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America’s economic recovery no longer looks so strong

A difficult winter looms

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The pandemic has caused the world’s economies to diverge

China

A new law would unshackle China’s coastguard, far from its coast

It is the world’s biggest, and intends to use its muscle

The Americas

The Movimiento San Isidro challenges Cuba’s regime

The government has responded with repression. But the dissidents’ movement sees signs of progress

Asia

Indonesian politics is becoming a family affair

Both the president’s son and his son-in-law are standing in regional elections

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Dethroning King Coal

Digital health care • covid and the economy • China’s rise • India’s slump

United States

Lexington: Jake Sullivan to the rescue

What to expect from Jake Sullivan, the Democrats’ foreign-policy golden boy

1843 magazine

The secret economics of Christmas adverts, unwrapped

A guide to seasonal selling, from goats to gizmos

More on the US presidential transition

Middle East & Africa

Joe Biden wants to re-enter the nuclear deal with Iran

Sounds simple, but he faces some big obstacles

United States

The end of the embarrassment

The assumption that Republicans will remain in thrall to Donald Trump could be misplaced

United States

America is about to start distributing a covid-19 vaccine

Finance & economics

Joe Biden’s choice of economic advisers signals his priorities

Weekly edition

Making coal history

December 5th 2020
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Leaders

Time to make coal history

Coal is at the toxic heart of the fossil-fuel economy

Asia

Covid-19 has ravaged economies all over the world—but not Taiwan’s

It has fended off the epidemic and is welcoming back firms that had decamped to China

Business

The dawn of digital medicine

The pandemic is ushering in the next trillion-dollar industry

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A covid-19 vaccine helps people, but not some firms’ share prices

Consumer-durables stocks have sold off on news of vaccine breakthroughs

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The World Ahead

The covid-19 vaccination programme will be the biggest in history

But distributing vaccines will be just as challenging as developing them

The World Ahead

With covid-19, nobody is safe until everyone is safe

So ensuring fair distribution of vaccines is vital, argues Seth Berkley of Gavi

The World Ahead

What to expect in year two of the pandemic

The World Ahead

Vaccine diplomacy could give China’s image a boost

Special report: Asset Management

The money doctors

The asset-management industry is at last sorting the quacks from the true specialists, argues John O’Sullivan

Passive attack

How index investing is reshaping the asset-management industry

Double trouble

The trouble with delegating choices about what to invest in

Stewards’ inquiry

If investors buy stocks in an index, who watches managers?

Taking back control

Privates are what listed assets are not—niche, illiquid and fee-rich

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