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THE ECONOMIST MAGAZINE – JULY 5, 2025 PREVIEW

THE ECONOMIST MAGAZINE: The latest issue features Big, beautiful…bonkers

Trumponomics 2.0 will erode the foundations of America’s prosperity

The Big Beautiful Bill is symptomatic of a wider malaise

China is building an entire empire on data

It will change the online economy and the evolution of artificial intelligence

How A-listers are shaking up the consumer-goods business

Hailey Bieber, Rihanna and Ryan Reynolds are among a new cohort of celebrity entrepreneurs

William Ruto is taking Kenya to a dangerous place

The president’s authoritarian instincts are propelling a spiral of violence

WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM – TOP STORIES OF THE WEEK

World Economic Forum (June 29, 2025): This week’s top stories of the week include:

0:15 Top technologies to watch in 2025 – From digital trust to clean energy, 2025 is seeing breakthrough innovations with wide-ranging impact. Here are five of the most promising technologies this year.

2:50 How to close the gender gap in tech – Ayumi Moore Aoki is CEO of Women in Tech Global, an organization that works to increase gender equality in STEM. She says that amid all the talk of what AI can do, we must also consider what it cannot.

6:09 This robot could change all factories – Meet CyRo, a 3-armed robot designed to handle objects with the dexterity of a human – without the need for pre-programming. Its adaptive vision system mimics the human eye, allowing it to operate under varying lighting and handle tricky materials like glass or reflective surfaces.

7:33 Start-up plans data centres in space – As AI energy demands soar, one pioneering start-up is taking data infrastructure off the planet. Starcloud is building space data centres to tap into the vast, uninterrupted solar energy available in orbit.

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The Economist Magazine – May 10, 2025 Preview

THE ECONOMIST MAGAZINE (May 8, 2025): The latest issue features All grown up: Saudi Arabia’s surprising transformation‘…

Saudi Arabia is pulling off an astonishing transformation

Muhammad bin Salman is going from troublemaker to peacemaker

What Putin wants—and how Europe should thwart him

Many Europeans are complacent about the threat Russia poses—and misunderstand how to deter its president

Luck stands between de-escalation and disaster for India and Pakistan

Sooner or later, the luck will run out

The war in Gaza must end

America should press Binyamin Netanyahu to accept a ceasefire, then press Hamas to disarm

Donald Trump is right to ditch Joe Biden’s chip-export rules

Time to get realistic

The Economist Magazine —- May 3, 2025 Preview

THE ECONOMIST MAGAZINE (May 1, 2025): The latest issue features ‘The Taiwan test‘….

A superpower crunch over Taiwan is coming

China has a new chance to call America’s bluff

Investors’ risky bet: they can shrug off the trade war

The relief they are banking on needs to come fast

India must prove Pakistan’s complicity in the attack in Kashmir

It would then have every right to strike back

The Economist Magazine – April 26, 2025 Preview

THE ECONOMIST MAGAZINE (April 24, 2025): The latest issue features Trump’s first 100 days, and beyond….

Trump is a revolutionary. Will he succeed?

He has already done lasting harm to America

President Trump’s attacks on the Fed are not over

Jerome Powell wins a reprieve. But expect more showdowns between the White House and the Fed

Africans need jobs. The rest of the world needs workers

Migration from Africa is a mega-trend that transcends today’s populist surge

How to keep AI models on the straight and narrow

Interpretability techniques are powerful, but must be used with care

The Economist Magazine – April 19, 2025 Preview

THE ECONOMIST MAGAZINE (April 16, 2025): The latest issue features How a dollar crisis would unfold…

How a dollar crisis would unfold

If investors keep selling American assets, a grim fate awaits the world economy

In its pursuit of a policy, Donald Trump’s government is content to destroy a man

What’s at stake in the case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia

Zuckerberg on trial: why Meta deserves to win

Social media has plenty of problems. Lack of competition isn’t one of them

Brazil’s Supreme Court is on trial

How a superstar judge illuminates an excessive concentration of power

The Economist Magazine – April 5, 2025 Preview

THE ECONOMIST MAGAZINE (April 3, 2025): The latest issue features ‘Ruination day: How to limit global damage‘….

President Trump’s mindless tariffs will cause economic havoc

But the rest of the world can limit the damage

How America could end up making China great again

A big beautiful opportunity

Lift sanctions to give Syria a chance of rebuilding

Our poll shows Syrians trust their new leader, Ahmed al-Sharaa. So should the West

Why the IMF should bail out a serial deadbeat

Under President Javier Milei, Argenti

The Economist Magazine – March 8, 2025 Preview

THE ECONOMIST MAGAZINE (March 6, 2025): The latest issue features ‘The Revised Economic Outlook’….

Donald Trump’s economic delusions are already hurting America

The president and reality are drifting apart

The demise of foreign aid offers an opportunity

Donors should focus on what works. Much aid currently does not

A fantastic start for Friedrich Merz

The incoming chancellor signals massive increases in defence and infrastructure spending

The lesson from Trump’s Ukrainian weapons freeze

And the grim choice facing Volodymyr Zelensky

Lifting sanctions on Syria seems mad, until you consider the alternative

Without a reprieve, the country will become a failed sta

The Economist Magazine – March 1, 2025 Preview

The Economist's office agony uncle is back

THE ECONOMIST MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘The Don’s New World Order’…

Donald Trump has begun a mafia-like struggle for global power

But the new rules do not suit America

Inheriting is becoming nearly as important as working

More wealth means more money for baby-boomers to pass on. That is dangerous for capitalism and society

Germany’s election victor must ditch its debt rules—immediately

Friedrich Merz has weeks to shore up his country’s defences 

The Economist Magazine – February 15, 2025 Preview

THE ECONOMIST MAGAZINE (February 13, 2025): The latest issue features ‘Battle for the Pentagon‘ – Can Donald Trump remake American defense?

Will Donald Trump and Elon Musk wreck or reform the Pentagon?

America’s security depends upon their success

After DeepSeek, America and the EU are getting AI wrong

Europe has a chance to catch up, whereas America should ease up

Countering China’s diplomatic coup

China has turned much of the global south against Taiwan. That could be laying the ground for forced unification

Can Friedrich Merz save Germany—and Europe?

He is on track to win the election, but to fix Europe he will have to fix his country first