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◆On the cover
Saving the system
At last a glimmer of hope, but more boldness is needed to avert a global economic catastrophe



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

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◆Leaders
The credit crunch
Saving the system
Canada's general election
The fear factor
Technological comebacks
Not dead, just resting
Africa
There is hope


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◆Letters
On the banking crisis, Argentina, South Africa, the culture wars, New Labour, the Depression

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◆Special Report
Africa's prospects
Opportunity knocks

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◆United States
The economy and the election
It’s an ill wind
The candidates at home (1)
A moderate among hotheads
The candidates at home (2)
Mean streets
The bail-out bill
Someone to watch over me
California's budget
No money to pay the bills
Swing states: Indiana
Hoosier Daddy?
Lexington
Debating the debates


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◆The Americas
Canada's general election
Please have the decency to panic
Argentina
Fishy business
Brazil
Pointers to the presidency


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◆Asia
Thailand
Blood on the streets
Defending Taiwan
Balancing act
Sumo wrestling
Weighty matters
Indian-administered Kashmir
After the fast
Sri Lanka’s Tamils
Whose victory?
India’s north-east
Bodo count
China’s water-diversion scheme
A shortage of capital flows


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◆Middle East & Africa
Saudi Arabia
Can it make peace in the wider region?
Dubai
Not-so-hot property
Israel
Tell me the Talmud
Kenya and Sudan
The mystery tanks
South Africa
A Terror threat to the ruling party


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◆Europe
Managing the credit crunch
The European Union’s week from hell
The High North
The Arctic contest heats up
Education in France
A new reckoning
Kosovo
Getting on with big brother
Justice in Albania
The final mystery
Charlemagne
European redemption


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◆Britain
Rescuing the banks
We have a plan
Gordon Brown's recovery
A war on two fronts
Small-company finance
Locked in
Marjorie Deane
Cheerio my deario


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◆International
Organ transplants
The gap between supply and demand

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◆Business
Bankruptcies
Shutting up shop
Bankruptcy in China
Silent busts
Pharmaceuticals
Buying opportunity
India's car industry
A new home for the Nano
Outsourcing
In a pinch
The paperless office
On its way, at last
Video games and music
Playing along
Face value
The bailiff
Correction: Richard Branson


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◆Special Report
Global finance
Lifelines
Pointing the finger
Who's to blame?
Iceland
Kreppanomics
America’s bail-out
TARP priority
Fiscal implications
Deep pockets
Buttonwood
Carry on screaming
The world economy
Bad, or worse
China's economy
Domino or dynamo?
Emerging markets
All fall down
Books on the crisis
Read it and weep
Hedge funds
Collateral damage
Economics focus
Not yet the last resort


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◆Science & Technology
Scientific journals
Publish and be wrong
The 2008 Nobel science prizes
All colours of the brainbow
Solar energy
Tubular sunshine
Malaria
Hunting down a crafty killer
Books & Arts


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◆Books & Arts
The ascent of money
A financial history of the world
The American future
Best foot forward
Adventures in human waste
Lifting the lid
Radio propaganda and 1938
Chequered airwaves
Arthur Rimbaud
Rebel, rebel
Emil Nolde
Storms of colour
Picasso and the masters
A garden of visual delights


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◆Obituary
J.B. Jeyaretnam

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◆Economic and Financial Indicators
Overview
Output, prices and jobs
The Economist commodity-price index
The Economist poll of forecasters, October averages
Trade, exchange rates, budget balances and interest rates
Markets
Emerging economies' GDP