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March 15th 2023
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Panic on Paradeplatz
Credit Suisse’s share price plunges, as fear sweeps the market
What will release the bank from its waking nightmare?
For markets Silicon Valley Bank’s demise signals a painful new phase
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Britain’s economy
Jeremy Hunt’s budget is better at diagnosis than treatment
Stability but no cigar
Will the “budget for growth” achieve its goal?
The chancellor hopes more child care will get more parents working
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What to make of a clash between a Russian jet and an American drone
Aerial interceptions are common. Collisions are vanishingly rare
Daily chart
French bulldogs are taking over America
The miserable mutts are now the country’s most popular breed
Crunch time
Germany is at last tackling its long-standing economic weaknesses
Can Olaf Scholz turn things around?
Schumpeter
A battle royal is brewing over copyright and AI
Beware the Napster precedent
1843 magazine
Women in the Democratic Republic of the Congo claim to have been raped by peacekeepers
But they are sometimes dismissed as “opportunists and profiteers”
American society
“Poverty, By America” is a fierce polemic on an enduring problem
But Matthew Desmond offers more outrage than real-world solutions
Lunar living
Pressurised natural caves could offer a home from home on the Moon
It would make building bases a lot cheaper and easier
Babbage
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