The Economist
May 9th-15th, 2009
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Inside:
9 The world this week
Leaders
13 Europe's economies A new pecking order
14 Barack Obama and the carmakers
An offer you can't refuse
14 Nepal's political crisis Two armies into one won't go
16 Deflation in America The greater of two evils
18 Animal welfare Catheter and mouse
Letters
20 On water, Cyprus and Turkey, China and currencies, the Summit of the Americas, Barack Obama, casinos
Briefing
27 The French model Vive la difference!
United States
31 The Supreme Court
Following Souter
32 Cuba and America Gently does it
33 Tax dodges
Havens no more
34 New York transport
A fare deal
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34 The Kentucky Derby
Celebration in recession
35 Coal-fired power plants The writing on the wall
35 Jack Kemp
Conservative hero
36 Lexington
The education secretary and the blob
The Americas
38 Mexico
After the flu, the economic chill
39 St Pierre and Miquelon Seabed scrap
39 Trade unions in
Venezuela
Socialism v labour
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40 Panama's presidential election
— Super 09
40 Crime in Peru Printing money
Asia
43 NepaL's political crisis How fierce willthe Maoists be now?
44 India's election and the BJP
Saffron hopes
44 Fighting the Pakistani Tali ban
The Swat test
45 Afghanistan's elections Poll position for Karzai
46 Scandal in Indonesia A fatal round
46 Singapore
47 South Australia's water shortage
In need of a miracle
47 Defending Australia Sharpening the koala's claws
48 Banyan
Taiwan and China
Middle East and Africa
49 Sudan's dilemma
Behind the defiance, a whirr of diplomacy
50 Guinea
A punchy new leader
50 Tanzania
When will it leap forward?
51 Iraq
51 Iran's presidential race Is the populist popular?
Europe
53 Germany's economy
The export model sputters
54 Silvio Berlusconi's divorce
54 Unemployment in Spain Not working
55 Russia and its near abroad
Neighbourhood watching
56 Charlemagne
An unloved parliament
Britain
57 Gordon Brown A hunted man
58 The exclusion of Michael
Savage
The creeps of wrath
58 ID cards are go
Ploughing on
59 Britain's Muslims
Pious, loyal and unhappy
60 Bagehot
Thatcherism, thirty years on
International
61 Emerging markets and the credit crunch
Whom can we rely on?
62 Piracy
Wrong signals
62 Philanthropy
Give and count the cost
Business
63 Technology and antitrust Here we go again
64 Mergers and acquisitions Buying on the dips
65 Peer-to-peer lending
Chinese borrowing
65 Amazon's new Kindle Big is beautiful
65 Chinese investment in Taiwan
Strait deals
66 Rolls-Royce Keep on rolling
69 Time Warner and internet video
After the divorce
70 Face value
Anne Lauvergeon, France's nuclear advocate
Briefing
71 Fiat's ambitions Iolzer, The Italian solution aed all
assed Finance and economics
75 American consumers Off their trolleys
76 Buttonwood
Happy days are here again
77 American banks Who's in charge here?
77 Germany's Lands The sick banks of
78 Infrastructure
Ports in a storm :hael 80 Banks in the Gull
Shifting sands
80 Canada-EU trade Transatlantic ties
82 Economics focus Imports v exports
Science and tech
83 Swine flu Preparing for
84 Animal testing
id Suffering for scieni
85 Electric cars and n The sound of silence
Books and arts
86 Chiang Kai-shek
The man who lost CI
87 Joshua Cooper Ran Surprise and disord
88 Migrating swallows
Spring bringers
88 Jay McInerney Living daylights
89 Contemporary jewel Adorning with ideas
Obituary
90 Hans Holzer Hunter of ghosts
101 Economic and financial
indicators
Statistics on 42 economies, plus the
S Economist's poll of forecasters and a look old-age dependency
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