

The world economy
Omicron amplifies three dangers that stalk the global economy

3.2 SALT in the wounds

Build Back Better
The Democrats’ fiscal policy makes a mockery of their progressive pledges

3.3 Local heroes

Technology
For vibrant, competitive internet businesses, look to emerging markets

3.4 Bad medicine

Sex and gender
Britain’s planned ban on conversion therapy is not what it seems

3.5 Who will police Interpol?

Global crime
The election of a worrying new president is just the latest thing to go wrong

4. Letters

Letters to the editor

5. Briefing

5.1 Watchful waiting

The Omicron variant
With its wonky spike, the Omicron variant looks ominous. How bad will it be?

6. Europe

6.1 The tests of tolerance

Spain

6.2 Accenting the negative

Language in Spain

6.3 Waiting for the freeze

Ukraine and Russia

6.4 High-pressure umbrage

German-American relations

6.5 Guess who?

Italy’s next president

6.6 On bullshit: Brussels edition

Charlemagne

7. Britain

7.1 Missing the mark

Conversion therapy

7.2 Open book

Spycraft

7.3 Portrait of a Brexiteer

Lord Frost

7.4 Catching up on the capital

Property

7.5 Straws in the wind

Immigration

7.6 United, across the border

Sinn Fein

7.7 Jordan Peterson and the lobster

Bagehot

8. Middle East & Africa

8.1 Omicro-aggressions

The Omicron variant

8.2 Seeding the cloud

African tech

8.3 Pomp and circumspection

China and Africa

8.4 In need of water, not uranium

Iran

8.5 Drinking and driving

Booze in Saudi Arabia

9. United States

9.1 A tax plan for the upper, upper class

State-and-local-tax deduction

9.2 Message in a bottle

Tainted water

9.3 Shot spotty

Crime tech

9.4 Roe’s last stand

Abortion rights

9.5 All at sea

Navy shipyards

9.6 Beep beep, bang bang

Guns and cars

9.7 Son of a slave

Lexington

10. The Americas

10.1 Missing links

Mexico

10.2 A leftward turn

Honduras

10.3 Pictures at two exhibitions

Bello

11. Asia

11.1 The patter of fewer tiny feet

India’s population

11.2 Ready for take-off?

Politics in Kyrgyzstan

11.3 A stop in the ocean

Seasteading

11.4 At the sharp end

Business in Japan

11.5 A familiar script

Banyan

12. China

12.1 Against the tide

Unmarried mothers

12.2 Ballsy

Sport and human rights

12.3 Why China says it is a democracy

Chaguan

13. International

13.1 Interpolitics

Global crime

14. Business

14.1 Hot tropics

Asian tech firms

14.2 Exiting the Twittersphere

Social media

14.3 The office of the future

Bartleby

14.4 Ghosts of Christmas past

The music business

14.5 Cancel culture, Beijing-style

Internet censorship

14.6 Billion-dollar blueprints

Valuing patents

14.7 No more tears

Schumpeter

15. Finance & economics

15.1 Omicronomics

China’s slowdown

15.2 Hazards ahead

Emerging markets

15.3 Squeezing the balloon

Climate finance

15.4 Over flows

Investment in India

15.5 After the flood

Buttonwood

15.6 Point of low returns?

Norges Bank Investment Management

15.7 Taming wildcats

Free exchange

16. Science & technology

16.1 Flipping heck!

Random numbers

16.2 The memory of water

Planetology

16.3 The memory of water