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◆On the cover
want your money
No government bail-out of the banking system was ever going to be pretty. This one deserves support:

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

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◆Leaders
America's bail-out plan
I want your money
Pay and the financial crisis
Questions of equity
South Africa
Queasy about the future
North Korea
Dealing with an impossible regime
British politics
No time for old hands either


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◆Letters
On global warming, Islamic finance, Biogen Idec, traffic jams, the Balkans, American rednecks

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◆Special Report
South Africa
Dropping the helmsman
White flight from South Africa
Between staying and going

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◆United States
The politics of the bail-out
The candidates intervene
The election campaign
Heard on the stump
Rural voters
Bucolic ballots
Early voting
The beginning of the end
Campaign finance
And the money came rolling in
New York City finances
Economic fallout
Giving
Billanthropy squared
Swing states: Michigan
The centre of the storm
Lexington
President Hank

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◆The Americas
Argentina
Better late than never
Canada
If you go down to the woods…
Brazil
Real-politik
Chile
A force for good, now

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◆Asia
Japan
Grandfather’s footsteps
Indonesia
The lady is for returning
Indonesia's anti-corruption drive
The graft-busters strike again
Hindu-Christian tensions in India
Marching as to war
Sri Lanka
The last battle?
Terrorism in Pakistan
Friends like these
China's space programme
Shooting the moon


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◆Middle East & Africa
Rwanda and the Great Lakes region
A pioneer with a mountain to climb
Elephants in Congo
Big and helpless
Sudan
Saving the president
Chad
Breaking the bank
Islam
Try to be nice about each other
Abu Dhabi
Family feeling behind the football

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◆Europe
Europe's economies
Struggling to keep moving
Italy's economy
Creeping along
The Spanish civil war
Bones of contention
Georgia and Russia
Tense times
Turkey and Armenia
Friends and neighbours
Charlemagne
Transatlantic model wars

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◆Britain
The Labour Party
Political alchemy
Labour's electoral prospects
Dead-cat bounce
EDF and British Energy
Nuclear renaissance?
Energy supplies
A chill wind


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◆International
Data mining
Know-alls

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◆Business
The odd couple
The Bulldozer
The export juggernaut
Reformed characters
Survival of the fittest
Jaw-jaw
Contested grounds
Half-finished
Sources and acknowledgments
Offer to readers


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◆Special Report
Management consulting
Giving advice in adversity
Mobile phones
The un-iPhone
Social networking
Facebook for suits
French companies in China
Francophobia
Food regulation in China
The poison spreads
Companies and human rights
Not the usual suspects
Face value
Virgin rebirth


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◆Finance & Economics
America’s bail-out plan
The doctors' bill


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◆Science & Technology
American finance
And then there were none
Warren Buffett and Goldman Sachs
Tucking in
Speculators
Shoot first
Buttonwood
A cautionary tale from the future
European banks
While Rome burns
A bank run in Hong Kong
Text P for panic
Japanese banking
The big boys are back
Deleveraging
A fate worse than debt
Oil
Contract killing
Economics focus
Capital bonanzas


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◆Books & Arts
The Interphone study
Mobile madness
Electrosensitivity
Mind your phone
Earthquake detection
Shake it all about
The Large Hadron Collider
Call a plumber


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◆Obituary
Goldman Sachs
Into the whirlwind
Humanitarian intervention
My brother's keeper
Crowdsourcing
A people business
“Battle in Seattle”
The world was watching
The Bloomsbury group
Pantry power
Andrea Palladio
Songs of stones
Obituary


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