2015년 1월 22일 목요일

From the desk of John Micklethwait, Editor - 22nd January 2015

The Economist
Thursday, January 22, 2015
Editor's picks


America was born out of a reaction against hereditary privilege, but these days it is growing its own aristocracy. As our cover story this week explains, today's rich pass on to their children something far more valuable than wealth—brains 

John Micklethwait, Editor-in-Chief
Investment in Africa
The sub-Saharan private-equity boom
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Skiing in China
Downhill all the way for the new rich
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The Big Mac index
Some currencies lose weight on a diet of QE and cheap oil; others bulk up
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Politics this week
Chad sent 2,000 troops to Cameroon to help fight jihadists from Boko Haram, a group based in north-eastern Nigeria that has slaughtered thousands of people there and stepped up its raids across the Cameroonian border. Paul Biya, the president of Cameroon, described Boko Haram as a “global threat” as he appealed for international help
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Business this week
Standard & Poor’s was fined by America’s Securities and Exchange Commission and banned for a year from providing credit ratings for some types of mortgage securities backed by commercial property. It is the first time the regulator has penalised a credit-rating agency, finding that S&P had elevated “its own financial interests above investors by loosening its rating criteria” for the securities and then tried to hide the changes
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