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Many observers (The Economist included) worried about the global economy when Donald Trump announced swingeing tariffs in April. Instead the world economy is holding up, in part because those tariffs are not as bad as feared. Still, a weakening in investment, the jobs market or consumer confidence could worsen the picture.
Over the weekend Prince Andrew announced he would give up most of his titles, such as Duke of York. A posthumous memoir by Virginia Giuffre, a sex-trafficking victim who said she was made to sleep with the prince while just 17, promises new revelations. King Charles, it seems, pressed his younger brother to retreat further still from public view. | 
