May 11th 2013

Wall Street is back

The world this week

Leaders

Investment banks

Wall Street is back

American investment banks dominate global finance once more. That’s not necessarily good for America

Angry young Indians

What a waste

How India is throwing away the world’s biggest economic opportunity

Malaysia’s election

A dangerous result

After a tainted election victory, Najib Razak needs to show his reformist mettle

Environmental monitoring

Four hundred parts per million

The only good news about the Earth’s record greenhouse-gas levels is that they have been well measured

A memo to the world’s dictators

Subject: Asset protection and regime change

From: Mirkwood Capital To: High-net-worth rulers

Letters

Letters

On affirmative action, transaction taxes, factory workers, select committees, Japan, economics, India, cooking

Briefing

India’s demographic challenge

Wasting time

India will soon have a fifth of the world’s working-age population. It urgently needs to provide them with better jobs

United States

Economic growth

The health paradox

Immigration reform

Not so fast

South Carolina’s special election

He’s back!

Measuring inflation

Counting the cost of living

Prison overcrowding

The magic number

Policing

Starting from scratch

Taxes

A brewing fight

Lexington

Brigadoon politics

The Americas

Mexican politics

The PRI’s long tail

Venezuela’s election aftermath

Cry havoc

Bolivia’s president

Bye, bye American pie

Asia

Malaysia’s general election

Tawdry victory

Pakistan’s election

The other campaigner

Political violence in Bangladesh

In hot blood

Indian politics

Throwing the rascals out

South Korea and the United States

Park’s progress

Banyan

Pivotal concerns

China

Factory women

Girl power

China and the Middle East

Playing the peacemaker?

Middle East & Africa

Israel and Palestine

Could the peace dove fly again?

Palestinians in Israel

Boycotting the boycotters

Syria’s civil war

The bloody stalemate persists

Libyan politics

The militias’ writ

Tunisia and Algeria

Borderland bogeymen

Somalia

The centre holds, but only just

South Africa

Wedding crashers

Europe

Germany’s opposition

The Red and the Green

Russian politics

An ideologue’s exit

Hungary

Magyars and moans

Education and the French mindset

Bangalore-sur-Seine?

Georgia’s government

Caucasian circles

Charlemagne

Enter Herr Präsident Schulz

Britain

The politics of immigration

Don’t mess

Privatising British banks

Cutting losses

The IMF in Britain

Toothless truth tellers

Racial segregation

Everyone out

Nigel Farage

Aux armes, citoyens!

David Ford

Presbyterian in a pickle

Bagehot

The socialist international

International

Recovering stolen assets

Making a hash of finding the cash

Correction: Muslim opinion

Special report

Twilight of the gods

Regulation

The bite is worse than the bark

Equity trading

Going broke in stocks

Fixed income, currencies and commodities

A FICC for your trouble

Why scale matters

We happy few

Costs

Leaner and meaner

Emerging markets

Lands of eternal promise

The outlook

Down to Earth

Business

Management consulting

To the brainy, the spoils

The life of a young consultant

PowerPoint Rangers

Valuing ships online

Bargain boats

Wearable cameras

Get a lifelog

Business and the law

Chasseurs d’ambulances

Online video

Worth paying for?

Marketing

The lust for Latino lucre

Schumpeter

Microsoft blues

Finance & economics

CME Group

The futures of capitalism

Buttonwood

Age shall weary them

World trade

Fresh blood

Canada’s new central-bank governor

After Carney

The world economy

Shaken, not stirred

Municipal finances

Rubbish settlement

French banks

Through the looking glass

Riyadh’s new financial district

Empty towers

Securities lending

Spring break

Free exchange

Standard procedure

Science & technology

Clarification: Frontiers

The climate of Tibet

Pole-land

Climate change

The measure of global warming

Atomic interferometry

The function of waves

Ancient animal behaviour

Jurassic lark

Books & arts

The Mariinsky theatre

Goldfingered Gergiev

The future of Russia

Closing doors

Early ballooning

Shifting perspectives

Economics

Horror story

New fiction

Curlicues

Economic & financial indicators

Output, prices and jobs

Trade, exchange rates, budget balances and interest rates

Markets

The Economist poll of forecasters, May averages

The Economist commodity-price index

Obituary

Giulio Andreotti