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Edition number 33 per the press release, which fits a first edition in 1987. Entries of kind 'press_release' quote the editor's takeaways as the press release lists them. The Britain article is by the Britain editor; the self-review says 'Our Britain editor ... predicted no one would be happy with Brexit'.
By mid-year America will break its record for its longest uninterrupted expansion, but by the end of the year it could be heading into a recession.
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China's growth rate will slow down, while India's speeds up.
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Post-chaos Syria will top the global growth league; at the other end will be a shrinking Venezuela and Iran.
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In Europe, Italy will flirt with financial crisis.
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Will America's stockmarket fall back, or the rest of the world rise? The smart bet is on the latter.
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Brexit happens. And as Britain leaves the European Union the recriminations will intensify.
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The EU, meanwhile, will get a new commission, a new parliament and a new head for the European Central Bank.
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Meanwhile, NASA's New Horizons probe reaches Ultima Thule, in the most distant encounter in the history of spaceflight.
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Half the world is online, India's GDP overtakes Britain's, Nigeria's population reaches 200m and in America millennials outnumber baby-boomers to become the country's largest generation.
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Half the world is online, India's GDP overtakes Britain's, Nigeria's population reaches 200m and in America millennials outnumber baby-boomers to become the country's largest generation.
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Half the world is online, India's GDP overtakes Britain's, Nigeria's population reaches 200m and in America millennials outnumber baby-boomers to become the country's largest generation.
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Half the world is online, India's GDP overtakes Britain's, Nigeria's population reaches 200m and in America millennials outnumber baby-boomers to become the country's largest generation.
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The likeliest scenario (though there are plenty of others) is that Mrs May will at least secure a deal that ensures Britain formally exits the EU, as planned, on March 29th.
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The chances are that there will be a leadership challenge in 2019.
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But like Mrs Thatcher, she is likely to lose. The front-runner to take over is Sajid Javid, home secretary and son of a Pakistani-born bus driver.
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The headline will write itself in 2019 when, based on estimates by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), a un agency, more than 50% of humanity will have access to the internet.
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America’s Federal Reserve, having raised its main borrowing rate several times in 2018, will do so again in 2019.
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the country’s budget deficit will approach 6% of GDP in 2019
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India’s consumers are doing just the opposite: they will push GDP growth to 7.6%, the best of any big economy.
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Any American recession, in any case, won’t begin until the back end of the year, as the fractures in the economy widen.
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An early contender for gold was the prediction that a couple of big European banks would merge.
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