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Either AI or public debt could crash markets.
ENQUÊTE • But probably not both If AI stocks collapse, bond yields will fall wo SPECTRES stalk financial markets. One is the fear that surging bond yields will make the rich world’s shaky public finances unsustainable, triggering a nasty fiscal crisis. The other is the worry that the revenues from
The agony of liberal Europe
A LA UNE • Centrist rulers have fallen dangerously short—and are now paying the price he firststeps into the Unrest seem straightforward enough—anger at the fall of real wages, at capitalist aggression, at the unwillingness of Parliament; anger fomented by agitators...reason wars with instinct.” Few of those who
India’s government fails to crush Gen Z protests
A LA UNE • The leader of the Cockroach party is detained and the internet shut down MICROPHONES SHOVEDin their faces, the youngsters raced to utter their soundbites on democratic rights. Then the police van sped off with them still in mid-sentence. “That’s the only way to protest now—
America’s election officials are ready for trouble
ENQUETE • Donald Trump has failed to change voting rules. Cities and states are preparing for mischief anyway On a fineday in Florence, a city an hour’s drive from Phoenix, staff at the local voting centre are doing a tabletop exercise, the euphemism to describe training for election hell. The