Economist News Analysis and Views Essence 
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Combining the best news analysis and views from both the Economist.com and the printed edition
Qatar: Small country, big ideas
@ Jun 07, 2008 11:49 AM 0 comments
Oil and clever diplomacy win friends and influence
The rise of the low-cost laptop
@ Jun 07, 2008 11:12 AM 1 comment
The ambitious “$100 laptop” programme is having a few problems, but it may have catalysed a whole new market
Rummaging through the internet
@ Jun 07, 2008 10:56 AM 1 comment
New techniques to navigate and gather information online promise to revolutionise web browsing
Changing gears
@ Jun 07, 2008 10:49 AM 3 comments
Automotive technology: A baffling range of new types of car gearbox has broadened the choice far beyond manual and automatic
The free-knowledge fundamentalist
@ Jun 07, 2008 10:47 AM 0 comments
Jimmy Wales changed the world with Wikipedia, the hugely popular online encyclopedia that anyone can edit. What will he do next?
Signs of panic as JPMorgan Chase takes over Bear Stearns
@ Mar 18, 2008 11:51 AM 1 comment
Although Bear is but a middling-sized broker, the tightly bound financial system (thanks to derivatives) means that far more institutions, and not just commercial banks, are in effect too big to fail.
The dramatic rescue of Bear Stearns
@ Mar 16, 2008 11:21 AM 1 comment
The credit crisis enters a worrying new phase
Raul Castro will not usher in any change in Cuba
@ Feb 26, 2008 11:11 AM 4 comments
With Raúl at the helm, there will be no major shift in Cuba’s political or economic model.
Why does the EU support independence for Kosovo?
@ Feb 26, 2008 11:08 AM 0 comments
WHY is the West giving Kosovo independence when it refuses to recognise Transdniestria, South Ossetia and Abkhazia?
The boom in commodities prices
@ Feb 26, 2008 11:06 AM 0 comments
Citigroup believes that the recent rise in the oil price “is driven principally by a sharp uptick in fund flows.”
The nationalisation of Northern Rock
@ Feb 19, 2008 12:16 PM 0 comments
On Sunday February 17th Alistair Darling, the chancellor of the exchequer (Britain's finance minister), announced that Northern Rock would be taken into “temporary public ownership” in the first state takeover of a failed British bank in more than a decade. It is the biggest nationalisation of a British company since the 1970s, but the writing had long been on the wall.
The comandante retires—sort of
@ Feb 19, 2008 12:12 PM 0 comments
Fidel Castro steps down, but change will be slow
Microsoft’s controversial bid for Yahoo!
@ Feb 07, 2008 08:15 AM 1 comment
Any Yahoo! board member with a minute to spare should go to YouTube and watch Mr Ballmer, hooting and romping like a deranged gorilla, yowl “I love this company!” and then agree at once to accept his $44.5 billion offer for their firm. For there is only going to be one winner in this fight.
Tsar struck - Man of the year, or scandal of the decade?
@ Jan 22, 2008 01:32 PM 1 comment
Vladimir Putin is Time’s “Person of the Year” for 2007: not an honour, the magazine insists, but just a recognition of “bold, earth-changing leadership”. Even so, that is hardly future-proof.
Venezuela's new bolívar
@ Jan 22, 2008 01:27 PM 0 comments
Venezuela’s revamped and renamed currency, the “bolívar fuerte” (strong bolivar), made its debut with the New Year, in a move designed not only to simplify transactions but also to tame high inflation.
