2022-12-15-Economist Graphs
1. The world this week
1.1 Politics
1.2 Business
1.3 KAL’s cartoon
2. Leaders
2.1 A looming Russian offensive
2.2 China’s covid wave could kill as many as 1.5m people
2.3 Why are the rich world’s politicians giving up on economic growth?
2.4 The French exception
2.5 How to save South Africa
3. Letters
3.1 Letters to the editor
4. By Invitation
4.1 Volodymyr Zelensky’s chief of staff on how to end war in Ukraine
4.2 Two health experts say China’s haste to re-open risks needless death and disruption
4.3 Aaron Friedberg says the West should abandon efforts to integrate a hostile, revisionist China
5. Briefing
5.1 Volodymyr Zelensky and his generals explain why the war hangs in the balance
5.2 Ukraine’s top soldier runs a different kind of army from Russia’s
5.3 “Anyone who underestimates Russia is headed for defeat”
6. Europe
6.1 Despite power cuts and blockades, Ukraine’s economy is coping
6.2 The war has worsened Ukraine’s demographic woes
6.3 Germany’s capital struggles to clean up its act
6.4 Ireland’s new prime minister is mocked before he starts
6.5 France needs better slow trains, not just fast ones
6.6 A corruption scandal leaves the EU reeling
7. Britain
7.1 The strange case of Britain’s demise
7.2 Britain’s economic record since 2007 ranks near the bottom among peer countries
7.3 The British government and the unions dig in on train strikes
7.4 Why do Harry and Meghan wind people up?
8. United States
8.1 America’s unions are gentrifying
8.2 What to make of the Twitter Files?
8.3 Why catalytic-converter theft has soared in America
8.4 Axe-throwing may be the friendliest new sport in America
8.5 A city experiments with paying people not to be annoying
8.6 E-cigarette taxes may reduce teenage drink-driving deaths
8.7 Republicans should leave Hunter Biden to his painting, and the Justice Department
9. Middle East & Africa
9.1 The party of Nelson Mandela is imploding
9.2 Commercial cattle-raiding is impoverishing Uganda’s herders
9.3 China is helping Zimbabwe to build a surveillance state
9.4 Iraq’s new prime minister vows to clean up the country
9.5 Morocco’s World Cup success sparks a debate about Arab identity
10. The Americas
10.1 Argentina’s populist political movement is at its lowest ebb
11. Asia
11.1 East Asia’s big beasts are getting on badly
11.2 Japan’s most endangered languages face extinction
11.3 BTS takes on Kim Jong Un
11.4 Mongolians brave the cold to decry corruption
11.5 China’s frontier aggression has pushed India to the West
12. China
12.1 How Chinese people are dealing with the spread of covid-19
12.2 What to make of China’s claims about covid
12.3 Our model shows that China’s covid death toll could be massive
12.4 The politics of Xi Jinping’s covid retreat
13. International
13.1 The pandemic’s indirect effects on small children could last a lifetime
14. Business
14.1 Can the French nuclear industry avoid meltdown?
14.2 Why Mumbai’s old business district is so shabby
14.3 Tech lay-offs are the latest blow to office landlords
14.4 Big tech pushes further into finance
14.5 German retailers aren’t feeling very festive
14.6 The enduring value of an analogue technology
14.7 America’s biggest ports face a new kind of paralysis
15. Finance & economics
15.1 How the West fell out of love with economic growth
15.2 The game is up for Sam Bankman-Fried
15.3 America’s inflation fever may be breaking at last
15.4 What an unusual auction says about the art market
15.5 Europe looks increasingly complacent about the winter ahead
15.6 The struggle to put a carbon price on a flight
15.7 The insidious threats to central-bank independence
16. Science & technology
16.1 Controlled fusion is little nearer now than it was a week ago
16.2 A UN biodiversity meeting is slugging it out in Montreal
16.3 Not enough is known about the science of pads and tampons
16.4 A study of ophidian clitorises suggests snakes are highly sexed
17. Culture
17.1 Reading Sally Rooney in China
17.2 The Ottoman empire fell a century ago. Or did it?
17.3 And the word of 2022 is…
17.4 Alice Neel’s art is at last getting the attention it deserves
18. Economic & financial indicators
18.1 Economic data, commodities and markets
