2025-09-11
23 分钟The Economist.
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It's sort of hard to keep up with macroeconomics these days.
Remember how for decades, Japan had a problem with deflation?
Now it's a regional hotspot for inflation.
It's just about everywhere else in Asia where price growth is worryingly low.
And this story is truly bizarre.
A group of religious leaders took part in an an experiment to see how taking psychedelics would affect their spirituality.
It was clearly a wild trip.
But first,
Under sunny skies at Utah Valley University yesterday, suddenly, there was chaos.
Charlie Kirk, a prominent conservative voice allied to the Maga movement, had just been shot.
Confused students attending his prove me wrong campus event, suddenly scrambled in all directions.
The killing of a face, maybe the face of young American conservatism.
It's hard not to imagine that as a political assassination, which would put Mr. Kirk on an ever longer and deeply sad list.
This is another bleak day for America.
Adam Roberts is the economist's digital editor.