Tue, Oct 20 2020

The Economist – Sep 23, 3:00 AM

Chance of controlling the Senate The vice president breaks 50-50 ties. Predicted range covers 95% of simulations seats (51 for majority) around 2 in 3 The vice president breaks 50-50 ties. Predicted range covers 95% of simulations Our model is…

In their 1998 book, “A World Transformed,” George H.W. Bush and Brent Scowcroft recount the events that fundamentally changed the world during the Bush presidency. At the end of the last chapter Bush observes: “The importance…

Half a century ago, two starlets of economics argued that whether companies funded themselves with debt or equity was irrelevant. One legacy of that insight is becoming clearer in the wreckage of corporate failures mounting in the wake of the…

ONE SCENE more than any other from China's coronavirus recovery caught the world's attention: a giant pool party in August in Wuhan, the city where the pandemic began. Nearly seven months on from the start of their lockdown, revellers were crammed…

CALL IT THE bonfire of the masks. That was the centrepiece of a large protest on October 6th by ultra-Orthodox Jewish men in Brooklyn's Borough Park to protest against new state restrictions on mass gatherings. Some chanted “Jewish Lives…