Sep 9th 2023

Growth industry: Wealth management for the many

The world this week

Leaders

Cash v chaos

The Gulf’s boundless ambition to change the world

Now it wants to export its model. But the region faces grave dangers

Reform thyself

America’s Supreme Court should adopt new ethics standards

Lifetime tenure can easily slip into entitlement

The man who may be president

Can Javier Milei’s radical libertarianism save Argentina?

Our interview explores his wild economic ideas—and his authoritarian streak

In hot water

Heat pumps show how hard decarbonisation will be

The row over them portends more backlashes against greenery

Wealth management for the many

Wall Street is racing to manage your wealth. That is a good thing

The hottest trend in finance offers more than just fat profits for advisers

Belt and Road at ten

China’s Belt and Road Initiative will keep testing the West

The projects are smaller, the challenge is growing

Letters

On the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, Britain’s green belts, Germany, Malaysia, Saudi customs

Letters to the editor

By Invitation

Europe’s economic challenges

Mario Draghi on the path to fiscal union in the euro zone

Geopolitics

The cold war holds lessons for America’s rivalry with China, say Condoleezza Rice and Niall Ferguson

Briefing

Reorientation

The Gulf countries want to reshape the Middle East in their image

Stability and development is a tempting formula, but it has been tried before

Asia

South-East Asian succession

What will Indonesia look like after Jokowi leaves?

Lost tribe of the steppes

Uzbekistan’s Bukharan Jews are disappearing

Peak summit

The G20 summit will be a resounding success for India

Banyan

Joe Biden’s visit to Hanoi is a signal to China

China

Where to from here?

The path ahead for China’s Belt and Road Initiative

Chaguan

The Belt and Road, as seen from China

United States

Coming cleaner

Can America’s Supreme Court police itself?

Chicken Tocqueville

Where do Americans mingle?

The third line

How the Pentagon assesses Ukraine’s progress

Blocked bookings

New York City is restricting Airbnb

The counter-revolutionaries

Angry parents challenge how California schools handle gender identity

Lexington

What Democrats can learn from Bobby Kennedy

Middle East & Africa

A brittle victory

A year after Iran was shaken by protests, zealots have tightened their grip

Bulldoze the buried

Egypt’s government wants to erase a historic cemetery

Only connect

A new railway will at last link Iran and Iraq

Bluster and bluff

Deterring would-be putschists in Africa is getting harder

The perilous path of change

In just 100 days Nigeria’s new president has made bold reforms

The Americas

Argentina’s next president?

Meet Javier Milei, the front-runner to be Argentina’s next president

Señora Presidenta

Two women are vying to be Mexico’s next president

Europe

Four more years

The undeclared race to replace Emmanuel Macron

Crime and punishment

Inside Ukraine’s assassination programme

Zelensky’s shuffle

Is Ukraine really interested in fighting corruption?

Point of no return

The uncertain future of Greeks in Turkey

German engineering

Stuttgart’s ever-receding station is Germany’s latest transport fiasco

Charlemagne

The EU’s rotating presidency should be scrapped

Britain

Clean energy

Britain is losing its way in cutting carbon

River pollution and housing

Britain will ease some environmental rules for housebuilders

Dismal science

Britain’s statisticians fix a blunder and find a bigger economy

The invention of exercise

How London bus drivers changed the world

Policing the police

Should Britain’s police chiefs be able to sack rogue officers?

Ethnicity and health

What is killing white Britons?

Bare-faced cheek

British MPs debate a crisis over school buildings. Childishly

International

The new zing in zoning

The growing global movement to restrain house prices

Business

AI with Chinese characteristics

Meet Ernie, China’s answer to ChatGPT

Shovel-unready

German builders are on the brink of collapse

Island shopping

TikTok is wading into South-East Asia’s e-commerce wars

Workers of the world unite

A strike at Chevron shows a reinvigorated union movement

Biding the Bullet

Meet the world’s most enduring product

Bartleby

Networking for introverts: a how-to guide

Schumpeter

America’s bosses just won’t quit. That could spell trouble

Finance & economics

Rich and famous

The $100trn battle for the world’s wealthiest people

Buttonwood

Should you fix your mortgage for ever?

Crude sophistication

A higher global oil price will help Russia pay for its war

Official blessing

The end of a remarkable era in Indian finance

Spillovers aren’t over

China’s slowdown is rattling Asian economies

Prophets of maximisation

How Chicago school economists reshaped American justice

Free exchange

Argentina needs to default, not dollarise

Science & technology

All that gas

Propane-powered heat pumps are greener

The ears of corn

Plants don’t have ears. But they can still detect sound

Easy fieldwork

Animals can be tracked by simply swabbing leaves

Culture

Riding high

Thanks to Morgan Wallen, country music’s popularity has surged

Vaccines

Simon Schama’s “Foreign Bodies” tracks the history of vaccines

Back Story

Lots of people mourn when famous writers and musicians die. Why?

New fiction

Zadie Smith’s new novel revives a 150-year-old court case

Rome and its popes

A history of the papacy and its relationship with Rome

Laugh, the beloved country

Trevor Noah’s tour spotlights South African comedy

Economic & financial indicators

Indicators

Economic data, commodities and markets

Graphic detail

Bad vibrations

The pandemic has broken a closely followed survey of sentiment

The Economist explains

A primer on Trump’s criminal trials

The Economist explains

Why France is banning Muslim clothing in schools (again)

Obituary

Building revolution