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A handpicked article read aloud from the latest issue of The Economist

A handpicked article read aloud from the latest issue of The Economist

If voters dislike big numbers, there is a purely nominal fix

Particularly by the state

How imperfect technologies spread

Rich and poor consumers are seeing their spending patterns converge