The subtext behind most Economist articles is that the free market is working and regulation is never needed. Once you keep this in mind the content pretty much writes itself.
The Economist is to the City of London (the unaccountable medieval guild that protects the interests of finance, not Greater London) what Pravda was to the Soviet Communist Party.
I don't know how that applies to favourite economist topics like coups in africa, war in the arctic, the history of the nuclear bomb, literary reviews, letters from world leaders and obituaries but sure. They are plenty critical of the current shift to state capitalism and the new oligarchy.
