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◆On the cover
Global finance is being torn apart: it can be put together again



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

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◆Leaders
The financial crisis
What next?
Global business
In praise of the stateless multinational
Defeating the Taliban
FATA morgana
Zimbabwe
Give a bad deal a chance
The presidential election
America not quite at its best
Resources
Economies of scales

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◆Letters
On the London Stock Exchange, America's estate tax, poverty, Sarah Palin, remote tribes, quotes

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◆Special Report
British politics
Who killed New Labour?

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◆United States
The financial crisis and the election
The politics of despair
The election campaign
Heard on the stump
Hurricane Ike
Please send ice
Ballot initiatives
Goading the enemy
Campaign donations
Writing cheques, hedging bets
Swing states: Virginia
Of pigs and polls
Lexington
Richard Milhous McCain

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◆The Americas
Bolivia
Now put it back together
Venezuela
Back on his old hobby-horse
Cuba
Bloodied, but unbowed


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◆Asia
Pakistan’s tribal areas
A wild frontier
China’s baby-milk scandal
Formula for disaster
China’s mid-autumn festival
More than they can chew
Japanese politics
Not quite a one-horse race
Malaysian politics
Bluff and counter-bluff
Australia’s new opposition leader
Turnbull’s turn
Politics in Bangladesh
The begums are back

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◆Middle East & Africa
Zimbabwe
Can the new deal work?
South Africa
The presidency of Jacob Zuma looms
Nigeria
Risky toughness
Saudi Arabia
Death to the media moguls!
Israel
Tzipi Livni bids for the top spot

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◆Europe
Russia’s armed forces
Advancing, blindly
Russia and its neighbours
Bang, crash
Serbia
A new strongman
Turkey
Less than white?
Muslim extremism in France
Jailhouse jihad
Charlemagne
Who cares about Europe?


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◆Britain
University education
Making it pay
Race and the police
No quick fix
The de Menezes inquest
Endangered species
Damien Hirst
The boy done good


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◆International
Water for farming
Running dry
Quotas
Women rising
Malaria
Counting bites

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◆Business
Airlines and the credit crunch
Shredding money
Airlines
Under the hammer
Newspapers in America
Slim hopes
Giant Manufacturing
On your bike
Japan’s luxury-goods market
Losing its shine
Biofuels in India
Power plants
Face value
The quiet Brazilian

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◆Special Report
The financial crisis
Wall Street's bad dream
Saving Wall Street
The last resort
Investment banking
Is there a future?
Buttonwood
Looking for the bright side
AIG’s rescue
Size matters
Derivatives
A nuclear winter?
European banks
Cross-border contagion
Emerging markets
Beware falling BRICs
Accounting
All’s fair
Economics focus
Beyond crisis management


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◆Science & Technology
Fishing and conservation
A rising tide
Sleep
Restless
Children's health
Worries in a bottle
Scientific publishing
User-generated science

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◆Books & Arts
Marc Chagall
Fiddlers and floating brides
New jihadism
Blood-stained pursuit of revenge
The English language
The secret life of words
Barack Obama
Here's looking at you, kid
Google
The quest


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◆Obituary
Martin Tytell

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◆Economic and Financial Indicators
Overview
Output, prices and jobs
The Economist commodity-price index
Information technology
Trade, exchange rates, budget balances and interest rates
Markets
Employment outlook