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Finance and economics

In many ways, stockmarkets have been extraordinary in 2020

How this year’s crash differs from bear markets of the past

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The Economist’s coverage of the coronavirus

Europe

Do low-trust societies do better in a pandemic?

When you don’t trust your neighbours to wash their hands, you stand farther away

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China

Millions of Chinese students brace themselves for joblessness

The government is anxious, too

United States

In America, the virus threatens a meat industry that is too concentrated

Healthy animals are being killed and buried for want of slaughterhouse workers

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Business

Schumpeter: What is weighing on Samsung?

The business model is shockproof. But the mood is grim

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Covid-19 has become one of the biggest killers of 2020

This year its global toll exceeds that of breast cancer or malaria

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Books and arts

Solitude has always been both a blessing and a curse

Two timely books spell out its dangers and perennial allure

The Economist’s coverage of the coronavirus

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Life after lockdowns

May 2nd 2020
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Leaders

Where did the novel coronavirus come from?

Leaders

Big tech is thriving in the midst of the recession

Briefing

Which emerging markets are in most financial peril?

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Would most covid-19 victims have died soon, without the virus?

A new study suggests not

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In context: Leaving lockdown

Asia

What next for countries that are nearly covid-free?

Australia, New Zealand, South Korea and Taiwan contemplate life beyond the virus

Science and technology

Leaving lockdown means understanding immune responses to the virus

Unfortunately, a lot is still unknown

China

China plans to crush new covid outbreaks with tough measures

Britain

An army of sleuths could help Britain emerge from lockdown

Special report: South Korea

South Korea is going through deep social, economic change

But the transformation is still fragile, and covid-19 is not helping, says Lena Schipper

Startups offer a different future for South Korea’s economy

But chaebol still dominate

South Korean women are fighting to be heard

Women have taken their struggle against misogyny into the open

K-pop is changing, too

The world’s most successful boy band make perfect posterboys for the new Korea

South Koreans are unhappy with the pace of political change

A younger generation has now been politicised

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