re: The Econonist, New Yorker depict Trump as KKK

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When The Economist, the paragon of free-market capitalism and neoliberalism does that you are seeing the beginning of the capitalist class realizing they can do better.

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The Economist is an English-language weekly magazine-format newspaper owned by the Economist Group and edited at offices in London.[2][6][7][8] Continuous publication began under its founder, James Wilson, in September 1843. In 2015 its average weekly circulation was a little over 1.5 million, about half of which were sold in the United States.[5][2]

The publication belongs to the Economist Group. It is 50% owned by the English branch of the Rothschild family and by the Agnelli family through its holding company Exor. The remaining 50% is held by private investors including the editors and staff.[9][10] The Rothschilds and the Agnellis are represented on the board of directors.[11] A board of trustees formally appoints the editor, who cannot be removed without its permission. Although The Economist has a global emphasis and scope, about two-thirds of the 75 staff journalists are based in the London borough of Westminster.[12] For the year to March 2016 the Economist Group declared operating profit of £61m.[13] Previous major shareholders include Pearson PLC.[14]

The Economist takes an editorial stance of classical and economic liberalism that supports free trade, globalisation, free immigration, and cultural liberalism (such as supporting legal recognition for same-sex marriage or drug liberalization).[2] The publication has described itself as "...a product of the Caledonian liberalism of Adam Smith and David Hume".[15] It targets highly educated readers and claims an audience containing many influential executives and policy-makers.[16] The publication's CEO described this recent global change, which was first noticed in the 1990s and accelerated in the beginning of the 21st century, as a "new age of Mass Intelligence".[17][18]

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A Jersey Lady and The Economist
Lynn Forester de Rothschild won’t allow an ownership change without having something to say about it.

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LONDON — The Economist magazine’s hundreds of shareholders include the descendants of some of the most distinguished names in British commerce: Cadbury, Sainsbury, Schroder.

None are as influential, though, as a self-described “middle-class girl” from the New Jersey suburbs.

Lynn Forester de Rothschild, a 61-year-old lawyer, businesswoman and prominent fundraiser for Hillary Clinton, manages her family’s 21 percent stake in the magazine. She has sat on its board since 2002, where she has been a forceful, if not always popular, presence. And she will be one of the pivotal players as the magazine’s ownership is determined in complicated, Byzantine negotiations over the next few weeks.

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