The Economist

“A smart, very good writer will write something and get to the point quickly.”

“The Economist and The Guardian are about the only serious in-depth sources left”

“The Economist, Silicon Valley's primary submarine, dispels the notion that AI causes unemployment”

“The Economist might be a very reputed journal but their technology and especially AI related takes are absolute garbage.”

“many deep dives on AI, including fascinating interviews with the likes of Amodei, Musk, and others”

“It's actually quite good for a publication that rarely publishes good content.”

“Generally, they are a trailing indicator, like someone appearing on the Forbes millionaire under 30 list”

“Economist was good enough summary of international news, but not domestic”

“A newspaper called The Economist should not take a hyper-critical view of conservatism or right-leaning politics across the globe”

“I've given up online news and twitter and all that entirely, and just read my print Economist”

“the are hopeless with AI. Most of their articles on subject sound like they were written by the Anthropic marketing department.”

“articles on topics I know about are fair, balanced and grounded in science”

“they do consult actual research and more so than most other English language publications”

“at least the open thingys out there kinda suck. It's okay, but I don't like the formatting.”

“publish their opinions with conviction and back it up with sound arguments and facts”

“This millennium is also entirely, utterly, absolutely defined by the short-sighted ideas of the economist.”

“I unsubscribed (after many years) out of frustration at their incessant and unquestioning incantation of orthodox economic dogmas”

“when the economist talks about a business or an author, they mention if there is a conflict of interest”

“Betteridge's law wrapping a paywall wrapping an AI piece masquerading as domain-specific analysis.”

“The weekly pace of publication also encourages analysis over “Trump puts tariffs on soybeans” headlines.”

“Unsubscribing from The Economist was one of the most frustrating corporate interactions I've ever had.”

“when I do a web search I find a lot of people complaining about their similar practice of making it difficult to unsubscribe”

“Focused on encouraging long term thinking, gains, and wisdom, while reporting on the short term trends.”

“Yet another in the "Free market capitalism is weird and scary to us" series from the (increasingly poorly named) Economist.”

“I also regularly keep up with The Economist and other western news outlets and I completely agree with GP's impression that we see a "China is doomed" opinion piece every other month.”

“I dropped my subscription to The Economist precisely because of its tiresomely doctrinaire approach to economics.”

“This piece includes original reporting sourced from maritime intelligence firms”

“high-quality periodic publications ( The Economist , Atlantic , Foreign Policy , and the like) can remain worth picking up and reading even now”

“I trust it over nearly all the others though it’s gone downhill since McElthwaite left for Bloomberg”

“Overall I think they've been the best source of analysis on this I've found.”

“They tend to hire well reasoning journalists that do research with due dilligence.”

“For more analytical content you may consider The Economist, but be aware that they do publish opinion as well.”

“weekly Economist coverage of world/biz/general topics (audio via app) - keeps me generally up to date”

“The Economist rocks. They also have a wonderful daily summary of the news that takes five mins to read.”

“simply because their readerships have financial interest in actually knowing what's going on in the world”

“I have a paper subscription to The Economist and I'm trying to train myself to read that instead of going to news sites.”

“The Economist used to be a good publication until McElthwaite left for Bloomberg about 10-12 years ago.”

“Weekly news is a fast enough cadence that also filters out noise and nonsense”

“The Economist as a weekly publication does a lot of filtering of course anyway due to their publishing schedule”

“a subscription to some news organization that covers the world in general, not just to read whatever you see on social media”