2022-02-12-Economist Graphs
1. The world this week
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2. Leaders
2.1 The next crisis: What would happen if financial markets crashed?
Look to history for a guide, but know that next time will be different
2.2 Minsky moment: Diplomacy has created an opening for detente in Ukraine, but beware a trap
Russia is invoking the Minsk agreement to sow chaos, not to bring peace
2.3 Green investors’ filthy secret: The truth about dirty assets
Polluting businesses are moving into the financial shadows
2.4 Festive but fraying: India’s democracy is not as healthy as this month’s elections make it seem
It is not just sectarianism that is ailing the body politic
2.5 Radical research: Some lessons on inventing the future in Britain
How to make the country’s new innovation agency work
3. Letters
3.1 On Ukraine’s gas pipelines, the Cuban missile crisis, George McGovern, Bangladesh, police alternatives, culture, Boris Johnson: Letters to the editor
A selection of correspondence
4. Briefing
4.1 Local, but vast: The elections in Uttar Pradesh will show where India is heading
Can Narendra Modi’s BJP recreate its successes of the 2010s?
5. Europe
5.1 The chancellor wakes: A beleaguered Olaf Scholz launches a diplomatic offensive
Caution over Ukraine has hurt the German leader’s image
5.2 Shaky state: Bosnia is on the brink of falling apart again
The Serbs want out
5.3 The few, the proud: Spain’s empty middle flexes its political muscles
In Castile and León’s election, local parties fight depopulation
5.4 Drones of their own: Turkey is the arms industry’s new upstart
It has won clients in Azerbaijan, Ethiopia, Ukraine and elsewhere
5.5 All the boys and girls: In France’s election young people are all over the map
From the far right to the far left and everything in between
5.6 Charlemagne: A European bunfight breaks out over food labels
Italy is mounting a defence of the Mediterranean diet
6. Britain
6.1 Law and order: London’s Metropolitan Police Service is failing on three fronts
That makes it less, not more, likely that it will change
6.2 Dashed promises: Northern Irish devolution collapses—again
The province’s politics are very far from the heady days of the Good Friday Agreement
6.3 Bare necessities: Britain’s cost-of-living squeeze in four charts
Higher prices and taxes are only partially offset by government measures
6.4 Taming the circus: Boris Johnson attempts to get his government back under control
The prime minister’s new chief of staff has an unenviable task
6.5 Hualong, farewell: British regulators have approved a Chinese reactor design
It is unlikely to be built
6.6 Justice delayed: Unless lawyers are paid better, courts will grind to a halt
The government pays solicitors and barristers too little for legal-aid work
6.7 Bagehot: The rise of unpopulism
Why Tories give the British people what they do not want
7. Middle East & Africa
7.1 America and Iran: Nuclear talks with Iran enter the endgame
Time is running out to avert a new crisis in the Middle East
7.2 The surveillance state: Did the police in Israel use Pegasus spyware on citizens?
The answer could upend Israel’s most important judicial case
7.3 Back with a bump: More African countries are letting pregnant girls stay at school
Parents, principals and religious types still need convincing
7.4 Older and less wise: The African Union is less effective at 20 than it was at two
Its enforcement of democratic norms is slipping
8. United States
8.1 Congressional redistricting: Democrats have fared surprisingly well in Congress’s new maps
But the boundaries still favour Republicans
8.2 Another exodus?: Rival Jewish congregations feud over America’s oldest synagogue
A historic synagogue is at the centre of a power struggle
8.3 TikTok nuns: A group of nuns goes viral for Jesus
TikTok has made them popular outside the convent
8.4 Party loyalties: Is Donald Trump losing his grip on Republican voters?
New polling and fundraising figures suggest slippage
8.5 Street food: Roadkill is now on the menu in Wyoming
Crashes between cars and wildlife are too common. Salvaging roadkill can help
8.6 Carjacking: What the carjacking wave says about American policing
It is a fairly easy crime to get away with
8.7 Lexington: Messing up, Biden-style
The administration’s errors have the president’s fingerprints all over them
9. The Americas
9.1 A lopsided romance: Despite thriving trade, China’s relationship with Brazil is weakening
President Jair Bolsonaro’s rhetoric has not helped
9.2 A deadly profession: Four journalists have been killed in Mexico this year
The country remains the most dangerous place in the world to be a member of the press
9.3 Bello: How the “Cannibal Manifesto” changed Brazil
It is 100 years since modernists vowed to transform the country’s culture
10. Asia
10.1 The ailing body politic: The organs of India’s democracy are decaying
It takes more than elections for a country to be democratic
10.2 Sidewalk ballet: Bangkok is trying to evict its street hawkers
The city’s residents would like their pavements back
10.3 Quarter-acre heartbreaker: New Zealand’s housing crisis is worsening
That is bad news for a government which promised miracles
10.4 Blood feuds: The outcome of the Philippines’ election is not as certain as it looks
An absolute majority may not be enough for Ferdinand Marcos Jr to win the presidency
10.5 Explosive growth: South Korea wants to become one of the world’s biggest arms exporters
A legacy of defence spending and support from America are boosting the weapons industry
10.6 Banyan: Kishida Fumio’s “new capitalism” is many things, but it is not new
The prime minister’s big idea to reinvigorate Japan is better politics than economics
11. China
11.1 Thinker-in-chief: Wang Huning’s career reveals much about political change in China
He has shaped the leaders’ defining policies for more than two decades
11.2 Injecting urgency: Hong Kong’s old folk remain largely unvaccinated
Omicron is putting them at greater risk
11.3 Chaguan: The good and the bad of China on Olympic show
As Beijing hosts the winter games, a mood of pride mixed with defiance
12. International
12.1 Crisis in Ukraine: How Russia has revived NATO
Ukraine has forced America and its allies to bond. But the country’s future is still uncertain
13. Business
13.1 To the victors, the scraps: Disney, Netflix, Apple: is anyone winning the streaming wars?
Investors are terrified that the prize may not be worth it
13.2 Industrial technology: Why Japan’s Automation Inc is indispensable to global industry
A little-known pinch-point in the world’s supply chains
13.3 Fabs with benefits: In the global chips arms race, Europe makes its move
Will it work better than it did a decade ago?
13.4 Income support: How long can America Inc’s profits keep rising?
This year they may not be as immune as before to infection, inflation and imploding supply chains
13.5 Slumber party: The sleep-tech industry is waking up
The tired are tucking in. Investors dream of riches. Scientists need convincing
13.6 Bartleby: Rio Tinto and the problem of toxic culture
A disturbing report has lessons for other industries
13.7 Schumpeter: As its sale of Arm collapses, the tide is turning against SoftBank
Does Masa have his trunks on?
14. Finance & economics
14.1 What goes up?: Is the modern, bank-light financial system better than the old one?
Brace for a stress test
14.2 Fossil hunters: Who buys the dirty energy assets public companies no longer want?
It could well be your university or your pension fund
14.3 Buttonwood: How unlisted startups’ valuations will adjust to falling share prices
Surprisingly slowly
14.4 Rice restraint: Asia is not feeling the same price pressures as the West
A stronger dollar could change that
14.5 How to default on China: China does not always collect its debts on time
Thirty-nine developing countries have delayed repayment to China since 2000
14.6 Free exchange: The promise of former eastern-bloc economies is mostly unfulfilled
But those that joined the EU have done much better than the rest
15. Science & technology
15.1 The bots in the warehouse: New robots—smarter and faster—are taking over warehouses
Most picking jobs will be done by bots
15.2 Sidewalk bots: Sidewalk robots are already busy delivering groceries
But autonomous vehicles are waiting for the green light
15.3 Deafened: Plants are adversely affected by the racket of urban traffic
They get stressed and grow less well
15.4 Standing ovation: Spinal implants allow the paralysed to walk, swim and cycle again
The new device works in less than a day after it is fitted
16. Culture
16.1 Au revoir tristesse: The strange tenderness of Michel Houellebecq’s new novel
In “Anéantir”, a bard of modern France takes a surprisingly upbeat turn
16.2 China’s other dreams: To understand China, says Megan Walsh, turn to its literature
“The Subplot” is a pacy tour of contemporary Chinese literature
16.3 Heart in mouth: Rachel Jones is an artist of the moment
Her painting captures the concerns of the 30-year-old’s generation
16.4 Insurgent history: How do radicals find each other—and get heard?
Gal Beckerman offers some answers in “The Quiet Before”
16.5 Home Entertainment: “Columbo” shows the benefits of asking just one more thing
However powerful the villain, the scruffy detective always outwits them
16.6 Johnson: A language without a flag and a state is still a language
Suggesting that a regional language is not a “real” one is mistaken
17. Economic & financial indicators
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18. Graphic detail
18.1 Olympian judgments: How to detect nationalism in winter-sport judges
Even the ostensibly impartial seem susceptible
19. Obituary
19.1 India’s nightingale: Lata Mangeshkar was the soundtrack of newly independent India
The most celebrated of all playback singers died on February 6th, aged 92
