This week’s cover | Nov 4th 2023 Edition

Even after three successive weeks of covers about the war between Israel and Hamas, only a story of global importance could have a greater claim to the cover of this issue. One of those stories is the fate of the world economy, which is doing better than even optimists had expected. Although we continue to devote a lot of space in our pages to the Middle East, we thought that it was urgent to point out that the good times cannot last.