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◆On the cover
Increasing risk aversion is likely to depress growth



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◆The world this week
Politics this week
Business this week
KAL's cartoon


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◆Leaders
The world economy
Will the credit crisis trigger a downturn?
Britain's bank run
The Bank that failed
Microsoft
Stay vigilant
Civil liberties under threat
The real price of freedom
Israel and Palestine
Get a move on, then


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◆Letters
On Belgium, trusting the markets, Google, Amerigo Vespucci, capital punishment


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◆Special Report
The global economy
The turning point


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◆United States
The candidates: Bill Richardson and the Latino vote
The man from New Mexico
The Democrats and the unions
Kingmakers no more
Health care
If at first you don't succeed
Lobbying reform
Mostly cosmetic
Segregation and Little Rock
Fifty years on
Car emissions
Vermont takes on Detroit
Hawaii
The wave of the future
Lexington
Masters of the Senate


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◆The Americas
Chile
Jam today, not mañana
Mining in Peru
Revolt in the Andes
Mexico
Reforms at last
Ecuador
Sharks and other politicians


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◆Asia
Nepal
Flying the revolutionary flag again
Japan's next prime minister
Glad to be grey
Pakistan
Musharraf's endgame
Smoking in Asia
Can't kick the habit
Violence in China's schools
Hard lessons
Myanmar
Monks on the march
Correction: Japanese politics


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◆Middle East & Africa
Israel and the Palestinians
The remarkable survival of Ehud Olmert
France and Iran
Let's keep squeezing them harder
Iraq
Privateers under fire
Libya
A Seif pair of hands?
Congo
Who benefits from the minerals?


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◆Europe
France's economic reforms
A rupture with the past?
Greece's election
Right returned
Spain and its regions
Autonomy games
The Hungarian far right
Changing of the Garda
Charlemagne
Brussels rules OK


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◆Britain
The politics of a bank run
Labour's moment of peril
Northern Ireland
In the footsteps of giants
Playboy's London megastore
Playing it safe


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◆International
Religion and ecology
Faith upon the earth
Terrorism and civil liberty
Is torture ever justified?

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◆Business
Microsoft
A matter of sovereignty
Climate change
Heavy weather
Outdoor advertising
Vive la Vélorution!
Business in China
Talent arbitrage
Twenty20 cricket
India's innings
Face value
The brand of Clinton


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◆Special Report
Securitisation
When it goes wrong...


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◆Finance & Economics
The Federal Reserve
Bernanke's bounty
Money markets
A thaw in the cold war?
Investment banks
Books of revelation
Buttonwood
Mismatch of the day
British banks
The great Northern run
Financial-sector rewards
Croesus's cousins
Banking
Brrrrrrrrr
Europe's economy
At risk of infection
Economics focus
Confidence trick


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◆Science & Technology
AIDS
Time to grow up
The search for Steve Fossett
Turk and rescue
Alternative energy
Sea green
Taxonomy
Name, rank and serial number


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◆Books & Arts
Alan Greenspan's memoirs
The Undertaker's story
The Weimar Republic
The best and the worst
British nature
Visions in ditches
American interest groups
Land of the small
The use of words
Life is a foreign language
Henry Moore's outdoor sculptures
Bronze glory amid the trees


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◆Obituary
Alex the African Grey

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◆Economic and Financial Indicators
Overview
Asian growth forecasts
Output, prices and jobs
The Economist commodity-price index
Trade, exchange rates, budget balances and interest rates
Mortgage debt and GDP
Markets