Oct 23rd 2021

Instant economics: The real-time revolution

The world this week

Leaders

Data and the economy
Instant economics

A real-time revolution in economics could make the world better off

Nigeria
The crime scene at the heart of Africa

Insurgency, secessionism and banditry threaten Nigeria. The government should wake up

Monetary policy
Don’t jump the gun

The Bank of England should not raise interest rates until 2022

Democracy in the EU
An October revolution

A backlash against bad government in eastern Europe is at last under way

The geopolitics of money
Be swift, be bold

If Western countries and firms want to stay in charge of global money flows, they have to modernise how they happen

Letters

Letters to the editor
On Pakistan, the American navy, management, the Peshtigo fire, Ethiopia, learning classics, God

Briefing

The real-time revolution in economics
The real-time revolution

How the pandemic reshaped the dismal science

United States

Wages
Striketober

Ethnic studies
Race and class

Warming seas
Considering the lobster

California
Toying with the nanny state

Social media
Devious licks

Secessionists
Oregone

Lexington
Reconstructing America

The Americas

Peru
Jobs for the comrades

Brazil’s woes
President anti-vaxxer

Mexico
Not ageing gracefully

Asia

Reform in Central Asia
From gulag to ordinary grumbles

Afghanistan
More extreme than the extremists

Violence in Kashmir
Valley of fear

Politics in Singapore
Outside job

Banyan
Learning how to be happy again

China

Uyghur culture
Poetry from the gulag

Nuclear weapons
Glide and seek

Chaguan
The Communist Party’s confidence

Middle East & Africa

Nigeria
When things fall apart

Africa’s wannabe financial centres
Capital cities

Lebanon
Probing too deep

Iran
Andy Warhol and the ayatollahs

Europe

Ukraine
Winter is coming

Hungary
The unexpected challenger

Spain
Liberty lady

Germany’s next government
Green-lit

Ritual slaughter
Trouble and knife

Charlemagne
A court of kings

Britain

Monetary policy
Ready for a leap in the dark

Agriculture
Making a pig’s ear of it

Climate change
Jolly green giant

Investment
Doffing the cap

Trains
Railing against modernity

Domestic operations
Call in the troops, again

Bagehot
A great parliamentarian

International

Climate change
Heated debates

Business

Samsung Electronics
The third star

A makeover at Facebook?
About-face

Bartleby
Why mission statements matter

Green business
The hydrogen rush

Chinese industry
Awaiting electrocution

Schumpeter
Let a hundred flowers bloom

Finance & economics

China’s economy
From the sublime to the subpar

Property in China
Evergrande plans

Crypto assets
Bitcoin bounce

The Bundesbank
Hawk descending

SWIFT
Message in a battle

Buttonwood
When the pipes creak

Free exchange
Tanks for nothing

Science & technology

Servicing EVs
Farewell to the grease monkey

Self-driving cars
Hands off the wheel

Extracting power from waves
Like clockwork

Tuberculosis
Making resistance useless

Evolution in action
Spoils of war

Books & arts

Entertainment in the Arab world
Tales of the unexpected

Rare foods
Refined tastes

Municipal mistakes
The coast of dystopia

Spies and the stage
Smoke and mirrors

Economic & financial indicators

Economic data, commodities and markets

Graphic detail

Vaccine mandates
Strictly come jabbing

Obituary

Colin Powell
A soldier in Washington