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Have billionaires accumulated their wealth illegitimately? econ.st/30InRcI
When the chilly weather starts to bite, many seek refuge in down. But when we start filling our winter coats with these feathers? econ.st/37e56QB From @1843mag
Haiti still hasn’t recovered from a devastating earthquake in 2010. Now, @AndrewMIKnox tells “The Intelligence”, a constitutional crisis is adding to the misery econ.st/2v9Miny
What do you do if your brand has no actual history? econ.st/2GbLdh2 From @1843mag
Some 80% of down comes from one country: China econ.st/30BaCu0 From @1843mag
How to promote “global Britain” post-EU? One step is to angle for influence in Africa econ.st/3aBNm3U
What are the advantages of ditching hard cash and what are the dangers?
From Via Veneto to ancient Rome, no one has captured the Bel Paese on screen in quite the same fashion as Federico Fellini econ.trib.al/c9yswRf
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Americans! Your census starts today in frozen rural Alaska. It determines $trillions in funding and has sparked big political rows, but counting everyone looks increasingly old fashioned. Some countries don't carry out a census at all. I wrote about why economist.com/international/…
Retweeted by The Economist The decennial survey is an increasingly expensive snapshot of an entire population econ.st/2Rvvbnu
President Donald Trump’s trial in the Senate looks likely to be swift. On “The Intelligence” @jonfasman lays out what to expect econ.st/2NGxO51
Mitch McConnell has announced the rules that will govern the trial—they appear designed to ensure a swift acquittal econ.st/36egavZ
Dollar dominance “allows America to weaponise the dollar and American financial system”. But The Economist’s Matthew Valencia thinks we might be at an inflection point. He speaks to @r_shanbhogue on “Money Talks” econ.st/2O1sERp
Today on “The Intelligence”: the foregone conclusion of Trump’s impeachment trial, Haiti’s constitutional crisis and the gender divide in same-sex divorces econ.st/36f9VIf
Asia is scooping up sand faster than it can naturally replenish itself econ.st/2u7XQY0
There is little doubt that the rich world is a less friendly place to build than it once was econ.st/2Rkr79y
Some people believe that Aspen embodies the establishment complacency that led to the rise of populism econ.st/2Ry8LCh From @1843mag
Back pain is a massive problem which is badly treated econ.st/2RsiB8y
OnlyFans is leading a revolution in sex work, giving creators total control of their image and workload econ.st/364R8ze From @1843mag
At Christmas in 2015, refugees from Syria arrived on the isle of Bute, tired, soaked and wind lashed. Four years later the island is evolving econ.st/38qh364 From @1843mag
Which of the world's fundamental challenges could be solved by quantum computing? econ.st/2ts2tfq
Iran’s leaders risk being overwhelmed by crises they created econ.st/2u8XjFi
The super-rich aren’t satisfied with yachts. Now, they want personal submarines econ.st/3avN7Hl From @1843mag
The new sultan of Oman hopes to lead as well as the last one econ.st/2u6Qzr8
Some 80% of down comes from one country: China econ.st/2tAeYpi From @1843mag
Want to lose weight in January? @1843mag explains why counting calories is a waste of time econ.st/2R96LRQ
Europe is rediscovering its penchant for statist intervention econ.st/2QYSVkR
There are several measures policymakers could take to reduce “deaths of despair”, which killed 47,000 Americans in 2017 econ.st/30CLnrr
How Ulster Scots and the Irish language got Northern Ireland’s government back econ.st/2TBwyUF
Britain’s 20,000 new cops won’t get the justice ministry celebrating econ.st/2u5kH6x
Johnson, Trump and the future of the Atlantic alliance econ.st/2FVTIwP
Around the same time that France had nearly 1,400 diplomats in sub-Saharan Africa, Britain had under 300 econ.st/30HIkhM
Iran’s attack on Iraq shows how precise missiles have become econ.st/2Tsmk8K
Chinese officials and scholars have begun talking to Americans and Europeans about the risks of AI econ.st/2TvUY1w
Joe Biden is currently leading the race. But who is hot on his heels? Explore our hub: econ.st/2FCrNla
The Chinese government has cast 280,000 fishermen out of a job econ.st/2t4H7ob
Our Big Mac index compares the purchasing power of different currencies econ.st/2RlHOBN
According to prosecutors, an unusually high share of minorities hold crack just over a key sentencing threshold econ.st/2G3BtW4
.@DrGrammar’s well-timed new book, “What’s Your Pronoun?”, explores a curious gap in the English language econ.st/3afOlqa
Like Italian food? Try Etruscan cuisine econ.st/2sMKIY0 From @1843mag
“Sex Education” touches the awkward and difficult subjects that teachers won’t econ.trib.al/7eZUEaX
Retweeted by The Economist In scenes repeated across northern Italy, fascist loyalists and their German backers grappled with people desperate for a future free from Nazism econ.st/2suMgpc
Research has called into question the effectiveness of medical treatments econ.st/36aa2Vi
A quarter of rich world recessions from the 1960s to 2000s were linked to steep house-price declines econ.st/2u7Lu1V
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