Hand-picked stories from this week's issue of The Economist.
 | | | Editor’s picks | | December 8th 2016 | | | | | | | | | | Our cover this week is on doing business in Donald Trump’s America. The president-elect’s plans to cut red tape, build infrastructure and reform corporate tax are welcome. But if Mr Trump indulges mercantilists and his own taste for bashing and bribing individual firms, the long-term damage to America’s economy will be grave
Zanny Minton Beddoes, Editor-in-Chief | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Two men in a tub | | Shinzo Abe has invited Vladimir Putin to a summit in which joint bathing is on the agenda. What are the odds of a breakthrough in Japan’s long-running territorial dispute with Russia? | | READ MORE > | | | | | | |  | | Shinzo Abe has invited Vladimir Putin to a summit in which joint bathing is on the agenda. What are the odds of a breakthrough in Japan’s long-running territorial dispute with Russia? | | READ MORE > | | | | | | | | | | |  |  | | | | | | | Oil: thrifty at fifty | | OPEC’s recent agreement has jolted prices. But it will not spare a flabby industry from the need for a new, more frugal approach to finding and drilling for oil | | READ MORE > | | | | | | | | | | |  | | On everything from China to language, microbes, hereditary power, inequality and medieval manuscripts | | READ MORE > | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Politics this week | | In Austria’s presidential election, Alexander Van der Bellen, a former leader of the Green party who ran as an independent, beat Norbert Hofer, a candidate from the far-right Freedom Party. Turnout was high as mainstream voters rallied to avoid electing the European Union’s first far-right head of state | | SEE ARTICLE > | | MORE FROM POLITICS THIS WEEK > | | | | | Business this week | | Italian banks had a mixed week in the aftermath of the rejection by Italian voters of political reforms. Share prices fell initially, but then rose amid speculation that the government would arrange a rescue package for the banking system. The political uncertainty following the referendum raises particular questions about the ability of Monte dei Paschi di Siena, the most troubled of Italy’s banks, to complete its capital-raising plan | | SEE ARTICLE > | | MORE FROM BUSINESS THIS WEEK > | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
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