What next? A special report on the world economy

The world this week

Politics
Business
KAL’s cartoon
Leaders


The world economy
What next?
A new era of macroeconomics is emerging, bringing promise and peril

Brazil’s election
On a knife-edge
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva should move to the centre to beat Jair Bolsonaro

British politics
Truss deficit
The markets are a little calmer. The mess remains

Corporate consiglieri
Are management consultants useful?
Amid the snake oil and the scandals, the industry provides a valuable service

Technology and politics
How will Elon Musk use his superpowers?
With great technological power comes great political responsibility

Letters

Letters to the editor
On the police in America, qualified-majority voting, Agatha Christie, Italy, Myanmar, Janus words
By Invitation


Russia and Ukraine
Kirill Rogov on what Russians really think of the war in Ukraine
Brazil’s elections
Marina Silva on why Brazil’s presidential contest will decide the Amazon’s fate
America’s 2022 midterms
Ro Khanna and Zach Wahls on how Democrats can win back factory towns
Briefing


Russia and Ukraine
Putin at bay
Ukraine’s military success is reshaping not just the war, but also Russia

Ukraine and Starlink
Tweet and sour
Elon Musk’s foray into geopolitics has Ukraine worried
Asia


South-East Asia
Forced to defraud
Covid-19’s aftermath
Cover story
Indonesia
A nation at a loss
India’s useless opposition
Pantomime politics
Banyan
Whose blue?
China


Elite politics
Interfering elders
Training officials
Class struggle
Tibetan Buddhism
Sinifying Shangri-La
Chaguan
Spoiling for a fight
United States


The southern border
Don’t mind the gap
After Hurricane Ian
The Florida model
Nevada’s elections
Viva Las Vegas
The midterms
Other than that, Mrs Lincoln
Wisconsin’s politics
Curdling it up
Wildlife
Winter is coming
Lexington
What Donald Trump understands

Middle East & Africa


War in the Horn
Land of dashed hope
Lesotho
Let’s get this party started
The Sahel
Coup upon coup
Lebanon’s environment
Blue-sky blues
Iran
A protest song rocks a theocracy
The Americas


Brazil’s presidential election
Bolsonarismo battles on
Quebec
Isolated but not independent
Cuba
Voices of the powerless
Europe


German immigration
Willkommen
Italy
What’s the plan?
Yugoslavia and Ukraine
Shadows of the past
Charlemagne
Flashing das Cash
Britain


The Conservatives
Fourth time unlucky
Housing
In a fix
The Office for Budget Responsibility
Watched dog
Classics
Latin lovers
Urban governance
A tale of two cities
Bagehot
Accidental austerity
International


Capitals of cool
How pop culture went multipolar
Special report


The world economy
Regime change
Demography
The ageing paradox
Debt and interest rates
Feedback loop
Climate investment
Greenbacks for greenery
Spending pressure
The total bill
Inflation
Long road back
Inflation targeting
The end of 2%
Business


Management consultants
Bulletproof suits
German energy
Cleaning up its act
Bartleby
The magic formula
The luxury business
A new look
Elon Musk and Twitter
The odd couple
Schumpeter
The hard edge of the cloud
Finance & economics


Crisis watch
The rumbling draws near
Inflation
Overmighty
Buttonwood
Let them trade bonds
Commodities
Striking oil producers
Free exchange
China gives up the fight
Science & technology


The 2022 Nobel science prizes
To the winners, the spoils
Covid vaccines and menstruation
A dose of truth
Manx comets
Tailless comets could threaten Earth
Culture


Re-reading Russian literature in wartime
The useful “Idiot”
Scientific dynasties
Circles of life
The Catholic church
The room where it happened
American music
Rich pickings
British fiction
A man in full
Johnson
Out of one, many
Economic & financial indicators

Indicators
Economic data, commodities and markets
Graphic detail


Interest rates
Steady as she goes
The Economist explains


The Economist explains
What is annexation?
The Economist explains
Why fracking cannot solve Europe’s energy crisis
Obituary