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After the pandemic, will inflation return?

Low inflation underpins today’s economic policy. It is not guaranteed to last

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Inflation: prognostication and prophecy

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A thin, last-minute Brexit trade deal is better than no deal at all

It would at least provide a base on which later agreements could be built

China

China is doubling down in Xinjiang

Our Chaguan columnist visits factories accused of using forced labour

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Other countries should learn from a transgender verdict in England

The high court ruled that children cannot give informed consent to treatment that may render them sterile

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Almost one in five Americans may have been infected with covid-19

Our analysis shows that the outbreak is much worse than official numbers suggest

Business

A formidable alliance takes on Facebook

Investors don’t seem to care

Obituary

Chuck Yeager, flying ace, was the first to break the sound barrier

He died on December 7th, aged 97

More on the US presidential transition

United States

The final countdown to Donald Trump’s election defeat

The president’s losses have mounted in both the courts and the popular vote, but he still came surprisingly close to winning

United States

Two races in Georgia will determine control of the Senate

And therefore, perhaps, the fate of Joe Biden’s agenda

United States

Jake Sullivan to the rescue

Leaders

Joe Biden should drive a hard bargain with Iran

Weekly edition

Will inflation return?

December 12th 2020
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Books & arts

Our books of the year

They were about corruption, revolutionaries, Glasgow in the 1980s, John Maynard Keynes and musical lives

Business

The dawn of digital medicine

The pandemic is ushering in the next trillion-dollar industry

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Britain is heading for a hard Brexit. Voters now prefer none at all

With trade talks in their final days, Britons’ attitudes to the EU have changed significantly since 2016

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Economists look at more than GDP when choosing countries to study

Speaking English and sending students to study abroad draw researchers’ interest

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In context: Analysis and predictions for 2021

The World Ahead

The end of a golden age for oil producers

The search for other types of revenue will accelerate

The World Ahead

Fall-out from covid-19 will swell the ranks of the global poor

An extra 130m people do not have enough to eat

The World Ahead

Covid-19 leaves a legacy of increased inequality

The World Ahead

Governments must judge if the economic recovery needs more help

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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