Steady Companion

There is an article in the Times from yesterday extolling the information to be found in each relentless weekly edition of the Economist. I have recently been enjoying the jump that having access to the new edition via the Ipad provides, but have now, after a couple of months, fallen back on the hedonic treadmill, struggling mightily each week to keep up.

Nevertheless, I do try to completely read each edition, and although I may skip the occasional Asia or Latin America piece, I’m pretty consistent. Here’s my preferred reading order:

·         This week

·         Leaders

·         Jobs

·         Obituary

·         Books

·         Science

·         US

·         Business

·         Finance

·         Middle East and Africa

·         Americas

·         Asia

·         China

·         Europe

·         Britain

If there’s a special report I like, such as this week’s on the coming changes to industry, I’ll read it after Finance. If it doesn’t grab me, I’ll save it for the end.

Anyway, I thought it might be interesting to write something similar to the Times piece. If I like it, or there is a positive response, I’ll try the same again next Wednesday.

Economist Highlights

Palace intrigue in the Egyptian presidential elections. 10 of 23 candidates barred on technical grounds.

Yemen is one messed up country.

The first leader to be judged by an International court sinceNuremberg.

Women do more housework; even when they make more money thantheir partner.

Obituary for bagel king Murray Lender

As Chinese wages go up, production is coming home.

Still hard to believe in 3D printing, but it seems pretty real.