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From: The Economist today - Friday Jul 24, 2020 09:09 pm

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July 24th 2020

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Sixty seconds of fame

TikTok’s Chinese parent is scrambling to hang on to its hit app

America threatens to ban ByteDance’s most valuable digital property—or seize it

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Read more: Huawei and the tech cold war

Regional development

The best-run cities of America’s Midwest offer lessons in recovery

How to revive and thrive

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MercadoLibre is a wannabe Alibaba

It promises a shake-up to both retail and finance in Latin America

Week in charts

All aboard for Mars

Rethinking economics • Europe’s deal, America’s disunity • Midwestern heft • Tanzania’s book-cooking

No escape

Even as India urbanises, caste discrimination remains rife

Cities are segregated, and inter-caste marriages are vanishingly rare

A tarnished crown

Spain’s King Felipe is distancing himself from his father

Headlines about ex-king Juan Carlos’s finances and lovers embarrass the monarchy

Stories of an extraordinary world

Why we speak Starbucks

How brands use language to create tribes

The Intelligence

“These institutions have been underfunded, understaffed, and underloved for a long time”—care homes

Also on the daily podcast: the quirky new data economists must rely upon and remembering the civil-rights icon John Lewis

Where are companies on the survival/ adaptation/ recovery curve?

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