An American sovereign-wealth fund is a risky idea - The Economist
WEB5 days ago · In practice, achieving this balance is difficult. In America a SWF looks like a risky solution to a problem that does not truly exist. As is often the case these days, credit for the idea’s ...
More storms are brewing in the South China Sea - The Economist
WEB5 days ago · Sep 12th 2024. Eight years ago China lost a legal battle over its fantastical territorial claims in the South China Sea. An international tribunal ruled they had no basis. China responded by ...
Intel is on life support. Can anything save it? - The Economist
WEB5 days ago · Intel paid $3.1bn for a 15% stake, most of which it sold by 2018. Today this would be worth around $50bn, equivalent to three-fifths of Intel. Potential backers, notably tech giants such as Amazon ...
Why the world can’t get enough of YouTube - The Economist
WEB5 days ago · A mericans spend more time in front of their TVs watching YouTube than Netflix. And the videos they are watching on the platform are, increasingly, of the quality that you might expect from the ...
Venezuela’s opposition is getting smashed - The Economist
WEB5 days ago · On September 7th, six weeks after he won Venezuela’s presidential election in a landslide, Edmundo González fled for exile in Spain. The regime of Nicolás Maduro (pictured) had accused the ...
How Christianity shapes politics in America - The Economist
WEB5 days ago · That notion is the core of American Christian nationalism. Falwell’s movement, the Moral Majority, promoted conservative social values and championed the political right. In 2020 85% of white ...
Detoxifying a Nazi monument - The Economist
WEB3 days ago · In this episode of The Weekend Intelligence Germany correspondent, Vendeline von Bredow visits the dieDas Design Akademie in Saaleck, set in a building Adolf Hitler once frequented. It’s a place ...
America’s college heads revise rules for handling campus protests
WEB5 days ago · Tom Stritikus, the president of Occidental College, a liberal-arts college in Los Angeles, has implemented restrictions on the permissible “time, place and manner” of demonstrations. Protests ...
The sweet story of Peru’s blueberry boom - The Economist
WEB5 days ago · Plucky farmers have transformed the market in only ten years. P eru’s blueberry harvest is just beginning, and Ivan Jauregui, an agronomist, looks excited. At a farm he oversees about 100km ...
Norway’s weak currency presents a mystery - The Economist
WEB5 days ago · Norges Bank, responding to the currency’s weakness, seems set to hold rates at 4.5% for the rest of this year, even as the Fed cuts. But this does not tell the whole story either, since the ...