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A breezy, superficial understanding of complex issues is worse than none at all. You'd be better off knowing that you know nothing rather than having an article like that represent your knowledge.

> what would you have us read instead?

Off the top of my head Stratfor covers similar territory as the economist, but much better. It also has its biases. For economic analysis John Maudlin's newsletters aren't a bad place to start. Go read one and see how much more information and analysis dense it is compared to the economist.