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Cheques and imbalance
Is the world economy entering a wage-price spiral?
Both wage growth and inflation are unusually high
→ Read more: The IMF warns that the global economic recovery will be grossly uneven
Tired guns
Fighting returns to Beirut’s streets in an echo of the civil war
It was sparked by tensions around a probe into an explosion at the port last year
Protracted war
How long can China’s zero-covid policy last?
Unlike Australia, New Zealand and Singapore, it seems determined to keep it up
Left march
Military bases swung hard away from Republicans in 2020
By our calculations they moved towards Democrats by eight points, compared with a nationwide swing of just two
Back Story
Good evening, Ms Bond. We’ve been expecting you
Resistance to a female or black 007 mistakes the kind of character Bond is
Schumpeter
How Adobe became Silicon Valley’s quiet reinventor
From an also-ran to the world’s fourth-most-valuable software firm
Daily chart
“Squid Game” is only the latest Netflix hit to break the language barrier
Non-English content is booming on the streaming service
Technology, business and society
Two new books explore the impact of accelerating technology
A third explains how to profit from it
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Germany’s future
The challenges facing Germany’s new leader
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